How well do you know U.S. presidents? Test you knowledge with these 16 questions. Answers are at the bottom.

1. The poet Walt Whitman wrote about which president in “O Captain, My Captain”?

2. Who had the shortest presidency (31 days)?

3. Which president was associated with the Teapot Dome Scandal?

4. Which president later served as chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court?

5. Who was president at the end of World War II?

6. Who was the last president to enter the office as a Whig?

7. Who was the only president to serve two non-sequential terms?

8. Which presidents both died on July 4, 1826?

9. Which president previously served as president of the Screen Actors Guild?

10. Who became president without being elected to the office by voters?

11. What four presidents have received the Nobel Peace Prize?

12. Which president was posthumously promoted to the rank of “General of the Armies of the United States”?

13. Which president is credited with inventing the swivel chair?

14. Which president was treated for polio?

15. Whose presidential library is constructed to resemble a bridge?

16. What has been the most common first name for presidents of the United States (six so far)?

Answers: 1) Abraham Lincoln. 2) William Henry Harrison. 3) Warren G. Harding. 4) William Taft. 5) Harry S Truman. 6) Millard Fillmore. 7) Grover Cleveland. 8) John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. 9) Ronald Reagan. 10) Gerald Ford. 11) Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Jimmy Carter and Barack Obama. 12) George Washington. 13) Thomas Jefferson. 14) Franklin D. Roosevelt. 15) William J. Clinton. 16) James

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