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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 gave the longest inauguration speech?






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






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






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






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






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






7. Who was the first African American President?






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






9. What date was John Fitzgerald Kennedy killed on?






10. What president did the Berlin airlift?






11. Who built the Interstate Highway System?






12. what disease did Franklin Delano Roosevelt have?






13. Why did we enter WWII?






14. What was a talent of John Wilkes Booth?






15. What was the Bay of Pigs?






16. What did the Interstate Highway System also do besides provide a road for driving?






17. Who were Woodward and Bernstein?

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18. Who was president for the Iran Hostage crisis?






19. Who was the first African American President?






20. How many terms is a president alowed to serve?






21. Who is thought to have assassinated John Fitzgerald Kennedy?






22. Who had the first death in office?






23. How many presidents died of natural causes in office?






24. Which president was obnoxious and disliked?






25. Who was the oldest elected president (age 73 at 2nd term)?






26. How tall was Abraham Lincoln?

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27. 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)






28. What war was George Washington in the military for?






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






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






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






32. Which president was former ambassador to China?






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






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






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

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36. Who was president for the persian gulf war?






37. Alien Acts






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






39. What are disability benefits?






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






41. Do we vote directly for the president?






42. How did John Wilkes Booth break his leg?






43. Franklin Delano Roosevelt got his middle name because his _____'s favorite relative was de la Noye






44. Franklin Delano Roosevelt died a short time into his ____ term.






45. What is the Electoral College?






46. how many years is a score?






47. What were fireside chats?






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






49. What was the Emancipation proclamation meant to do?






50. Who moved up when John Fitzgerald Kennedy died because He was his VP?