Answers to Presidential Trivia

Here are the answers to our Presidents' Day Trivia. Let's see how you did.

1. This man was the shortest President to date, standing in at 5'4".

Answer: James Madison, our 4th President.

2. This President was the first to die in office, setting a record for the shortest term of office to date, a whole month.

Answer: William Henry Harrison, our 9th President. Harrison did not wear a coat during his inaugural address, given on a cold, yucky day, and proceeded to give the longest such address in history. He got sick the next day and died soon after.

3. Technically counting as two Presidents, this man was the only President to serve non-consecutive terms of office.

Answer: Grover Cleveland, the 22nd and 24th President. Cleveland was defeated for reelection by Benjamin Harrison in 1888. He then returned in 1892 and was elected again.

4. This President came from a historically prominent American family, had a grandfather who was President before him, and was elected to one term by winning the electoral college but losing the popular vote.

Answer: Benjamin Harrison, the 23rd President. Harrison's grandfather was William Henry Harrison. He defeated Grover Cleveland in the electoral college in 1888, but lost a rematch to Cleveland in 1892.

5. 'Accidental' President who became the longest lived President to date. He outlived the second longest lived President, Ronald Reagan, by 45 days and died at the age of 93 years and 165 days.

Answer: Gerald Ford, the 38th President. Ford remains the only President to have never been elected to either the Presidency or Vice-Presidency. He was appointed to be Vice-President under the terms of the 25th Amendment to the US Constitution following the resignation of Vice-President Spiro Agnew. When President Richard Nixon later resigned, Ford became President. He lost the campaign to win a term as President in his own right in 1976 to former Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter.

6. The President who was the youngest age, at 42, when he was first inaugurated President.

Answer: Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th President. Roosevelt was the younger man to ever become President. He was sworn in upon the assassination of President William McKinley. John F. Kennedy has the youngest age upon being elected President. Theodore Roosevelt was older than Kennedy's election age when he won a term in his own right in 1904.

7. The only President to date who was born outside of the continental United States.

Answer: Barack Obama, the 44th President. Obama was born in Hawaii, which along with Alaska, is not one of the 48 continental United States.

8. This President had the rotten luck to see the Roaring Twenties come crashing to an end just after taking office, but lived longer after he was President than any man to date.

Answer: Herbert Hoover, the 31st President. Hoover saw the 1929 stock market crash and the onset of the Great Depression shortly after taking office in 1929. He was defeated for reelection in 1932 by Franklin Roosevelt, and many blamed him for the Depression for years after. Hoover lived for thirty one years after leaving office.

9. The only President who is buried in the District of Columbia. His final resting place is in the National Cathedral.

Answer: Woodrow Wilson, the 28th President. Wilson is buried in the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C.

10. The only President to die in the 18th century.

Answer: George Washington, the 1st President. Washington died December 14th, 1799.

How did you do?

Number Correct:
0-failed run for city council
1-2-made it to the state legislature
3-4-won statewide office
5-6-elected to the House of Representatives
7-8-elected governor
9-US Senate
10-Presidential

JWF