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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 weapon was used to kill Lincoln?






2. Which presient send Lewis and Clark on their journey?






3. Who is the current speaker of the House?






4. Who was the first President during WWII?






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






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






7. What month is the election in?






8. During the civil war - the ________ wanted slaves and the ________ did not.






9. How many presidents died in office?






10. What date was John Fitzgerald Kennedy killed on?






11. What to laws did Adams TRY to pass?






12. Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant knew eachother because _________.






13. Who introduced surviver benefits?






14. What was the league of nations?






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






16. What president did the Berlin airlift?






17. Which president was the 'father of the constitution'?






18. What did the monroe doctrine say?


19. Who is the current secretary of state?






20. How many former vice presidents have become president?






21. Who killed Abraham Lincoln?






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






23. Who was president for the Iran Hostage crisis?






24. Where was Abraham Lincoln born? What kind of house did he live in?






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






26. Where was Abraham Lincoln born? What kind of house did he live in?






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






28. Why wasn't Andrew Johnson removed from office when He was impeached?






29. What year was the Louisiana Territory bought?






30. What was the Emancipation proclamation meant to do?






31. Which president got Alzheimers and forgot being president?






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






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






34. How tall was Abraham Lincoln?


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






36. Who was Franklin Delano Roosevelt married to?






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






38. What was the Banking Holiday?






39. Who was a Great General in war of 1812?






40. what disease did Franklin Delano Roosevelt have?






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






42. How many terms is a president alowed to serve?






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






44. Who was the only man to be president Who was not elected to either vp spot or the presidency?






45. After what event was the Fourteen Points presented?






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






47. What is the Truman Doctrine?






48. Who was president for the Bay of Pigs?






49. Where did the civil war begin?






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