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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 civil war - the north's general was ___________.






2. What did the Interstate Highway System also do besides provide a road for driving?






3. Who was our president during the Vietnam War?






4. How much of a retirement income per year does the president make (for life)?






5. Who was William McKinley's VP that moved up when He was killed?






6. What is the command of army act?






7. Who was a peanut farmer?






8. Franklin Delano Roosevelt died a short time into his ____ term.






9. Who had the shortest presidency?






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






11. Who attempted to assassinate Ronald Reagan?






12. How many years do you have to live in the U.S. for to be president?






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






14. James Madison's wife was ________ Madison.






15. What were fireside chats?






16. What were the years of WWI?






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






18. what ended a couple of days before Abraham Lincoln's Assasination?






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






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






21. What is the inauguration date?






22. William Jefferson Clinton paid Paula Jones $____.






23. How many states broke away during the civil war AT FIRST? how many total ending up breaking away?






24. What month is the election in?






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






26. What state was John Adams from?






27. What month is the election in?






28. Franklin Delano Roosevelt's wife was related to him how?






29. How tall was Abraham Lincoln?

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30. What was the Berlin Airlift?






31. Lyndon Johnson got lots of bills passed involving ______.






32. Who did fireside chats?






33. What to laws did Adams TRY to pass?






34. How many pounds was William Howard Taft?






35. Where do electors vote?

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36. Where does the president live for free?






37. Where was George Washington born?






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






39. What state is Camp David in?






40. Who was president for the nullification crisis?






41. What was a talent of John Wilkes Booth?






42. Who had many affairs during their presidency but claimed not to?






43. How many years is a presidential term?






44. Which president was a 'rough rider' in the Spanish American War?






45. Woodrow Wilson's ideas on not to have a war - the league of nations - and the freedom to navigate the seas without interference are known as ________.






46. What happens to John Wilkes Booth?






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






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






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






50. Who had the shortest presidency?