Quiz: Presidential Firsts

December 16, 2009

Who was the first president to be born an American citizen?
1. John Quincy Adams
2. Andrew Jackson
3. Martin Van Buren
4. Zachary Taylor
Who was the first to lose re-election?
1. George Washington
2. John Adams
3. Thomas Jefferson
4. James Madison
Who was the first to throw out a ceremonial pitch at a baseball game?
1. Teddy Roosevelt
2. William Taft
3. Warren Harding
4. Herbert Hoover
Who was the first born in a hospital?
1. Richard Nixon
2. Gerald Ford
3. Jimmy Carter
4. Ronald Reagan
Who was the first to sport facial hair?
1. James Madison
2. James Monroe
3. Millard Fillmore
4. Abraham Lincoln
Who was the first to be divorced?
1. Millard Fillmore
2. James Buchanan
3. Richard Nixon
4. Ronald Reagan
Who was the first to appoint a female cabinet member?
1. Ulysses S. Grant
2. Calvin Coolidge
3. Franklin Roosevelt
4. Jimmy Carter
Who first visited all 50 states?
1. Harry Truman
2. Dwight Eisenhower
3. Lyndon Johnson
4. Richard Nixon
Who was the first to be born west of the Mississippi River?
1. John Tyler
2. William McKinley
3. Herbert Hoover
4. Harry Truman
Who was the first to live to 90?
1. John Adams
2. Thomas Jefferson
3. Herbert Hoover
4. Ronald Reagan