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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 month is the election in?






2. When was the Emancipation proclamation?






3. What were the territories we gained in the Spanish American War? (ABC order with commas inbetween)






4. What are disability benefits?






5. Who said 'The only thing we have to fear is fear itself' at their 1st inaugural?






6. Franklin Delano Roosevelt got his middle name because his _____'s favorite relative was de la Noye






7. What was the league of nations?






8. Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant knew eachother because _________.






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






10. Who supported manifest destiny?






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

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12. Who gave the longest inauguration speech?






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






14. Who was president for the Iran Hostage crisis?






15. who pays for the costs of operating the white house?






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






17. what disease did Franklin Delano Roosevelt have?






18. Jimmy Carter was the former governor of ____.






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






20. When was the Emancipation proclamation?






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






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






23. Which president was former ambassador to China?






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






25. What was the Berlin Airlift?






26. After what event was the Fourteen Points presented?






27. How many days was the Iran Hostage crisis?






28. How did John Wilkes Booth break his leg?






29. What is the oldest you can be to get surviver benefits?






30. After Abraham Lincoln was shot - He was carried across the street to ________________ where he dies when?






31. What is the address of the white house?






32. What was the camp david accords?






33. How many kids did John Tyler have?






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






35. Who was president when the United Nations was formed?






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






37. What president made the emancipation proclamtion?






38. Where was John Fitzgerald Kennedy assassinated?






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






40. who pays for the costs of operating the white house?






41. How many years is a presidential term?






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






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






44. What is FDIC (explaIn what it means - not what it stands for)?






45. Which president was obnoxious and disliked?






46. Who was president for the Cuban Missile Crisis?






47. Alien Acts






48. William Jefferson Clinton paid Paula Jones $____.






49. John Quicy Adams spent time In what continent?






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