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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. Who acts as an advisor to the president?






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






3. How many Vice Presidents ran again for president and became president?






4. Which presidents were cousins?






5. Which presidents were great grandfather and grandson?






6. What law that Barack Obama passed might be unconstitutional and is being looked at by the supreme court now?






7. Franklin Delano Roosevelt died a short time into his ____ term.






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






9. How many former vice presidents have become president?






10. Andrew Johnson was _________'s VP






11. How did William McKinley die?






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






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






14. The person who killed John Fitzgerald Kennedy is thought to have killed him in a _______ - or not alone.






15. What president did the Berlin airlift?






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






17. Who said 'The buck stops here'?






18. What presidents (in order) died of natural causes?






19. Who was president for the Bay of Pigs?






20. What state is Camp David in?






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






22. What is the oldest you can be to get surviver benefits?






23. Who was the only man to be president Who was not elected to either vp spot or the presidency?






24. John Adams went to what college?






25. Who gave the longest inauguration speech?






26. Abraham Lincoln was ______ educated






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






28. What happens to John Wilkes Booth?






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






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






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






32. Who invaded Iraq?






33. Who was the fpresident during WWI?






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






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






36. Who said 'A date that will live in infamy'? What were they talking about (separate with semicolon)?






37. Andrew Johnson was _________'s VP






38. Who is thought to have assassinated John Fitzgerald Kennedy?






39. What state was John Adams from?






40. Who was a Great General in war of 1812?






41. What year was the Louisiana Territory bought?






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






43. What month and year was the Gettysburg Address said?






44. What to laws did Adams TRY to pass?






45. What did the Interstate Highway System also do besides provide a road for driving?






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






47. Who was president for the Bay of Pigs?






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






49. How did John Wilkes Booth break his leg?






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