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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 did the Interstate Highway System also do besides provide a road for driving?






2. Which president presented the bill of rights at the first Congress?






3. Who is considered 'the father of our country'?






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






5. Who was the first African American President?






6. which president was former head of CIA?






7. Sedition acts






8. This president swam naked in the Potomac River






9. When was the Emancipation proclamation?






10. What year was the White House burnt down?






11. Which president created Yellowstone National Park and Yosemite?






12. How many former vice presidents have become president?






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






14. William Jefferson Clinton paid Paula Jones $____.






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






16. How did William McKinley die?






17. Which president had a stroke in his bathroom?






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






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






20. Where was William McKinley killed?






21. Where was John Fitzgerald Kennedy assassinated?






22. How did William McKinley die?






23. Who invaded Iraq?






24. What president had the watergate scandal?






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






26. What are disability benefits?






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






28. Who is the current speaker of the House?






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






30. Who was president during the Great depression?






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






32. Which president served the most terms?






33. During the civil war - the south's general was ____________.






34. Who was the only president to get all the electoral votes?






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






36. The ______ was invented when William McKinley was killed - and it could have saved him.






37. Who created the Family Medical Leave Act?






38. Who did fireside chats?






39. Who did fireside chats?






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






41. During the civil war - the ________ wanted slaves and the ________ did not.






42. How much of a retirement income per year does the president make (for life)?






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






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






45. What is the address of the white house?






46. Who was our president during the Vietnam War?






47. Where do electors vote?

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48. What presidents lost the popular vote but won the electoral vote? (in order)






49. Which president was obnoxious and disliked?






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