Stats: Unique U.S. Presidents

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Hint	Explanation	Answer	% Correct
The only president to drop atomic bombs during warfare	Also the one with the lowest approval rating measured by Gallup ever - 22%	Harry S. Truman	97%
The only African-American president	He was born in Hawaii. Don't be racist.	Barack Obama	90%
The only president ever to live to 100 years of age	But he died in 2024. Shucks.	Jimmy Carter	83%
The only president to ever run with a woman as vice president	Kamala Harris - Also the first Asian-American vice president.	Joe Biden	80%
The only president to be elected to four terms	The fourth term only lasted 82 days, though.	Franklin D. Roosevelt	77%
The only bachelor president	Well he was engaged, but she died right after they got engaged.	James Buchanan	77%
The only president to resign	Due to Watergate. Plus, his first VP also resigned for unrelated issues.	Richard Nixon	77%
The only president to be a professional film actor	He acted in training films for soldiers during WWII.	Ronald Reagan	77%
The only president to kill someone in a duel	He killed Charles Dickinson, not to be confused with Charles Dickens, who was born 6 years later.	Andrew Jackson	70%
The only president to marry a Slovenian	Also the only president to be impeached twice!	Donald Trump	70%
The only president to serve as General of the Army due to work in the Civil War	Additionally, he is a General of the Armies of the U.S. along with Washington and John Pershing.	Ulysses S. Grant	70%
The only president to be in office for less than 40 days	He did not die from pneumonia from giving the longest inaugural address without a coat in the rain, contrary to popular belief. He actually likely contracted typhus.	William Henry Harrison	70%
The only president to have led the CIA	From 1976-77, ten days shy of one year	George H.W. Bush	67%
The only president to regularly conduct (official) business on the toilet	Because all of the presidents did business on the toilet!	Lyndon B. Johnson	67%
The only president to upgrade the size of the presidential bathtub	He was famously large, weighing roughly 300 pounds.	William Howard Taft	67%
The only president never elected as president or vice president	He was appointed VP under Nixon after Spiro Agnew resigned and then became POTUS when Nixon resigned.	Gerald R. Ford	60%
The only president to ever die from a heart attack while in office	Being replaced by Coolidge, who was significantly better as president.	Warren G. Harding	60%
The only president to be shorter than 5"6'	In comparison to Lincoln, the tallest president, who was 6'4", a whole foot taller.	James Madison	57%
The only president to lead troops into battle while in office	During the Whiskey Rebellion, which Hamilton indirectly caused with his whiskey excise tax.	George Washington	53%
The only president to have a PhD	He, however, was also very racist, praising the KKK.	Woodrow Wilson	53%
The only president to personally directly found a university	Washington did some university establishment, it was through his use of money and influence, not by directly founding a university.	Thomas Jefferson	50%
The only Federalist president	The Federalists kept running candidates until they went extinct, losing their last election in 1816.	John Adams	43%
The only president who sported a beard and no mustache	It was quite the look.	Abraham Lincoln	37%
The only president whose first name was Stephen	Grover was not his first name, crazy enough.	Grover Cleveland	30%
The only president born in Iowa	West Branch, Iowa	Herbert Hoover	30%
The only president to drink himself to death	What a sad dude. His whole family died then he died of alcohol complications.	Franklin Pierce	27%
The only former working tailor to become president	Fillmore tailored as an apprentice, but never actually did it professionally.	Andrew Johnson	23%
The only president to take daily nude baths in a river	He was also the smartest president by estimated IQ. Guess he figured out the optimal strategy for mental acuity.	John Quincy Adams	23%
The only president to be sworn in by a previous president	By judge William Howard Taft!	Calvin Coolidge	20%
The only president to be blind in one eye during his tenure	He lost vision in one eye during a boxing match. Then, he switched to Jiu-Jitsu.	Theodore Roosevelt	20%
The only president whose approval rating was above 65% at the end of his tenure	Despite his personal scandals such as his affair with Monica Lewinsky.	Bill Clinton	17%
The only Stalwart president	Stalwarts were radical republicans who loved patronage and didn't want civil service reform.	Chester Arthur	17%
The only president to ever earn a Masters of Business Administration (M.B.A.) degree	Well he certainly went into administration.	George W. Bush	17%
The only Democratic-Republican president to win more than 99% of the popular vote	In 1820, he won 99.57% of the popular vote.	James Monroe	17%
The only president ever elected by a special commission due to a disputed election	Hayes famously beat Tilden by a razor thin margin in 1876.	Rutherford B. Hayes	17%
The only president to see action during the Black Hawk War	Lincoln served in the war, but saw no action and his term was brief.	Zachary Taylor	13%
The only president to admit more than five states to the union	North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Washington, Idaho, and Wyoming	Benjamin Harrison	10%
The only president to declare "war" on the White House squirrels	Other presidents disliked the White House squirrels, but Ike was the only one to declare any sort of opposition	Dwight D. Eisenhower	10%
The only president to die less than a year after leaving office	He was such a workaholic and didn't know what to do after he left office.	James K. Polk	10%
The only president to ever be in a car accident with Larry King	King rear-ended JFK. They were the only two cars on the road.	John F. Kennedy	10%
The only president to own tigers as pets	What a crazy guy.	Martin Van Buren	7%
The only president to ever appoint a Mormon as a governor	He appointed Brigham Young as governor of Utah territory.	Millard Fillmore	7%
The only president married to a First Lady with epilepsy	He would cover her face with a handkerchief or napkin to deal with her seizures while in the presence of company.	William McKinley	7%
The only president elected while serving in the House of Representatives	He served for nearly 18 years in the House.	James Garfield	3%
The only president to serve under a political party named for himself	The "Tyler Party" was Tyler's own party founded after his expulsion from the Whig party predicated by his hostility towards many Whig policies.	John Tyler	3%

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