100+ President Trivia Questions and Answers

Presidential trivia is a great way to test one’s understanding and knowledge of politics, history, and the workings of the highest position in office in various countries. American history has been moulded by the U S presidents who made some of the biggest decisions in history. Let’s take a look at U S president trivia and trivia on other presidents across the world too.

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President Trivia

Did you know these trivia around US presidents?

• John F Kennedy was the youngest elected president in US history at 43 years old.
• President Gerald Ford was born with the given name Leslie Lynch King Jr.
• Harry S Truman lead the efforts of desegregating the military, banning discrimination in the civil service and commissioning a federal report on civil rights.
• Rutherford B Hayes started the first Easter Egg Roll at the White House, which is now an annual tradition.
• The Patriot Act was signed by President George W Bush.
• Donald Trump is the first American president to be impeached twice.
• The Watergate scandal would eventually lead to the impeachment of Richard Nixon.
• Stephen Grover Cleveland is the only president to serve to nonconsecutive terms.

President Trivia Questions and Answers

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Questions	Answers
How old must a person be to run for President of the United States?	▶ 35
Awarded posthumously in 2001, who is the only U.S. President to have received the Medal of Honor?	▶ Theodore Roosevelt
Which US president focused on winning the Cold War and the rollback of communism?	▶ Ronald Reagan
Which president implemented a Europe first strategy and started the Lend-Lease program to make Germany’s defeat a first priority?	▶ Franklin D Roosevelt
Who is the United States’ eighth president?	▶ Martin Van Buren
Which US president served from 1869 to 1877?	▶ Ulysses S Grant
How many days was William Henry Harrison president?	▶ 31 days
What did President Zachary Taylor die of during his term?	▶ Cholera Morbus
How many successful assassination attempts on US presidents have there been?	▶ Four
Every how many years does a presidential elections happen in Colombia?	▶ Four
Who was the 14th US president?	▶ Franklin Pierce
Which US president holds the nickname “Father of His Country”?	▶ George Washington
How many presidents served during the American Revolution?	▶ 3
What was the name of President James madison’s wife?	▶ Dolley Madison
What is the oldest political party in Australia?	▶ The Labor Party
Who was the first president of the United States to live in the White House?	▶ President John Quincy Adams
Which President is on the United States 1,000 dollar bill?	▶ Grover Cleveland
In 1952, Albert Einstein was offered the presidency of which country?	▶ Israel
At the time of his assassination, what play was Abraham Lincoln watching?	▶ Our American Cousin
Who was the first President of the United States?	▶ George Washington
Who was the President of France during World War II?	▶ Charles de Gaulle
Who was the first female President of Liberia?	▶ Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Who was the President of the Soviet Union during the Cuban Missile Crisis?	▶ Nikita Khrushchev
Who was the President of South Africa during the end of apartheid?	▶ F.W. de Klerk
Who was the first President of Kenya?	▶ Jomo Kenyatta
Who was the President of Cuba during the Bay of Pigs invasion?	▶ Fidel Castro
Who was the President of Indonesia during the 2004 tsunami?	▶ Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono
Who was the first President of Brazil?	▶ Deodoro da Fonseca
Who was the President of Mexico during the Mexican-American War?	▶ Antonio López de Santa Anna
Who was the first President of China?	▶ Sun Yat-sen
Who was the President of Iraq during the Gulf War?	▶ Saddam Hussein
Who was the President of Chile during the Pinochet regime?	▶ Augusto Pinochet (as a dictator, not elected)
Who was the first President of South Korea?	▶ Syngman Rhee
Who was the President of Egypt during the Suez Crisis?	▶ Gamal Abdel Nasser
Who was the President of Afghanistan during the Soviet-Afghan War?	▶ Mohammad Najibullah
Who was the President of the Philippines during the People Power Revolution?	▶ Ferdinand Marcos
Who was the President of Argentina during the Falklands War?	▶ Leopoldo Galtieri
Who was the first President of Ghana?	▶ Kwame Nkrumah
Who was the President of Israel during the Six-Day War?	▶ Zalman Shazar
Who was the first President of Tanzania?	▶ Julius Nyerere
Who was the President of the United States during the Cuban Missile Crisis?	▶ John F. Kennedy
Who was the President of France during the Vietnam War?	▶ Charles de Gaulle
Who was the first President of Nigeria?	▶ Nnamdi Azikiwe
Who was the President of Syria during the Arab Spring?	▶ Bashar al-Assad
Who was the President of Iran during the Iranian Revolution?	▶ Abolhassan Banisadr
Who was the first President of Angola?	▶ Agostinho Neto
Who was the President of Uganda during Idi Amin’s regime?	▶ Milton Obote
Who was the President of Mozambique during its civil war?	▶ Samora Machel
Who was the President of Chile during the Allende presidency?	▶ Salvador Allende
Who was the President of Afghanistan during the Taliban regime?	▶ Mohammed Omar
Who was the first President of Zimbabwe?	▶ Canan Banana
Who was the President of Uruguay during the Tupamaros insurgency?	▶ Jorge Pacheco Areco
Who was the President of Venezuela during the 1992 coup attempts?	▶ Carlos Andrés Pérez
Who was the President of Turkey during the Gezi Park protests?	▶ Abdullah Gül
Who was the first President of Croatia?	▶ Franjo Tuđman
Who was the President of Romania during the fall of communism?	▶ Nicolae Ceaușescu
Who was the President of Haiti during the Duvalier dynasty?	▶ François Duvalier
Who was the President of Bulgaria during the fall of communism?	▶ Todor Zhivkov
Who was the President of Panama during the Noriega regime?	▶ Eric Arturo Delvalle
Who was the President of Peru during the Shining Path insurgency?	▶ Alberto Fujimori
Who was the President of Liberia during the First Liberian Civil War?	▶ Samuel Doe
Who was the President of Haiti during the 2010 earthquake?	▶ René Préval
Who was the President of Iraq during the Gulf War in 1991?	▶ Saddam Hussein
Who was the President of Iran during the Iran-Iraq War?	▶ Ali Khamenei
Who was the President of Somalia during the Somali Civil War?	▶ Siad Barre
Who was the President of Uganda during the Uganda-Tanzania War?	▶ Idi Amin
Who was the President of Egypt during the Arab Spring?	▶ Hosni Mubarak
Who was the President of Yemen during the Yemeni Civil War?	▶ Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi
Who was the President of Ethiopia during the Ethiopian Civil War?	▶ Mengistu Haile Mariam
Who was the President of Cambodia during the Khmer Rouge regime?	▶ Pol Pot
Who was the President of Colombia during the Colombian conflict?	▶ Juan Manuel Santos
Who was the President of Sudan during the Second Sudanese Civil War?	▶ Omar al-Bashir
Who was the President of Bangladesh during the Bangladesh Liberation War?	▶ Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
Who was the President of Algeria during the Algerian War of Independence?	▶ Ahmed Ben Bella
Who was the President of Tunisia during the Arab Spring?	▶ Zine El Abidine Ben Ali
Who was the President of Chad during the Chadian Civil War?	▶ Hissène Habré
Who was the President of Sri Lanka during the Sri Lankan Civil War?	▶ Mahinda Rajapaksa
Who was the President of Guatemala during the Guatemalan Civil War?	▶ Efraín Ríos Montt
Who was the President of El Salvador during the Salvadoran Civil War?	▶ José Napoleón Duarte
Who was the President of Nicaragua during the Contra War?	▶ Daniel Ortega
Who was the President of Venezuela during the presidency of Hugo Chávez?	▶ Hugo Chávez
Who was the President of Zimbabwe during the Rhodesian Bush War?	▶ Robert Mugabe
Who was the President of Lebanon during the Lebanese Civil War?	▶ Elias Sarkis
Who was the President of Syria during the Syrian Civil War?	▶ Bashar al-Assad
Who was the President of Iraq during the Iraq War?	▶ Saddam Hussein
Who was the President of Afghanistan during the Afghan War?	▶ Hamid Karzai
Who was the President of Iran during the Iranian Hostage Crisis?	▶ Abolhassan Banisadr
Who was the President of Egypt during the Yom Kippur War?	▶ Anwar Sadat
Who was the President of Brazil during the Brazilian military dictatorship?	▶ Emílio Garrastazu Médici
Who was the President of Argentina during the Dirty War?	▶ Jorge Rafael Videla
Who was the President of Mexico during the Mexican Revolution?	▶ Porfirio Díaz
Who was the President of France during the French Revolution?	▶ Louis XVI
Who was the President of the United States during the American Civil War?	▶ Abraham Lincoln
Who was the President of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War?	▶ Jefferson Davis
Who was the President of the Soviet Union during the Cold War?	▶ Mikhail Gorbachev
Who was the President of South Africa during the apartheid era?	▶ P. W. Botha
Who was the President of Indonesia during the Indonesian National Revolution?	▶ Sukarno
Who was the President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo during the Congo Crisis?	▶ Joseph Kasa-Vubu
Who was the President of Ghana during the Ghanaian Independence Movement?	▶ Kwame Nkrumah
Who was the President of Kenya during the Mau Mau Uprising?	▶ Jomo Kenyatta
Who was the President of Algeria during the Algerian War?	▶ Ahmed Ben Bella
Who was the President of Haiti during the Haitian Revolution?	▶ Jean-Jacques Dessalines
Who was the President of Mexico during the Mexican War of Independence?	▶ Agustín de Iturbide
Who was the President of Chile during the Chilean War of Independence?	▶ Bernardo O’Higgins
Who was the President of Argentina during the Argentine War of Independence?	▶ Cornelio Saavedra
Who was the President of the United States during the American Revolutionary War?	▶ George Washington
Who was the President of France during the French and Indian War?	▶ Louis XV
Who was the President of Russia during the Great Northern War?	▶ Peter the Great
Who was the President of the Ottoman Empire during the Battle of Vienna?	▶ Mustafa II
Who was the President of Portugal during the Age of Discovery?	▶ Henry the Navigator
Who was the President of China during the Opium Wars?	▶ Daoguang Emperor