SUBJECTS
|
BROWSE
|
CAREER CENTER
|
POPULAR
|
JOIN
|
LOGIN
Business Skills
|
Soft Skills
|
Basic Literacy
|
Certifications
About
|
Help
|
Privacy
|
Terms
|
Email
Search
Test your basic knowledge |
U.S. Presidents Trivia
Start Test
Study First
Subjects
:
trivia
,
history
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
If you are not ready to take this test, you can
study here
.
Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
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 was the only president to be president and then supreme court chief justice?
Georgia
538
George Washington
William Howard Taft
2. How many electors are in the electoral college?
538
22 - 24
William and Mary College
The federal government guarentees your money at a bank
3. The person who killed John Fitzgerald Kennedy is thought to have killed him in a _______ - or not alone.
Conspiracy
Daniel Inouye
Civil War
The president could not fire and federal official who had gotten their job with Senate approval
4. Who passed Universal health care?
November
George Washington
Barack Obama
George H.W. Bush and George Bush
5. What president made the emancipation proclamtion?
His 5th cousin
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Abraham Lincoln
Saving a picture of Washington during the war
6. Which president was a great general - a leader - honest - and trustworth?
A person who knew the truth about Richard Nixon and told Woodward and Bernstein
South; north
The federal government guarentees your money at a bank
George Washington
7. Who was William McKinley's VP that moved up when He was killed?
Harry S Truman
Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Pearl Harbor bombing
Teddy Roosevelt
X-ray
8. Abraham Lincoln was ______ educated
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Hillary Clinton
Self
9. Who's son is Camp David named after?
George Washington
Dwight David Eisenhower
Ulysses S. Grant
John Adams
10. Where was George Washington born?
Zapruder film
Dwight David Eisenhower
Mount Vernon - Virginia
14
11. What is NATO (not what it stands for - what it is)?
A support group of countries
No
Dwight David Eisenhower
Woodrow Wilson
12. How many presidents died in office?
Hillary Clinton
A support group of countries
8
William Henry Harrison
13. James Madison's wife is famous for...
25
A 2nd home for the president
Saving a picture of Washington during the war
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
14. What was the nullification crisis?
Warning
: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in
/var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php
on line
183
15. Which president created Yellowstone National Park and Yosemite?
James Madison
Teddy Roosevelt
William Jefferson Clinton
East of Africa
16. What was the point of the Gettysburg Address (two things)?
William Howard Taft
Honor people who died - make sure the country survies
A gun
$150000
17. What does NATO stand for?
He resigned before the impeachment trial
22 - 24
Mom
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
18. What president had the watergate scandal?
The Vice President
Richard Nixon
John Adams
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
19. What was Lincoln's most famous speech?
Jefferson still survives
The Gettysburg Address
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
20. How many rooms in the white house?
$400000
He gets shot
132
The idea to own all the land from the pacific to the atlantic ocean; 1.2 million
21. Who was president for the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Guam - Midway Islands - Philippines - and Puerto Rico
South; north
27
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
22. Who were the first presidents to be father and son?
The House of Representatives selects the President and the Senate selects the Vice President
Conspiracy
John Adams and John Quincy Adams
George Washington
23. Who attends diplomatic functions in place of the president?
Conspiracy
The Vice President
The number of people in Congress plus 3 for DC
George Washington - John Adams - Thomas Jefferson - James Madison - James Monroe - and John Quincy Adams
24. which president was former head of CIA?
His wife
Yes
George H. W. Bush
15 million
25. Grover Cleveland was the ____ and ____ president (numbers)
Teddy Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt
John Adams
George Washington - John Adams - Thomas Jefferson - James Madison - James Monroe - and John Quincy Adams
22 - 24
26. Which president served the most terms?
Andrew Jackson
The idea to own all the land from the pacific to the atlantic ocean; 1.2 million
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Barack Obama
27. What was the nullification crisis?
Warning
: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in
/var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php
on line
183
28. Who was the youngest elected president?
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Teddy Roosevelt
William Jefferson Clinton
USA
29. Who was the first African American President?
The Vice President
Barack Obama
Speeches given for hope
Thomas Jefferson
30. What was the league of nations?
Club with all countries where problems were discussed peacefully
South; north
He fired the Secretary of War Staton
The federal government guarentees your money at a bank
31. Which president was author of the Virginia Plan?
James Madison
Medical insurance for all americans
Thus always to tyrants
William Jefferson Clinton
32. What is the inauguration date?
January 20th
A group of representatives chosen by the voters to elect the President
Bad
Hillary Clinton
33. Who had an affair with Monica Lewinsky - a young intern at the White House?
William Jefferson Clinton
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
They were classmates in college
No
34. How much money does the president earn per year?
The Gettysburg Address
$400000
The White House
April 12th - 1861
35. Who had the first death in office?
When peace was made between Israel and Egypt at Camp David
William Henry Harrison
Richard Nixon
Polio
36. What date was John Fitzgerald Kennedy killed on?
Honor people who died - make sure the country survies
14
November 22nd - 1963
Mary Todd-Lincoln
37. Manifest Destiny was to have all the land from __________ to ___________ (east to west)
November 22nd - 1963
New Mexico to California
The number of people in Congress plus 3 for DC
Harry S Truman
38. What is the command of army act?
5
Forced the president to issue all military orders through general of the army who could not be removed without senate approval
The fourteen points
William Henry Harrison
39. Jimmy Carter was the former governor of ____.
Georgia
7; 11
Teddy Roosevelt
Jimmy Carter
40. Who became president when Richard Nixon resigend because they were his VP?
The south
The number of people in Congress plus 3 for DC
Period after the Civil War and how we reunited
Gerald Ford
41. What war did George Washington lead the army for?
December 7th - 1941
Revolutionary War
Andrew Johnson
Acting
42. Who had the shortest presidency?
William Henry Harrison - Zachary Taylor - Warren Harding - and Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Mary Todd-Lincoln
30
William Henry Harrison
43. What was the point of the Gettysburg Address (two things)?
22 - 24
7; 11
Honor people who died - make sure the country survies
Dwight David Eisenhower
44. Which president was the 'father of the constitution'?
The three day battle in July in Gettysburg about slaves
The south
$150000
James Madison
45. What did John Wilkes Booth say after he shot Lincoln?
The first Tuesday of Novermber that follows a monday in November
Zapruder film
Sic Semper Tyrannis - the south is avenged
Woodrow Wilson
46. Who was Deep Throat?
The Korean War
A person who knew the truth about Richard Nixon and told Woodward and Bernstein
James Madison
Jimmy Carter
47. Who became president when Richard Nixon resigend because they were his VP?
None
Gerald Ford
Richard Nixon
Harry S Truman
48. What is the mandatory retirement plan run by the government?
George W. Bush
USA
John Adams
Social Security
49. What president did the Berlin airlift?
Cuba wanted to overthrow Castrow and our military helped train them
Harry S Truman
The president could not fire and federal official who had gotten their job with Senate approval
William and Mary College
50. When was the Emancipation proclamation?
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
George W. Bush
35 said He was guilty - but he needed 36
January 1st - 1863