A Little Bit Of Presidential Trivia.

How many of the following questions can you answer?

How many times has the candidate that lost the popular vote won the election?
Answer = 4

What is the lowest percentage of votes received by a winning president?
Answer = 32

What is the number of presidents who experienced at least one assassination attempt?
Answer = 6

How many presidents have died while in office?
Answer = 8

What was the length (in days) of the shortest presidency?
Answer = 32

What president served the shortest length (in days) as president?
Answer = William Henry Harrison

How many presidents were born British Subjects?
Answer = 8

The shortest inauguration speech contained how many words?
Answer = 133

What president gave the shortest inauguration speech?
Answer = George Washington

The longest inauguration speech contained how many words?
Answer = 8443

What president gave the longest inauguration speech?
Answer = William Henry Harrison

How many dollars were spent by Thomas Jefferson on wine during his term as president?
Answer = $11,000

What president fathered more children than any other president?
Answer = John Tyler

How many children did John Tyler father?
Answer = 15

What was the age of James Polk when he had gall bladder surgery while sedated only by brandy?
Answer = 17

What was the number of cigars smoked by Ulysses S Grant each day?
Answer = 20

What president was ambidextrous and could write two languages simultaneously?
Answer = James Garfield

What two languages could James Garfield write simultaneously?
Answer = Greek and Latin

What was the number of other presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt was related to either by blood or marriage?
Answer = 11

At what age did Andrew Johnson learn to write?
Answer = 17

How many plane crashes did George H.W. Bush survive during WWII?
Answer = 4

How many words can Jimmy Carter read per minute?
Answer = 2,000

How many months after meeting each other did George and Laura Bush wed?
Answer = 3

At least three presidents had it right: A woman, a little wine and then a fine cigar.

Consider yourself armed and dangerous with trivia questions for those Christmas parties.