Q 01/05

Who was the first President of the United States?

A) Thomas Jefferson

B) George Washington

C) John Adams

D) James Madison

Answer · why

B) George Washington

George Washington served from 1789 to 1797 and stepped down voluntarily after two terms, a precedent that held until Franklin Roosevelt ran a third ti...

Q 02/05

Which U.S. President led the country through the Civil War?

A) Andrew Johnson

B) Abraham Lincoln

C) James Buchanan

D) Ulysses S. Grant

Answer · why

B) Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln was shot at Ford's Theatre five days after Lee's surrender, the first president to be assassinated; the Emancipation Proclamation came...

Q 03/05

Who was the youngest person ever *elected* to the U.S. presidency?

A) Theodore Roosevelt

B) Bill Clinton

C) John F. Kennedy

D) Barack Obama

Answer · why

C) John F. Kennedy

Kennedy was 43 when he won in 1960 and was also the first Catholic president; the youngest person ever to hold the office was 42, but he got there by ...

Q 04/05

Who was the first U.S. President to serve two non-consecutive terms?

A) Woodrow Wilson

B) Franklin D. Roosevelt

C) Theodore Roosevelt

D) Grover Cleveland

Answer · why

D) Grover Cleveland

Cleveland served from 1885 to 1889 and again from 1893 to 1897, and he won the popular vote in all three of his presidential runs, including the 1888 ...

Q 05/05

Which US President is the only person to have also served as Chief Justice?

A) John Quincy Adams

B) William Howard Taft

C) Benjamin Harrison

D) Herbert Hoover

Answer · why

B) William Howard Taft

Taft always wanted the court more than the White House; he had turned down repeated Supreme Court appointments before becoming Chief Justice in 1921.