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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. Do we vote directly for the president?






2. Who was president for the persian gulf war?






3. Who was our president during the Korean war?






4. How many electoral votes does Florida have?






5. After what event was the Fourteen Points presented?






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






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






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






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






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






11. Why did we invade Iraq?


12. Which president was a great general - a leader - honest - and trustworth?






13. Who had an affair with Monica Lewinsky - a young intern at the White House?






14. What war was Abraham Lincoln president during?






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






16. How many electoral votes does Florida have?






17. Who acts as an advisor to the president?






18. Who won the Nobel peace prize because he told Russia and Japan not to fight - but to love?






19. Why was Andrew Johnson impeached?






20. Why did WWI happen?






21. What was the nullification crisis?


22. What does NATO stand for?






23. Which president recognized Israel and traded with them and gave money and embassadors to them?






24. What was the nullification crisis?


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






26. Where did Thomas Jefferson go to college?






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






28. What is the oldest you can be to get surviver benefits?






29. Who was president for the Bay of Pigs?






30. What war never officially ended but just doesn't fight any more?






31. What president made the emancipation proclamtion?






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






33. What month is the election in?






34. How many former vice presidents have become president?






35. Where does the president live for free?






36. Which president was the youngest to serve?






37. Who was a peanut farmer?






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






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






40. Which presidents were cousins?






41. What college did George Washington go to?






42. Who became president when Richard Nixon resigend because they were his VP?






43. What was the Tenure of Office Act/






44. Who was Deep Throat?






45. Which president recognized Israel and traded with them and gave money and embassadors to them?






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






47. Who passed Universal health care?






48. How many kids did John Tyler have?






49. Where did Abraham Lincoln's assasination take place?


50. Who did fireside chats?