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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. Who is the current secretary of state?






2. Who is thought to have assassinated John Fitzgerald Kennedy?






3. Can the amount of money a president earns be increased/decreased during someone's term of office?






4. Who passed Universal health care?






5. Who was sent to a mental institution after Abraham Lincoln's death?






6. Who was the first VP?






7. Who built the Interstate Highway System?






8. Who was the first VP?






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






10. What date did the civil war begin?






11. Who was sent to a mental institution after Abraham Lincoln's death?






12. What was reconstruction?






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






14. How did John Wilkes Booth break his leg?






15. Where did Thomas Jefferson go to college?






16. How many former vice presidents have become president?






17. Grover Cleveland was the ____ and ____ president (numbers)






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






19. What year was the Louisiana Territory bought?






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






21. How many pounds was William Howard Taft?






22. How many electoral votes do you need to win the election?






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






24. Who introduced social security?






25. Who was president for the nullification crisis?






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






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






28. What is the Truman Doctrine?






29. What was the camp david accords?






30. Where was William McKinley killed?






31. Who built the Interstate Highway System?






32. Who was President during the Spanish American War?






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






34. What were fireside chats?






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






36. When was the Emancipation proclamation?






37. Andrew Johnson was _________'s VP






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






39. Which president was former ambassador to China?






40. James Monroe created the ________ Doctrine






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






42. Who was the first African American President?






43. What were the sides for the Korean war and the Vietnam war?






44. Who pays for all personal entertainment and dinners not related to teh government business in the White House?






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






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






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






48. Who is the current Vice President?






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






50. How many electoral votes do you need to win the election?