Franklin D. Roosevelt Trivia Questions

Prohibition ended in 1933 with the 21st Amendment, which FDR supported. He actually enjoyed cocktails.

He was Governor of New York from 1929 to 1932, which helped him secure the Democratic nomination.

The Social Security Act was signed into law by Franklin D. Roosevelt on August 14, 1935, as part of his New Deal to provide economic security for retirees and the unemployed.

Franklin D. Roosevelt won four presidential elections (1932, 1936, 1940, 1944), a record made impossible by the 22nd Amendment, which limits presidents to two terms.

The cause of his polio is unknown; he contracted it in 1921 at age 39, likely from a virus, not swimming.

Franklin D. Roosevelt was the first sitting president to fly, traveling aboard a Boeing 314 Clipper to the Casablanca Conference in 1943. Theodore Roosevelt flew earlier in 1910, but not while in office.

He appeared at the 1939 New York World's Fair, making him the first U.S. president to be broadcast on TV.

Franklin D. Roosevelt was diagnosed with polio in 1921 at age 39, resulting in permanent paralysis of his legs. He used a wheelchair privately but hid his disability in public.

Franklin D. Roosevelt was always a Democrat. He served as a Democratic state senator, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, and governor of New York before becoming president.

Harry S. Truman was Franklin D. Roosevelt's vice president only during his fourth term (1945). Earlier vice presidents were John Nance Garner (1933–1941) and Henry A. Wallace (1941–1945).

Franklin D. Roosevelt died of a cerebral hemorrhage on April 12, 1945, at the Little White House in Warm Springs, Georgia, not at his Hyde Park estate.

Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed Frances Perkins as Secretary of Labor in 1933, making her the first female cabinet member in U.S. history.

FDR lost states in every election. In 1936, he lost Maine and Vermont. In 1940 and 1944, he lost additional states like Indiana. He never swept all states, so the claim is false.

The Prairie States Forestry Project planted over 200 million trees to combat the Dust Bowl.

Both descend from Nicholas Roosevelt, who arrived in New Amsterdam in the 1640s. Franklin’s father James and Theodore’s father Theodore Sr. were fifth cousins, making the two presidents fifth cousins.

Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered the 'Day of Infamy' speech to Congress on December 8, 1941, the day after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, to ask for a declaration of war.