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






2. What was the camp david accords?






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






4. Can the amount of money a president earns be increased/decreased during someone's term of office?






5. What was the Banking Holiday?






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






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






8. How did John Wilkes Booth break his leg?






9. Why did WWII begin?






10. Which president served the most terms?






11. Abraham Lincoln was ______ educated






12. Paula Jones sued William Jefferson Clinton for _______.






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






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






15. Which president helped create the Library of Congress when he sells and donates 6000 books?






16. Can the amount of money a president earns be increased/decreased during someone's term of office?






17. Which president was the youngest to serve?






18. Who was the only president to be president and then supreme court chief justice?






19. Who was William McKinley's VP that moved up when He was killed?






20. Alien Acts






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






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






23. Where was George Washington born?






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






25. Which president made the panama canal?






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






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






28. Who said 'A date that will live in infamy'? What were they talking about (separate with semicolon)?






29. Who was president during the Great depression?






30. What does 'Sic Semper Tyrranis' mean?






31. which president was former head of CIA?






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






33. What is the Electoral College?






34. Which president presented the bill of rights at the first Congress?






35. Who were Woodward and Bernstein?

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36. Which presidents were great grandfather and grandson?






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






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






39. Who were Woodward and Bernstein?

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40. Who had many affairs during their presidency but claimed not to?






41. Who is the current President Pro-Tempore of the Senate?






42. How many former vice presidents have become president?






43. After Abraham Lincoln was shot - He was carried across the street to ________________ where he dies when?






44. Who was president for the nullification crisis?






45. This president helped write the federalist papers.






46. How tall was Abraham Lincoln?

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47. What was the nullification crisis?

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48. Who supported manifest destiny?






49. What happens to John Wilkes Booth?






50. Who is considered 'the father of our country'?