Presidential Trivia

What president made Thanksgiving a national holiday?

• George Washington

• John Quincy Adams

• Abraham Lincoln

• Herbert Hoover

Who made the shortest inauguration speech on record, at 133 words and less than two minutes long?

• George Washington

• Abraham Lincoln

• Franklin D. Roosevelt

• William Henry Harrison

Who was the first one-term president?

• John Adams

• Thomas Jefferson

• John Quincy Adams

• James K. Polk

To which political party did George Washington belong?

• Whig

• Federalist

• Republican

• trick question--he belonged to no party

Who was the first president to live in the White House?

• Abraham Lincoln

• George Washington

• Thomas Jefferson

• John Adams

Abraham Lincoln was the ___ president

• 7th

• 11th

• 16th

• 18th

Only president for 30 days, this was the shortest-termed president.

• Zachary Taylor

• Martin Van Buren

• William Henry Harrison

• Millard Fillmore

The only president who was a lifelong bachelor.

• Franklin Pierce

• James Buchanan

• Abraham Lincoln

• Ulysses S. Grant

What nation did Harry S. Truman officially recognize for the first time in 1948?

• China

• Soviet Union

• Israel

• South Korea

Our 6th president, his father was also the 2nd president.

• George W. Bush

• Andrew Jackson

• James Monroe

• John Quincy Adams