Presidential quiz - Ronald Reagan, Thomas Jefferson, John F. Kennedy

U.S. Presidents Trivia Quiz

Test your knowledge of these chief executives

AARP

Updated February 12, 2026

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Updated February 12, 2026

10 Questions

U.S. Presidents Trivia Quiz

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 "question" : "Which president was the first to hold a televised news conference?\n",
 "answers" : [ {
 "answer" : "Ronald Reagan",
 "correctAnswer" : false
 }, {
 "answer" : "Dwight Eisenhower",
 "correctAnswer" : true
 }, {
 "answer" : "John Kennedy ",
 "correctAnswer" : false
 }, {
 "answer" : "Franklin Roosevelt",
 "correctAnswer" : false
 } ],
 "multiSelect" : false,
 "explanation" : "The Jan. 19, 1955, session was recorded for use as news footage; live news conferences didn’t come along until President Kennedy in 1961.\n",
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}, {
 "question" : "Which president signed legislation creating Medicare?\n",
 "answers" : [ {
 "answer" : "Franklin Roosevelt",
 "correctAnswer" : false
 }, {
 "answer" : "Harry Truman",
 "correctAnswer" : false
 }, {
 "answer" : "John Kennedy",
 "correctAnswer" : false
 }, {
 "answer" : "Lyndon Johnson",
 "correctAnswer" : true
 } ],
 "multiSelect" : false,
 "explanation" : "Medicare was created as an amendment to the Social Security Act when Johnson signed legislation July 30, 1965.\n",
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}, {
 "question" : "Who was the first president born an American citizen?\n",
 "answers" : [ {
 "answer" : "Andrew Jackson",
 "correctAnswer" : false
 }, {
 "answer" : "John Quincy Adams",
 "correctAnswer" : false
 }, {
 "answer" : "Martin Van Buren",
 "correctAnswer" : true
 }, {
 "answer" : "James Monroe",
 "correctAnswer" : false
 } ],
 "multiSelect" : false,
 "explanation" : "Van Buren was the nation’s eighth president; he took office in 1837.\n",
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}, {
 "question" : "Which president said, “Politics is like football. If you see daylight, go through the hole”?\n",
 "answers" : [ {
 "answer" : "Dwight Eisenhower",
 "correctAnswer" : false
 }, {
 "answer" : "John Kennedy",
 "correctAnswer" : true
 }, {
 "answer" : "Richard Nixon",
 "correctAnswer" : false
 }, {
 "answer" : "Gerald Ford",
 "correctAnswer" : false
 } ],
 "multiSelect" : false,
 "explanation" : "JFK played junior varsity football at Harvard, according to his presidential library.\n",
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}, {
 "question" : "Who was the first president who had been divorced?\n",
 "answers" : [ {
 "answer" : "Dwight D. Eisenhower",
 "correctAnswer" : false
 }, {
 "answer" : "John Kennedy",
 "correctAnswer" : false
 }, {
 "answer" : "Ronald Reagan",
 "correctAnswer" : true
 }, {
 "answer" : "George H.W. Bush",
 "correctAnswer" : false
 } ],
 "multiSelect" : false,
 "explanation" : "Reagan was divorced from Jane Wyman in 1948; he was remarried (to Nancy Davis) in 1952.\n",
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}, {
 "question" : "Which of these presidents was never married?\n",
 "answers" : [ {
 "answer" : "James Monroe",
 "correctAnswer" : false
 }, {
 "answer" : "James Garfield",
 "correctAnswer" : false
 }, {
 "answer" : "James Buchanan",
 "correctAnswer" : true
 }, {
 "answer" : "Franklin Pierce",
 "correctAnswer" : false
 } ],
 "multiSelect" : false,
 "explanation" : "Buchanan remains the only president to never have married.\n",
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 "hintLink" : "",
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}, {
 "question" : "Abraham Lincoln was the tallest president at 6-foot-4. Who was the shortest?\n",
 "answers" : [ {
 "answer" : "James Madison",
 "correctAnswer" : true
 }, {
 "answer" : "Martin Van Buren",
 "correctAnswer" : false
 }, {
 "answer" : "John Adams",
 "correctAnswer" : false
 }, {
 "answer" : "Andrew Johnson",
 "correctAnswer" : false
 } ],
 "multiSelect" : false,
 "explanation" : "Madison was about 5 foot 4, according to Newsweek. (Donald Trump was listed at 6 foot 3 in his 2018 medical exam.)\n",
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}, {
 "question" : "How many presidents have died on July 4?\n",
 "answers" : [ {
 "answer" : "0",
 "correctAnswer" : false
 }, {
 "answer" : "1",
 "correctAnswer" : false
 }, {
 "answer" : "2",
 "correctAnswer" : false
 }, {
 "answer" : "3",
 "correctAnswer" : true
 } ],
 "multiSelect" : false,
 "explanation" : "John Adams and Thomas Jefferson both died July 4, 1826; James Monroe died July 4, 1831.\n",
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}, {
 "question" : "Which president said, “The worst sin in politics is being boring”?\n",
 "answers" : [ {
 "answer" : "John Kennedy",
 "correctAnswer" : false
 }, {
 "answer" : "Lyndon Johnson",
 "correctAnswer" : false
 }, {
 "answer" : "Richard Nixon",
 "correctAnswer" : true
 }, {
 "answer" : "Bill Clinton",
 "correctAnswer" : false
 } ],
 "multiSelect" : false,
 "explanation" : "The quote has been cited so many times that it has even shown up in a Twitter parody account for the late president.\n",
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}, {
 "question" : "This president signed legislation to create the Social Security system.\n",
 "answers" : [ {
 "answer" : "Herbert Hoover",
 "correctAnswer" : false
 }, {
 "answer" : "Lyndon Johnson",
 "correctAnswer" : false
 }, {
 "answer" : "Theodore Roosevelt",
 "correctAnswer" : false
 }, {
 "answer" : "Franklin D. Roosevelt",
 "correctAnswer" : true
 } ],
 "multiSelect" : false,
 "explanation" : "FDR signed the Social Security Act on Aug. 14, 1935.\n",
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