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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. What was reconstruction?






2. how many years is a score?






3. Who introduced surviver benefits?






4. Who was president when the United Nations was formed?






5. Who was on the good side for WWI (abc order)?






6. Why did WWII begin?






7. What date did WWII begin?






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






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






10. Did we win the Spanish American War?






11. What weapon was used to kill Lincoln?






12. When did we enter WWII?






13. James Monroe created the ________ Doctrine






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






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






16. Alien Acts






17. How did William McKinley die?






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


19. What college did George Washington go to?






20. Where does the president live for free?






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






22. What is the mandatory retirement plan run by the government?






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






24. Where was George Washington born?






25. Why did we enter WWII?






26. Which presient send Lewis and Clark on their journey?






27. How many days was the Iran Hostage crisis?






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






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






30. What is FDIC (explaIn what it means - not what it stands for)?






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






32. How many presidents were killed in office?






33. Who was Deep Throat?






34. Who supported manifest destiny?






35. Who was William McKinley's VP that moved up when He was killed?






36. During the civil war - the ________ wanted slaves and the ________ did not.






37. Who is the current Vice President?






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






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






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






41. How did John Wilkes Booth break his leg?






42. Who was Deep Throat?






43. Who is the current secretary of state?






44. Alien Acts






45. Which presidents were great grandfather and grandson?






46. Who's son married Nixon's daughter?






47. Who was president for the Cuban Missile Crisis?






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






49. What was William Jefferson Clinton impeached for?






50. Where was William McKinley killed?