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U.S. Presidents Trivia

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Which president was a 'rough rider' in the Spanish American War?






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






3. Which president was author of the Virginia Plan?






4. Which president was the 'father of the constitution'?






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






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






7. What is the Truman Doctrine?






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






9. During the civil war - the north's general was ___________.






10. Who was president for the 9/11 attacks?






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

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12. How many years is a presidential term?






13. Who was the first African American President?






14. Who acts as an advisor to the president?






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






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






17. What was the Banking Holiday?






18. What did the monroe doctrine say?

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19. Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant knew eachother because _________.






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






21. Who is the current speaker of the House?






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






23. Where was John Fitzgerald Kennedy assassinated?






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






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






26. What college did George Washington go to?






27. How many years do you have to live in the U.S. for to be president?






28. Who was President during the Spanish American War?






29. What was a talent of John Wilkes Booth?






30. Who was Franklin Delano Roosevelt married to?






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






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






33. Which president created the University of Virgina?






34. Who was the first president not to win the popular vote and to become president?






35. During the civil war - the south named itself _____.






36. Who is thought to have assassinated John Fitzgerald Kennedy?






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






38. Who presented the Fourteen Points?






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






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






41. What state is Camp David in?






42. Why was Andrew Johnson impeached?






43. Where was William McKinley killed?






44. Who balanced the budget?






45. What was reconstruction?






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






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






48. James Monroe created the ________ Doctrine






49. How did William McKinley die?






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







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