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Presidential Trivia

Total questions: 19

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
Who was James Monroe's Secretary of State?
a)
John Quincy Adams
b)
Grover Cleveland
c)
James Monroe
d)
James Madison
2.
Who was the only president to leave office then come back for a second term?
a)
Rutherford B. Hayes
b)
Andrew Johnson
c)
Grover Cleveland
d)
John Quincy Adams
3.
Who was president during the war of 1812?
a)
James Monroe (5)
b)
Andrew Johnson (17)
c)
Rutherford B. Hayes (19)
d)
James Madison (4)
4.
Who was the 5th president in office from 1817 - 1825?
a)
James Monroe
b)
William Taft
c)
James Madison
d)
Herbert Hoover
5.
Who was the first president to be impeahed?
a)
John Quincy Adams (6)
b)
Andrew Johnson (17)
c)
Grover Cleveland (22, 24)
d)
Rutherford B. Hayes (19)
6.
Who won the closest election in history in 1876?
a)
Andrew Johnson (17)
b)
William Taft (27)
c)
Herbert Hoover (31)
d)
Rutherford B. Hayes (19)
7.
Who was president when the Kansas-Nebraska Act was created?
a)
Ulysses S. Grant (18)
b)
Franklin Pierce (14)
c)
James Buchanan (15)
d)
Abraham Lincoln (16)
8.
Who was once a general in the Union Army?
a)
James Buchanan (15)
b)
Abraham Lincoln (16)
c)
Andrew Johnson (17)
d)
Ulysses S. Grant (18)
9.
Who was the first African American president?
a)
William Clinton
William Clinton
b)
George W. Bush
c)
Barak Obama
d)
Dwight D. Eisenhower
10.
Who enacted the "No Child Left Behind" law?
a)
Barak Obama
b)
George W. Bush
c)
William F. Clinton
d)
Dwight D. Eisenhower
11.
Who was the 27th president?
a)
Franklin Pierce
b)
Herbert Hoover
c)
Ulysses S. Grant
d)
William H. Taft
12.
Who was assasinated in Ford's Theater?
a)
Andrew Jackson
b)
Harry S. Truman
c)
Abraham Lincoln
d)
William H. Taft
13.
Who was was president during the stock market crash of 1929?
a)
Herbert Hoover
b)
William H. Taft
c)
Harry S. Truman
d)
Dwight D. Eisenhower
14.
Who was the first president to be sworn into office in Washington D.C?
a)
John Tyler
b)
John Adams
c)
Thomas Jefferson
d)
James Polk
15.
Who was the first president to live in the White House?
a)
James Polk
b)
John Tyler
c)
Thomas Jefferson
d)
John Adams
16.
Who was born in a log cabin in Carolina?
a)
Andrew Jackson
b)
John Tyler
c)
James K. Polk
d)
John Quincy Adams
17.
Who was the Whig Vice President that became president when William Henry Harrison died?
a)
John Quincy Adams
b)
Andrew Jackson
c)
John Tyler
d)
William H. Harrison
18.
Who said, "Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country"?
a)
Harry S. Truman (33)
b)
Dwight D. Eisenhower (34)
c)
John F. Kennedy (35)
d)
Lyndon B. Johnson (36)
19.
Who was the 36th president?
a)
Barak Obama
b)
Lyndon B. Johnson
c)
William J. Clinton
d)
George W. Bush