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U.S. Presidents Trivia

Subjects : trivia, history
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Who moved up when John Fitzgerald Kennedy died because He was his VP?






2. How many years is a presidential term?






3. What war was Abraham Lincoln president during?






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






5. Which presient send Lewis and Clark on their journey?






6. Who was our president during the Vietnam War?






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






8. Who was Deep Throat?






9. John Quicy Adams spent time In what continent?






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






11. Where was John Fitzgerald Kennedy assassinated?






12. What presidents lost the popular vote but won the electoral vote? (in order)






13. What was the Emancipation proclamation meant to do?






14. How many years do you have to live in the U.S. for to be president?






15. How many rooms in the white house?






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






17. Who was Abraham Lincoln married to?






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






19. What are surviver benefits?






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






21. Who was president for the Bay of Pigs?






22. Who had the first death in office?






23. Who was the first president not to win the popular vote and to become president?






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






25. Who was President during the Spanish American War?






26. How many days was the Iran Hostage crisis?






27. What were John Adams's last words?






28. What date did WWII begin?






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






30. Who was the oldest elected president (age 73 at 2nd term)?






31. How can a president serve up to ten years?

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32. In most states - what percent of the state's electoral votes does a candidate get if they win the popular vote?






33. How many presidents were killed in office?






34. What state was John Adams from?






35. Why didn't the Emancipation proclamation work?






36. What were the years of WWI?






37. What was Lincoln's most famous speech?






38. Alien Acts






39. Who was Deep Throat?






40. What was the Tenure of Office Act/






41. When was the Emancipation proclamation?






42. Who burnt down the White House during a war?






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






44. Which president got Alzheimers and forgot being president?






45. When Harry S Truman was president during WWII - what two places in japan were bombed (abc order)?






46. Where was Thomas Jefferson born?






47. Where was William McKinley killed?






48. Which president was a lawyer - very smart - an architect - a musician - and an inventor?






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






50. Who had an affair with Monica Lewinsky - a young intern at the White House?