Q 01/05

Which president was the first Catholic to hold the office and, at 43, the youngest ever elected?

A) Joe Biden

B) Franklin Pierce

C) John F. Kennedy

D) Grover Cleveland

Answer · why

C) John F. Kennedy

John F. Kennedy. With some Protestant ministers saying no Catholic could act free of his church, he went to Houston to tell a gathering of them that h...

Q 02/05

Which president is the only one who never married?

A) James Buchanan

B) Grover Cleveland

C) Andrew Jackson

D) Martin Van Buren

Answer · why

A) James Buchanan

James Buchanan. His fiancée broke off their engagement over gossip and died within days; her family barred him from the funeral, and he later put his ...

Q 03/05

Which president was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2013?

A) Ronald Reagan

B) Donald Trump

C) Bill Clinton

D) Barack Obama

Answer · why

B) Donald Trump

Donald Trump. At WrestleMania 23 in 2007 he backed the winning wrestler in a 'Battle of the Billionaires' against WWE chairman Vince McMahon, then hel...

Q 04/05

As a law student, Barack Obama made national news when he was elected the first Black president of which publication?

A) Yale Law Journal

B) The Harvard Crimson

C) Harvard Law Review

D) Yale Daily News

Answer · why

C) Harvard Law Review

Harvard Law Review. The attention brought Obama a publisher's contract for a book on race relations, and what he wrote instead was the memoir Dreams f...

Q 05/05

Which president is the only one to hold a patent, for a device to lift boats over river shoals?

A) Thomas Jefferson

B) Herbert Hoover

C) Jimmy Carter

D) Abraham Lincoln

Answer · why

D) Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln. Boats he worked on as a young man ran aground at least twice, which gave him the idea of inflatable bellows fixed along the hull, but...