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UPDATED: Tuesday, February 20, 2007

Strange, unusual, and funny Presidential facts

Posted on Monday, February 19, 2007
 

1. Who is one of two Presidents to have officially reported seeing a UFO?

 

2. What President owned a pet alligator and kept it in the East Room of the White House?

 

3. The children of which President used the East Room of the White House as a roller skating rink?

 

4. Licorice flavored jelly beans were which President’s favorite candy?

 

5. Which President once got stuck in a normal sized bathtub and later had an oversized bathtub installed in the White House?

 

6. Which President was arrested for running over an old lady with his horse? (By the way, the charges were later dropped!)

 

7. Who was the first President to hold little league tryouts on the White House lawn?

 

8. Baa, Baa White House Sheep? What President kept a flock of sheep to graze in the White House yard during the first World War?

 

9. “I will not eat broccoli!” Who was the first and only President to publicly announce this?

 

10. Which President’s right leg was ¾” longer than his left and had to wear corrective shoes to make them the same?

 

11. By his middle age, this President didn’t have any teeth! He did however have several sets of “dentures” or false teeth made from the teeth of cows, pigs, elks and humans! Which President?

 

12. Who was the only President born on July 4th?

 

13. “Bubba” was which President’s nickname?

 

14. Which President killed a man?

 

15. Who was the only President to weigh less than 100 pounds?

 

Answer Key:

 

 

John Quincy Adams -2    

Jimmy Carter - 1          

William Howard Taft - 5 

William J. Clinton-13     

Woodrow Wilson- 8


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Franklin Pierce - 6          

Andrew Jackson-14        

Theodore Roosevelt - 3  

George W. Bush - 7         

James Madison- 15

Calvin Coolidge -12           

Ronald Regan - 4           

John F. Kennedy -10          

George Washington - 11   

George Herbert Bush-9

 

 



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