Question 1

True or false: Bill Clinton played the saxophone on national TV during his 1992 presidential campaign.

Accepted Answer

True. He performed "Heartbreak Hotel" on The Arsenio Hall Show, famously wearing sunglasses, boosting his appeal to younger voters.

Question 2

True or false: Bill Clinton is the only U.S. president born after World War II.

Accepted Answer

False. Bill Clinton (born 1946) is not the only one; George W. Bush (1946), Donald Trump (1946), and Barack Obama (1961) were also born after WWII.

Question 3

True or false: Clinton signed the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) into law in 1993.

Accepted Answer

True. Though negotiated by George H.W. Bush, Clinton pushed NAFTA through Congress and signed it, creating a major trade bloc.

Question 4

True or false: Clinton once received a Rhodes Scholarship to study at Oxford University.

Accepted Answer

True. He studied Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at Oxford from 1968 to 1970, though he left before completing his degree.

Question 5

True or false: Bill Clinton was impeached for perjury and obstruction of justice related to the Whitewater scandal.

Accepted Answer

False. He was impeached in 1998 for perjury and obstruction of justice concerning the Monica Lewinsky affair, not Whitewater.

Question 6

True or false: Bill Clinton was the first U.S. president to have a pet cat in the White House.

Accepted Answer

False. The Clintons had a cat named Socks, but they were not the first. Several earlier presidents also kept cats in the White House, including Abraham Lincoln, who famously had multiple cats in the 1860s.

Question 7

True or false: Bill Clinton's middle name is Jefferson.

Accepted Answer

True. Bill Clinton's full name is William Jefferson Clinton. Jefferson is his middle name, which he has used since childhood; it was also his birth father's middle name.

Question 8

True or false: As governor of Arkansas, Bill Clinton once signed a bill to require teaching creationism in public schools.

Accepted Answer

False. Clinton signed the 1981 Balanced Treatment Act, which mandated equal time for creation science only if evolution was taught, not an unconditional requirement. It was later struck down as unconstitutional.

Bill Clinton Trivia Questions