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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. What is the command of army act?






2. What president had the watergate scandal?






3. How many presidents died of natural causes in office?






4. Where was William McKinley killed?






5. What war did George Washington lead the army for?






6. What state was John Adams from?






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






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






9. What president made the emancipation proclamtion?






10. what president was also president of the constitutional convention?






11. Who did we help in the Vietnam war and the korean war?






12. When did we enter WWII?






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






14. How many states broke away during the civil war AT FIRST? how many total ending up breaking away?






15. Who was president for the persian gulf war?






16. Who was president for the Iran Hostage crisis?






17. Andrew Johnson was _________'s VP






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






19. Who was the first President during WWII?






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






21. Which president served the most terms?






22. 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 ________.






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






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






25. Which president started the two term tradition?






26. How long do you have to be a citizen for to be president?






27. Which president had a stroke in his bathroom?






28. Who was George Washington's wife?






29. What president had the watergate scandal?






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






31. Who passed Universal health care?






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






33. When was the Emancipation proclamation?






34. Where was John Fitzgerald Kennedy assassinated?






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






36. What does 'Sic Semper Tyrranis' mean?






37. What was the New Deal?






38. What two states do not use 'winner-takes all' for the electoral college?






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






40. Who was Abraham Lincoln married to?






41. What president did the Berlin airlift?






42. What did John Wilkes Booth say after he shot Lincoln?






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






44. How many pounds was William Howard Taft?






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






46. Who attends diplomatic functions in place of the president?






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






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






49. Who was the only catholic president?






50. Jimmy Carter was the former governor of ____.