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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. Which presidents were cousins?






2. Who presented the Fourteen Points?






3. Alien Acts






4. Who said 'The buck stops here'?






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






6. How did John Wilkes Booth break his leg?






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






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






9. Who was a Great General in war of 1812?






10. During the Great Depression - ____% were unemployed.






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






12. What month and year was the Gettysburg Address said?






13. Who pays for all personal entertainment and dinners not related to teh government business in the White House?






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






15. There was a _________ - or a group of people - who helped John Wilkes Booth kill Lincoln and also planned to kill the VP and Secretary.






16. James Madison's wife was ________ Madison.






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






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






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






20. Who said 'The buck stops here'?






21. What is the command of army act?






22. Woodrow Wilson's ideas on not to have a war - the league of nations - and the freedom to navigate the seas without interference are known as ________.






23. Which president created the University of Virgina?






24. Who acts as an advisor to the president?






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






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






27. Who attempted to assassinate Ronald Reagan?






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






29. Who was Franklin Delano Roosevelt married to?






30. Who was the youngest elected president?






31. When was the Emancipation proclamation?






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






33. Who had the first death in office?






34. Who is the current secretary of state?






35. What weapon was used to kill Lincoln?






36. Which presient send Lewis and Clark on their journey?






37. Jimmy Carter was the former governor of ____.






38. Sedition acts






39. Paula Jones sued William Jefferson Clinton for _______.






40. How many years is a presidential term?






41. which president was former head of CIA?






42. Who were Woodward and Bernstein?


43. How many Vice Presidents have moved up because the president died?






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






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






46. William Jefferson Clinton paid Paula Jones $____.






47. Who ran the country when Woodrow Wilson couldn't?






48. What happens to John Wilkes Booth?






49. What was Lincoln's most famous speech?






50. What month and day do we vote for the president?