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






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






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






4. Who was president for the Iran Hostage crisis?






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






6. Which president started the two term tradition?






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






8. This president helped write the federalist papers.






9. What was the Bay of Pigs?






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






11. How many electoral votes does Florida have?






12. Who was president for the nullification crisis?






13. What were John Adams's last words?






14. Who was the first African American President?






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






16. What were fireside chats?






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






18. Which president was a great general - a leader - honest - and trustworth?






19. What were the territories we gained in the Spanish American War? (ABC order with commas inbetween)






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






21. Who acts as an advisor to the president?






22. Who is the current President Pro-Tempore of the Senate?






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






24. What were the sides for the Korean war and the Vietnam war?






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






26. What was reconstruction?






27. How did William McKinley die?






28. Who was Deep Throat?






29. 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 ________.






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






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






32. Which president was author of the Virginia Plan?






33. This president swam naked in the Potomac River






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






35. what president was also president of the constitutional convention?






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






37. Who balanced the budget?






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






39. Who had the shortest presidency?






40. John Adams went to what college?






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






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






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






44. Who was Abraham Lincoln married to?






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






46. Why did WWII begin?






47. When did we enter WWII?






48. Who killed Abraham Lincoln?






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






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