Q 01/05

After Adams, which president's son next became president?

A) George W. Bush

B) Benjamin Harrison

C) Franklin D. Roosevelt

D) John F. Kennedy

Answer · why

A) George W. Bush

George W. Bush took office 176 years after Adams, the sixth president; like Adams, he became president despite trailing his main rival in the popular ...

Q 02/05

Who unseated Adams's father, the second president?

A) James Madison

B) Alexander Hamilton

C) Thomas Jefferson

D) John Jay

Answer · why

C) Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson won in 1800, and John Adams left the capital rather than watch him sworn in; 28 years later his son likewise refused to attend his ow...

Q 03/05

In which Massachusetts town was Adams born in 1767?

A) Cambridge

B) Braintree

C) Weymouth

D) Dedham

Answer · why

B) Braintree

Braintree's north precinct, where he was born, split off in 1792 as the new town of Quincy, so his birthplace now stands in a city that did not exist ...

Q 04/05

After whom was Adams given his middle name?

A) A Harvard tutor

B) A Boston minister

C) His father's law partner

D) His mother's grandfather

Answer · why

D) His mother's grandfather

His mother's grandfather, Colonel John Quincy, lay on his deathbed when the boy was baptized and died two days after the birth; the name was given at ...

Q 05/05

At 14, Adams went to which Russian city as secretary and interpreter to a US envoy?

A) Moscow

B) Nizhny Novgorod

C) Yekaterinburg

D) Saint Petersburg

Answer · why

D) Saint Petersburg

Saint Petersburg was then Russia's capital; the American envoy asked for the 14-year-old as his secretary and translator because the boy's French was ...