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"Who's that US president" multiple choice

"It's Pikachu"! Given below are 12 questions, and the answer to each is a US president. Can you answer these questions?
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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
Andrew Jackson
William Howard Taft
Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt
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
John F. Kennedy
Joe Biden
Richard Nixon
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
John and John Quincy Adams
George H.W. and George W. Bush
William Henry and Benjamin Harrison
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
James Monroe
George Washington
John Adams
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
Ulysses S. Grant
Woodrow Wilson
Grover Cleveland
6. Which president was the first born after the Declaration of Independence?
Martin Van Buren
Barack Obama (he was born the
day after and is secretly immortal)
John Quincy Adams
Abraham Lincoln
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
Chester A. Arthur
James Monroe
Gerald Ford
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
Warren G. Harding
Woodrow Wilson
William McKinley
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
Trick question, it's never happened
Franklin Pierce
George Washington
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
Richard Nixon
Bill Clinton
Donald Trump
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
Rutherford B. Hayes
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Dwight D. Eisenhower
12. Who was the first president to not use his legal name for signing documents?
James Earl "Jimmy" Carter
Dwight "Ike" Eisenhower
William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton
Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt
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.
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Level 65
Apr 2, 2021
James Monroe is listed twice in the options for Question #4.
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Level 61
Apr 2, 2021
Oops, I meant one of those to be James Monroe. Fixing it now. Thank you.