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U.S. Presidents Trivia

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1. what ended a couple of days before Abraham Lincoln's Assasination?






2. During the civil war - the north's general was ___________.






3. What date was John Fitzgerald Kennedy killed on?






4. What was the Berlin Airlift?






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






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






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






8. Jimmy Carter was the former governor of ____.






9. Who went to the Supreme court and tried to increase it to fifteen judges - but was told no?






10. During the civil war - the south named itself _____.






11. Who was the fpresident during WWI?






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






13. Why was Andrew Johnson impeached?






14. John Quicy Adams spent time In what continent?






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






16. This president helped write the federalist papers.






17. Who won a Nobel Peace Prize for what they were going to do?






18. Abraham Lincoln was ______ educated






19. How tall was Abraham Lincoln?

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20. Who was the only president to get all the electoral votes?






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






22. Who attends diplomatic functions in place of the president?






23. How many presidents were killed in office?






24. What happens if no candidate gets the majorit y of electoral votes?






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






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






27. Who were Woodward and Bernstein?

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28. Which president made the panama canal?






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






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






31. What month is the election in?






32. Who attempted to assassinate Ronald Reagan?






33. Which president had a stroke in his bathroom?






34. Who is the current speaker of the House?






35. When did we get involved and stop being involved with WWI? (month and year)






36. Who was the youngest elected president?






37. What is NATO (not what it stands for - what it is)?






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






39. Franklin Delano Roosevelt's wife was related to him how?






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






41. Where was William McKinley killed?






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






43. Who was President during the Spanish American War?






44. James Monroe created the ________ Doctrine






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






46. Who was the first president not to win the popular vote and to become president?






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






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






49. Which president had a stroke in his bathroom?






50. Who acts as an advisor to the president?







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