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






2. Who acts as an advisor to the president?






3. What are surviver benefits?






4. What war did George Washington lead the army for?






5. What date was John Fitzgerald Kennedy killed on?






6. How was James Garfield killed?






7. What was a talent of John Wilkes Booth?






8. How tall was Abraham Lincoln?

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






10. What presidents lost the popular vote but won the electoral vote? (in order)






11. How many rooms in the white house?






12. What is the Truman Doctrine?






13. Who created the Family Medical Leave Act?






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






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






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






17. Why was Andrew Johnson impeached?






18. What date did WWII begin?






19. Who invaded Iraq?






20. Who was George Washington's wife?






21. Which president was the youngest to serve?






22. Who was Franklin Delano Roosevelt married to?






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






24. How can a president serve up to ten years?

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25. Which president helped create the Library of Congress when he sells and donates 6000 books?






26. Who gave the longest inauguration speech?






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






28. Can the amount of money a president earns be increased/decreased during someone's term of office?






29. Where was William McKinley killed?






30. Who won a Nobel Peace Prize for what they were going to do?






31. Why did we invade Iraq?

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






33. What was William Jefferson Clinton impeached for?






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






35. what disease did Franklin Delano Roosevelt have?






36. This president swam naked in the Potomac River






37. Who did the Banking Holiday?






38. What are disability benefits?






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






40. Why did we invade Iraq?

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41. How many kids did John Tyler have?






42. In the War of 1812 - ________ (country) kept stealing our ________ (people) and _______ (items) in the middle of the ocean (separate with semicolon).






43. How did John Wilkes Booth break his leg?






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






45. When was the Emancipation proclamation?






46. Who was president for the Cuban Missile Crisis?






47. Who introduced social security?






48. Who presented the Fourteen Points?






49. What month and year was the Gettysburg Address said?






50. Who ran the country when Woodrow Wilson couldn't?