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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 was the most terms served by a president?






2. How many electors are in the electoral college?






3. Who was Deep Throat?






4. Where was George Washington born?






5. Abraham Lincoln was ______ educated






6. Who attends diplomatic functions in place of the president?






7. How many Vice Presidents ran again for president and became president?






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






9. What war did George Washington lead the army for?






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






11. How did William McKinley die?






12. 'Speak softley and carry a big stick' was a quote of who?






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






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






15. What is the inauguration date?






16. Manifest Destiny was to have all the land from __________ to ___________ (east to west)






17. How many years is a presidential term?






18. What is Camp David?






19. Who was president for the persian gulf war?






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






21. Where did Thomas Jefferson go to college?






22. What law that Barack Obama passed might be unconstitutional and is being looked at by the supreme court now?






23. Which president was the youngest to serve?






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






25. John Adams went to what college?






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






27. Who passed Universal health care?






28. What is the address of the white house?






29. This president swam naked in the Potomac River






30. What date did the civil war begin?






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






32. Who was a peanut farmer?






33. How tall was Abraham Lincoln?

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34. What war was Abraham Lincoln president during?






35. What was the persian gulf war/desert storm?






36. Who burnt down the White House during a war?






37. Which president had a stroke in his bathroom?






38. What month is the election in?






39. Who killed Abraham Lincoln?






40. This president helped write the federalist papers.






41. what disease did Franklin Delano Roosevelt have?






42. Who passed Universal health care?






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






44. What month and year was the Gettysburg Address said?






45. What are disability benefits?






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






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






48. 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 ________.






49. What president had the watergate scandal?






50. Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant knew eachother because _________.