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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 are the people in the electoral college called?






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






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






4. What was the league of nations?






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






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






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






8. Franklin Delano Roosevelt's wife was related to him how?






9. Who was Abraham Lincoln married to?






10. What was the Berlin Airlift?






11. How many electoral votes does Florida have?






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






13. Who acts as an advisor to the president?






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






15. What were fireside chats?






16. Who was president for the Cuban Missile Crisis?






17. how many years is a score?






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






19. What is the address of the white house?






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






21. How was James Garfield killed?






22. What month is the election in?






23. Which president made the panama canal?






24. Who is the current speaker of the House?






25. What weapon was used to kill Lincoln?






26. What are disability benefits?






27. What transportation does the president get?






28. Which president made the panama canal?






29. Which president helped create the Library of Congress when he sells and donates 6000 books?






30. How was James Garfield killed?






31. Which presidents were great grandfather and grandson?






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






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






34. Who was president during the War of 1812 against England?






35. Who went to the Supreme court and tried to increase it to fifteen judges - but was told no?






36. Who was the first VP?






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






38. After Abraham Lincoln was shot - He was carried across the street to ________________ where he dies when?






39. Which president was former ambassador to China?






40. Who was Deep Throat?






41. How many presidents died of natural causes in office?






42. In the War of 1812 - ________ (country) kept stealing our ________ (people) and _______ (items) in the middle of the ocean (separate with semicolon).






43. What were the years of WWI?






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






45. Who is the current President Pro-Tempore of the Senate?






46. What president did the Berlin airlift?






47. Who supported manifest destiny?






48. Who introduced disability benefits?






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






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