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U.S. Presidents Trivia

Subjects : trivia, history
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What was reconstruction?






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

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3. Which presidents were great grandfather and grandson?






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






5. How many pounds was William Howard Taft?






6. What are surviver benefits?






7. How many years is a presidential term?






8. What law that Barack Obama passed might be unconstitutional and is being looked at by the supreme court now?






9. Who was on the good side for WWI (abc order)?






10. Who had many affairs during their presidency but claimed not to?






11. How many presidents were killed in office?






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






13. What president did the Berlin airlift?






14. Who killed Abraham Lincoln?






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






16. The person who killed John Fitzgerald Kennedy is thought to have killed him in a _______ - or not alone.






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






18. 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)






19. When did we enter WWII?






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






21. Who passed Universal health care?






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






23. How many days was the Iran Hostage crisis?






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






25. Who acts as an advisor to the president?






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






27. What was Lincoln's most famous speech?






28. Which president was former ambassador to China?






29. Who was the only president to get all the electoral votes?






30. Who attempted to assassinate Ronald Reagan?






31. Why was Andrew Johnson impeached?






32. How many pounds was William Howard Taft?






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






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






35. Where did the civil war begin?






36. What date was John Fitzgerald Kennedy killed on?






37. Which president made the panama canal?






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






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






40. Who killed Abraham Lincoln?






41. John Quicy Adams spent time In what continent?






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






43. How did William McKinley die?






44. What president had the watergate scandal?






45. Who was the first President during WWII?






46. How many years is a presidential term?






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






48. The president get ____ care and _____ care for free.






49. How much money does the president earn per year?






50. What transportation does the president get?