In 1877, President Rutherford B. Hayes had the very first telephone installed in the White House — hooked up personally by Alexander Graham Bell's team, barely a year after the device was invented. What was the White House's phone number? 1600 1 76 It had no number — you had to ask the operator for "the President" None In November 1906, Theodore Roosevelt boarded the battleship USS Louisiana and did something no sitting president had ever done in 117 years of the office: he left the United States. Where was he headed? London, to visit King Edward VII Havana, to inspect American troops in Cuba Paris, to accept his Nobel Peace Prize Panama, to see the canal being dug None For nearly a century and a half, every American president entered the world the same way: at home, in a farmhouse, a log cabin, or an apartment. Then one future president finally became the first to be born in a hospital. Who was it? Jimmy Carter John F. Kennedy Ronald Reagan Bill Clinton None Theodore Roosevelt took a four-minute airplane ride in 1910 — but he was already out of office, so the record he set was only "first president to fly," not first to do it on the job. Which president became the first to fly in an airplane while actually serving as president? Woodrow Wilson Calvin Coolidge Franklin D. Roosevelt Dwight D. Eisenhower None On October 5, 1947, Harry Truman sat before cameras and delivered the first televised presidential address ever broadcast from the White House. What was this historic first telecast about? The threat of the Soviet Union Announcing the creation of the Air Force The World Series Asking Americans to eat less meat None Stumper. Somewhere in a museum archive sits the oldest surviving photograph of an American president — a silvery daguerreotype made in 1843, when photography itself was barely four years old. Which president stares out of that historic image? Andrew Jackson John Quincy Adams William Henry Harrison James K. Polk None Time's up
