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U.S. Presidents Trivia

Subjects : trivia, history
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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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. 'Speak softley and carry a big stick' was a quote of who?






2. Which president got Alzheimers and forgot being president?






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






4. What college did George Washington go to?






5. How many electoral votes does Florida have?






6. What does 'Sic Semper Tyrranis' mean?






7. Which president was obnoxious and disliked?






8. How many presidents died of natural causes in office?






9. How many electoral votes does Florida have?






10. What was reconstruction?






11. What presidents (in order) died of natural causes?






12. What was the point of the Gettysburg Address (two things)?






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






14. Who is the current secretary of state?






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






16. Who was president for the Cuban Missile Crisis?






17. Where did the civil war begin?






18. Where did Thomas Jefferson go to college?






19. What president had the watergate scandal?






20. What was the Emancipation proclamation meant to do?






21. Why didn't the Emancipation proclamation work?






22. Who introduced social security?






23. What president did the Berlin airlift?






24. Which president started the two term tradition?






25. What did the monroe doctrine say?


26. Who was president for the nullification crisis?






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






28. What was the league of nations?






29. Where does the number of electors in the electoral college come from?






30. What were John Adams's last words?






31. Where was William McKinley killed?






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






33. Gerald Ford pardons _____________ for all crimes committed.






34. Which president was former ambassador to China?






35. Who was George Washington's wife?






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






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






38. Who did we help in the Vietnam war and the korean war?






39. Who was the only catholic president?






40. Who balanced the budget?






41. Who was Abraham Lincoln married to?






42. How many former vice presidents have become president?






43. What war was Abraham Lincoln president during?






44. what disease did Franklin Delano Roosevelt have?






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






46. Who was president for the Bay of Pigs?






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






48. Who supported manifest destiny?






49. What is the family Medical Leave Act?






50. What president made the emancipation proclamtion?






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