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






2. What is the command of army act?






3. what disease did Franklin Delano Roosevelt have?






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






5. Who were the first presidents to be father and son?






6. How much of a retirement income per year does the president make (for life)?






7. What was the nullification crisis?

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8. What was the Tenure of Office Act/






9. Who pays for all personal entertainment and dinners not related to teh government business in the White House?






10. This president swam naked in the Potomac River






11. What is universal health care?






12. James Monroe created the ________ Doctrine






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






14. Where does the right to navigate teh seas without interference not apply?






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






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






17. Why was Andrew Johnson impeached?






18. Who were Woodward and Bernstein?

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






20. What was the camp david accords?






21. Who had the first death in office?






22. Who were the first presidents to be father and son?






23. What is the inauguration date?






24. Can the amount of money a president earns be increased/decreased during someone's term of office?






25. Who attempted to assassinate Ronald Reagan?






26. Where does the number of electors in the electoral college come from?






27. Who takes over if the President is disabled or dies?






28. What weapon was used to kill Lincoln?






29. Who was president for the Cuban Missile Crisis?






30. John Adams had a successful marriage with ______ (first name).






31. Who had the shortest presidency?






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






33. Who passed Universal health care?






34. Who was president for the Iran Hostage crisis?






35. When was the Emancipation proclamation?






36. Why did we enter WWII?






37. Did we win the Spanish American War?






38. Who was sent to a mental institution after Abraham Lincoln's death?






39. Which president had a stroke in his bathroom?






40. Which president created the University of Virgina?






41. How did John Wilkes Booth break his leg?






42. What is FDIC (explaIn what it means - not what it stands for)?






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






44. 'Speak softley and carry a big stick' was a quote of who?






45. What does NATO stand for?






46. What was the Banking Holiday?






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






48. Who is the current speaker of the House?






49. What is the Electoral College?






50. Who said 'The buck stops here'?