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






2. John Quicy Adams spent time In what continent?






3. What was the Tenure of Office Act/






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






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






6. What was the name of the airplane that bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki






7. During the civil war - the south's general was ____________.






8. What date was John Fitzgerald Kennedy killed on?






9. During the civil war - the south named itself _____.






10. What war did George Washington lead the army for?






11. Who was FDR's VP Who was president for WWII?






12. Who had an affair with Monica Lewinsky - a young intern at the White House?






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






14. William Jefferson Clinton paid Paula Jones $____.






15. Why didn't the Emancipation proclamation work?






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






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






18. What was reconstruction?






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






20. This president helped write the federalist papers.






21. Who was president for the Cuban Missile Crisis?






22. What is the command of army act?






23. What date was John Fitzgerald Kennedy killed on?






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






25. Who was the first president not to win the popular vote and to become president?






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






27. What month and day do we vote for the president?






28. Who gave the longest inauguration speech?






29. Where did Thomas Jefferson go to college?






30. Woodrow Wilson's ideas on not to have a war - the league of nations - and the freedom to navigate the seas without interference are known as ________.






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






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






33. Where did the name 'gettysburg' come from?






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






35. How many Vice Presidents ran again for president and became president?






36. Which president served the most terms?






37. When did we enter WWII?






38. Gerald Ford pardons _____________ for all crimes committed.






39. What are surviver benefits?






40. What were the years of WWI?






41. What was the camp david accords?






42. After Abraham Lincoln was shot - He was carried across the street to ________________ where he dies when?






43. What transportation does the president get?






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






45. Where was John Fitzgerald Kennedy assassinated?






46. What was the Banking Holiday?






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






48. Who was President during the Spanish American War?






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






50. What was the Tenure of Office Act/