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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 the Emancipation proclamation meant to do?






2. How many electors are in the electoral college?






3. What is the oldest you can be to get surviver benefits?






4. Why did WWII begin?






5. Who was president when the United Nations was formed?






6. Who presented the Fourteen Points?






7. How many rooms in the white house?






8. Which president made the panama canal?






9. James Madison's wife was ________ Madison.






10. Who attempted to assassinate Ronald Reagan?






11. What is the inauguration date?






12. Who was president when the United Nations was formed?






13. Why wasn't Andrew Johnson removed from office when He was impeached?






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






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






16. Which president was obnoxious and disliked?






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






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






19. Which president started the two term tradition?






20. Which president was obnoxious and disliked?






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






22. Who was FDR's VP Who was president for WWII?






23. How many years is a presidential term?






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






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






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






27. Do we vote directly for the president?






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






29. Who was the only president to resign?






30. What is manifest destiny? how many square miles was it?






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






32. What to laws did Adams TRY to pass?






33. Who was Deep Throat?






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






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






36. Where do electors vote?

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






38. How many electoral votes do you need to win the election?






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






40. Who attempted to assassinate Ronald Reagan?






41. What presidents (in order) died of natural causes?






42. What was reconstruction?






43. What date was John Fitzgerald Kennedy killed on?






44. Who was the commander in charge of Europe afor the Allies in WWII?






45. Where was Abraham Lincoln born? What kind of house did he live in?






46. Who did the Banking Holiday?






47. What was the Tenure of Office Act/






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






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






50. Who was president for the nullification crisis?