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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. What year was the Louisiana Territory bought?






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






3. The person who killed John Fitzgerald Kennedy is thought to have killed him in a _______ - or not alone.






4. How much of a retirement income per year does the president make (for life)?






5. How many states broke away during the civil war AT FIRST? how many total ending up breaking away?






6. Who introduced surviver benefits?






7. How many Vice Presidents ran again for president and became president?






8. Which presidents were cousins?






9. How did John Wilkes Booth break his leg?






10. Where did Thomas Jefferson go to college?






11. Who balanced the budget?






12. Who won the Civil war for Lincoln and later on became a president?






13. Who had the shortest presidency?






14. Who was embarrassed when they received the Nobel Peace Prize?






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






16. Which president was the youngest to serve?






17. Who had an affair with Monica Lewinsky - a young intern at the White House?






18. How many rooms in the white house?






19. What is the Electoral College?






20. Which president served the most terms?






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






22. Why wasn't Richard Nixon thrown out of office?






23. Who is the current Vice President?






24. What was the Tenure of Office Act/






25. Who had an affair with Monica Lewinsky - a young intern at the White House?






26. Why did WWII begin?






27. Who was president for the nullification crisis?






28. How many states broke away during the civil war AT FIRST? how many total ending up breaking away?






29. Why did WWI happen?






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






31. Who's son married Nixon's daughter?






32. Who won a nobel peace prize because of the camp david accords?






33. Andrew Johnson was _________'s VP






34. Why did we enter WWII?






35. Gerald Ford pardons _____________ for all crimes committed.






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






37. Who was the only president to be president and then supreme court chief justice?






38. In most states - what percent of the state's electoral votes does a candidate get if they win the popular vote?






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






40. Who was the first President during WWII?






41. Who introduced surviver benefits?






42. What president made the emancipation proclamtion?






43. Why did WWI happen?






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






45. What law that Barack Obama passed might be unconstitutional and is being looked at by the supreme court now?






46. What was Lincoln's most famous speech?






47. Why did we enter WWII?






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






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






50. What month is the election in?