| QUESTION | ANSWER | EXPLANATION |
| Which US President was nicknamed "Father of His Country" ? | George Washington | George Washington (1789-1797) was the 1st US President and was nicknamed "Father of His Country". He was the only US President to not live in the White House. |
| Which US President wrote the Declaration of Independence? | Thomas Jefferson | Thomas Jefferson (1801-1809) was the 3rd US President and was nicknamed "Man of the People" and "Sage of Monticello". He was George Washington's Secretary of State. |
| Which US President, besides George Washington, was popular enough to run unopposed for the second term? | James Monroe | James Monroe (1817-1825) was the 5th US President and was nicknamed "The Last Cocked Hat". |
| Pictures of US Presidents appear on paper currency. Which US President's picture appears on $ 20 bills ? | Andrew Jackson | Andrew Jackson (1829-1837) was the 7th US President and was nicknamed "Old Hickory". Nine presidents have their pictures on US paper money: George Washington ($l), Thomas Jefferson ($2), Abraham Lincoln ($5), Andrew Jackson ($20), Ulysses S. Grant ($50), William McKinley ($500), Grover S. Cleveland (,000), James Madison ($5,000), and Woodrow Wilson (00,000) |
| Which US President had the shortest term in office ? | William Harrison | William Henry Harrison (1841) was the 9th US President. He served in office for only 1 month. William Harrison, Zachary Taylor, Warren Harding and Franklin Roosevelt died in office of natural causes. |
| Which US President waged the Mexican War ? | James Polk | James Knox Polk (1845-1849) was the 11th US President and was nicknamed "Young Hickory". Polk waged the Mexican War and the US victory formed 7 States (Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming). |
| Which US President signed the Fugitive Slave Law ? | Millard Fillmore | Millard Fillmore (1850-1853) was the 13th US President and was nicknamed "The American Louis Philippe". |
| Which US President was the only one who never married ? | James Buchanan | James Buchanan (1857-1861) was the 15th US President. |
| Which US President was accused of violating the Tenure of Office Act in 1867 ? | Andrew Johnson | Andrew Johnson (1865-1869) was the 17th US President. |
| Which US President said "Nobody ever left the Presidency with less regret than I do" ? | Rutherford Hayes | Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1877-1881) was the 19th US President and was nicknamed "Dark-Horse President". |
| Which US President dedicated the Washington Monument ? | Chester Arthur | Chester Alan Arthur (1881-1885) was the 21st US President. |
| Who is the only US President to serve two non-consecutive terms ? | Grover Cleveland | Grover S. Cleveland (1885-1889 & 1893-1897) was the 22nd & 24th US President. |
| Which US President said "Don't let them hurt him" when he was fatally wounded and the crowd mobbed his assassin ? | William McKinley | William McKinley (1897-1901) was the 25th US President. McKinley's assassin was Leon Czolgosz. McKinley acquired the first US overseas possessions. |
| Who is the only US President to have held the nation's highest judicial office, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court? | William Taft | William Howard Taft (1909-1913) was the 27th US President. He was huge (weighed over 300 pounds and was 6'2" tall). |
| During which US President's term did the 'Teapot Dome' scandal occur ? | Warren Harding | Warren Gamaliel Harding (1921-1923) was the 29th US President. The 'Teapot Dome' is an oilfield in Wyoming. |
| Which US President was in office when the 'Great Depression' started with the crash of the stock markets in 1929 ? | Herbert Hoover | Herbert Clark Hoover (1929-1933) was the 31st US President and the first President to be born west of the Mississippi river. |
| Who was the only US President to order the dropping of a nuclear bomb on an enemy ? | Harry Truman | Harry S. Truman (1945-1953) was the 33rd US President and was nicknamed "Give 'Em Hell Harry". He ordered the dropping of a nuclear bomb on Japan. |
| Which US President said "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country" ? ? | John Kennedy | John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1961-1963) was the 35th US President and was nicknamed "JFK". He was elected President at the age of 43. |
| Which US President's campaign team was called CREEP (Committee to Re-Elect the President) ? | Richard Nixon | Richard Milhous Nixon (1969-1974) was the 37th US President. |
| Which US President is associated with the Camp David Accord between Israel and Egypt ? | James Carter | James Earl Carter, Jr. (1977-1981) was the 39th US President and a graduate of the Naval Academy. |
| Name the US President who was an ambassador to the United Nations and the director of the CIA before becoming President. | George Bush | George Herbert Walker Bush (1989-1993) was the 41st US President and was nicknamed "Poppy". |
