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U.S. Presidents Trivia

Subjects : trivia, history
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Which presidents were great grandfather and grandson?






2. Who invaded Iraq?






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






4. what disease did Franklin Delano Roosevelt have?






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






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






7. What two states do not use 'winner-takes all' for the electoral college?






8. What is the Truman Doctrine?






9. Where did the civil war begin?






10. During the civil war - the south's general was ____________.






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






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






13. What president had the watergate scandal?






14. Who presented the Fourteen Points?






15. Where was Thomas Jefferson born?






16. What was Lincoln's most famous speech?






17. What was the camp david accords?






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






19. Who was sent to a mental institution after Abraham Lincoln's death?






20. How many former vice presidents have become president?






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






22. Why did we invade Iraq?

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23. What weapon was used to kill Lincoln?






24. What was the name of the airplane that bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki






25. How did John Wilkes Booth break his leg?






26. When was the Emancipation proclamation?






27. Who introduced surviver benefits?






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






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






30. What happens to John Wilkes Booth?






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






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






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






34. Which president was the youngest to serve?






35. What was the Tenure of Office Act/






36. Who said 'A date that will live in infamy'? What were they talking about (separate with semicolon)?






37. What year was the White House burnt down?






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






39. What was Lincoln's most famous speech?






40. How many electoral votes do you need to win the election?






41. Paula Jones sued William Jefferson Clinton for _______.






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






43. Who was George Washington's wife?






44. How many electoral votes does Florida have?






45. Manifest Destiny was to have all the land from __________ to ___________ (east to west)






46. Where do electors vote?

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47. When was the Emancipation proclamation?






48. What is the Electoral College?






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






50. This president helped write the federalist papers.