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






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






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






4. How many former vice presidents have become president?






5. What state is Camp David in?






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






7. What were fireside chats?






8. Who went to the Supreme court and tried to increase it to fifteen judges - but was told no?






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






10. Who takes over if the President is disabled or dies?






11. What was the Bay of Pigs?






12. Who was on the good side for WWI (abc order)?






13. Why did we enter WWII?






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






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






16. Do we vote directly for the president?






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






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






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






20. Which president was former ambassador to China?






21. What war never officially ended but just doesn't fight any more?






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






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






24. Who introduced disability benefits?






25. Who was our president during the Korean war?






26. Who killed Abraham Lincoln?






27. Paula Jones sued William Jefferson Clinton for _______.






28. When was the Emancipation proclamation?






29. Who was Deep Throat?






30. Where does the right to navigate teh seas without interference not apply?






31. Who's son is Camp David named after?






32. Jimmy Carter was the former governor of ____.






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






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






35. Who burnt down the White House during a war?






36. What was the Emancipation proclamation meant to do?






37. How did William McKinley die?






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






39. How many electoral votes does Florida have?






40. The committee of the watergate scandal illegally entered the __________ (building) and spied on Nixon's opponent Who was in the _______ complex.






41. James Madison's wife was ________ Madison.






42. What was Lincoln's most famous speech?






43. What was the camp david accords?






44. James Monroe created the ________ Doctrine






45. How many presidents were killed in office?






46. Who built the Interstate Highway System?






47. Which president got Alzheimers and forgot being president?






48. Who moved up when John Fitzgerald Kennedy died because He was his VP?






49. What were the years of WWI?






50. Where was William McKinley killed?