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U.S. Presidents Trivia

Subjects : trivia, history
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Who was on the good side for WWI (abc order)?






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






3. Who went to the Supreme court and tried to increase it to fifteen judges - but was told no?






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






5. How many days was the Iran Hostage crisis?






6. Who was president during the Great depression?






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






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






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






10. Which presidents were great grandfather and grandson?






11. How old do you have to be to be president?






12. When Harry S Truman was president during WWII - what two places in japan were bombed (abc order)?






13. What were the sides for the Korean war and the Vietnam war?






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






15. Which president was the youngest to serve?






16. Which president created Yellowstone National Park and Yosemite?






17. Where was Thomas Jefferson born?






18. What war was George Washington in the military for?






19. What was the camp david accords?






20. How old do you have to be to be president?






21. who pays for the costs of operating the white house?






22. Name the Founding Fathers plus the son in order...






23. 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 ________.






24. Who presented the Fourteen Points?






25. Who introduced disability benefits?






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






27. How much was the Louisiana Territory when it was purchased?






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






29. After what event was the Fourteen Points presented?






30. Who created the Family Medical Leave Act?






31. What was Lincoln's most famous speech?






32. Where do electors vote?

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33. How many terms is a president alowed to serve?






34. Who was the first President during WWII?






35. Why wasn't Richard Nixon thrown out of office?






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






37. How many kids did John Tyler have?






38. What date did the civil war begin?






39. Who was president for the Cuban Missile Crisis?






40. Who was the fpresident during WWI?






41. James Monroe created the ________ Doctrine






42. What president did the Berlin airlift?






43. How many kids did George Washington have?






44. Who burnt down the White House during a war?






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






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






47. How can a president serve up to ten years?

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48. What to laws did Adams TRY to pass?






49. Franklin Delano Roosevelt got his middle name because his _____'s favorite relative was de la Noye






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