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U.S. Presidents Trivia

Subjects : trivia, history
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. How many terms is a president alowed to serve?






2. What presidents lost the popular vote but won the electoral vote? (in order)






3. Who went to the Supreme court and tried to increase it to fifteen judges - but was told no?






4. Who had the first death in office?






5. Who was the youngest elected president?






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






7. Name the two presidents (ABC order by last name - write first and last name) who died on the same day - and the date they died (separate with semi colon)






8. What happens to John Wilkes Booth?






9. What is the family Medical Leave Act?






10. Who was the only catholic president?






11. John Quicy Adams spent time In what continent?






12. What does NATO stand for?






13. What date did the civil war begin?






14. Where did the name 'gettysburg' come from?






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






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






17. What date was John Fitzgerald Kennedy killed on?






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






19. Why did we enter WWII?






20. Andrew Johnson had a (good/bad) relation ship with congress over reconstruction






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






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






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






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






25. What is the command of army act?






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






27. Which president got Alzheimers and forgot being president?






28. Who was Deep Throat?






29. Why was Andrew Johnson impeached?






30. When Harry S Truman was president during WWII - what two places in japan were bombed (abc order)?






31. how many years is a score?






32. Who was George Washington's wife?






33. Do we vote directly for the president?






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






35. What state is Camp David in?






36. How many presidents were killed in office?






37. How many kids did George Washington have?






38. How many days was the Iran Hostage crisis?






39. Andrew Johnson was _________'s VP






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






41. How can a president serve up to ten years?

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42. How many rooms in the white house?






43. What president did the Berlin airlift?






44. Who said 'A date that will live in infamy'? What were they talking about (separate with semicolon)?






45. Who won the Civil war for Lincoln and later on became a president?






46. Which president was a lawyer - very smart - an architect - a musician - and an inventor?






47. Who was the commander in charge of Europe afor the Allies in WWII?






48. Name the two presidents (ABC order by last name - write first and last name) who died on the same day - and the date they died (separate with semi colon)






49. What was the Berlin Airlift?






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