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U.S. Presidents Trivia

Subjects : trivia, history
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. During the Great Depression - ____% were unemployed.






2. Who is the current Vice President?






3. What were the years of WWI?






4. What is the address of the white house?






5. What were John Adams's last words?






6. Who is considered 'the father of our country'?






7. Who supported manifest destiny?






8. Who invaded Iraq?






9. How many states broke away during the civil war AT FIRST? how many total ending up breaking away?






10. Who was the first VP to move up on death of a president?






11. Can the amount of money a president earns be increased/decreased during someone's term of office?






12. What was the point of the Gettysburg Address (two things)?






13. What war did George Washington lead the army for?






14. Who was our president when we kille Osama bin Laden?






15. Who is the current speaker of the House?






16. Why did we enter WWII?






17. How did William McKinley die?






18. Who is the current speaker of the House?






19. What war was Abraham Lincoln president during?






20. What was the point of the Gettysburg Address (two things)?






21. What state was John Adams from?






22. Where did Thomas Jefferson go to college?






23. What are the people in the electoral college called?






24. Who was president for the 9/11 attacks?






25. Who invaded Iraq?






26. Andrew Johnson was _________'s VP






27. What date was John Fitzgerald Kennedy killed on?






28. Where does the right to navigate teh seas without interference not apply?






29. Who is considered 'the father of our country'?






30. Who said 'The only thing we have to fear is fear itself' at their 1st inaugural?






31. What was Lincoln's most famous speech?






32. Who pays for all personal entertainment and dinners not related to teh government business in the White House?






33. Which president was the 'father of the constitution'?






34. Franklin Delano Roosevelt died a short time into his ____ term.






35. This president swam naked in the Potomac River






36. What to laws did Adams TRY to pass?






37. Where was Abraham Lincoln born? What kind of house did he live in?






38. What happens to John Wilkes Booth?






39. How much money does the president earn per year?






40. Who was the only president to resign?






41. Who was the only president to be president and then supreme court chief justice?






42. Who was William McKinley's VP that moved up when He was killed?






43. In most states - what percent of the state's electoral votes does a candidate get if they win the popular vote?






44. Why wasn't Andrew Johnson removed from office when He was impeached?






45. Why did the person who tried to assassinate Ronald Reagan do it?






46. What is NATO (not what it stands for - what it is)?






47. who pays for the costs of operating the white house?






48. Who is thought to have assassinated John Fitzgerald Kennedy?






49. How old do you have to be to be president?






50. Sedition acts