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U.S. Presidents Trivia

Subjects : trivia, history
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. During the Great Depression - ____% were unemployed.






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






3. Who was president for the Iran Hostage crisis?






4. Who supported manifest destiny?






5. How many presidents were killed in office?






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






7. Where did Thomas Jefferson go to college?






8. who pays for the costs of operating the white house?






9. What is the address of the white house?






10. Which presidents were cousins?






11. How many kids did George Washington have?






12. Who supported manifest destiny?






13. What was a talent of John Wilkes Booth?






14. How many presidents were killed in office?






15. What are disability benefits?






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






17. What is the family Medical Leave Act?






18. During the civil war - the south's president was _____________.






19. Who gave the longest inauguration speech?






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






21. Who was Deep Throat?






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






23. What war was George Washington in the military for?






24. Which president made the panama canal?






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






26. Who takes over if the President is disabled or dies?






27. Which president served the most terms?






28. Where was Thomas Jefferson born?






29. What did the monroe doctrine say?

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30. Which president was obnoxious and disliked?






31. How many Vice Presidents have moved up because the president resigned?






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






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






34. Who was president for the Bay of Pigs?






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






36. Who was the first VP?






37. Who was embarrassed when they received the Nobel Peace Prize?






38. Jimmy Carter was the former governor of ____.






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






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






41. Which president was former ambassador to China?






42. How many rooms in the white house?






43. What was the most terms served by a president?






44. which president was former head of CIA?






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






46. What month and day do we vote for the president?






47. Who attempted to assassinate Ronald Reagan?






48. Who was the only catholic president?






49. Who gave the longest inauguration speech?






50. Where was William McKinley killed?