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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 the family Medical Leave Act?






2. Who killed Abraham Lincoln?






3. Who was Deep Throat?






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






5. Who was president for the 9/11 attacks?






6. Which president was author of the Virginia Plan?






7. Which president was the youngest to serve?






8. When was the Emancipation proclamation?






9. What date was John Fitzgerald Kennedy killed on?






10. Where was John Fitzgerald Kennedy assassinated?






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






12. Who pays for all personal entertainment and dinners not related to teh government business in the White House?






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






14. What was the camp david accords?






15. What was the Banking Holiday?






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






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






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






19. Who was sent to a mental institution after Abraham Lincoln's death?






20. What was Lincoln's most famous speech?






21. Who invaded Iraq?






22. Where did the civil war begin?






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






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






25. How much was the Louisiana Territory when it was purchased?






26. Who is the current Vice President?






27. Name the Founding Fathers plus the son in order...






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






29. How many years is a presidential term?






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






31. What month is the election in?






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






33. How many Vice Presidents have moved up because the president died?






34. What year was the White House burnt down?






35. Who introduced social security?






36. What does 'Sic Semper Tyrranis' mean?






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






38. Which president was author of the Virginia Plan?






39. Which president created the University of Virgina?






40. Who was a peanut farmer?






41. Who supported manifest destiny?






42. Who was our president during the Korean war?






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






44. 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 ________.






45. Who was George Washington's wife?






46. What year was the White House burnt down?






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






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






49. What was the Berlin Airlift?






50. When did we get involved and stop being involved with WWI? (month and year)