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U.S. Presidents Trivia

Subjects : trivia, history
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. How many Vice Presidents have moved up because the president resigned?






2. What month and day do we vote for the president?






3. Where did the civil war begin?






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






5. Which presidents were cousins?






6. What were John Adams's last words?






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






8. Where was George Washington born?






9. What was the league of nations?






10. Who was president for the persian gulf war?






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






12. Which president was former ambassador to China?






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






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






15. Who was on the bad side for WWI (abc order)?






16. Who introduced surviver benefits?






17. Which president was the 'father of the constitution'?






18. Who was the first VP to move up on death of a president?






19. Who invaded Iraq?






20. Who introduced surviver benefits?






21. Which president adopted independence - was loyal - smart - and a lawyer?






22. What was reconstruction?






23. What was the Banking Holiday?






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






25. What are surviver benefits?






26. What did John Wilkes Booth say after he shot Lincoln?






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






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






29. What president did the Berlin airlift?






30. What state was John Adams from?






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






32. What is the inauguration date?






33. What was the Bay of Pigs?






34. What was the nullification crisis?

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35. What president had the watergate scandal?






36. What does 'Sic Semper Tyrranis' mean?






37. Sedition acts






38. What month and day do we vote for the president?






39. Who said 'The buck stops here'?






40. Who introduced disability benefits?






41. In the War of 1812 - ________ (country) kept stealing our ________ (people) and _______ (items) in the middle of the ocean (separate with semicolon).






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






43. Where did Thomas Jefferson go to college?






44. Did we win the Spanish American War?






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






46. Why didn't the Emancipation proclamation work?






47. Which president adopted independence - was loyal - smart - and a lawyer?






48. How many Vice Presidents have moved up because the president died?






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






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