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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. What are the people in the electoral college called?






2. What were the years of WWI?






3. Who was the only president to resign?






4. What did the Interstate Highway System also do besides provide a road for driving?






5. What was the point of the Gettysburg Address (two things)?






6. Jimmy Carter was the former governor of ____.






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






8. Who was FDR's VP Who was president for WWII?






9. Who was president for the persian gulf war?






10. What war did George Washington lead the army for?






11. What date did WWII begin?






12. What was the Tenure of Office Act/






13. How many rooms in the white house?






14. Who was President during the Spanish American War?






15. Which president was author of the Virginia Plan?






16. Where do electors vote?


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






18. Who was president when the United Nations was formed?






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






20. What was reconstruction?






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






22. Who had the shortest presidency?






23. Who acts as an advisor to the president?






24. Who was the fpresident during WWI?






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






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






27. John Adams had a successful marriage with ______ (first name).






28. What is the family Medical Leave Act?






29. Who were Woodward and Bernstein?


30. Who was George Washington's wife?






31. Which president adopted independence - was loyal - smart - and a lawyer?






32. John Quicy Adams spent time In what continent?






33. Who supported manifest destiny?






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






41. How many kids did John Tyler have?






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






43. Who presented the Fourteen Points?






44. Who was the only president to be president and then supreme court chief justice?






45. John Adams had a successful marriage with ______ (first name).






46. What college did George Washington go to?






47. What is the command of army act?






48. Franklin Delano Roosevelt's wife was related to him how?






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






50. Which president served the most terms?