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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. Who introduced disability benefits?






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






3. After what event was the Fourteen Points presented?






4. Which president was obnoxious and disliked?






5. Who was president when the United Nations was formed?






6. In the War of 1812 - ________ (country) kept stealing our ________ (people) and _______ (items) in the middle of the ocean (separate with semicolon).






7. Which president got Alzheimers and forgot being president?






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






9. What were John Adams's last words?






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






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






12. What was a talent of John Wilkes Booth?






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






14. What are disability benefits?






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






16. Which presidents won the nobel peace prize (in order)?






17. What is FDIC (explaIn what it means - not what it stands for)?






18. What was the most terms served by a president?






19. What president had the watergate scandal?






20. Who was the youngest elected president?






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






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






23. What was the most terms served by a president?






24. How many presidents died in office?






25. What is the address of the white house?






26. What does NATO stand for?






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






28. Which president was a 'rough rider' in the Spanish American War?






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






30. Where did Thomas Jefferson go to college?






31. Who had many affairs during their presidency but claimed not to?






32. Franklin Delano Roosevelt got his middle name because his _____'s favorite relative was de la Noye






33. Which president recognized Israel and traded with them and gave money and embassadors to them?






34. Which presidents were cousins?






35. what president was also president of the constitutional convention?






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






37. What year was the White House burnt down?






38. What was a popular film of John Fitzgerald Kennedy's assassination?






39. What date was John Fitzgerald Kennedy killed on?






40. Who was Deep Throat?






41. How many electors are in the electoral college?






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






43. Who was our president during the Korean war?






44. Where does the president live for free?






45. Where was William McKinley killed?






46. Who was the first VP?






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






48. What is the mandatory retirement plan run by the government?






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






50. There was a _________ - or a group of people - who helped John Wilkes Booth kill Lincoln and also planned to kill the VP and Secretary.