United States Quiz 6 NewMedium
- 20 questions
- about 25 minutes to run
- published 10 Nov 2026
1. Before 2025, which president was the only one to serve two non-consecutive terms?
2. Who was the youngest person to become president, aged 42?
3. Which toy is named after that president?
4. Which president appears on the $20 bill?
5. Which non-president appears on the $100 bill?
6. Which president had been a Hollywood film actor?
7. Which president had been a peanut farmer in Georgia?
8. Who was the first president to live in the White House?
9. Name either father-and-son pair of presidents.
10. Which president was the grandson of another president, William Henry Harrison?
11. William Henry Harrison had the shortest presidency. Roughly how long did it last?
12. Who was the tallest president, at 6 feet 4 inches?
13. Who was the first Roman Catholic president?
14. In which state was Barack Obama born?
15. Which president later became Chief Justice of the United States?
16. Which president kept a sign on his desk reading "The buck stops here"?
17. Which president had been Supreme Allied Commander in Europe during the Second World War?
18. Which president won the Nobel Peace Prize for founding the League of Nations?
19. What is the name of the presidential country retreat in Maryland?
20. The Resolute desk in the Oval Office was made from the timbers of a British ship. Which monarch gave it?
ANSWERS
1. Grover Cleveland (the 22nd and 24th president)
Donald Trump became the second, as the 45th and 47th president.
2. Theodore Roosevelt
John F. Kennedy, at 43, was the youngest to be elected. Roosevelt took office on William McKinley's assassination.
3. The teddy bear
4. Andrew Jackson
5. Benjamin Franklin
6. Ronald Reagan
7. Jimmy Carter
8. John Adams
9. John Adams and John Quincy Adams, or George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush
10. Benjamin Harrison
11. One month (31 days)
He gave a very long inaugural address in cold, wet weather and died of pneumonia a month later, although the link between the speech and the illness is disputed.
12. Abraham Lincoln
13. John F. Kennedy
14. Hawaii
15. William Howard Taft
16. Harry S. Truman
17. Dwight D. Eisenhower
18. Woodrow Wilson
19. Camp David
20. Queen Victoria
HMS Resolute was abandoned in the Arctic in 1854, found by an American whaler and returned to Britain as a goodwill gesture. The desk was made from her timbers when she was broken up.
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