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U.S. Presidents Trivia

Subjects : trivia, history
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What was reconstruction?






2. James Madison's wife was ________ Madison.






3. John Quicy Adams spent time In what continent?






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






5. What date was John Fitzgerald Kennedy killed on?






6. What are disability benefits?






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






8. How many Vice Presidents have moved up because the president resigned?






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






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






11. What president made the emancipation proclamtion?






12. Which president created the University of Virgina?






13. Who said 'The only thing we have to fear is fear itself' at their 1st inaugural?






14. Where did Abraham Lincoln's assasination take place?

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15. Did we win the Spanish American War?






16. This president helped write the federalist papers.






17. Who balanced the budget?






18. Who was a peanut farmer?






19. Franklin Delano Roosevelt died a short time into his ____ term.






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






21. Who was president for the Bay of Pigs?






22. Gerald Ford pardons _____________ for all crimes committed.






23. The ______ was invented when William McKinley was killed - and it could have saved him.






24. What is manifest destiny? how many square miles was it?






25. Who was our president during the Korean war?






26. Who built the Interstate Highway System?






27. What state was John Adams from?






28. Which president served the most terms?






29. Who is the current secretary of state?






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






31. What president had the watergate scandal?






32. Who was Deep Throat?






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






34. How many kids did John Tyler have?






35. Which president was obnoxious and disliked?






36. Who was the only catholic president?






37. Who was Deep Throat?






38. Why did we enter WWII?






39. When was the Emancipation proclamation?






40. Who invaded Iraq?






41. Who supported manifest destiny?






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






43. What war was Abraham Lincoln president during?






44. Which president was a great general - a leader - honest - and trustworth?






45. Who was George Washington's wife?






46. How many electoral votes do you need to win the election?






47. Who was the first President during WWII?






48. What does 'Sic Semper Tyrranis' mean?






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






50. What to laws did Adams TRY to pass?