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U.S. Presidents Trivia

Subjects : trivia, history
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1. How many states broke away during the civil war AT FIRST? how many total ending up breaking away?






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






3. Who won a Nobel Peace Prize for what they were going to do?






4. Who did we help in the Vietnam war and the korean war?






5. What date did WWII begin?






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






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






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






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






10. Why did we enter WWII?






11. Where did Thomas Jefferson go to college?






12. Who was on the good side for WWI (abc order)?






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






14. which president was former head of CIA?






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






16. what ended a couple of days before Abraham Lincoln's Assasination?






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






18. Who was president for the persian gulf war?






19. What were John Adams's last words?






20. Who created the Family Medical Leave Act?






21. Who is the current speaker of the House?






22. What war was George Washington in the military for?






23. Which president had a stroke in his bathroom?






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






25. Who did we help in the Vietnam war and the korean war?






26. What date did WWII begin?






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






28. What is the command of army act?






29. Who is the current speaker of the House?






30. Who was president for the Cuban Missile Crisis?






31. How tall was Abraham Lincoln?

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32. Which president helped create the Library of Congress when he sells and donates 6000 books?






33. Who was George Washington's wife?






34. Which president was author of the Virginia Plan?






35. Who was the only catholic president?






36. What is the address of the white house?






37. Who were the second presidents to be father and son?






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






39. What was the camp david accords?






40. Which presidents were cousins?






41. John Quicy Adams spent time In what continent?






42. What was the Tenure of Office Act/






43. Where does the president live for free?






44. What are disability benefits?






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






46. Which president created the University of Virgina?






47. Who introduced social security?






48. Who supported manifest destiny?






49. During the civil war - the south named itself _____.






50. In the War of 1812 - ________ (country) kept stealing our ________ (people) and _______ (items) in the middle of the ocean (separate with semicolon).