The Post Quiz: The Painless Guide to US Presidential Elections
Created | Updated Oct 23, 2016
It's one of those years. See what you know.
The Post Quiz: The Painless Guide to US Presidential Elections
You know you need to know this stuff, but frankly, other people's elections are boring. Heck, if you're from the US, you probably think your own elections are boring. So here's a painless way to get some historical perspective on this year's circus. Take the quiz, and we'll tell you what you need to know.
Multiple guess, as the high school teachers used to say.
- Who elected George Washington president in 1789?
- The US Senate
- The Continental Congress
- A popular, nationwide vote
- The Electoral College
- US women first voted in…
- 1920
- 1860
- 1776
- 1945
- To which former US president is candidate Donald Trump most often compared?
- Eisenhower
- Jackson
- Kennedy
- Fillmore
- To be a US president, it helps to be married. Only one US president has ever been a bachelor for his entire presidency. Which one?
- Millard Fillmore
- James Buchanan
- Ulysses S Grant
- Grover Cleveland
- Who was the first woman to run for president in the US?
- Gracie Allen
- Victoria Woodhull
- Margaret Chase Smith
- Hillary Rodham Clinton
- What is the most common cause of US presidential death in office?
- Heart attack
- Assassination
- Pneumonia
- Boredom
- As of October 2016, how many US presidents have there been?
- 42
- 43
- 44
- 45
- Who was the only US president and vice president who was never elected to either office?
- Andrew Johnson
- Spiro Agnew
- US Grant
- Gerald Ford
- It is a well-known fact that the US Constitution requires presidents to be 'natural born citizens', thus disqualifying Arnold Schwarzenegger. However, early US presidents were born as British subjects. Which president was the first to have been born a US citizen?
- Andrew Jackson
- Martin Van Buren
- Abraham Lincoln
- John Quincy Adams
- For almost a century, most US states banned the sale of alcohol (and closed all bars) on election day. After all, voting should be a sober activity. What politician, who later became a US president, is known to have influenced a local election by buying booze for the voters?
- George Washington
- Abraham Lincoln
- Richard Nixon
- Woodrow Wilson
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