1. Who was the first president to be inaugurated in Washington, D.C.?
Thomas Jefferson John Adams James Madison James Monroe
2. Who was the first President to have his inauguration reported by telegraph?
James Polk Zachary Taylor Millard Fillmore Franklin Pierce
3. Who was the first president to die in office, about 32 days after he was elected?
Chester A. Arthur Grover Cleveland William Henry Harrison William McKinley
4. Ten years after he was president, he was stricken with throat cancer. He regularly swabbed his throat with cocaine and he became addicted to it. Name this president?
Abraham Lincoln Andrew Johnson Ulysses Simpson Grant Rutherford B. Hayes
5. The president who was the first to tour the country?
John Quincy Adams Andrew Jackson William Henry Harrison James Monroe
6. The president who was the only president to never be married. His niece Harriet Lane acted as First Lady.
Franklin Pierce James Buchanan Andrew Johnson Rutherford B. Hayes
7. After being shot, he saw the shooter being beaten to the ground, he then cried, "Don't let them hurt him!"
Grover Cleveland Benjamin Harrison William McKinley William Howard Taft
8. When governor of Massachusetts, this president was once punched in the eye by the mayor of Boston.
John Calvin Coolidge Herbert Hoover Franklin D. Roosevelt Ronald Reagan
9. Who was the last president born in the 18th century?
John Tyler Millard Fillmore Zachary Taylor Franklin Pierce
10. He was the first president to use electricity in the White House. After he got an electrical shock, his family often refused to touch the light switches. Sometimes they would go to bed leaving all the White House lights on!
James A. Garfield Chester A. Arthur Andrew Johnson Benjamin Harrison
11. He was the first president to visit China while in office.
Richard Milhous Nixon Gerald R. Ford Jimmy Carter Ronald Reagan
12. During this president's second year at Bowdoin College in Maine, he had the lowest grades out of anyone in his class. He changed his study habits, and graduated third in his class. Among his class mates were Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
Millard Fillmore James Buchanan Franklin Pierce Andrew Johnson
13. He was the first president to cross the Atlantic Ocean while in office.
Thomas Woodrow Wilson Warren G. Harding Calvin Coolidge Herbert Hoover
14. He was the only president to be elected to the House of Representatives after serving as President.
George Washington Thomas Jefferson James Monroe John Quincy Adams
15. He was the first president to give a speech on television.
Harry S Truman Dwight D. Eisenhower John F. Kennedy Lyndon B. Johnson
16. He was the only president to be elected to two nonconsecutive terms.
Benjamin Harrison Stephen Grover Cleveland Theodore Roosevelt William Howard Taft
17. He was the first President to use a telephone while in office. The first telephone was installed in the White House in 1879.
Rutherford Birchard Hayes James A. Garfield Chester A. Arthur Grover Cleveland
18. He was our smallest President, weighing 100 pounds, and standing 5 feet and 4 inches tall.
Thomas Jefferson James Madison John Quincy Adams Martin Van Buren
19. He was shot on October 14, 1912 just before giving a speech during his run as "Bull Moose" candidate. Even though the bullet entered his lung, he still gave the speech!
William Howard Taft James A. Garfield Theodore Roosevelt Millard Fillmore
20. He was the only president to serve in both World Wars.
Franklin D. Roosevelt David Dwight Eisenhower Herbert Hoover Calvin Coolidge
