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1.Which president, renown for his manliness, gave an 84-minute speech after being shot while running for a third term in 1912?
James Garfield
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Andrew Jackson
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William Howard Taft
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Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt
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After a magnificent life of adventuring, Roosevelt died in his sleep in 1919. Then-vice president Thomas R. Marshall said that it was good Roosevelt died in his sleep, because if Death had come for him when awake, there would have been a fight.
2.Who was the first Catholic president?
James Buchanan
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John F. Kennedy
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Joe Biden
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Richard Nixon
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Biden is the second Catholic to be president. Buchanan was Presbyterian, while Nixon was a Quaker.
3.There have been 2 pairs of father-and-son presidents, but who were the only grandfather-and-grandson presidents?
Theodore "Teddy" and Franklin D. Roosevelt
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John and John Quincy Adams
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George H.W. and George W. Bush
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William Henry and Benjamin Harrison
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The Adamses and Bushes are the father-and-son pairs. Theodore and Franklin were both from the influential Roosevelt family of New York, but they were fifth cousins and from different branches. They did have a closer family relation, though, as Franklin's wife Eleanor was also born into the Roosevelt family, and was the daughter of Theodore's brother.
4.Who was the first president to live in the modern White House?
James Madison
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James Monroe
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George Washington
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John Adams
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George Washington is the only president to never live at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, as he had already left office when it was completed. The original White House stood finished in 1801, with Adams being the first to live there. British soldiers burned it down during the War of 1812, and James Madison was without an official residence for the rest of his time in office. The new, current White House was first inhabited by his successor, James Monroe.
5.The Republican Party dominated the presidency in the decades after the Civil War. Who was the first Democrat elected president after the war?
James Buchanan
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Ulysses S. Grant
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Woodrow Wilson
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Grover Cleveland
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6.Which president was the first born after the Declaration of Independence?
Martin Van Buren
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Barack Obama (he was born the day after and is secretly immortal)
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John Quincy Adams
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Abraham Lincoln
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Van Buren was born in 1782, or 6-and-a-bit years after the Fourth of July 1776. John Quincy Adams was born in 1767, Abraham Lincoln in 1809, and Barack Obama (who isn't immortal AFAIK) in 1961.
7.Famously, the most important part of the vice president's job is to take over if the president dies, resigns, or is impeached and removed from office. Who was the first person to become president because of this?
John Tyler
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Chester A. Arthur
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James Monroe
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Gerald Ford
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Tyler was vice president for all of 31 days, and became president when William Henry Harrison died from natural causes in 1841. It wasn't clear at the time if a VP-turned-POTUS became the acting president or a full president, but Tyler believed the latter, and the tradition stuck. His critics called him "His Accidency" because of the circumstances of his succession.
8.Which president was reelected in 1916 with the slogan "he kept us out of war", and then entered World War 1 a month after beginning his second term?
Calvin Coolidge
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Warren G. Harding
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Woodrow Wilson
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William McKinley
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9.Who was the first president who got through a full 4-year term without having to replace any of his cabinet secretaries?
Andrew Jackson
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Trick question, it's never happened
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Franklin Pierce
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George Washington
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Pierce left office after a single term in 1857. It took 68 years from the creation of the presidency to the first term where no secretaries were replaced.
10.The president can be impeached by the House of Representatives. If the Senate votes to convict them, they are removed from office, but this has never happened. Who was the first president to be impeached?
Andrew Johnson
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Richard Nixon
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Bill Clinton
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Donald Trump
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Johnson was impeached over the Edwin Stanton firing scandal, but was acquitted in the Senate by a single vote. Of the four options, only Nixon was never impeached, as he resigned before the House had time to do that.
11.Which president authorized the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945?
Harry S Truman
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Rutherford B. Hayes
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
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12.Who was the first president to not use his legal name for signing documents?
James Earl "Jimmy" Carter
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Dwight "Ike" Eisenhower
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William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton
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Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt
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Several earlier presidents are known by middle names (for example Stephen Grover Cleveland and Thomas Woodrow Wilson), but used their full names in their signatures. Theodore actually didn't like the name "Teddy", and always went by his full name. However, he often used his initials TR (since regarded as a nickname in its own right) to sign informal notes.