More Presidential trivia

1. Which president earned the nickname “Old Man Eloquent” for his speeches opposing slavery?

2. Which president served the shortest time -- 32 days?

3. Who was the first president not born a British subject, or even of British ancestry?

4. Who was the first to become president, not through popular election but through the death of his predecessor?

5. Who was elected president the first time the nation voted on the same day?

6. Which president was so popular at the end of his first term that he ran unopposed for a second term?

7. Which president had a formal education of only six months of grade school?

8. Which president once gambled away the White House china in a card game?

9. Which president remains the only man in American history to have gained both the highest executive and the highest judicial positions?

10. Which president could speak Mandarin Chinese and worked as a mining engineer before entering politics?

 

ANSWERS

1. John Quincy Adams

2. William Henry Harrison

3. Martin Van Buren

4. John Tyler

5. Zachary Taylor

6. James Monroe

7. Millard Fillmore

8. Warren G. Harding

9. William H. Taft

10. Herbert C. Hoover