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U.S. Presidents Trivia

Subjects : trivia, history
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. During the civil war - the north's general was ___________.






2. Who was President during the Spanish American War?






3. This president swam naked in the Potomac River






4. Jimmy Carter was the former governor of ____.






5. Who were the first presidents to be father and son?






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






7. How many rooms in the white house?






8. William Jefferson Clinton paid Paula Jones $____.






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






10. Woodrow Wilson's ideas on not to have a war - the league of nations - and the freedom to navigate the seas without interference are known as ________.






11. Which president started the two term tradition?






12. What does 'Sic Semper Tyrranis' mean?






13. There was a _________ - or a group of people - who helped John Wilkes Booth kill Lincoln and also planned to kill the VP and Secretary.






14. Who is the current Vice President?






15. Name the two presidents (ABC order by last name - write first and last name) who died on the same day - and the date they died (separate with semi colon)






16. Where did Thomas Jefferson go to college?






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






18. What president made the emancipation proclamtion?






19. Who killed Abraham Lincoln?






20. The person who killed John Fitzgerald Kennedy is thought to have killed him in a _______ - or not alone.






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






22. Where does the president live for free?






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






24. How many kids did George Washington have?






25. Who killed Abraham Lincoln?






26. What to laws did Adams TRY to pass?






27. Who said 'The only thing we have to fear is fear itself' at their 1st inaugural?






28. How tall was Abraham Lincoln?

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29. Name the Founding Fathers plus the son in order...






30. Who was the only president to resign?






31. What were the territories we gained in the Spanish American War? (ABC order with commas inbetween)






32. John Quicy Adams spent time In what continent?






33. Why did the league of nations fail (what country wouldn't join)?






34. What is the address of the white house?






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






36. Which president made the panama canal?






37. John Adams had a successful marriage with ______ (first name).






38. How did William McKinley die?






39. which president was former head of CIA?






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






41. John Adams went to what college?






42. Andrew Johnson had a (good/bad) relation ship with congress over reconstruction






43. What was the nullification crisis?

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






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






46. Who was president for the Bay of Pigs?






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

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48. Which president was author of the Virginia Plan?






49. What was the camp david accords?






50. When was the Emancipation proclamation?