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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. How many days was the Iran Hostage crisis?






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






3. Which presidents were great grandfather and grandson?






4. Who were Woodward and Bernstein?

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5. Who had the shortest presidency?






6. Who was the youngest elected president?






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






8. Sedition acts






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






10. 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 ________.






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






12. Who was president for the nullification crisis?






13. What did the Interstate Highway System also do besides provide a road for driving?






14. How many years do you have to live in the U.S. for to be president?






15. How many pounds was William Howard Taft?






16. During the Great Depression - ____% were unemployed.






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






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






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






20. What is the inauguration date?






21. How many former vice presidents have become president?






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






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






24. Paula Jones sued William Jefferson Clinton for _______.






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






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






27. John Quicy Adams spent time In what continent?






28. Which presient send Lewis and Clark on their journey?






29. What were fireside chats?






30. Who is the current speaker of the House?






31. Who introduced social security?






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






33. What president made the emancipation proclamtion?






34. Who invaded Iraq?






35. How many presidents died in office?






36. Woodrow Wilson's ideas on not to have a war - the league of nations - and the freedom to navigate the seas without interference are known as ________.






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






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






39. Which president was former ambassador to China?






40. Who is the current secretary of state?






41. What happens to John Wilkes Booth?






42. Which presidents were cousins?






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






44. What was the camp david accords?






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






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






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






48. Who balanced the budget?






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






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