Election Trivia

Election Trivia

Who was the only president to be elected for two non-consecutive terms?
When was Inauguration Day originally held?
What was the White House called before 1901?
Which presidents were born as British subjects?
Which three presidents died on July 4th?
Which eight presidents never attended college?
What is the S in President Harry Truman’s name short for?
Which president got a $20.00 speeding ticket?
Which president was known for accidentally conking people on the head while playing golf?
Which fourteen vice presidents became president?
Which four presidents were assassinated in office?
What was the name of the first president to use a phone, and what was his number?
Which president gambled away a set of White House China?
Which president held his daughter’s high school prom at the White House?
Which six presidents had the same first name?
In the 1860 presidential elections, which candidate was the only non-Freemason?
Which president served in both WWI and WWII?
How many presidents were Freemasons?
Which president liked to have his head rubbed with petroleum jelly while eating breakfast in bed?
Which president was an only child?
Which president would occasionally press all the buttons on the desk, then hide and watch the staff run into the room?
Who was the youngest president to succeed as president, and the youngest elected president?

Answers below:

Grover Cleveland – 1885-1889 and 1893-1897.
March 4th.
The President’s palace, Executive Mansion, and President’s house.
George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, and William Harrison.
John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Monroe.
George Washington, Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren, Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore, Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, and Grover Cleveland.
Nothing; the letter “S” honors his grandfathers Anderson Shippe Truman and Solomon Young.
Ulysses S. Grant did while driving a horse and buggy in D.C.
Gerald Ford was, so spectators had to be careful.
John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Martin Van Buren, John Tyler, Millard Fillmore, Andrew Johnson, Chester A. Arthur, Theodore Roosevelt, Calvin Coolidge, Harry S. Truman, Richard Nixon, Lyndon B. Johnson, Gerald Ford, and George Bush.
Abraham Lincoln, John F. Kennedy, James Garfield, and William McKinley.
Rutherford B. Hayes, and his phone number was 1.
Warren G. Harding.
Gerald Ford.
James Madison, James Monroe, James Polk, James Buchanan, James Garfield, and James Carter.
Abraham Lincoln.
Dwight D. Eisenhower.
14
Calvin Coolidge.
None of them were.
Calvin Coolidge, because he said he wanted to see if they were working.
Theodore Roosevelt became the youngest president, at age 42, when he succeeded McKinley after his assassination. John F. Kennedy was the youngest elected president at age 43.

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