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U.S. Presidents Trivia

Subjects : trivia, history
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What happens if no candidate gets the majorit y of electoral votes?






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






3. Who was president during the Great depression?






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






5. What are surviver benefits?






6. How many rooms in the white house?






7. What was a talent of John Wilkes Booth?






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






9. What was the most terms served by a president?






10. How many Vice Presidents ran again for president and became president?






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






12. Why didn't the Emancipation proclamation work?






13. Who did fireside chats?






14. what disease did Franklin Delano Roosevelt have?






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

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16. What weapon was used to kill Lincoln?






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






18. How many years younger was John Tyler's wife than him?






19. Which president was author of the Virginia Plan?






20. What are the people in the electoral college called?






21. Who invaded Iraq?






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






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






24. Who had the shortest presidency?






25. Who was the first president not to win the popular vote and to become president?






26. Who was president for the Iran Hostage crisis?






27. How many kids did John Tyler have?






28. Who had an affair with Monica Lewinsky - a young intern at the White House?






29. Paula Jones sued William Jefferson Clinton for _______.






30. Who was the first African American President?






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






32. Where does the president live for free?






33. John Quicy Adams spent time In what continent?






34. Andrew Johnson was _________'s VP






35. What war was Abraham Lincoln president during?






36. What does 'Sic Semper Tyrranis' mean?






37. Where was Abraham Lincoln born? What kind of house did he live in?






38. 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 ________.






39. How many rooms in the white house?






40. What is the command of army act?






41. Who pays for all personal entertainment and dinners not related to teh government business in the White House?






42. Where was George Washington born?






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






44. Which president was author of the Virginia Plan?






45. How many presidents died in office?






46. Why did we enter WWII?






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






48. What college did George Washington go to?






49. How many presidents died in office?






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