| Question | President | % Correct |
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| Famed inventor Alexander Graham Bell tried to save the life of this president after he was shot by an assassin? | James A. Garfield | 88%
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| Who was the only man to be elected twice as U.S. Vice President and twice as President of the United States? | Richard Nixon | 88%
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| Mark Twain facilitated the publication of the autobiography of this president that was published the same year in the United States as The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn? | Ulysses S. Grant | 88%
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| One of America’s most well known American poems by Walt Whitman begins:
O Captain! My Captain! Our fearful trip is done;
The ship has weathered every track
The prize we sought is won.
In this poem, Whitman’s captain is this president? | Abraham Lincoln | 85%
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| According to his wishes, this president was buried wrapped in the American flag and his head rested on a copy of the U.S. Constitution? | Andrew Johnson | 85%
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| Which president was a Rhodes Scholar? | Bill Clinton | 85%
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| Which president served in Congress after his time in office and suffered a fatal stroke on the floor of the House Chamber? | John Quincy Adams | 85%
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| Influenced by the ‘Egyptomania’ craze of the 1920s, this president named his pet King Tut? | Herbert Hoover | 81%
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| Which president was the first president to be sworn in by his nickname? | Jimmy Carter | 81%
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| In 1934, the image of this president was printed on the $100,000 bill, the highest denomination ever issued by the U.S. federal government? | Woodrow Wilson | 81%
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| Nathanial Hawthorne, author of The Scarlet Letter and other American classics, died while on a leisure trip to the White Mountains in New Hampshire with this president? | Franklin Pierce | 77%
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| Which president worked to save football from being banned in the United States? | Theodore Roosevelt | 77%
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| Which president has long been labeled a self-proclaimed lover of pickles based on a quote falsely attributed to him? | Thomas Jefferson | 77%
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| Perhaps due to chronic depression, this president is said to have slept up to 11 hours a day and always took an afternoon nap lasting at least 1-2 hours? | Calvin Coolidge | 73%
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| Which president took the oath of office in his own home? | Chester A. Arthur | 73%
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| Which president changed the name of the presidential mountain retreat Shangri-La to Camp David, after his grandson? | Dwight D. Eisenhower | 73%
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| Before Ronald Reagan, this president was the first to be featured in a dramatic film? | Grover Cleveland | 73%
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| Sixteen years after leaving office, this president was elected to serve in the Confederate House of Representatives? | John Tyler | 73%
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| Which president, along with several members of his cabinet and a few congressmen, pitched in to put out a disastrous fire at the Library of Congress? | Millard Fillmore | 73%
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| Out of the five presidents to have worn a beard, this president is purported to have had the longest? | Rutherford B. Hayes | 69%
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