Q 01/05

Woodrow Wilson was which number president of the United States?

A) 29th

B) 28th

C) 30th

D) 31st

Answer · why

B) 28th

He served two full terms and was the only Democrat to hold the office during the Progressive Era.

Q 02/05

In which Virginia town was Wilson born, in the manse of his father's Presbyterian church?

A) Staunton

B) Charlottesville

C) Lynchburg

D) Roanoke

Answer · why

A) Staunton

His family moved to Augusta, Georgia before he was two, and his earliest memory was hearing that Lincoln's election meant war.

Q 03/05

Wilson is the only US president to hold which academic credential?

A) A medical degree

B) A PhD

C) An engineering degree

D) A divinity degree

Answer · why

B) A PhD

Johns Hopkins awarded it in 1886 for work that became his book Congressional Government, which one critic ranked with the Federalist Papers.

Q 04/05

Wilson was one of only two US presidents to have been citizens of the Confederacy; who was the other?

A) John Tyler

B) James K. Polk

C) Zachary Taylor

D) Andrew Johnson

Answer · why

A) John Tyler

Wilson's father was a founder of the Southern Presbyterian church and a staunch Confederate supporter during the war.

Q 05/05

Wilson's 1887 journal article made him a founding father of which academic field?

A) International relations

B) Public administration

C) Sociology

D) Macroeconomics

Answer · why

B) Public administration

The article argued that administrators should be a separate profession, accountable to elected leaders who answer to the people.