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U.S. Presidents Trivia

Subjects : trivia, history
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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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. Who was president when the United Nations was formed?






2. What was a talent of John Wilkes Booth?






3. which president was former head of CIA?






4. who pays for the costs of operating the white house?






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






6. What was reconstruction?






7. Which president was obnoxious and disliked?






8. Where does the right to navigate teh seas without interference not apply?






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






10. How many presidents died of natural causes in office?






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






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






13. Why wasn't Richard Nixon thrown out of office?






14. What does 'Sic Semper Tyrranis' mean?






15. What were the years of WWI?






16. Who presented the Fourteen Points?






17. What were the sides for the Korean war and the Vietnam war?






18. What was the New Deal?






19. Who said 'The buck stops here'?






20. What date did the civil war begin?






21. What was reconstruction?






22. Where was Thomas Jefferson born?






23. Where was William McKinley killed?






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






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






26. Can the amount of money a president earns be increased/decreased during someone's term of office?






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






28. William Jefferson Clinton paid Paula Jones $____.






29. Who was a peanut farmer?






30. What year was the White House burnt down?






31. What month is the election in?






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






33. What is the inauguration date?






34. How was James Garfield killed?






35. Why did the person who tried to assassinate Ronald Reagan do it?






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






37. Gerald Ford pardons _____________ for all crimes committed.






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






39. What did John Wilkes Booth say after he shot Lincoln?






40. Grover Cleveland was the ____ and ____ president (numbers)






41. What president had the watergate scandal?






42. Who was president for the 9/11 attacks?






43. What is the Electoral College?






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

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45. How long do you have to be a citizen for to be president?






46. During the civil war - the south's president was _____________.






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






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

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






50. Where was John Fitzgerald Kennedy assassinated?