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






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






3. Why did the person who tried to assassinate Ronald Reagan do it?






4. Who was president for the persian gulf war?






5. Who passed Universal health care?






6. When was the Emancipation proclamation?






7. What date did the civil war begin?






8. After what event was the Fourteen Points presented?






9. Who was the oldest elected president (age 73 at 2nd term)?






10. Who was president for the Bay of Pigs?






11. Which president was author of the Virginia Plan?






12. How many pounds was William Howard Taft?






13. What did the monroe doctrine say?

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14. What war was George Washington in the military for?






15. What was the Banking Holiday?






16. How many rooms in the white house?






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






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






19. Who did the Banking Holiday?






20. What was the Emancipation proclamation meant to do?






21. What state is Camp David in?






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






23. What president did the Berlin airlift?






24. Why did WWI happen?






25. What was the camp david accords?






26. Who was the only president to get all the electoral votes?






27. What college did George Washington go to?






28. Who was a Great General in war of 1812?






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






30. What did the monroe doctrine say?

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31. What is the oldest you can be to get surviver benefits?






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






33. James Madison's wife is famous for...






34. Who were the second presidents to be father and son?






35. Where did Thomas Jefferson go to college?






36. When was the Emancipation proclamation?






37. Who was William McKinley's VP that moved up when He was killed?






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






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






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






41. Who was George Washington's wife?






42. What was the New Deal?






43. What president had the watergate scandal?






44. Which president created the University of Virgina?






45. What were the years of WWI?






46. Who invaded Iraq?






47. Grover Cleveland was the ____ and ____ president (numbers)






48. Who did fireside chats?






49. How long do you have to be a citizen for to be president?






50. Who became president when Richard Nixon resigend because they were his VP?