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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. Which presidents were great grandfather and grandson?






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






3. Gerald Ford pardons _____________ for all crimes committed.






4. How many rooms in the white house?






5. What war never officially ended but just doesn't fight any more?






6. 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 ________.






7. Who did fireside chats?






8. Who killed Abraham Lincoln?






9. William Jefferson Clinton paid Paula Jones $____.






10. This president helped write the federalist papers.






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






12. Who was the only catholic president?






13. How many electoral votes does Florida have?






14. How many former vice presidents have become president?






15. Jimmy Carter was the former governor of ____.






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






17. Who was the only president to get all the electoral votes?






18. Which president was a 'rough rider' in the Spanish American War?






19. What month is the election in?






20. Who was president for the Bay of Pigs?






21. Who is the current Vice President?






22. Where did the civil war begin?






23. Which president had a stroke in his bathroom?






24. Where does the number of electors in the electoral college come from?






25. When was the Emancipation proclamation?






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






27. Which president had a stroke in his bathroom?






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






29. Paula Jones sued William Jefferson Clinton for _______.






30. Who acts as an advisor to the president?






31. Who was Deep Throat?






32. What was the league of nations?






33. Why did we enter WWII?






34. The ______ was invented when William McKinley was killed - and it could have saved him.






35. Where was John Fitzgerald Kennedy assassinated?






36. Why did WWII begin?






37. What were the years of WWI?






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






39. Why did WWI happen?






40. Which president was obnoxious and disliked?






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






42. Who passed Universal health care?






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






44. Who was Abraham Lincoln married to?






45. Who is the current speaker of the House?






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






47. What date was John Fitzgerald Kennedy killed on?






48. Who said 'The only thing we have to fear is fear itself' at their 1st inaugural?






49. How many electoral votes do you need to win the election?






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