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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. Why was Andrew Johnson impeached?






2. Congress passed 2 laws designed to limit __________'s (a president) power .






3. How many electoral votes does Florida have?






4. What month is the election in?






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






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






7. How many electoral votes does Florida have?






8. Who was the commander in charge of Europe afor the Allies in WWII?






9. What is the mandatory retirement plan run by the government?






10. After what event was the Fourteen Points presented?






11. The president get ____ care and _____ care for free.






12. What are surviver benefits?






13. How many Vice Presidents ran again for president and became president?






14. Who were Woodward and Bernstein?

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






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






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






18. Where did the civil war begin?






19. Woodrow Wilson's ideas on not to have a war - the league of nations - and the freedom to navigate the seas without interference are known as ________.






20. Who was president for the nullification crisis?






21. Paula Jones sued William Jefferson Clinton for _______.






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






23. Who built the Interstate Highway System?






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






25. What president made the emancipation proclamtion?






26. What is universal health care?






27. Which president was obnoxious and disliked?






28. Who was Abraham Lincoln married to?






29. Franklin Delano Roosevelt died a short time into his ____ term.






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






31. How old do you have to be to be president?






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






33. What are disability benefits?






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






35. Who was George Washington's wife?






36. When did we get involved and stop being involved with WWI? (month and year)






37. Who takes over if the President is disabled or dies?






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






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






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






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






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






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






44. Who was the commander in charge of Europe afor the Allies in WWII?






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






46. James Madison's wife was ________ Madison.






47. Who was President during the Spanish American War?






48. What was the most terms served by a president?






49. Sedition acts






50. Why wasn't Andrew Johnson removed from office when He was impeached?