Free Printable Presidential Trivia Quiz Questions
Trivia questions with answers about presidents, and presidential affairs.
In 1868 impeachment proceedings were initiated against President
Andrew Johnson for his opposition to black rights and Congress'
Reconstruction efforts. By what margin did he escape conviction?
A: One vote, The Senate voted 35 to 19 against Johnson, just shy of
the two-thirds required to remove him from office.
Who designed the pillbox hat that Jacqueline Kennedy made famous
at her husband's inauguration in 1961?
A: Halston, whose full name is Roy Halston Frowick.
What did President John F. Kennedy commission Pierre Salinger to
do on the eve of signing the Cuban trade embargo?
A: Buy and stockpile 1,500 Havana cigars.
Who was the smallest U.S. President?
A: James Madison, the fourth President, who was 5 feet 4 inches tall
and never weighed more than 100 pounds.
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Who invented a metal-locating device to find the bullet lodged in
President James Garfield's body after he was shot by assassin
Charles Guiteau in 1881?
A: Alexander Graham Bell. The device worked, but not on
Garfield--because of interference from his steel-spring mattress.
Whose ghost did Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands claim she saw
during a 1945 stay at the White House?
A: Abraham Lincoln's.
What strange pets did John Quincy Adams and his wife, Louisa,
bring with them to the White House?
A: Several hundred silkworms, which the First Lady fed and cared for
while trying to make raw silk.
Which of our nation's chief executives could have been known as
president King?
A: Gerald R. Ford. He was name Leslie L. King at birth, abut
later assumed his stepfather's name.
How much did President Abraham Lincoln spend on a string of seed
pearls and matching earrings purchased from Tiffany's for his wife,
Mary?
A: He paid $2,600.
Who was the only American president to remain a bachelor his
entire life?
A: James Buchanan, who preceded Abraham Lincoln as the nation's
chief executive, serving from 1857 to 1861.
How short was George Washington's second inaugural address--the
shortest in U.S. history?
A: It contained only 135 words.
What American president banned Christmas trees in his home--even
when he lived in the White House?
A: Theodore Roosevelt, who was a staunch conservationist. Christmas
trees did get into the White House during his presidency,
though--his children smuggled them into their bedroom.
What two brothers were nominated for president at the Republican
Party Convention in 1884?
A: General William Tecumseh Sherman and Senator John Sherman of
Ohio. The general got 2 votes on the first ballot; the senator; 30.
James G. Blaine won the party's nomination on the fourth ballot and
lost the election to Grover Cleveland.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt appeared in the 1943 romantic
comedy Princess O'Rourke--as what?
A :Himself. The film featured Olivia de Havilland in the title role.
What two rivers, bearing the names of the United States
presidents, join the Gallatin River in Montana to form the Missouri?
A: The Jefferson and the Madison.
The campaign slogan of what presidential candidate is on the
oldest printed T-shirt in the Smithsonian Institution's extensive
T-shirt collection?
A: Thomas E. Dewey. The slogan, "DEW-IT with DEWEY," is from his
ill-fated 1948 presidential campaign against Harry S. Truman.
