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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 was the Emancipation proclamation meant to do?






2. What month is the election in?






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






4. Who was George Washington's wife?






5. Why did WWI happen?






6. Who introduced disability benefits?






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






8. Who killed Abraham Lincoln?






9. Who introduced social security?






10. Who did fireside chats?






11. Paula Jones sued William Jefferson Clinton for _______.






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






13. how many years is a score?






14. What war was Abraham Lincoln president during?






15. Who killed Abraham Lincoln?






16. This president swam naked in the Potomac River






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






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






19. Sedition acts






20. How many presidents died in office?






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






22. Why did we invade Iraq?

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






24. Which president got Alzheimers and forgot being president?






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






26. This president helped write the federalist papers.






27. 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 ________.






28. What was the camp david accords?






29. How many presidents were killed in office?






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






31. Which presidents were great grandfather and grandson?






32. Jimmy Carter was the former governor of ____.






33. Which president had a stroke in his bathroom?






34. Who created the Family Medical Leave Act?






35. Which president made the panama canal?






36. What does NATO stand for?






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






38. How many years is a presidential term?






39. Where was John Fitzgerald Kennedy assassinated?






40. How tall was Abraham Lincoln?

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41. What was Lincoln's most famous speech?






42. How much of a retirement income per year does the president make (for life)?






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






44. Who's son is Camp David named after?






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






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






47. What were the years of WWI?






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






49. Who invaded Iraq?






50. The ______ was invented when William McKinley was killed - and it could have saved him.