A quiz fit for a president

How well do you know your US presidents?

By Felice Prager

from the February 8, 2007 edition

How well do you know your U.S. presidents? Take this quiz to find out. The answers are below.

1. Who was the smallest president?

2. Who was the first president to attend a baseball game while in office?

3. Who was the first president to fly in an airplane while in office?

4. Which president was the first to visit all 50 states?

5. Which president wrote 16 books including one called "Fishing for Fun – and to Wash Your Soul"?

6. Which president never attended school and was taught to read by his future wife?

7. Which president had the most children?

8. Which president played his saxophone on a late-night TV talk show?

9. Which president appeared in 53 movies?

10. Which president carried letters, bills, and notes in his hat?

Answers: 

1. James Madison, the fourth president, was 5 feet, 4 inches tall and weighed less than 100 pounds.

2. Benjamin Harrison, the 23rd president, watched the Cincinnati Reds beat the Washington Senators in 1892.

3. Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 32nd president, flew in 1943.

4. Richard M. Nixon (37th president).

5. Herbert Hoover (31st president).

6. Andrew Johnson, the 17th president, was taught to read when he was 17 by his wife-to-be, Eliza McCardle.

7. John Tyler, the 10th president, had 15 children. He was more than 70 years old when the 15th was born.

8. William Jefferson Clinton, the 42nd president, appeared on "The Arsenio Hall Show"in June 1992.

9. Ronald Reagan, the 40th president, acted in 53 films and was president of the Screen Actors Guild (1947-52, 1959-60) before he became president of the US.

10. Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president, often carried papers, bills, and notes in his famous stovepipe hat.