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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. What was the most terms served by a president?






2. Who were the second presidents to be father and son?






3. Who was Abraham Lincoln married to?






4. Who was a Great General in war of 1812?






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






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






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






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






9. Who is the current President Pro-Tempore of the Senate?






10. Who passed Universal health care?






11. What president made the emancipation proclamtion?






12. Which president made the panama canal?






13. Which president was the 'father of the constitution'?






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






15. How many electoral votes do you need to win the election?






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






17. What did the monroe doctrine say?

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






19. Who was President during the Spanish American War?






20. What date was John Fitzgerald Kennedy killed on?






21. Who presented the Fourteen Points?






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

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23. What were John Adams's last words?






24. How old do you have to be to be president?






25. What is the address of the white house?






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






27. Manifest Destiny was to have all the land from __________ to ___________ (east to west)






28. What are disability benefits?






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






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






31. Who introduced disability benefits?






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






33. ______ years later - the Tenure of Office act was gotten rid of by the Supreme court because it was ________.






34. How did John Wilkes Booth break his leg?






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






36. Why wasn't Andrew Johnson removed from office when He was impeached?






37. 'Speak softley and carry a big stick' was a quote of who?






38. How many presidents were killed in office?






39. How many former vice presidents have become president?






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






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






42. When was the Emancipation proclamation?






43. Who were Woodward and Bernstein?

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






45. Who is the current secretary of state?






46. Who did the Banking Holiday?






47. Which president was the youngest to serve?






48. What was the Banking Holiday?






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






50. Who is the current Vice President?