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U.S. Presidents Trivia

Subjects : trivia, history
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What president had the watergate scandal?






2. Who created the Family Medical Leave Act?






3. What war was George Washington in the military for?






4. Did we win the Spanish American War?






5. Who went to the Supreme court and tried to increase it to fifteen judges - but was told no?






6. Who was our president during the Vietnam War?






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






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






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






10. Where was John Fitzgerald Kennedy assassinated?






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






12. what disease did Franklin Delano Roosevelt have?






13. What were the years of WWI?






14. What month and year was the Gettysburg Address said?






15. What month and year was the Gettysburg Address said?






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






17. Which president got Alzheimers and forgot being president?






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






19. Who was Deep Throat?






20. During the civil war - the ________ wanted slaves and the ________ did not.






21. Who said 'A date that will live in infamy'? What were they talking about (separate with semicolon)?






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






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






24. How was James Garfield killed?






25. How tall was Abraham Lincoln?

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26. What president did the Berlin airlift?






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






28. What was the Emancipation proclamation meant to do?






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






30. James Madison's wife was ________ Madison.






31. Why did WWII begin?






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






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






34. Who did the Banking Holiday?






35. Which president had a stroke in his bathroom?






36. Which president served the most terms?






37. This president helped write the federalist papers.






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






39. Who is the current speaker of the House?






40. John Quicy Adams spent time In what continent?






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






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






43. Where was William McKinley killed?






44. Why did WWII begin?






45. Who won the Nobel peace prize because he told Russia and Japan not to fight - but to love?






46. Why did we enter WWII?






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






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






49. Who was the first VP?






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







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