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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. What state is Camp David in?






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






3. What was the Banking Holiday?






4. John Adams went to what college?






5. What month is the election in?






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






7. Why did WWII begin?






8. Who was president during the Great depression?






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






10. Where was John Fitzgerald Kennedy assassinated?






11. Who was our president during the Korean war?






12. What is the Truman Doctrine?






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






14. Which president was the youngest to serve?






15. Who was the first VP?






16. Did we win the Spanish American War?






17. How many former vice presidents have become president?






18. Franklin Delano Roosevelt's wife was related to him how?






19. After what event was the Fourteen Points presented?






20. Where was Abraham Lincoln born? What kind of house did he live in?






21. How many electoral votes does Florida have?






22. Where did Abraham Lincoln's assasination take place?

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






24. Who was a peanut farmer?






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






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






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






28. What was the Bay of Pigs?






29. What presidents (in order) died of natural causes?






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






31. How much money does the president earn per year?






32. What president had the watergate scandal?






33. Which president had a stroke in his bathroom?






34. how many years is a score?






35. What two states do not use 'winner-takes all' for the electoral college?






36. What to laws did Adams TRY to pass?






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






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






39. What transportation does the president get?






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






41. Which president made the panama canal?






42. When was the Emancipation proclamation?






43. Who did fireside chats?






44. How many electors are in the electoral college?






45. Who won the Civil war for Lincoln and later on became a president?






46. Who was FDR's VP Who was president for WWII?






47. Who passed Universal health care?






48. which president was former head of CIA?






49. How many years younger was John Tyler's wife than him?






50. Where was Thomas Jefferson born?