SUBJECTS
|
BROWSE
|
CAREER CENTER
|
POPULAR
|
JOIN
|
LOGIN
Business Skills
|
Soft Skills
|
Basic Literacy
|
Certifications
About
|
Help
|
Privacy
|
Terms
|
Email
Search
Test your basic knowledge |
U.S. Presidents Trivia
Start Test
Study First
Subjects
:
trivia
,
history
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
If you are not ready to take this test, you can
study here
.
Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
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. Who takes over if the President is disabled or dies?
Peterson House; the next morning
Providing a backup place for military plane landing
Germany - Hungary - Turkey
The Vice President
2. During the civil war - the north's general was ___________.
Dwight David Eisenhower
The north were comunists and the south were not
Providing a backup place for military plane landing
Ulysses S. Grant
3. Which president was a lawyer - very smart - an architect - a musician - and an inventor?
Polio
Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Pearl Harbor bombing
Dolley
Thomas Jefferson
4. Alien Acts
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Andrew Jackson
OK to send home foregienors if they looked dangerous; also if we were in war with their country
Mount Vernon - Virginia
5. Which president recognized Israel and traded with them and gave money and embassadors to them?
Worker can take three months off in a year to take care of sick relatives or him/herself and cannot be fired
Harry S Truman
A support group of countries
He was shot
6. Who moved up when John Fitzgerald Kennedy died because He was his VP?
Germany was attacking ships
John Adams
Lyndon Johnson
444
7. Who was president for the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Zapruder film
Money goes to kids when a parent dies
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
His wife
8. Who is the current speaker of the House?
14
John Boehner
Enola Gay
Eleanor
9. Which president adopted independence - was loyal - smart - and a lawyer?
22 - 24
John Quicy Adams
William Jefferson Clinton
John Adams
10. What was the nullification crisis?
Warning
: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in
/var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php
on line
183
11. James Monroe created the ________ Doctrine
Guam - Midway Islands - Philippines - and Puerto Rico
Writters for Washington Post who figured out Richard Nixon's case
Monroe
Harry S Truman
12. Who was the first VP?
April 1917- November 1918
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
John Adams
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
13. What is the inauguration date?
35 said He was guilty - but he needed 36
The north and the south were split up
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
January 20th
14. Who gave the longest inauguration speech?
The three day battle in July in Gettysburg about slaves
Revolutionary War
William Henry Harrison
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
15. Who acts as an advisor to the president?
Abraham Lincoln
The Vice President
Joe Biden
Lee Harvey Oswald
16. The person who killed John Fitzgerald Kennedy is thought to have killed him in a _______ - or not alone.
Harry S Truman
Dental; medical
Conspiracy
George Washington
17. What were fireside chats?
The Vice President
2
Speeches given for hope
1 million
18. Which president got Alzheimers and forgot being president?
Zapruder film
Woodrow Wilson
Ronald Reagan
Acting
19. Who was president for the 9/11 attacks?
Polio
George W. Bush
538
A 2nd home for the president
20. What was Lincoln's most famous speech?
Civil rights
Conspiracy
William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison
The Gettysburg Address
21. What happens if no candidate gets the majorit y of electoral votes?
April 12th - 1861
1914-1918
The House of Representatives selects the President and the Senate selects the Vice President
4
22. What is the oldest you can be to get surviver benefits?
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Monticello - Virginia
18
The White House
23. Who is the current Vice President?
Alien and sedition acts
They were classmates in college
A group of representatives chosen by the voters to elect the President
Joe Biden
24. Congress passed 2 laws designed to limit __________'s (a president) power .
Dental; medical
Universal health care
Andrew Johnson
18
25. Who was president for the Bay of Pigs?
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Harry S Truman
Thomas Jefferson
They were classmates in college
26. How many states broke away during the civil war AT FIRST? how many total ending up breaking away?
7; 11
Kentucky; Log cabin
A support group of countries
Speeches given for hope
27. ______ years later - the Tenure of Office act was gotten rid of by the Supreme court because it was ________.
William Jefferson Clinton
William and Mary College
60; unconstitutional
William Jefferson Clinton
28. What was the league of nations?
350
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Club with all countries where problems were discussed peacefully
Providing a backup place for military plane landing
29. What are surviver benefits?
8
The Korean War
Money goes to kids when a parent dies
Barack Obama
30. Where do electors vote?
Warning
: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in
/var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php
on line
183
31. How many electoral votes does Florida have?
Barack Obama
Speeches given for hope
27
Polio
32. Who introduced disability benefits?
World War I
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Dwight David Eisenhower
He was shot on his way to a college reunion
33. What presidents (in order) died of natural causes?
Medical insurance for all americans
None
William Henry Harrison - Zachary Taylor - Warren Harding - and Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Perjury and obstruction of justice
34. Who gave the longest inauguration speech?
James Madison
William Henry Harrison
No
Teddy Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt
35. What is the inauguration date?
George H.W. Bush and George Bush
Dental; medical
January 20th
William Henry Harrison
36. What were the sides for the Korean war and the Vietnam war?
East of Africa
The north were comunists and the south were not
0
15
37. Who had a 12 year affair with Gennifer Flowers?
You can collect money if you become disabled before retirement
The Vice President
November
William Jefferson Clinton
38. Who was sent to a mental institution after Abraham Lincoln's death?
Mary Todd-Lincoln
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
James Polk
Andrew Johnson
39. After Abraham Lincoln was shot - He was carried across the street to ________________ where he dies when?
Peterson House; the next morning
Andrew Jackson
The government
Iraq invaded Kuwait - and a coalition of naions push Iraq out of Kuwait
40. Who was the first African American President?
The White House
Barack Obama
Jefferson Davis
Teddy Roosevelt
41. How much of a retirement income per year does the president make (for life)?
James Madison
Democratic National Headquarters; Watergate
The Vice President
$150000
42. Who was president during the War of 1812 against England?
He fired the Secretary of War Staton
James Madison
Ulysses S. Grant
The south
43. Who was the youngest elected president?
The House of Representatives selects the President and the Senate selects the Vice President
Thomas Jefferson
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
George Washington
44. Who built the Interstate Highway System?
Dwight David Eisenhower
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The Vice President
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
45. How many kids did George Washington have?
Ford's Theater
0
Barack Obama
William Howard Taft
46. Who is the current speaker of the House?
Andrew Jackson
South Carolina said it could nullify any law it wants - but Jackson said they would send troops and so South Carolina decided that they can't nullify and law it wants.
John Boehner
The government
47. William Jefferson Clinton paid Paula Jones $____.
John Quincy Adams - Rutherford B. Hayes - Benjamin Harrison - and George W. Bush
1 million
John Adams
They were classmates in college
48. What is manifest destiny? how many square miles was it?
Dwight David Eisenhower
The idea to own all the land from the pacific to the atlantic ocean; 1.2 million
Mary Todd-Lincoln
Teddy Roosevelt
49. Where did Abraham Lincoln's assasination take place?
Warning
: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in
/var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php
on line
183
50. Who had the shortest presidency?
East of Africa
35
William Henry Harrison
Gerald Ford