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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. Which president started the two term tradition?






2. Which president was the youngest to serve?






3. The president get ____ care and _____ care for free.






4. How many days was the Iran Hostage crisis?






5. What to laws did Adams TRY to pass?






6. Who was the only catholic president?






7. Who was the first African American President?






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






9. Why was Andrew Johnson impeached?






10. Who moved up when John Fitzgerald Kennedy died because He was his VP?






11. Why did the league of nations fail (what country wouldn't join)?






12. How many electoral votes does Florida have?






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






14. How many Vice Presidents have moved up because the president died?






15. What was the nullification crisis?


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






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






18. Which president was obnoxious and disliked?






19. What happens to John Wilkes Booth?






20. There was a _________ - or a group of people - who helped John Wilkes Booth kill Lincoln and also planned to kill the VP and Secretary.






21. Which presidents were cousins?






22. How old do you have to be to be president?






23. How many electors are in the electoral college?






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






25. Who was the first President during WWII?






26. Who was president for the persian gulf war?






27. What two states do not use 'winner-takes all' for the electoral college?






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






29. What was the nullification crisis?


30. This president swam naked in the Potomac River






31. What does 'Sic Semper Tyrranis' mean?






32. What year was the Louisiana Territory bought?






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






34. Which president created Yellowstone National Park and Yosemite?






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






36. Andrew Johnson had a (good/bad) relation ship with congress over reconstruction






37. Who's son is Camp David named after?






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






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






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






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






42. What were fireside chats?






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






44. Sedition acts






45. What is universal health care?






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






47. Why did WWII begin?






48. What state was John Adams from?






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






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