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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. Which president was a great general - a leader - honest - and trustworth?






2. When was the Emancipation proclamation?






3. Who created the Family Medical Leave Act?






4. Which president was author of the Virginia Plan?






5. What is the inauguration date?






6. Which president got Alzheimers and forgot being president?






7. 'Speak softley and carry a big stick' was a quote of who?






8. Who is the current Vice President?






9. What is the mandatory retirement plan run by the government?






10. Which president created Yellowstone National Park and Yosemite?






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






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






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






14. Who was a peanut farmer?






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






16. Congress passed 2 laws designed to limit __________'s (a president) power .






17. Why was Andrew Johnson impeached?






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






19. Who was Abraham Lincoln married to?






20. Where does the president live for free?






21. During the civil war - the south's president was _____________.






22. 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)






23. Who was president for the Cuban Missile Crisis?






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






25. Where was John Fitzgerald Kennedy assassinated?






26. When Harry S Truman was president during WWII - what two places in japan were bombed (abc order)?






27. What year was the Louisiana Territory bought?






28. What did John Wilkes Booth say after he shot Lincoln?






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






30. Which president was the 'father of the constitution'?






31. Grover Cleveland was the ____ and ____ president (numbers)






32. Do we vote directly for the president?






33. How many years is a presidential term?






34. Where does the number of electors in the electoral college come from?






35. What weapon was used to kill Lincoln?






36. Where was George Washington born?






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






38. What was the Bay of Pigs?






39. Who was the youngest elected president?






40. What was the point of the Gettysburg Address (two things)?






41. Paula Jones sued William Jefferson Clinton for _______.






42. Who was president for the persian gulf war?






43. Did we win the Spanish American War?






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






45. Who supported manifest destiny?






46. Who was president for the nullification crisis?






47. What to laws did Adams TRY to pass?






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






49. What were fireside chats?






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