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U.S. Presidents Trivia

Subjects : trivia, history
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. How many states broke away during the civil war AT FIRST? how many total ending up breaking away?






2. What is Camp David?






3. What does NATO stand for?






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






5. What was the camp david accords?






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






7. Who was the first African American President?






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






9. Who's son is Camp David named after?






10. Who was president during the Great depression?






11. What was the league of nations?






12. Who was George Washington's wife?






13. What month and day do we vote for the president?






14. What state was John Adams from?






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






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






17. Who was president for the nullification crisis?






18. The ______ was invented when William McKinley was killed - and it could have saved him.






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






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






21. Who had a 12 year affair with Gennifer Flowers?






22. What was the Bay of Pigs?






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






24. What was Lincoln's most famous speech?






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






26. What does 'Sic Semper Tyrranis' mean?






27. Which president had a stroke in his bathroom?






28. Which president adopted independence - was loyal - smart - and a lawyer?






29. Who was our president during the Vietnam War?






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






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






32. Who were Woodward and Bernstein?

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33. Who takes over if the President is disabled or dies?






34. James Monroe created the ________ Doctrine






35. What year was the Louisiana Territory bought?






36. Which presidents were great grandfather and grandson?






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






38. Gerald Ford pardons _____________ for all crimes committed.






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






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






41. Alien Acts






42. Who was President during the Spanish American War?






43. Who was embarrassed when they received the Nobel Peace Prize?






44. 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 ________.






45. Who did we help in the Vietnam war and the korean war?






46. Who introduced social security?






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

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48. Which president got Alzheimers and forgot being president?






49. how many years is a score?






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