1. Which U.S. president signed the most comprehensive civil rights law in the country’s history?

2. Which future U.S. president’s correspondence helped establish the consensus for calling a constitutional convention?

3. Which U.S. president won the Navy and Marine Corps Medal for his heroism during World War II?

4. Which U.S. first lady rescued a Gilbert Stuart portrait of George Washington from the White House when British troops occupied and burned Washington, D.C., in August 1814?

5. Which of these U.S. presidents was not a lawyer by profession?

6. Which dissident political faction nominated former U.S. president Theodore Roosevelt for the presidency in 1912?

7. Which U.S. president’s refusal to support U.S. Supreme Court decisions led to the Trail of Tears?

8. Which U.S. president’s acting first lady was his niece?

9. Which future U.S. president made the “Checkers” speech in 1952?

10. Which U.S. first lady participated more in political affairs, including weekly business lunches with the president and occasional attendance at cabinet meetings, than her predecessors?

11. Which U.S. president issued the Emancipation Proclamation?

12. Which U.S. president helped found the Democratic Party?

13. Which military leader was the first to become U.S. president by a direct appeal to the mass of voters?

14. Which U.S. first lady is thought to have been responsible for making her husband’s political views notably more conservative?

15. Who was the only U.S. president to serve two discontinuous terms?

16. The phrase “New Frontier” was associated with the programs of which U.S. president?

17. Which U.S. president rebuilt European economies after World War II and sent U.S. forces to South Korea to stem the advance of communism in the world?

18. Who assassinated U.S. President Abraham Lincoln?

19. Which U.S. president was “first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen”?

20. Which U.S. president was made a virtual prisoner in the White House because of the public’s opposition to his Vietnam policies?

21. Which two former U.S. presidents and friends died within a few hours of each other on the 50th anniversary of the proclamation of the Declaration of Independence?

22. Which U.S. president did not reside at the White House?

23. Which U.S. president resigned from office because of his role in the Watergate scandal?

24. Which U.S. president’s administration was marred by the Iran-Contra Affair?

25. Which U.S. first lady was responsible for restoring the original elegance of the White House in the 1960s?

26. Which U.S. president was the first to die in office?

27. Who was the U.S. president during the War of 1812?

28. Who adopted “White House” as the official name for the residence of the president of the United States?

29. Who is the only U.S. president to be elected to office four times?

30. Which U.S. president was referred to by his opponents as “His Fraudulency” after a contested election in 1876?

31. Which U.S. president observed that the best way to conduct foreign policy was to “speak softly and carry a big stick”?

32. Which U.S. first lady was the first to win elective office in her own right?