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U.S. Presidents Trivia

Subjects : trivia, history
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Who built the Interstate Highway System?






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






3. Abraham Lincoln was ______ educated






4. Who built the Interstate Highway System?






5. What date was John Fitzgerald Kennedy killed on?






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






7. Why did the league of nations fail (what country wouldn't join)?






8. James Madison's wife is famous for...






9. Did we win the Spanish American War?






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






11. This president helped write the federalist papers.






12. What does 'Sic Semper Tyrranis' mean?






13. Why didn't the Emancipation proclamation work?






14. Who introduced social security?






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






16. What is the inauguration date?






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






18. Who was president when the United Nations was formed?






19. Who is the current Vice President?






20. What happens if no candidate gets the majorit y of electoral votes?






21. How many electors are in the electoral college?






22. Which president got Alzheimers and forgot being president?






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






24. how many years is a score?






25. Where was Abraham Lincoln born? What kind of house did he live in?






26. Who supported manifest destiny?






27. How many presidents died in office?






28. What was the Banking Holiday?






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






30. What to laws did Adams TRY to pass?






31. What was the Bay of Pigs?






32. Who won the Nobel peace prize because he told Russia and Japan not to fight - but to love?






33. Franklin Delano Roosevelt died a short time into his ____ term.






34. Alien Acts






35. Who balanced the budget?






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






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






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






39. Why did we invade Iraq?

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40. There was a _________ - or a group of people - who helped John Wilkes Booth kill Lincoln and also planned to kill the VP and Secretary.






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






42. What war was Abraham Lincoln president during?






43. Who was our president when we kille Osama bin Laden?






44. What is the Electoral College?






45. What was reconstruction?






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






47. what disease did Franklin Delano Roosevelt have?






48. Name the two presidents (ABC order by last name - write first and last name) who died on the same day - and the date they died (separate with semi colon)






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






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