Presidential Trivia

Who did not know how to spell very well?

• Thomas Jefferson

• George Washington

• Abraham Lincoln

• BIll Clinton

He was the first President to be born in a log cabin.

• Abraham Lincoln

• John Adams

• Andrew Jackson

• James Polk

His mother wouldn't let him go outside until he was 5 years old!!!!

• Rutherford B. Hayes

• Grover Cleveland

• Woodrow Wilson

• Ronald Reagan

Barack Obama hates ice cream because his first job was at Baskin Robbins.

• True

• False

All of this President's older brothers, and himself, had the nickname "Ike".

• Benjamin Harrison

• Harry S. Truman

• Jimmy Carter

• Dwight D. Eisenhower

This President was legally blind but he loved to swim. Once he got glasses he became a lifeguard and saved more than 77 people!

• Ronald Reagan

• Jimmy Carter

• Gerald Ford

• John F. Kennedy

At 15 years old, he got a job plucking chickens at a butcher shop.

• James Monroe

• Richard Nixon

• Gerald Ford

• Bill Clinton

He shot his sister in the backside with a BB gun after she threw a wrench at him!

• Dwight Eisenhower

• Richard Nixon

• Barack Obama

• Jimmy Carter

Bill Clinton broke his leg while jumping rope when he was in Kindergarten. He was in the hospital for 2 months!

• True

• False

This President hated studying. When he complained about schoolwork, his father told him to try digging ditches instead. He dug ditches for two days then said he wanted to go back to school!

• Theodore Roosevelt

• John Adams

• Abraham Lincoln

• James Madison