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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. What president did the Berlin airlift?






2. What was the Emancipation proclamation meant to do?






3. Who was Deep Throat?






4. Who killed Abraham Lincoln?






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






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






7. Who was the first President during WWII?






8. When did we get involved and stop being involved with WWI? (month and year)






9. What month is the election in?






10. How did William McKinley die?






11. Who was the youngest elected president?






12. Which president was the youngest to serve?






13. What was reconstruction?






14. Where do electors vote?

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15. What year was the Louisiana Territory bought?






16. What is the family Medical Leave Act?






17. Who was the first president not to win the popular vote and to become president?






18. Who killed Abraham Lincoln?






19. How many kids did George Washington have?






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






21. What war was Abraham Lincoln president during?






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






23. Who was President during the Spanish American War?






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






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






26. How many electoral votes does Florida have?






27. Sedition acts






28. Which president helped create the Library of Congress when he sells and donates 6000 books?






29. Which president got Alzheimers and forgot being president?






30. What month is the election in?






31. How many kids did John Tyler have?






32. Who had the first death in office?






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

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34. Who was Franklin Delano Roosevelt married to?






35. Why did WWII begin?






36. What is manifest destiny? how many square miles was it?






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






38. What did the monroe doctrine say?

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






40. Who gave the longest inauguration speech?






41. How did John Wilkes Booth break his leg?






42. Who was on the bad side for WWI (abc order)?






43. In the War of 1812 - ________ (country) kept stealing our ________ (people) and _______ (items) in the middle of the ocean (separate with semicolon).






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






45. What is FDIC (explaIn what it means - not what it stands for)?






46. How was James Garfield killed?






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






48. Who was the first President during WWII?






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






50. How many electors are in the electoral college?