Presidential Trivia - Nixon - Ford - Hoover - Adams - George Washington

 

 

Presidential trivia including presidents Adams, Nixon, Ford, Grant, Hayes & More!

Who was Richard Nixon talking about when he told a TV audience, "I just want to say this, right now, that regardless of what they say about it, we are going to keep it"?
A: His family dog, Checkers, given to him by a supporter. The TV address was his famous Checkers speech.

Who were the five Civil War generals who went on to serve as president of the United States?
A: In order of their terms of office; Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, James A. Garfield, Chester A. Arthur and Benjamin Harrison.

Who was President Ronald Reagan quoting when he said "I forgot to duck" after he was shot by John W. Hinckley Jr. in 1981?
A: Jack Dempsey, who made the remark after Gene Tunney beat him in a world heavyweight championship bout in 1926.

President Andrew Jackson's political advisers were nicknamed the Kitchen Cabinet. What label was given to President Warren G. Harding's advisers?
A: The Poker Cabinet.

Which president modeled winter sportswear for Look magazine in 1939?
A: Gerald R. Ford, who was a Yale University law student at the time.

Which two presidents were Quakers?
A: Herbert Hoover and Richard M. Nixon.

Which First Lady was known as Lemonade Lucy?
A: Rutherford B. Hayes's tee totaling wife, who permitted only soft drinks in the White House during her husband's term, from 1877 to 1881.

John Quincy Adams, describing the first presidential inaugural ball, wrote; "The crowd was excessive--the heat excessive, and the entertainment bad." Whose ball was it?
A: James Madison's.

Which two presidents are buried at Arlington National Cemetery?
A: William Howard Taft and John Fitzgerald Kennedy.

What president installed the first bathtub in the White House?
A: Millard Fillmore, our thirteenth president, who served from 1850 until 1853.

What was George Washington's shoe size?
A: Thirteen.

What are George Washington's false teeth--stolen in 1981 from the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.--composed of?
A: The uppers, gold and hippopotamus teeth; the lower, elephant and hippopotamus teeth.

Why did the general and president we know as Ulysses Grant change his given name, Hiram Ulysses, to Ulysses Hiram?
A: He did not want his initials to be H.U.G. He became U.S. Grant when his congressman mistakenly nominated him for West Point as Ulysses Simpson Grant. (Simpson was his mother's maiden name.)

If the seated figure in the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., were to stand up, how tall would it be?
A: It would be 28 feet tall. Lincoln himself stood 6 feet 4 inches.