Presidents Day is Monday. It’s more than a day off (for many of you): The day also commemorates President George Washington’s birthday. (Washington’s birthday is really Feb. 22. Presidents Day is observed each year on the third Monday of February.)
It would have been easy to put together a quiz on each president, but I limited myself to “presidential firsts.” Like …
- The first president to be photographed? John Quincy Adams.
- First president to be married in a White House ceremony? Grover Cleveland.
- First former fashion model to become president? Gerald Ford.
- First (and, so far, only) president to serve as chief justice of the Supreme Court? William H. Taft.
- First president to be assassinated? Abraham Lincoln.
(None of those questions are actually in the quiz, though.)
So here’s your chance to test your knowledge of presidential firsts.
Quiz by Erica Smith
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In your quiz you have Taft dying in 1857. That’s when he was born.
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Thanks, Slamfist; I fixed that error. Taft died in 1913.
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Erica: Check your facts, Gerald Ford was NEVER elected; either as Vice President or President.
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Steve, I don’t see where the quiz (or the “extra” trivia above) says Ford was elected president (or vice president).
Ford was sworn in as president on Aug. 9, 1974; his term ended in 1977. Ford was appointed vice president when Spiro Agnew resigned in 1973. He became president when Richard Nixon resigned.
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