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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 president created the University of Virgina?






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






3. What does 'Sic Semper Tyrranis' mean?






4. John Adams went to what college?






5. Who was Deep Throat?






6. which president was former head of CIA?






7. What was a popular film of John Fitzgerald Kennedy's assassination?






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






9. What was the Bay of Pigs?






10. Do we vote directly for the president?






11. What state is Camp David in?






12. After what event was the Fourteen Points presented?






13. How many years is a presidential term?






14. What did John Wilkes Booth say after he shot Lincoln?






15. How many presidents were killed in office?






16. How many Vice Presidents have moved up because the president resigned?






17. Which president created Yellowstone National Park and Yosemite?






18. What were John Adams's last words?






19. What was reconstruction?






20. How long do you have to be a citizen for to be president?






21. Who was president during the Great depression?






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






23. What weapon was used to kill Lincoln?






24. Who was the first VP to move up on death of a president?






25. What was the Berlin Airlift?






26. What is Camp David?






27. What is the inauguration date?






28. After what event was the Fourteen Points presented?






29. John Quicy Adams spent time In what continent?






30. James Madison's wife was ________ Madison.






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






32. Who won the Nobel peace prize because he told Russia and Japan not to fight - but to love?






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






34. Where does the president live for free?






35. Which president was a 'rough rider' in the Spanish American War?






36. Who was a peanut farmer?






37. Which president had a stroke in his bathroom?






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






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






40. What was a talent of John Wilkes Booth?






41. Lyndon Johnson got lots of bills passed involving ______.






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






43. Who introduced disability benefits?






44. Who was president for the Bay of Pigs?






45. What college did George Washington go to?






46. Who's son is Camp David named after?






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






48. Who passed Universal health care?






49. How many presidents were killed in office?






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