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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 years is a presidential term?






2. Who was FDR's VP Who was president for WWII?






3. Which president adopted independence - was loyal - smart - and a lawyer?






4. How many electors are in the electoral college?






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






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






7. What was the Emancipation proclamation meant to do?






8. How many electoral votes does Florida have?






9. Who did the Banking Holiday?






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






11. What presidents lost the popular vote but won the electoral vote? (in order)






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






13. Who was the first VP?






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






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






16. What does 'Sic Semper Tyrranis' mean?






17. During the civil war - the south named itself _____.






18. Who acts as an advisor to the president?






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






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






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






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






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






24. Which president served the most terms?






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






26. Andrew Johnson was _________'s VP






27. What weapon was used to kill Lincoln?






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






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






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






31. What were John Adams's last words?






32. Why did WWII begin?






33. Why did we enter WWII?






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






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






36. What was the name of the airplane that bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki






37. Where was Thomas Jefferson born?






38. What is the inauguration date?






39. What was the Berlin Airlift?






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






41. Which president was author of the Virginia Plan?






42. Why did the league of nations fail (what country wouldn't join)?






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






44. During the civil war - the south named itself _____.






45. Andrew Johnson was _________'s VP






46. What college did George Washington go to?






47. Who was president for the persian gulf war?






48. Who was the first president not to win the popular vote and to become president?






49. How was James Garfield killed?






50. Name the two presidents (ABC order by last name - write first and last name) who died on the same day - and the date they died (separate with semi colon)