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U.S. Presidents Trivia

Subjects : trivia, history
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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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. Who was president for the 9/11 attacks?






2. What was reconstruction?






3. Jimmy Carter was the former governor of ____.






4. How many kids did John Tyler have?






5. What state was John Adams from?






6. Lyndon Johnson got lots of bills passed involving ______.






7. What month and day do we vote for the president?






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






9. During the civil war - the south's president was _____________.






10. Abraham Lincoln was ______ educated






11. Who had the shortest presidency?






12. Who is the current speaker of the House?






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






14. Where did Abraham Lincoln's assasination take place?

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15. Who were the first presidents to be father and son?






16. Who were the second presidents to be father and son?






17. What presidents (in order) died of natural causes?






18. How many years younger was John Tyler's wife than him?






19. Which presidents won the nobel peace prize (in order)?






20. Which presidents were cousins?






21. Who attempted to assassinate Ronald Reagan?






22. What war was Abraham Lincoln president during?






23. how many years is a score?






24. Who attends diplomatic functions in place of the president?






25. Sedition acts






26. Who killed Abraham Lincoln?






27. Who invaded Iraq?






28. Paula Jones sued William Jefferson Clinton for _______.






29. Which presidents were great grandfather and grandson?






30. Why didn't the Emancipation proclamation work?






31. What is manifest destiny? how many square miles was it?






32. What state is Camp David in?






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






34. What was the most terms served by a president?






35. What were the territories we gained in the Spanish American War? (ABC order with commas inbetween)






36. Where did the name 'gettysburg' come from?






37. Which president made the panama canal?






38. What was the Banking Holiday?






39. What happens to John Wilkes Booth?






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






41. James Monroe created the ________ Doctrine






42. Where was Thomas Jefferson born?






43. Gerald Ford pardons _____________ for all crimes committed.






44. What were the sides for the Korean war and the Vietnam war?






45. Who was the only president to resign?






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






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






48. Who was our president during the Korean war?






49. Who invaded Iraq?






50. Who was the first President during WWII?