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U.S. Presidents Trivia

Subjects : trivia, history
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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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. What was the Berlin Airlift?






2. Who was the first African American President?






3. Where did Thomas Jefferson go to college?






4. How many pounds was William Howard Taft?






5. What month is the election in?






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






7. Jimmy Carter was the former governor of ____.






8. Why didn't the Emancipation proclamation work?






9. 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 ________.






10. What does 'Sic Semper Tyrranis' mean?






11. Who was president for the Iran Hostage crisis?






12. Who said 'The buck stops here'?






13. Which president got Alzheimers and forgot being president?






14. What was the Tenure of Office Act/






15. Which president made the panama canal?






16. Who was the youngest elected president?






17. How tall was Abraham Lincoln?

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18. How many years do you have to live in the U.S. for to be president?






19. Who invaded Iraq?






20. John Adams went to what college?






21. What are surviver benefits?






22. How many presidents were killed in office?






23. How many electors are in the electoral college?






24. What date did WWII begin?






25. How many former vice presidents have become president?






26. How many days was the Iran Hostage crisis?






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






28. How long do you have to be a citizen for to be president?






29. Who introduced disability benefits?






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






31. Who was the only president to get all the electoral votes?






32. Who burnt down the White House during a war?






33. Which president recognized Israel and traded with them and gave money and embassadors to them?






34. William Jefferson Clinton paid Paula Jones $____.






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






36. What president made the emancipation proclamtion?






37. What college did George Washington go to?






38. During the civil war - the north's general was ___________.






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






40. Which president served the most terms?






41. Who passed Universal health care?






42. How many states broke away during the civil war AT FIRST? how many total ending up breaking away?






43. There was a _________ - or a group of people - who helped John Wilkes Booth kill Lincoln and also planned to kill the VP and Secretary.






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






45. Which presidents won the nobel peace prize (in order)?






46. What date did WWII begin?






47. Which president was a lawyer - very smart - an architect - a musician - and an inventor?






48. Who was our president when we kille Osama bin Laden?






49. John Quicy Adams spent time In what continent?






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