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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. Andrew Johnson was _________'s VP






2. How many terms is a president alowed to serve?






3. Who acts as an advisor to the president?






4. Why did WWI happen?






5. Who was our president during the Vietnam War?






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






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






8. Where was Abraham Lincoln born? What kind of house did he live in?






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






10. Who was the only catholic president?






11. Which president was author of the Virginia Plan?






12. Franklin Delano Roosevelt's wife was related to him how?






13. Which president recognized Israel and traded with them and gave money and embassadors to them?






14. Which president created the University of Virgina?






15. What did the Interstate Highway System also do besides provide a road for driving?






16. What to laws did Adams TRY to pass?






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






18. How many kids did John Tyler have?






19. Who introduced social security?






20. Who was president for the Bay of Pigs?






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






22. What was the league of nations?






23. Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant knew eachother because _________.






24. How many kids did George Washington have?






25. Who had the first death in office?






26. How tall was Abraham Lincoln?


27. Where was Thomas Jefferson born?






28. What was the name of the airplane that bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki






29. What month and year was the Gettysburg Address said?






30. Who invaded Iraq?






31. What are disability benefits?






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






33. Who was a peanut farmer?






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






35. What are disability benefits?






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






37. 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 ________.






38. What presidents lost the popular vote but won the electoral vote? (in order)






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


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






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






42. Who attempted to assassinate Ronald Reagan?






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






44. Franklin Delano Roosevelt got his middle name because his _____'s favorite relative was de la Noye






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






46. Who was FDR's VP Who was president for WWII?






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






48. Woodrow Wilson's ideas on not to have a war - the league of nations - and the freedom to navigate the seas without interference are known as ________.






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






50. What did the Interstate Highway System also do besides provide a road for driving?