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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. Where did Thomas Jefferson go to college?






2. Why did we invade Iraq?

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3. Who was a Great General in war of 1812?






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






5. What was reconstruction?






6. Who introduced disability benefits?






7. What was the New Deal?






8. Why did we invade Iraq?

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9. What is universal health care?






10. What president had the watergate scandal?






11. What is the command of army act?






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






13. After what event was the Fourteen Points presented?






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






15. Who was Franklin Delano Roosevelt married to?






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






17. Who was embarrassed when they received the Nobel Peace Prize?






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






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






20. How did John Wilkes Booth break his leg?






21. Which president was the youngest to serve?






22. James Monroe created the ________ Doctrine






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






24. Who created the Family Medical Leave Act?






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






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






27. Where do electors vote?

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28. Who did fireside chats?






29. How much of a retirement income per year does the president make (for life)?






30. What is the Electoral College?






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






32. Who is the current speaker of the House?






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






34. What was William Jefferson Clinton impeached for?






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






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






37. What month and year was the Gettysburg Address said?






38. What are the people in the electoral college called?






39. How many Vice Presidents have moved up because the president resigned?






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






41. Which president created Yellowstone National Park and Yosemite?






42. Who burnt down the White House during a war?






43. Who presented the Fourteen Points?






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






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






46. Who said 'The buck stops here'?






47. What was the persian gulf war/desert storm?






48. How many presidents died in office?






49. ______ years later - the Tenure of Office act was gotten rid of by the Supreme court because it was ________.






50. Who invaded Iraq?