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






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






3. Which president created the University of Virgina?






4. Who was Deep Throat?






5. How much money does the president earn per year?






6. Where was Thomas Jefferson born?






7. What was the name of the airplane that bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki






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






9. What was the Bay of Pigs?






10. Who said 'The only thing we have to fear is fear itself' at their 1st inaugural?






11. Andrew Johnson was _________'s VP






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






13. What war was Abraham Lincoln president during?






14. Who was the only president to resign?






15. How many Vice Presidents ran again for president and became president?






16. Woodrow Wilson's ideas on not to have a war - the league of nations - and the freedom to navigate the seas without interference are known as ________.






17. How many presidents were killed in office?






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






19. How many Vice Presidents ran again for president and became president?






20. Who was a peanut farmer?






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






22. What are the people in the electoral college called?






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






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






25. Who did the Banking Holiday?






26. What was Lincoln's most famous speech?






27. James Monroe created the ________ Doctrine






28. What was the New Deal?






29. Which president was former ambassador to China?






30. Who was a peanut farmer?






31. What is Camp David?






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






33. Who was Franklin Delano Roosevelt married to?






34. What was the Banking Holiday?






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






36. What was the Berlin Airlift?






37. What is FDIC (explaIn what it means - not what it stands for)?






38. What are surviver benefits?






39. Which president made the panama canal?






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






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






42. How many days was the Iran Hostage crisis?






43. Where did Thomas Jefferson go to college?






44. How many presidents died in office?






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






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






47. Where did the civil war begin?






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






49. Who gave the longest inauguration speech?






50. When was the Emancipation proclamation?