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U.S. Presidents Trivia

Subjects : trivia, history
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Which president was a lawyer - very smart - an architect - a musician - and an inventor?






2. Who was a peanut farmer?






3. How many pounds was William Howard Taft?






4. John Adams had a successful marriage with ______ (first name).






5. What were John Adams's last words?






6. What was a popular film of John Fitzgerald Kennedy's assassination?






7. How many kids did John Tyler have?






8. Who built the Interstate Highway System?






9. What is NATO (not what it stands for - what it is)?






10. Can the amount of money a president earns be increased/decreased during someone's term of office?






11. When was the Emancipation proclamation?






12. William Jefferson Clinton paid Paula Jones $____.






13. What were fireside chats?






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






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






16. Who were the first presidents to be father and son?






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






18. How many rooms in the white house?






19. Who presented the Fourteen Points?






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






21. Who is considered 'the father of our country'?






22. What was the Bay of Pigs?






23. Who was Franklin Delano Roosevelt married to?






24. What is Camp David?






25. Who was president when the United Nations was formed?






26. Who said 'The only thing we have to fear is fear itself' at their 1st inaugural?






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






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






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






30. Who said 'A date that will live in infamy'? What were they talking about (separate with semicolon)?






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






32. Where did Abraham Lincoln's assasination take place?

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33. Where was William McKinley killed?






34. This president helped write the federalist papers.






35. James Madison's wife was ________ Madison.






36. Who balanced the budget?






37. Who said 'The buck stops here'?






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






39. Where was Thomas Jefferson born?






40. What was reconstruction?






41. Who is the current speaker of the House?






42. What president did the Berlin airlift?






43. This president helped write the federalist papers.






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






45. What state is Camp David in?






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






47. Grover Cleveland was the ____ and ____ president (numbers)






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






49. Who was the first VP to move up on death of a president?






50. How many kids did George Washington have?