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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. During the Great Depression - ____% were unemployed.






2. What is manifest destiny? how many square miles was it?






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






4. Which presidents won the nobel peace prize (in order)?






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






6. There was a _________ - or a group of people - who helped John Wilkes Booth kill Lincoln and also planned to kill the VP and Secretary.






7. Who supported manifest destiny?






8. Who is the current Vice President?






9. Who was president during the Great depression?






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






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






12. Who won a Nobel Peace Prize for what they were going to do?






13. What two states do not use 'winner-takes all' for the electoral college?






14. Where did the civil war begin?






15. Can the amount of money a president earns be increased/decreased during someone's term of office?






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






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






18. James Madison's wife was ________ Madison.






19. When did we enter WWII?






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






21. What year was the Louisiana Territory bought?






22. What month is the election in?






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






24. How old do you have to be to be president?






25. What president did the Berlin airlift?






26. Who balanced the budget?






27. Where was John Fitzgerald Kennedy assassinated?






28. What was William Jefferson Clinton impeached for?






29. ______ years later - the Tenure of Office act was gotten rid of by the Supreme court because it was ________.






30. Where did Thomas Jefferson go to college?






31. Who was sent to a mental institution after Abraham Lincoln's death?






32. Why didn't the Emancipation proclamation work?






33. Who was the only president to resign?






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






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






36. When was the Emancipation proclamation?






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






38. What was a talent of John Wilkes Booth?






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






40. This president swam naked in the Potomac River






41. Who was president for the nullification crisis?






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






43. Who was the only president to be president and then supreme court chief justice?






44. How many rooms in the white house?






45. Can the amount of money a president earns be increased/decreased during someone's term of office?






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






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






48. which president was former head of CIA?






49. Why did we enter WWII?






50. Why was Andrew Johnson impeached?