Free Presidential Trivia
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What famous American explorer was the first presidential candidate of the Republican party?
A: John C. Fremont, in 1856. He lost to James Buchanan. Republican
candidate Abraham Lincoln won the presidency four years later.
President Lyndon Johnson called his pet beagles Him and Her; what
did President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his wife, Eleanor, name His
and Hers?
A :The pistols they kept under their pillows.
What position did president-to-be George Bush play on the Yale University baseball team?
A: First base.
What equipment purchased by sixth president John Quincy Adams
sparked accusations that he was installing "gaming furniture" in the
White House?
A: A chess set and a billiard table.
What was the presidential retreat in Maryland's Catoctin
Mountains--now known as Camp David--originally called by President
Franklin Delano Roosevelt?
A: Shangri-La.
What presidential candidate coined the phrase, "The New
Frontier"?
A :Alf Landon, in 1936?
In April 1793, George Washington attended the nation's first
circus in Philadelphia and was paid $150. What was the money for?
A: Allowing Jack, the white charger he had ridden during the
Revolutionary War, to be put on exhibit.
What president signed the first federal income tax law--3 percent
on incomes over $600?
A: Abraham Lincoln.
What was the setting of the 1959 confrontation between
Vice-President Richard Nixon and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev?
A: the model American kitchen of a U.S. exhibit in Moscow. The
setting gave the encounter its name--"The Kitchen Debate."
Who has been credited with writing George Washington's famous
Farewell Address?
A: Alexander Hamilton.
Who gave Thomas Jefferson the fur-collared coat he's shown
wearing in the famous statue of him at the Jefferson Memorial in
Washington, D.C.?
A: Polish patriot Thaddeus Kosciusko.
What famous American political figure worked during his teen
years as a summer barker at the Slipper Gulch Carnival in Prescott,
Arizona?
A: Richard M. Nixon.
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Who changed the presidential seal so that the American eagle aces
the talon in which it's holding an olive branch of peace rather than
the one in which it clasps arrows of war?
A: Harry S. Truman--but Franklin Delano Roosevelt had ordered the
change before his death in 1945.
What four American presidents ran unsuccessfully for reelection
on third-party tickets?
A: John Tyler, who withdrew his candidacy before the election,
Martin Van Buren, Millard Fillmore, and Theodore Roosevelt.
What national political experience did Abraham Lincoln have
before he became president?
A: He served a two-year term in the House of Representatives.
What did President Franklin Delano Roosevelt have imprinted on
White House mat books?
A: "Stolen from the White house."
What was George Washington's nickname for his wife, Martha?
A: Patsy.
How many U.S. presidents had full beards?
A: Five--Lincoln, Grant, Hayes, Garfield and Benjamin Harrison.
What prompted President Harry S. Truman to write a newspaper
columnist, "Some day I hope to meet you. When that happens you'll
need a new nose, a lot of beefsteak for black eyes, and perhaps a
supporter below"?
A: A music review that panned daughter Margaret's singing ability.
The letter was sent to Washington Post music critic Paul Hume.
What is the average age at which America's presidents have taken
office?
A: 54.
