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U.S. Presidents Trivia

Subjects : trivia, history
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. How many electors are in the electoral college?






2. During the Great Depression - ____% were unemployed.






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






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






5. what disease did Franklin Delano Roosevelt have?






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






7. How many kids did John Tyler have?






8. Where was William McKinley killed?






9. Which president was author of the Virginia Plan?






10. James Monroe created the ________ Doctrine






11. Which president made the panama canal?






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






13. Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant knew eachother because _________.






14. Which president served the most terms?






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






16. Who balanced the budget?






17. Why did we enter WWII?






18. Which presidents won the nobel peace prize (in order)?






19. What is the oldest you can be to get surviver benefits?






20. Who was president for the persian gulf war?






21. Who was president for the persian gulf war?






22. Who was on the bad side for WWI (abc order)?






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

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






25. What were John Adams's last words?






26. How many electoral votes does Florida have?






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






28. What was the Tenure of Office Act/






29. Who killed Abraham Lincoln?






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






31. What war did George Washington lead the army for?






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






33. Who is the current secretary of state?






34. What president made the emancipation proclamtion?






35. When was the Emancipation proclamation?






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






37. Jimmy Carter was the former governor of ____.






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






39. Which president presented the bill of rights at the first Congress?






40. During the civil war - the north's general was ___________.






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






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






43. William Jefferson Clinton paid Paula Jones $____.






44. Who were the second presidents to be father and son?






45. This president swam naked in the Potomac River






46. What was the persian gulf war/desert storm?






47. Who supported manifest destiny?






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






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






50. Who was the only president to resign?