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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 had the first death in office?






2. Manifest Destiny was to have all the land from __________ to ___________ (east to west)






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






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






5. How many rooms in the white house?






6. what president was also president of the constitutional convention?






7. Why was Andrew Johnson impeached?






8. Which president was author of the Virginia Plan?






9. Andrew Johnson had a (good/bad) relation ship with congress over reconstruction






10. What was the Berlin Airlift?






11. Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant knew eachother because _________.






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






13. Where was Thomas Jefferson born?






14. what disease did Franklin Delano Roosevelt have?






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






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






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






18. Who balanced the budget?






19. Who is the current Vice President?






20. Lyndon Johnson got lots of bills passed involving ______.






21. What were the sides for the Korean war and the Vietnam war?






22. Who was president during the Great depression?






23. Where was William McKinley killed?






24. Who introduced disability benefits?






25. Who was Abraham Lincoln married to?






26. What year was the Louisiana Territory bought?






27. Who was Franklin Delano Roosevelt married to?






28. How much money does the president earn per year?






29. Who attempted to assassinate Ronald Reagan?






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






31. What president did the Berlin airlift?






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






33. Which president was author of the Virginia Plan?






34. Who had the shortest presidency?






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






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






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






38. How many kids did John Tyler have?






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






40. Why didn't the Emancipation proclamation work?






41. Who was our president during the Korean war?






42. Who did the Banking Holiday?






43. What were the territories we gained in the Spanish American War? (ABC order with commas inbetween)






44. Why was Andrew Johnson impeached?






45. What was the Banking Holiday?






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






47. Who attempted to assassinate Ronald Reagan?






48. What state is Camp David in?






49. Which president was a great general - a leader - honest - and trustworth?






50. Who acts as an advisor to the president?