Quiz: Presidential Alma Maters

January 21, 2011

What university was founded by Thomas Jefferson?
1. Old Dominion University
2. Radford University
3. University of Richmond
4. University of Virginia
In the 1990s, Barack Obama was a senior lecturer at what law school?
1. DePaul University
2. Northwestern University
3. Southern Illinois University
4. University of Chicago
What college is most common among presidents for undergraduate studies?
1. Harvard
2. Princeton
3. William and Mary
4. Yale
Who is the only president to earn a doctorate, having done so at Johns Hopkins University?
1. William Howard Taft
2. Woodrow Wilson
3. Herbert Hoover
4. Franklin Roosevelt
True or false: Bill Clinton is the only president to also be a Rhodes Scholar.
1. True
2. False
Who is the only president to receive an M.B.A., doing so at Harvard Business School?
1. Franklin Roosevelt
2. John F. Kennedy
3. Richard Nixon
4. George W. Bush
Before becoming president of the United States, Dwight Eisenhower was president of which university?
1. Brown
2. Columbia
3. University of Pennsylvania
4. Princeton
Who is the only other president (aside from Barack Obama) to graduate from Harvard Law School?
1. Rutherford B. Hayes
2. Chester Arthur
3. Theodore Roosevelt
4. Bill Clinton
Who is the most recent president to not graduate from college?
1. Andrew Johnson
2. Grover Cleveland
3. Harry Truman
4. Ronald Reagan

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