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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. This president helped write the federalist papers.






2. Who was the oldest elected president (age 73 at 2nd term)?






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






4. Who was the first African American President?






5. Who invaded Iraq?






6. Who was president during the Great depression?






7. Abraham Lincoln was ______ educated






8. 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 ________.






9. What were John Adams's last words?






10. Gerald Ford pardons _____________ for all crimes committed.






11. Andrew Johnson had a (good/bad) relation ship with congress over reconstruction






12. James Madison's wife was ________ Madison.






13. Where did the civil war begin?






14. What date did WWII begin?






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






16. Which president was the youngest to serve?






17. What president did the Berlin airlift?






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






19. Why did WWI happen?






20. Who supported manifest destiny?






21. Gerald Ford pardons _____________ for all crimes committed.






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






23. Andrew Johnson was _________'s VP






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






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






26. Who was William McKinley's VP that moved up when He was killed?






27. What did the monroe doctrine say?


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






29. Which president made the panama canal?






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






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






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






33. which president was former head of CIA?






34. What transportation does the president get?






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






36. Who was the only catholic president?






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






38. What were fireside chats?






39. What is the inauguration date?






40. What was the nullification crisis?


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






42. Why did WWI happen?






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






44. What was reconstruction?






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






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






47. What was a talent of John Wilkes Booth?






48. Who was the only man to be president Who was not elected to either vp spot or the presidency?






49. What were John Adams's last words?






50. Which president was obnoxious and disliked?