Presidential Trivia Questions and Answers.

Presidential trivia questions and answers.

What U.S. president was born on the Fourth of July?
A: Calvin Coolidge--in 1872. (Three American presidents died on July 4th--Thomas Jefferson and John Adams in 1826, and James Monroe in 1831.)

After Spiro Agnew resigned from office in disgrace in 1973, what entertainer loaned him $230,000 for living expenses and payment of Internal Revenue Service fines?
A: Frank Sinatra.

What three animals were party symbols in the 1912 presidential race?
A: The two old standards, the donkey and the elephant, and the bull moose, for Theodore Roosevelt's independent Bull Moose party.

What recipe offered by First Lady-to-be Florence Harding in the 1920 presidential race became a symbol of her husband's "return to normalcy" campaign?
A: Her waffle recipe. It was the first recipe offered as a campaign tactic in a presidential election. Not coincidentally, 1920 was the year women got the vote.

What U.S. president appointed the greatest number of Supreme Court justices?
A: George Washington. He named ten during his eight years in office. The high court was composed of six members at the time.

George Washington's second inaugural address was the shortest in U.S. history; what president gave the second-shortest?
A: Franklin Delano Roosevelt--his fourth inaugural address was 559 words long. other inaugural addresses under 1,000 words were Lincoln's second, with 698 words. Theodore Roosevelt's 985; Zachary Taylor's 996.

Why did President Millard Fillmore turn down a prestigious honorary degree from Oxford University?
A: Because it was written in Latin, a language he didn't understand. As he explained, "I have not the advantage of a classical education and no and should, in my judgment, accept a degree he cannot read."

What valuables were found hidden in Mary Todd Lincoln's underwear when the president's widow was judged insane in 1875?
A: Bonds worth $56,000.

According to a book co-authored by Sigmund Freud, what American president suffered from an unresolved Oedipus complex?
A: Woodrow Wilson. In the book Thomas Woodrow Wilson, written with William Bullitt, Freud claimed Wilson's two wives served as mother substitutes.

What did President Andrew Jackson have installed on the second floor of the White house in 1835 to ensure that he had a steady supply of running water?
A: Free-standing water hydrants.