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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. How many electors are in the electoral college?






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






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






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






5. 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 ________.






6. What is the Electoral College?






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






8. Who was the commander in charge of Europe afor the Allies in WWII?






9. what president was also president of the constitutional convention?






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






11. Who won a Nobel Peace Prize for what they were going to do?






12. How was James Garfield killed?






13. What was reconstruction?






14. Gerald Ford pardons _____________ for all crimes committed.






15. What year was the Louisiana Territory bought?






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






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






18. Who was the only president to be president and then supreme court chief justice?






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






20. Who introduced social security?






21. What are surviver benefits?






22. What is the mandatory retirement plan run by the government?






23. Who introduced disability benefits?






24. Which president created the University of Virgina?






25. Abraham Lincoln was ______ educated






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






27. Who was president for the nullification crisis?






28. The committee of the watergate scandal illegally entered the __________ (building) and spied on Nixon's opponent Who was in the _______ complex.






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






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






31. Who built the Interstate Highway System?






32. What were the years of WWI?






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






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






35. Why did WWI happen?






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






37. Who was president for the Bay of Pigs?






38. Who said 'The buck stops here'?






39. Which president was a lawyer - very smart - an architect - a musician - and an inventor?






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






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






42. What is Camp David?






43. What college did George Washington go to?






44. Who was president during the Great depression?






45. Who was embarrassed when they received the Nobel Peace Prize?






46. Who introduced social security?






47. Where was George Washington born?






48. Which president was a great general - a leader - honest - and trustworth?






49. What is the Truman Doctrine?






50. Which president started the two term tradition?







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