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U.S. Presidents Trivia

Subjects : trivia, history
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Who acts as an advisor to the president?






2. What was the camp david accords?






3. Who presented the Fourteen Points?






4. Why wasn't Richard Nixon thrown out of office?






5. Who created the Family Medical Leave Act?






6. Sedition acts






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






8. Where do electors vote?

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9. Which presidents were great grandfather and grandson?






10. Why was Andrew Johnson impeached?






11. What is the Truman Doctrine?






12. Which president started the two term tradition?






13. Who was president for the persian gulf war?






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






15. what disease did Franklin Delano Roosevelt have?






16. How long do you have to be a citizen for to be president?






17. James Monroe created the ________ Doctrine






18. How much was the Louisiana Territory when it was purchased?






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






20. Do we vote directly for the president?






21. What was the persian gulf war/desert storm?






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






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






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






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






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






27. What month is the election in?






28. The president get ____ care and _____ care for free.






29. Who was George Washington's wife?






30. What war was George Washington in the military for?






31. How much of a retirement income per year does the president make (for life)?






32. Which president recognized Israel and traded with them and gave money and embassadors to them?






33. Who presented the Fourteen Points?






34. What presidents lost the popular vote but won the electoral vote? (in order)






35. What presidents lost the popular vote but won the electoral vote? (in order)






36. Name the Founding Fathers plus the son in order...






37. How many kids did George Washington have?






38. Which president was author of the Virginia Plan?






39. What college did George Washington go to?






40. Which president adopted independence - was loyal - smart - and a lawyer?






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






42. Who won the Nobel peace prize because he told Russia and Japan not to fight - but to love?






43. What were the years of WWI?






44. Where was William McKinley killed?






45. Who had an affair with Monica Lewinsky - a young intern at the White House?






46. What happens if no candidate gets the majorit y of electoral votes?






47. what ended a couple of days before Abraham Lincoln's Assasination?






48. Congress passed 2 laws designed to limit __________'s (a president) power .






49. Paula Jones sued William Jefferson Clinton for _______.






50. How much of a retirement income per year does the president make (for life)?