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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 date was John Fitzgerald Kennedy killed on?






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






3. Which president was the youngest to serve?






4. What president made the emancipation proclamtion?






5. Who was our president during the Vietnam War?






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






7. What weapon was used to kill Lincoln?






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






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






10. Who passed Universal health care?






11. What was reconstruction?






12. Abraham Lincoln was ______ educated






13. Who was George Washington's wife?






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






15. This president helped write the federalist papers.






16. What date did the civil war begin?






17. How many pounds was William Howard Taft?






18. This president swam naked in the Potomac River






19. Who was the first VP to move up on death of a president?






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






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






22. What were the years of WWI?






23. Who did fireside chats?






24. Which president adopted independence - was loyal - smart - and a lawyer?






25. Did we win the Spanish American War?






26. Which presidents were great grandfather and grandson?






27. What to laws did Adams TRY to pass?






28. Who became president when Richard Nixon resigend because they were his VP?






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






30. What was a popular film of John Fitzgerald Kennedy's assassination?






31. Who introduced surviver benefits?






32. Jimmy Carter was the former governor of ____.






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






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






35. What is the command of army act?






36. What is universal health care?






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

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38. How many presidents died in office?






39. Which president made the panama canal?






40. Who was the youngest elected president?






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






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

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






44. What transportation does the president get?






45. Do we vote directly for the president?






46. Who went to the Supreme court and tried to increase it to fifteen judges - but was told no?






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






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






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






50. Sedition acts