How well do you know Donald Trump? 152 questions about his early life, business deals, presidency and more. Play 10 at a time, then see your score.
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Here are 50 of our trivia questions, with the answer and a little background on each. Tap a question to see the answer. The rest are only in the quiz above.
A) James · B) John · C) Joseph · D) Jeffrey
Answer: John. His full name is Donald John Trump.
A) Manhattan · B) Brooklyn · C) Queens · D) The Bronx
Answer: Queens. He was born at Jamaica Hospital in Queens and grew up in the Jamaica Estates neighborhood.
A) 1942 · B) 1946 · C) 1950 · D) 1954
Answer: 1946. He was born on June 14, 1946.
A) Harvard · B) Yale · C) Princeton · D) Pennsylvania
Answer: Pennsylvania. He graduated from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania in 1968 with a degree in economics.
A) Columbia · B) Fordham · C) NYU · D) Cornell
Answer: Fordham. He went to Fordham University in the Bronx for two years before transferring to Wharton in 1966.
A) Valley Forge Military Academy · B) New York Military Academy · C) Culver Military Academy · D) West Point Prep
Answer: New York Military Academy. His parents sent him to New York Military Academy at 13. He graduated in 1964.
A) 3 · B) 4 · C) 5 · D) 6
Answer: 5. Donald Jr., Ivanka and Eric with Ivana, Tiffany with Marla Maples, and Barron with Melania.
A) 2 · B) 3 · C) 4 · D) 5
Answer: 4. Maryanne, Fred Jr., Elizabeth and Robert. Donald was the fourth of five children.
A) Slovakia · B) Slovenia · C) Croatia · D) Czech Republic
Answer: Slovenia. She was born in 1970 in Novo Mesto, in what was then Yugoslavia, and became a U.S. citizen in 2006.
A) Fordham School · B) Kew-Forest School · C) Saint Joseph's School · D) The King's College
Answer: Kew-Forest School. Kew-Forest is a private school in Forest Hills, Queens. He went there before military academy.
A) The Art of the Deal · B) Think Big · C) Trump: The Way to the Top · D) Crippled America
Answer: The Art of the Deal. Published in 1987, The Art of the Deal became a long-running bestseller and made him a household name.
A) CBS · B) ABC · C) NBC · D) Fox
Answer: NBC. The Apprentice premiered on NBC in January 2004 and made "You're fired!" a catchphrase.
A) New York Knights · B) New Jersey Generals · C) Manhattan Mavericks · D) Hudson Hawks
Answer: New Jersey Generals. He bought the New Jersey Generals in 1983 and pushed the USFL to compete head to head with the NFL. The league folded after the 1985 season.
A) Trump Airways · B) Trump Air · C) Trump Shuttle · D) Sky Trump
Answer: Trump Shuttle. He bought Eastern Air Lines' shuttle service between Boston, New York and Washington in 1989. It lost money and lasted only a few years.
A) Monopoly: Trump · B) The Deal Maker · C) Trump: The Game · D) Millionaire Match
Answer: Trump: The Game. Trump: The Game was a Milton Bradley board game about buying and selling properties.
A) The Commodore Hotel · B) The Plaza Hotel · C) The St. Regis · D) The Waldorf Astoria
Answer: The Commodore Hotel. He rebuilt the run-down Commodore Hotel next to Grand Central Terminal. It reopened as the Grand Hyatt in 1980 and was his first big Manhattan project.
A) 1980 · B) 1983 · C) 1984 · D) 1986
Answer: 1983. Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue opened in 1983 and became both his home and his company's headquarters.
A) Wollman Rink · B) Rockefeller Rink · C) Bryant Park Rink · D) Lasker Rink
Answer: Wollman Rink. The city's renovation of Central Park's Wollman Rink had stalled for years. Trump took it over in 1986 and finished it in a few months.
A) Doris Duke · B) Marjorie Merriweather Post · C) Barbara Hutton · D) Gloria Vanderbilt
Answer: Marjorie Merriweather Post. Cereal heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post built it in the 1920s. Trump bought it in 1985.
A) Parler · B) Gettr · C) Truth Social · D) Rumble
Answer: Truth Social. Truth Social launched in February 2022, about a year after he was suspended from Twitter and Facebook.
A) 44th and 46th · B) 45th and 47th · C) 45th and 46th · D) 46th and 47th
Answer: 45th and 47th. He is only the second president, after Grover Cleveland, to serve two non-consecutive terms.
A) Texas · B) West Virginia · C) Wyoming · D) Alabama
Answer: Wyoming. He won Wyoming by about 46 points, his biggest margin of any state.
A) 270 · B) 304 · C) 310 · D) 322
Answer: 304. He won states worth 306 electoral votes, but two Texas electors voted for other people, leaving him with 304.
A) Sarah Sanders · B) Kayleigh McEnany · C) Mike Pence · D) Kellyanne Conway
Answer: Kellyanne Conway. Kellyanne Conway used the phrase on NBC's Meet the Press in January 2017 while defending claims about the inauguration crowd.
A) TPP · B) TTIP · C) USMCA · D) CPTPP
Answer: USMCA. The United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement took effect in July 2020.
A) Cyber Command · B) Space Force · C) Coast Guard Reserve · D) National Guard Air Wing
Answer: Space Force. The Space Force was created in December 2019, the first new branch of the military since the Air Force in 1947.
A) Operation Fast Track · B) Operation Warp Speed · C) Project Shield · D) Operation Lightspeed
Answer: Operation Warp Speed. Operation Warp Speed funded and sped up the development and production of COVID-19 vaccines.
A) Brett Kavanaugh · B) Neil Gorsuch · C) Amy Coney Barrett · D) Merrick Garland
Answer: Neil Gorsuch. Neil Gorsuch filled the seat left by Justice Antonin Scalia, who died in 2016.
A) Butler, Pennsylvania · B) Erie, Pennsylvania · C) Flint, Michigan · D) Toledo, Ohio
Answer: Butler, Pennsylvania. On July 13, 2024, a gunman fired on his rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. Trump was hit in the ear.
A) 292 · B) 304 · C) 312 · D) 330
Answer: 312. He won all seven swing states on his way to 312 electoral votes.
A) Anchorman 2 · B) Step Brothers · C) Casino · D) Home Alone 2
Answer: Home Alone 2. He appears briefly in the lobby of the Plaza Hotel, which he owned at the time, giving Kevin directions.
A) John Smith · B) John Barron · C) David Dennison · D) Robert Trump
Answer: John Barron. In the 1980s and 1990s he sometimes called reporters pretending to be a spokesman named John Barron.
A) Harvard · B) MIT · C) Stanford · D) UCLA
Answer: MIT. His uncle John G. Trump was an electrical engineer and physicist at MIT.
A) Rock and Roll · B) WWE · C) Hollywood · D) Baseball
Answer: WWE. He was inducted into the celebrity wing of the WWE Hall of Fame in 2013.
A) Ireland · B) Scotland · C) England · D) Wales
Answer: Scotland. Mary Anne MacLeod was born on the Isle of Lewis in Scotland and moved to the U.S. in 1930.
A) His chief of staff · B) A Diet Coke · C) The press secretary · D) A photographer
Answer: A Diet Coke. Pressing the button on the Resolute Desk tells a staffer to bring him a Diet Coke.
A) Mogul · B) Tycoon · C) Eagle · D) Big Apple
Answer: Mogul. The Secret Service gives each person it protects a code name. His is Mogul.
A) Burger King · B) Wendy's · C) McDonald's · D) KFC
Answer: McDonald's. He worked the fry station at a McDonald's in Feasterville, Pennsylvania.
A) Nobel Peace Prize · B) Time Person of the Year · C) Sexiest Man Alive · D) An Oscar
Answer: Time Person of the Year. Time named him Person of the Year in 2024. It had also picked him in 2016.
A) Ireland · B) Scotland · C) England · D) Wales
Answer: Scotland. Trump Turnberry is on the west coast of Scotland. He bought it in 2014.
Answer: True. True. He received his star in 2007 for his work on The Apprentice.
Answer: False. False. The Apprentice was nominated for Emmys, but it never won.
Answer: False. False. It was not an accredited university. It stopped operating in 2010, and Trump later paid $25 million to settle lawsuits over it.
Answer: True. True. He hosted in 2004 and again in 2015.
Answer: True. True. He was registered as a Democrat from 2001 to 2009.
Answer: False. False. Hillary Clinton won the popular vote by about 2.9 million votes, but he won the Electoral College.
Answer: True. True. He was the first Republican to win the popular vote since George W. Bush in 2004.
Answer: True. True. He was 78 at his second inauguration in January 2025.
Answer: False. False. He received four student deferments and then a medical deferment for bone spurs.
Answer: False. False. Fred Trump was born in the Bronx in 1905. It was Donald's grandfather, Friedrich, who came from Germany.