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U.S. Presidents Trivia

Subjects : trivia, history
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Who takes over if the President is disabled or dies?






2. How many Vice Presidents have moved up because the president resigned?






3. During the civil war - the south's general was ____________.






4. When did we enter WWII?






5. Who was George Washington's wife?






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






7. Which president made the panama canal?






8. What war was Abraham Lincoln president during?






9. Who was embarrassed when they received the Nobel Peace Prize?






10. When did we get involved and stop being involved with WWI? (month and year)






11. What was a popular film of John Fitzgerald Kennedy's assassination?






12. Manifest Destiny was to have all the land from __________ to ___________ (east to west)






13. Who invaded Iraq?






14. When Harry S Truman was president during WWII - what two places in japan were bombed (abc order)?






15. What was the name of the airplane that bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki






16. Which presidents were cousins?






17. Who was president for the nullification crisis?






18. What month is the election in?






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






20. Who did we help in the Vietnam war and the korean war?






21. Who was FDR's VP Who was president for WWII?






22. Which president was author of the Virginia Plan?






23. Which president presented the bill of rights at the first Congress?






24. Who was president during the Great depression?






25. Which president created Yellowstone National Park and Yosemite?






26. There was a _________ - or a group of people - who helped John Wilkes Booth kill Lincoln and also planned to kill the VP and Secretary.






27. What state is Camp David in?






28. Who presented the Fourteen Points?






29. During the civil war - the north's general was ___________.






30. What was the Emancipation proclamation meant to do?






31. Who supported manifest destiny?






32. Who was Franklin Delano Roosevelt married to?






33. What was the Bay of Pigs?






34. What war was Abraham Lincoln president during?






35. Which president served the most terms?






36. Who acts as an advisor to the president?






37. How many Vice Presidents have moved up because the president resigned?






38. Who introduced surviver benefits?






39. Which president was a lawyer - very smart - an architect - a musician - and an inventor?






40. Which president was the youngest to serve?






41. what president was also president of the constitutional convention?






42. What weapon was used to kill Lincoln?






43. What happens to John Wilkes Booth?






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






45. John Quicy Adams spent time In what continent?






46. Who killed Abraham Lincoln?






47. Who passed Universal health care?






48. Who was president for the Iran Hostage crisis?






49. What did John Wilkes Booth say after he shot Lincoln?






50. What was the New Deal?