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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. What is the Truman Doctrine?






2. What did the monroe doctrine say?

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3. Which president was the youngest to serve?






4. 'Speak softley and carry a big stick' was a quote of who?






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






6. How many years is a presidential term?






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






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






9. Where did the civil war begin?






10. During the civil war - the south named itself _____.






11. Who did fireside chats?






12. What was the Tenure of Office Act/






13. What date was John Fitzgerald Kennedy killed on?






14. How many terms is a president alowed to serve?






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






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






17. Which president created Yellowstone National Park and Yosemite?






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






19. Which president served the most terms?






20. Andrew Johnson had a (good/bad) relation ship with congress over reconstruction






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






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






23. Who had the shortest presidency?






24. Jimmy Carter was the former governor of ____.






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






26. Who's son is Camp David named after?






27. Who won a nobel peace prize because of the camp david accords?






28. Who ran the country when Woodrow Wilson couldn't?






29. Who had the shortest presidency?






30. Franklin Delano Roosevelt got his middle name because his _____'s favorite relative was de la Noye






31. Who is the current speaker of the House?






32. How was James Garfield killed?






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






34. What president made the emancipation proclamtion?






35. What was the league of nations?






36. Who killed Abraham Lincoln?






37. Sewards Folly was when ________ (secretary of state) bought land for $______ - which was thought to be as a joke then - but now that land is known as ________.






38. Who did the Banking Holiday?






39. Where did Thomas Jefferson go to college?






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






41. How many years do you have to live in the U.S. for to be president?






42. What is the inauguration date?






43. What was the camp david accords?






44. What was reconstruction?






45. What is the Electoral College?






46. Which president was author of the Virginia Plan?






47. which president was former head of CIA?






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






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






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