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U.S. Presidents Trivia

Subjects : trivia, history
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Who did the Banking Holiday?






2. What was the nullification crisis?

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3. Who had the shortest presidency?






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






5. What was the point of the Gettysburg Address (two things)?






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






7. James Madison's wife was ________ Madison.






8. Who said 'The buck stops here'?






9. What was the nullification crisis?

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






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






12. Who attends diplomatic functions in place of the president?






13. In most states - what percent of the state's electoral votes does a candidate get if they win the popular vote?






14. How many former vice presidents have become president?






15. Who won the Nobel peace prize because he told Russia and Japan not to fight - but to love?






16. How many days was the Iran Hostage crisis?






17. what ended a couple of days before Abraham Lincoln's Assasination?






18. When was the Emancipation proclamation?






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






20. Who did the Banking Holiday?






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






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






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






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






25. 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 ________.






26. What was the league of nations?






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






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






29. After what event was the Fourteen Points presented?






30. What was the Emancipation proclamation meant to do?






31. Who introduced social security?






32. How many years is a presidential term?






33. How many pounds was William Howard Taft?






34. Franklin Delano Roosevelt died a short time into his ____ term.






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






36. Which president was a 'rough rider' in the Spanish American War?






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






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






39. Who's son married Nixon's daughter?






40. What date was John Fitzgerald Kennedy killed on?






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






42. William Jefferson Clinton paid Paula Jones $____.






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






44. Who built the Interstate Highway System?






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






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






47. What to laws did Adams TRY to pass?






48. which president was former head of CIA?






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

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50. What did the monroe doctrine say?

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