Q 01/05

Andrew Jackson was which number president of the United States?

A) Seventh

B) Fifth

C) Sixth

D) Eighth

Answer · why

A) Seventh

He served two terms, from 1829 to 1837, and was the first president who had not come from Virginia or Massachusetts.

Q 02/05

Which nickname did Jackson earn for marching his volunteers home from Natchez in 1813?

A) Old Rough and Ready

B) Old Fuss and Feathers

C) Old Hickory

D) Old Tippecanoe

Answer · why

C) Old Hickory

The other three were real nicknames too, belonging to Zachary Taylor, Winfield Scott and William Henry Harrison.

Q 03/05

The Battle of New Orleans was fought fifteen days after a peace treaty was signed in which European city?

A) Paris

B) Ghent

C) London

D) Amiens

Answer · why

B) Ghent

News of the signing had not yet crossed the Atlantic, and the treaty did not take effect until it was ratified in February 1815.

Q 04/05

What was the name of Jackson's plantation home near Nashville, where he is buried?

A) Monticello

B) Mount Vernon

C) Montpelier

D) The Hermitage

Answer · why

D) The Hermitage

He bought the property in 1804 after a near-bankruptcy forced him to sell a larger estate, and it grew to about 1,000 acres of cotton land.

Q 05/05

The Waxhaws region, Jackson's 1767 birthplace, straddles the border of which two states?

A) Virginia and Kentucky

B) Georgia and Tennessee

C) Virginia and Maryland

D) North and South Carolina

Answer · why

D) North and South Carolina

His exact birthplace is unclear; Jackson said he was born at an uncle's plantation in Lancaster County, but both states still claim him.