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U.S. Presidents Trivia

Subjects : trivia, history
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. When did we enter WWII?






2. What president had the watergate scandal?






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






4. Jimmy Carter was the former governor of ____.






5. What was William Jefferson Clinton impeached for?






6. Who was the first President during WWII?






7. Where does the president live for free?






8. Why did we enter WWII?






9. How many electoral votes does Florida have?






10. How much of a retirement income per year does the president make (for life)?






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






12. What was Lincoln's most famous speech?






13. Who was president for the persian gulf war?






14. What are disability benefits?






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






16. Who went to the Supreme court and tried to increase it to fifteen judges - but was told no?






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






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






19. Who was the youngest elected president?






20. The committee of the watergate scandal illegally entered the __________ (building) and spied on Nixon's opponent Who was in the _______ complex.






21. Which president created Yellowstone National Park and Yosemite?






22. Did we win the Spanish American War?






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






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






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






26. Who won the Nobel peace prize because he told Russia and Japan not to fight - but to love?






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






28. Which presidents were great grandfather and grandson?






29. What were fireside chats?






30. What president had the watergate scandal?






31. Where was John Fitzgerald Kennedy assassinated?






32. What state is Camp David in?






33. Who was our president during the Korean war?






34. John Adams went to what college?






35. What president did the Berlin airlift?






36. What date did WWII begin?






37. How many rooms in the white house?






38. During the civil war - the south's president was _____________.






39. Which president was author of the Virginia Plan?






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






41. What did the monroe doctrine say?

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42. Who were Woodward and Bernstein?

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43. What state was John Adams from?






44. Who passed Universal health care?






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






46. Who was the only president to resign?






47. What was the New Deal?






48. What was the point of the Gettysburg Address (two things)?






49. What president made the emancipation proclamtion?






50. Who's son is Camp David named after?