Today is President’s Day in the U.S. Originally established in 1885 as a recognition of George Washington’s birthday (February 22), it was later expanded to include Abraham Lincoln (February 12) and all other U.S. presidents.
Here are ten presidential trivia questions for you to enjoy. Answers are posted below.
Trivia Questions
1. Who was the first U.S. president to appear in public wearing contact lenses?
2. Who is the only U.S. president buried in Washington, DC?
3. How many U.S. presidents were born in Tennessee?
4. Who was the last president to serve during the Civil War?
5. In 1879, which president became the first to have a telephone in the White House?
6. There has only been one grandfather/grandson duo to serve as presidents. Who were they?
7. Who was the shortest (in height) U.S. president?
8. Which four presidents never had a vice president?
9. Which two presidents kept alligators in the White House?
10. His middle name was Rudolph. Who is the only person to be neither elected to the post of president nor that of vice president?
Answers:
1. Lyndon Johnson
2. Woodrow Wilson
3. Zero
4. William McKinley
5. Rutherford B. Hayes
6. William Harrison (9th president, 1841) and Benjamin Harrison (23rd president, 1889).
7. James Madison (5′ 4″)
8. John Tyler, Millard Fillmore, Andrew Johnson, and Chester A. Arthur. All were vice presidents who ascended to the top office after their president died in office. The 25th Amendment did not have an official process for naming a vice president for this event until 1967.
9. John Quincy Adams (in the unfinished east wing) and Herbert Hoover (for his son, who kept two of them).
10. Gerald Ford. He was the House minority leader and was appointed VP after Spiro Agnew resigned. He became president after Richard Nixon resigned.
[By the way, this is not a post about politics, nor is this blog a place to voice political opinions. Please keep to the topic of writing and not the politics of your country of residence or elsewhere. Thanks!]
