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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 helped create the Library of Congress when he sells and donates 6000 books?






2. How many electoral votes does Florida have?






3. Why did the person who tried to assassinate Ronald Reagan do it?






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






5. Which president had a stroke in his bathroom?






6. Why was Andrew Johnson impeached?






7. How can a president serve up to ten years?

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






9. Who was the first President during WWII?






10. Who was the youngest elected president?






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






12. What is manifest destiny? how many square miles was it?






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






14. What date did the civil war begin?






15. Who said 'A date that will live in infamy'? What were they talking about (separate with semicolon)?






16. Who were Woodward and Bernstein?

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17. How many presidents were killed in office?






18. Who was a peanut farmer?






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






20. Which president was obnoxious and disliked?






21. How many presidents died in office?






22. How many presidents died of natural causes in office?






23. Abraham Lincoln was ______ educated






24. What was the Banking Holiday?






25. What was the Bay of Pigs?






26. After Abraham Lincoln was shot - He was carried across the street to ________________ where he dies when?






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






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






29. What president made the emancipation proclamtion?






30. How much was the Louisiana Territory when it was purchased?






31. Andrew Johnson was _________'s VP






32. How many years do you have to live in the U.S. for to be president?






33. When did we get involved and stop being involved with WWI? (month and year)






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






35. Which president started the two term tradition?






36. What date did the civil war begin?






37. Who had many affairs during their presidency but claimed not to?






38. Who was Abraham Lincoln married to?






39. During the civil war - the south's president was _____________.






40. What were the sides for the Korean war and the Vietnam war?






41. Why wasn't Andrew Johnson removed from office when He was impeached?






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






43. Who was president for the persian gulf war?






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






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






46. What was Lincoln's most famous speech?






47. Who was the only man to be president Who was not elected to either vp spot or the presidency?






48. Where was William McKinley killed?






49. 'Speak softley and carry a big stick' was a quote of who?






50. What year was the Louisiana Territory bought?