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U.S. Presidents Trivia

Subjects : trivia, history
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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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. Jimmy Carter was the former governor of ____.






2. What are surviver benefits?






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






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






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






6. Congress passed 2 laws designed to limit __________'s (a president) power .






7. What are disability benefits?






8. What year was the White House burnt down?






9. How many terms is a president alowed to serve?






10. What to laws did Adams TRY to pass?






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






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






13. Who was president for the Iran Hostage crisis?






14. What is the Electoral College?






15. How many years younger was John Tyler's wife than him?






16. Who's son married Nixon's daughter?






17. What war was Abraham Lincoln president during?






18. Who was Franklin Delano Roosevelt married to?






19. Who was sent to a mental institution after Abraham Lincoln's death?






20. What were the territories we gained in the Spanish American War? (ABC order with commas inbetween)






21. Alien Acts






22. Who said 'The buck stops here'?






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






24. Where did the civil war begin?






25. Who said 'The buck stops here'?






26. What is the mandatory retirement plan run by the government?






27. Who was president for the nullification crisis?






28. Who was the oldest elected president (age 73 at 2nd term)?






29. How many pounds was William Howard Taft?






30. How many days was the Iran Hostage crisis?






31. What was the Banking Holiday?






32. Who attempted to assassinate Ronald Reagan?






33. Where does the right to navigate teh seas without interference not apply?






34. Where did the civil war begin?






35. Who had the first death in office?






36. Why did we enter WWII?






37. Which president was the youngest to serve?






38. Why was Andrew Johnson impeached?






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






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






41. Who was the only president to resign?






42. Who was president during the Great depression?






43. What date did the civil war begin?






44. Who was the first VP?






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






46. Who was president for the nullification crisis?






47. Who was a peanut farmer?






48. What war never officially ended but just doesn't fight any more?






49. Gerald Ford pardons _____________ for all crimes committed.






50. Which president got Alzheimers and forgot being president?