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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. When was the Emancipation proclamation?






2. Sewards Folly was when ________ (secretary of state) bought land for $______ - which was thought to be as a joke then - but now that land is known as ________.






3. Who was Franklin Delano Roosevelt married to?






4. What is the Truman Doctrine?






5. Who was the only president to resign?






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






7. Why wasn't Andrew Johnson removed from office when He was impeached?






8. Andrew Johnson had a (good/bad) relation ship with congress over reconstruction






9. Why did WWII begin?






10. How did William McKinley die?






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






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






13. Who created the Family Medical Leave Act?






14. Where was John Fitzgerald Kennedy assassinated?






15. How did John Wilkes Booth break his leg?






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






17. Why wasn't Andrew Johnson removed from office when He was impeached?






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






19. Woodrow Wilson's ideas on not to have a war - the league of nations - and the freedom to navigate the seas without interference are known as ________.






20. Why did we enter WWII?






21. What transportation does the president get?






22. Which presidents were great grandfather and grandson?






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






24. 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)






25. how many years is a score?






26. What was Lincoln's most famous speech?






27. What was the Emancipation proclamation meant to do?






28. Which president created the University of Virgina?






29. Why wasn't Richard Nixon thrown out of office?






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






31. Paula Jones sued William Jefferson Clinton for _______.






32. Which president was a lawyer - very smart - an architect - a musician - and an inventor?






33. In most states - what percent of the state's electoral votes does a candidate get if they win the popular vote?






34. Which president was the youngest to serve?






35. Who was FDR's VP Who was president for WWII?






36. Who did the Banking Holiday?






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






38. This president helped write the federalist papers.






39. How much money does the president earn per year?






40. Who was president for the Bay of Pigs?






41. What is NATO (not what it stands for - what it is)?






42. How tall was Abraham Lincoln?

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43. What month is the election in?






44. During the civil war - the south named itself _____.






45. What were the years of WWI?






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






47. Who was the fpresident during WWI?






48. Who gave the longest inauguration speech?






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






50. Where does the right to navigate teh seas without interference not apply?