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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. Who introduced disability benefits?






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






3. Who had the shortest presidency?






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






5. Who was on the good side for WWI (abc order)?






6. How did William McKinley die?






7. When Harry S Truman was president during WWII - what two places in japan were bombed (abc order)?






8. William Jefferson Clinton paid Paula Jones $____.






9. Who built the Interstate Highway System?






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






11. Who was president for the persian gulf war?






12. Where was George Washington born?






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






14. Where was Thomas Jefferson born?






15. Andrew Johnson was _________'s VP






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






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






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






19. What is the command of army act?






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

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

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22. 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 ________.






23. Who was on the good side for WWI (abc order)?






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






25. What war was Abraham Lincoln president during?






26. Who was president for the Iran Hostage crisis?






27. What was the league of nations?






28. Who supported manifest destiny?






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






30. Who is the current secretary of state?






31. When was the Emancipation proclamation?






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






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






34. What to laws did Adams TRY to pass?






35. How many rooms in the white house?






36. Who was our president during the Vietnam War?






37. What president made the emancipation proclamtion?






38. which president was former head of CIA?






39. Who did the Banking Holiday?






40. Who was president when the United Nations was formed?






41. Who was FDR's VP Who was president for WWII?






42. Sedition acts






43. Who said 'The buck stops here'?






44. 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)






45. William Jefferson Clinton paid Paula Jones $____.






46. What date did WWII begin?






47. Why did we invade Iraq?

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48. What is the Electoral College?






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






50. Who was president for the Cuban Missile Crisis?