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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 got Alzheimers and forgot being president?






2. Who was on the bad side for WWI (abc order)?






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






4. Which president adopted independence - was loyal - smart - and a lawyer?






5. What year was the Louisiana Territory bought?






6. What does 'Sic Semper Tyrranis' mean?






7. How much money does the president earn per year?






8. When Harry S Truman was president during WWII - what two places in japan were bombed (abc order)?






9. How many days was the Iran Hostage crisis?






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






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






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






13. William Jefferson Clinton paid Paula Jones $____.






14. How much money does the president earn per year?






15. Who introduced surviver benefits?






16. What president did the Berlin airlift?






17. What president made the emancipation proclamtion?






18. What was the Tenure of Office Act/






19. What was the Emancipation proclamation meant to do?






20. What were the years of WWI?






21. How was James Garfield killed?






22. How many presidents were killed in office?






23. This president swam naked in the Potomac River






24. Who was the first president not to win the popular vote and to become president?






25. Who had a 12 year affair with Gennifer Flowers?






26. Which presidents were cousins?






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






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






29. Do we vote directly for the president?






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






31. Lyndon Johnson got lots of bills passed involving ______.






32. After Abraham Lincoln was shot - He was carried across the street to ________________ where he dies when?






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






34. What president had the watergate scandal?






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






36. How can a president serve up to ten years?


37. Gerald Ford pardons _____________ for all crimes committed.






38. Who attempted to assassinate Ronald Reagan?






39. What transportation does the president get?






40. Lyndon Johnson got lots of bills passed involving ______.






41. ______ years later - the Tenure of Office act was gotten rid of by the Supreme court because it was ________.






42. What are the people in the electoral college called?






43. Who is the current secretary of state?






44. James Madison's wife was ________ Madison.






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






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






47. What was the Berlin Airlift?






48. Where did the name 'gettysburg' come from?






49. How many electors are in the electoral college?






50. Which presidents were great grandfather and grandson?