"Who's that US president" multiple choice

"It's Pikachu"! Given below are 12 questions, and the answer to each is a US president. Can you answer these questions?
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1. Which president, renown for his manliness, gave an 84-minute speech after being shot while running for a third term in 1912?
After a magnificent life of adventuring, Roosevelt died in his sleep in 1919. Then-vice president Thomas R. Marshall said that it was good Roosevelt died in his sleep, because if Death had come for him when awake, there would have been a fight.
Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt
Andrew Jackson
William Howard Taft
James Garfield
2. Who was the first Catholic president?
Biden is the second Catholic to be president. Buchanan was Presbyterian, while Nixon was a Quaker.
James Buchanan
John F. Kennedy
Joe Biden
Richard Nixon
3. There have been 2 pairs of father-and-son presidents, but who were the only grandfather-and-grandson presidents?
The Adamses and Bushes are the father-and-son pairs. Theodore and Franklin were both from the influential Roosevelt family of New York, but they were fifth cousins and from different branches. They did have a closer family relation, though, as Franklin's wife Eleanor was also born into the Roosevelt family, and was the daughter of Theodore's brother.
John and John Quincy Adams
George H.W. and George W. Bush
William Henry and Benjamin Harrison
Theodore "Teddy" and Franklin D. Roosevelt
4. Who was the first president to live in the modern White House?
George Washington is the only president to never live at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, as he had already left office when it was completed. The original White House stood finished in 1801, with Adams being the first to live there. British soldiers burned it down during the War of 1812, and James Madison was without an official residence for the rest of his time in office. The new, current White House was first inhabited by his successor, James Monroe.
James Monroe
James Madison
John Adams
George Washington
5. The Republican Party dominated the presidency in the decades after the Civil War. Who was the first Democrat elected president after the war?
Woodrow Wilson
Ulysses S. Grant
James Buchanan
Grover Cleveland
6. Which president was the first born after the Declaration of Independence?
Van Buren was born in 1782, or 6-and-a-bit years after the Fourth of July 1776. John Quincy Adams was born in 1767, Abraham Lincoln in 1809, and Barack Obama (who isn't immortal AFAIK) in 1961.
Barack Obama (he was born the
day after and is secretly immortal)
Abraham Lincoln
John Quincy Adams
Martin Van Buren
7. Famously, the most important part of the vice president's job is to take over if the president dies, resigns, or is impeached and removed from office. Who was the first person to become president because of this?
Tyler was vice president for all of 31 days, and became president when William Henry Harrison died from natural causes in 1841. It wasn't clear at the time if a VP-turned-POTUS became the acting president or a full president, but Tyler believed the latter, and the tradition stuck. His critics called him "His Accidency" because of the circumstances of his succession.
Chester A. Arthur
James Monroe
Gerald Ford
John Tyler
8. Which president was reelected in 1916 with the slogan "he kept us out of war", and then entered World War 1 a month after beginning his second term?
William McKinley
Warren G. Harding
Calvin Coolidge
Woodrow Wilson
9. Who was the first president who got through a full 4-year term without having to replace any of his cabinet secretaries?
Pierce left office after a single term in 1857. It took 68 years from the creation of the presidency to the first term where no secretaries were replaced.
George Washington
Trick question, it's never happened
Andrew Jackson
Franklin Pierce
10. The president can be impeached by the House of Representatives. If the Senate votes to convict them, they are removed from office, but this has never happened. Who was the first president to be impeached?
Johnson was impeached over the Edwin Stanton firing scandal, but was acquitted in the Senate by a single vote. Of the four options, only Nixon was never impeached, as he resigned before the House had time to do that.
Richard Nixon
Donald Trump
Andrew Johnson
Bill Clinton
11. Which president authorized the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945?
Rutherford B. Hayes
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Harry S Truman
Franklin D. Roosevelt
12. Who was the first president to not use his legal name for signing documents?
Several earlier presidents are known by middle names (for example Stephen Grover Cleveland and Thomas Woodrow Wilson), but used their full names in their signatures. Theodore actually didn't like the name "Teddy", and always went by his full name. However, he often used his initials TR (since regarded as a nickname in its own right) to sign informal notes.
William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton
Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt
James Earl "Jimmy" Carter
Dwight "Ike" Eisenhower
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Level 69
Apr 2, 2021
James Monroe is listed twice in the options for Question #4.
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Apr 2, 2021
Oops, I meant one of those to be James Monroe. Fixing it now. Thank you.