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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. During the Great Depression - ____% were unemployed.






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






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






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






5. how many years is a score?






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






7. Where did Thomas Jefferson go to college?






8. Who was Deep Throat?






9. Who introduced surviver benefits?






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






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






12. What college did George Washington go to?






13. What is universal health care?






14. Who supported manifest destiny?






15. The ______ was invented when William McKinley was killed - and it could have saved him.






16. Gerald Ford pardons _____________ for all crimes committed.






17. Who said 'The buck stops here'?






18. What was a popular film of John Fitzgerald Kennedy's assassination?






19. What is Camp David?






20. Who invaded Iraq?






21. What was the New Deal?






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






23. What is the inauguration date?






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






25. Who won a nobel peace prize because of the camp david accords?






26. What happens to John Wilkes Booth?






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






28. Who said 'The buck stops here'?






29. Where did Thomas Jefferson go to college?






30. What war was Abraham Lincoln president during?






31. During the civil war - the ________ wanted slaves and the ________ did not.






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






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






34. How many electors are in the electoral college?






35. Who was Franklin Delano Roosevelt married to?






36. Who was sent to a mental institution after Abraham Lincoln's death?






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






38. What was the Bay of Pigs?






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






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






41. Which president was the youngest to serve?






42. What month and year was the Gettysburg Address said?






43. When did we enter WWII?






44. During the civil war - the south's general was ____________.






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






46. What date did the civil war begin?






47. Who was our president when we kille Osama bin Laden?






48. What was the Banking Holiday?






49. After Abraham Lincoln was shot - He was carried across the street to ________________ where he dies when?






50. What are disability benefits?