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US Presidents Quiz
Q.1 Presidents Day in US is celebrated on third Monday of February to honour George Washington, the first President of US, whose birthday is on 22nd Feb. It is also a day to remember other Presidents specially another popular President whose birthday is on 12th Feb.
Answer:A
Abraham Lincoln.
Q.2 Barack Obama is the 44th president of US, but there actually have only been 43 presidents. Why is it so?
Cleveland was elected for two nonconsecutive terms and is counted twice, as 22nd and 24th US president.
Q.3 Who was the only US President and Vice President not to have been elected by the electoral college?
Answer:D
G Ford. In 1973, Vice President Agnew resigned against criminal charges of tax evasion and money launderingand Ford became VP. Again in 1974 Nixon resigned due to Watergate scandel and he became President of US.
Q.4 Who was the only US president to be the Chief Justice of the country?
Answer:B
W H Taft. Much later being a president he also assumed the position of Chief Justice of USA
Q.5 Which US president has a patent in his name
Answer:A
Lincoin. In 1849, Abraham Lincoln received Patent No. 6469 for a device to lift boats over shoals.
Q.6 Whats the name of the cat that Bill Clinton had and this cat had a website for itself.
Answer:C
Sox.It really had a website for itself. Bo is the dog Obama has and Spot was with G W Bush. Orange Juice was the Oranutan in "Life of Pi".
Q.7 Which is the only US President to have a divorce?
Answer:A
Ronald Reagan. He was first married to Jane Wyman and got divorced in 1949 and later got married to Nancy Reagan in 1952
Q.8 Abraham Lincoln, James Abram Garfield and William McKinley were assasinated while in office. Who was the fourth one?
Answer:B
John F Kennedy. All others survived their assasination attempt.
Q.9 Which is the only US president never to marry? Clever..uh
Answer:B
John Buchanan. Five presidents remarried after their spouse died.
Q.10 Which of the following US presidents do not feature in US coins?
Answer:C
John Adams. George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson, Franklin Roosevelt, John F Kennedy, and Eisenhower are portrayed on U.S. coins
Q.11 Which US President first occupied White House?
Answer:D
John Adams. He moved in unfinished "President's mansion" later to be called "white House" in 1800.
Q.12 Which of these American Presidents did not win a Grammy
Answer:D
Lyndon Johnson
Q.13 Which US president figures on the observe of $1 note?
Answer:C
George Washington. It?s the oldest currency design.
Q.14 Who was the only US President who served more than two terms
Answer:B
Franklin D. Roosevelt is the only president to serve more than two terms; he died shortly into his fourth term in 1945. He served as President for over 12 years.
Q.15 Who was the first US president to be impeached?
Answer:D
Andrew Johnson was impeached in 1868 in the U.S. House of Representatives on eleven articles of impeachment detailing his "high crimes and misdemeanors".
Q.16 Who is the only US President to have earned Masters of Business Administration?
Answer:A
George Bush
Q.17 Which US President was the first to use an armored limousine, and whose car was it?
Franklin Roosevelt. The need arose for a higher security while he drove to congress to address after the Pearl Harbour incident.
The car belonged to Al Capone, which was impounded by the Treasury department.
Nuggets
Washington, J. Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, J. Q. Adams, Jackson, and W. Harrison are the 8 US presidents who were born as British subjects
Barack Obama is the first president not born in the continental United States. He was born in Hawaii.
Ronald Reagan at the age of 69 was the oldest elected president of US and the youngest was J F Kennedy at the age of 43. Theodore Roosevelt at 42 was however the youngest one to become president when he succeeded McKinley, who had been assassinated.
At 6'4" Abraham Lincoln was the tallest and Madison was the shortest at 5'4"
Four times a candidates winning the popular vote lost the presidency, the most famous being Al Gore loosing to George Bush
26 of the US Presidents were lawyers and 12 of them were Generals.
Jackson, T. Roosevelt, F. Roosevelt, Truman, Ford, and Reagan are the six US Presidents on whom assassination attempts were made.
Two future U.S. Presidents signed the Declaration of Independence: Thomas Jefferson and John Adams.