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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. Alien Acts






2. What was reconstruction?






3. how many years is a score?






4. After Abraham Lincoln was shot - He was carried across the street to ________________ where he dies when?






5. What was Lincoln's most famous speech?






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






7. What month is the election in?






8. Who created the Family Medical Leave Act?






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






10. This president helped write the federalist papers.






11. How many electors are in the electoral college?






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






13. Who was a peanut farmer?






14. Congress passed 2 laws designed to limit __________'s (a president) power .






15. Who was president for the Bay of Pigs?






16. What is the oldest you can be to get surviver benefits?






17. Which president was the youngest to serve?






18. Why did WWII begin?






19. What year was the Louisiana Territory bought?






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






21. Who is the current President Pro-Tempore of the Senate?






22. How many pounds was William Howard Taft?






23. What is universal health care?






24. Why did we invade Iraq?

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25. How many former vice presidents have become president?






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






27. James Madison's wife is famous for...






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






29. ______ years later - the Tenure of Office act was gotten rid of by the Supreme court because it was ________.






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






31. Where does the president live for free?






32. How many rooms in the white house?






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






34. What does 'Sic Semper Tyrranis' mean?






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






36. What to laws did Adams TRY to pass?






37. What is the command of army act?






38. How did William McKinley die?






39. Who's son married Nixon's daughter?






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






41. Who was the first VP?






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






43. Where does the right to navigate teh seas without interference not apply?






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






45. Who were Woodward and Bernstein?

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46. Who built the Interstate Highway System?






47. 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 ________.






48. Which president created Yellowstone National Park and Yosemite?






49. Who balanced the budget?






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