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U.S. Presidents Trivia

Subjects : trivia, history
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What was William Jefferson Clinton impeached for?






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






3. Why did we enter WWII?






4. What is the Electoral College?






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






6. Which presidents were great grandfather and grandson?






7. Where did Thomas Jefferson go to college?






8. What to laws did Adams TRY to pass?






9. Who won a Nobel Peace Prize for what they were going to do?






10. Who gave the longest inauguration speech?






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






12. Who was the fpresident during WWI?






13. The committee of the watergate scandal illegally entered the __________ (building) and spied on Nixon's opponent Who was in the _______ complex.






14. What was Lincoln's most famous speech?






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






16. How many former vice presidents have become president?






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






18. Why did we invade Iraq?

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19. During the Great Depression - ____% were unemployed.






20. What year was the Louisiana Territory bought?






21. Who created the Family Medical Leave Act?






22. Which president had a stroke in his bathroom?






23. Who was Franklin Delano Roosevelt married to?






24. Why wasn't Richard Nixon thrown out of office?






25. Which president created the University of Virgina?






26. Where did the civil war begin?






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






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






29. Name the Founding Fathers plus the son in order...






30. Which president served the most terms?






31. Who built the Interstate Highway System?






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






33. Who gave the longest inauguration speech?






34. What were fireside chats?






35. How much was the Louisiana Territory when it was purchased?






36. Who supported manifest destiny?






37. how many years is a score?






38. What date did WWII begin?






39. What was the Banking Holiday?






40. What is the mandatory retirement plan run by the government?






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

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42. What was reconstruction?






43. During the civil war - the south's general was ____________.






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






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






46. Sewards Folly was when ________ (secretary of state) bought land for $______ - which was thought to be as a joke then - but now that land is known as ________.






47. Which president was obnoxious and disliked?






48. How many presidents were killed in office?






49. How many days was the Iran Hostage crisis?






50. Who was our president when we kille Osama bin Laden?