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U.S. Presidents Trivia

Subjects : trivia, history
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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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. Why did WWI happen?






2. When was the Emancipation proclamation?






3. What was the New Deal?






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






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






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

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7. Who had many affairs during their presidency but claimed not to?






8. Who was president during the War of 1812 against England?






9. Which president made the panama canal?






10. Who is the current speaker of the House?






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






12. What date did WWII begin?






13. What was the nullification crisis?

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14. Who gave the longest inauguration speech?






15. What are disability benefits?






16. What year was the White House burnt down?






17. What is the inauguration date?






18. Who did the Banking Holiday?






19. What president did the Berlin airlift?






20. Who was president for the nullification crisis?






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






22. Who was the first VP?






23. Which president was author of the Virginia Plan?






24. What was Lincoln's most famous speech?






25. What was reconstruction?






26. What is Camp David?






27. Who attempted to assassinate Ronald Reagan?






28. what disease did Franklin Delano Roosevelt have?






29. Where did the name 'gettysburg' come from?






30. Who were Woodward and Bernstein?

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31. Why was Andrew Johnson impeached?






32. Abraham Lincoln was ______ educated






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






34. What is the family Medical Leave Act?






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






36. Who had the shortest presidency?






37. What is the Electoral College?






38. Who is the current Vice President?






39. What are surviver benefits?






40. What is manifest destiny? how many square miles was it?






41. Jimmy Carter was the former governor of ____.






42. Who presented the Fourteen Points?






43. Who built the Interstate Highway System?






44. Franklin Delano Roosevelt's wife was related to him how?






45. Who won the Civil war for Lincoln and later on became a president?






46. How many kids did John Tyler have?






47. What was the Tenure of Office Act/






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






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






50. This president helped write the federalist papers.