Presidential

Choose an answer from the three choices offered after each question and then "Check Your Answers" at the end of the quiz.

1. Who was the only president sworn into office by his father?

• John Quincy Adams
• Benjamin Harrison
• Calvin Coolidge

2. Who was the only president to serve two nonconsecutive terms?

• Martin Van Buren
• Grover Cleveland
• Millard Fillmore

3. Who was the first president to win the Nobel Peace Prize?

• Theodore Roosevelt
• Woodrow Wilson
• Jimmy Carter

4. Who designed the Virginia Capitol and the University of Virginia? Historians consider him to be one of the leading architects of his time.

• Thomas Jefferson
• James Madison
• James Monroe

5. Who was the first member of the Republican Party to become president?

• James Madison
• Franklin Pierce
• Abraham Lincoln

6. Who is often called the Father of the Constitution? He helped design the checks and balances that operate among Congress, the President, and the Supreme Court.

• John Adams
• Thomas Jefferson
• James Madison

7. Who won a second term as president with 525 electoral votes, more electoral votes than any other presidential candidate in U.S. history?

• Franklin Roosevelt
• Richard Nixon
• Ronald Reagan

8. Who was the first president to be nominated by a national political convention?

• John Quincy Adams
• Andrew Jackson
• William Henry Harrison

9. Who was the first president elected by a margin of only one electoral vote?

• Rutherford B. Hayes
• Harry S. Truman
• George W. Bush

10. Who was the only man in the history of the United States to serve first as president, then as chief justice of the Supreme Court?

• James Buchanan
• Grover Cleveland
• William Taft

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Check Your Answers

• 1. Calvin Coolidge
• 2. Grover Cleveland
• 3. Theodore Roosevelt
• 4. Thomas Jefferson
• 5. Abraham Lincoln
• 6. James Madison
• 7. Ronald Reagan
• 8. Andrew Jackson
• 9. Rutherford B. Hayes
• 10. William Taft