Q 01/05

What is the street address of the White House?

A) 1200 Independence Avenue SW

B) 1400 Constitution Avenue NW

C) 1800 K Street NW

D) 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW

Answer · why

D) 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW

1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW. Pennsylvania Avenue runs diagonally from the White House to the Capitol and is the route of every inaugural parade.

Q 02/05

Who was the first president to live in the White House?

A) James Madison

B) George Washington

C) Thomas Jefferson

D) John Adams

Answer · why

D) John Adams

John Adams moved in on November 1, 1800, while the building was unfinished; Abigail Adams hung the family laundry to dry in the bare, unplastered stat...

Q 03/05

Before the White House was ready, the president lived in a mansion on High Street in which city?

A) Philadelphia

B) New York

C) Baltimore

D) Richmond

Answer · why

A) Philadelphia

Philadelphia; the High Street mansion had served as the presidential residence since 1790, and the capital moved from there in 1800.

Q 04/05

Which president first opened the White House to public tours?

A) James Madison

B) Thomas Jefferson

C) James Monroe

D) Andrew Jackson

Answer · why

B) Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson. After his second inauguration in March 1805 much of the crowd followed him home from the Capitol, and he received them in the oval r...

Q 05/05

The original whitewash that gave the house its colour mixed lime, rice glue, casein and which metal?

A) Zinc

B) Copper

C) Lead

D) Tin

Answer · why

C) Lead

The porous stone needed the coating; a later theory holds the name may also owe something to Martha Washington's White House Plantation in Virginia.