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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. Who is the current Vice President?






2. Who was the first President during WWII?






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






4. Where was George Washington born?






5. What is the inauguration date?






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






7. Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant knew eachother because _________.






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






9. Who acts as an advisor to the president?






10. What is the address of the white house?






11. Who had a 12 year affair with Gennifer Flowers?






12. Which president was the youngest to serve?






13. Jimmy Carter was the former governor of ____.






14. Who introduced disability benefits?






15. Who said 'The buck stops here'?






16. Gerald Ford pardons _____________ for all crimes committed.






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






18. Who invaded Iraq?






19. What was the nullification crisis?


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






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






22. What was reconstruction?






23. What does 'Sic Semper Tyrranis' mean?






24. Alien Acts






25. Who is the current President Pro-Tempore of the Senate?






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






27. How tall was Abraham Lincoln?


28. Who was Franklin Delano Roosevelt married to?






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






30. What were John Adams's last words?






31. Who moved up when John Fitzgerald Kennedy died because He was his VP?






32. When was the Emancipation proclamation?






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






34. James Monroe created the ________ Doctrine






35. The person who killed John Fitzgerald Kennedy is thought to have killed him in a _______ - or not alone.






36. Which president was former ambassador to China?






37. What were the years of WWI?






38. How many years is a presidential term?






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






40. What happens if no candidate gets the majorit y of electoral votes?






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






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






43. Do we vote directly for the president?






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






45. Why did we enter WWII?






46. Why did we enter WWII?






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






48. Did we win the Spanish American War?






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






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