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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. What are surviver benefits?






2. Where does the president live for free?






3. How many kids did John Tyler have?






4. Who had a 12 year affair with Gennifer Flowers?






5. Who was president during the War of 1812 against England?






6. Where was George Washington born?






7. What was reconstruction?






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






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






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






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






12. Which president was the 'father of the constitution'?






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






14. Who takes over if the President is disabled or dies?






15. Who's son married Nixon's daughter?






16. Why did WWI happen?






17. Which president recognized Israel and traded with them and gave money and embassadors to them?






18. What was the Emancipation proclamation meant to do?






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






20. Where was Thomas Jefferson born?






21. Where was John Fitzgerald Kennedy assassinated?






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






23. Who won the Nobel peace prize because he told Russia and Japan not to fight - but to love?






24. How many kids did John Tyler have?






25. Gerald Ford pardons _____________ for all crimes committed.






26. Which president was obnoxious and disliked?






27. Which president adopted independence - was loyal - smart - and a lawyer?






28. Which president served the most terms?






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






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






31. What law that Barack Obama passed might be unconstitutional and is being looked at by the supreme court now?






32. James Madison's wife is famous for...






33. Which presidents were cousins?






34. What is universal health care?






35. What are disability benefits?






36. Who killed Abraham Lincoln?






37. What president had the watergate scandal?






38. What was the most terms served by a president?






39. Who pays for all personal entertainment and dinners not related to teh government business in the White House?






40. What was William Jefferson Clinton impeached for?






41. Where did the civil war begin?






42. What president had the watergate scandal?






43. How many states broke away during the civil war AT FIRST? how many total ending up breaking away?






44. Where did the name 'gettysburg' come from?






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






46. What was the Emancipation proclamation meant to do?






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






48. Who was the first VP to move up on death of a president?






49. William Jefferson Clinton paid Paula Jones $____.






50. Which president created Yellowstone National Park and Yosemite?