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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. When did we get involved and stop being involved with WWI? (month and year)






2. How many presidents died of natural causes in office?






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






4. Which president got Alzheimers and forgot being president?






5. What law that Barack Obama passed might be unconstitutional and is being looked at by the supreme court now?






6. Who won the Civil war for Lincoln and later on became a president?






7. What is the command of army act?






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






9. Who is the current speaker of the House?






10. Who supported manifest destiny?






11. How tall was Abraham Lincoln?

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






13. Which presidents were cousins?






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






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






16. Where did Abraham Lincoln's assasination take place?

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17. Who was on the bad side for WWI (abc order)?






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






19. Sedition acts






20. How many Vice Presidents have moved up because the president died?






21. Who had many affairs during their presidency but claimed not to?






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






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






24. What was the camp david accords?






25. What was the nullification crisis?

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26. Who said 'The buck stops here'?






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






28. Where did Abraham Lincoln's assasination take place?

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29. Who is considered 'the father of our country'?






30. Why was Andrew Johnson impeached?






31. What war never officially ended but just doesn't fight any more?






32. During the Great Depression - ____% were unemployed.






33. What month is the election in?






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






35. Who created the Family Medical Leave Act?






36. What college did George Washington go to?






37. How many pounds was William Howard Taft?






38. Who was our president during the Korean war?






39. Grover Cleveland was the ____ and ____ president (numbers)






40. What did the Interstate Highway System also do besides provide a road for driving?






41. Where was William McKinley killed?






42. Who was president during the War of 1812 against England?






43. What is manifest destiny? how many square miles was it?






44. What happens to John Wilkes Booth?






45. Why did the person who tried to assassinate Ronald Reagan do it?






46. Congress passed 2 laws designed to limit __________'s (a president) power .






47. How did William McKinley die?






48. This president swam naked in the Potomac River






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






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