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U.S. Presidents Trivia

Subjects : trivia, history
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Who is the current secretary of state?






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






3. Who attempted to assassinate Ronald Reagan?






4. What happens to John Wilkes Booth?






5. Who was embarrassed when they received the Nobel Peace Prize?






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






7. Why did we enter WWII?






8. Who had a 12 year affair with Gennifer Flowers?






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






10. What date did the civil war begin?






11. Which president was former ambassador to China?






12. What does NATO stand for?






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






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






15. What was the camp david accords?






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






17. How many presidents were killed in office?






18. How many kids did George Washington have?






19. Which president made the panama canal?






20. What president made the emancipation proclamtion?






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






22. how many years is a score?






23. How much was the Louisiana Territory when it was purchased?






24. Who pays for all personal entertainment and dinners not related to teh government business in the White House?






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






26. Who did the Banking Holiday?






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






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






29. How many presidents were killed in office?






30. Which president was obnoxious and disliked?






31. Who gave the longest inauguration speech?






32. What was the Tenure of Office Act/






33. Who moved up when John Fitzgerald Kennedy died because He was his VP?






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






35. Who built the Interstate Highway System?






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






37. Franklin Delano Roosevelt got his middle name because his _____'s favorite relative was de la Noye






38. Who supported manifest destiny?






39. What was the New Deal?






40. Who was president for the Bay of Pigs?






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






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






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






44. Which presidents were cousins?






45. How many presidents died of natural causes in office?






46. This president helped write the federalist papers.






47. Who had many affairs during their presidency but claimed not to?






48. Who was president for the Cuban Missile Crisis?






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






50. Who was our president during the Korean war?






Can you answer 50 questions in 15 minutes?



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