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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 did the monroe doctrine say?


2. Where does the number of electors in the electoral college come from?






3. How many days was the Iran Hostage crisis?






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






5. Where do electors vote?


6. John Adams went to what college?






7. How many presidents were killed in office?






8. Alien Acts






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






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






11. Which presidents were great grandfather and grandson?






12. How many presidents were killed in office?






13. How many days was the Iran Hostage crisis?






14. What is the Electoral College?






15. Which president created Yellowstone National Park and Yosemite?






16. Which president got Alzheimers and forgot being president?






17. Who created the Family Medical Leave Act?






18. What president made the emancipation proclamtion?






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






20. What two states do not use 'winner-takes all' for the electoral college?






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






22. Who had the first death in office?






23. How old do you have to be to be president?






24. What is the mandatory retirement plan run by the government?






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






26. Which president started the two term tradition?






27. Which president got Alzheimers and forgot being president?






28. How many electors are in the electoral college?






29. Who was Abraham Lincoln married to?






30. Why did we enter WWII?






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






32. Who was the first President during WWII?






33. What was the persian gulf war/desert storm?






34. What month is the election in?






35. which president was former head of CIA?






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






37. Who was the first African American President?






38. Who was the first president not to win the popular vote and to become president?






39. What year was the White House burnt down?






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






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






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






43. Who invaded Iraq?






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






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






46. How did John Wilkes Booth break his leg?






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






48. Name the Founding Fathers plus the son in order...






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






50. Why did WWII begin?