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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. What was the New Deal?






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






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






4. What year was the White House burnt down?






5. What president did the Berlin airlift?






6. Who was Deep Throat?






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






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






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






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






11. What war did George Washington lead the army for?






12. During the civil war - the ________ wanted slaves and the ________ did not.






13. Which president was the youngest to serve?






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






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






16. Who was on the bad side for WWI (abc order)?






17. Who introduced social security?






18. How was James Garfield killed?






19. Name the Founding Fathers plus the son in order...






20. How many days was the Iran Hostage crisis?






21. Where do electors vote?

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22. What war never officially ended but just doesn't fight any more?






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






24. What were John Adams's last words?






25. What president had the watergate scandal?






26. Who were the first presidents to be father and son?






27. Who was the fpresident during WWI?






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






29. What date did WWII begin?






30. How did William McKinley die?






31. What college did George Washington go to?






32. Who was George Washington's wife?






33. Who built the Interstate Highway System?






34. What was the New Deal?






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






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






37. Alien Acts






38. Who was the only man to be president Who was not elected to either vp spot or the presidency?






39. James Madison's wife was ________ Madison.






40. What was the Berlin Airlift?






41. Why did we invade Iraq?

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42. What president made the emancipation proclamtion?






43. Who was a peanut farmer?






44. Who was sent to a mental institution after Abraham Lincoln's death?






45. Did we win the Spanish American War?






46. What state is Camp David in?






47. Where was John Fitzgerald Kennedy assassinated?






48. Where was George Washington born?






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






50. Who was sent to a mental institution after Abraham Lincoln's death?