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






2. Which president was the youngest to serve?






3. How many pounds was William Howard Taft?






4. Who said 'The buck stops here'?






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






6. Who won a Nobel Peace Prize for what they were going to do?






7. What was the Banking Holiday?






8. what disease did Franklin Delano Roosevelt have?






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






10. Who was our president during the Korean war?






11. Who supported manifest destiny?






12. Who was president for the Bay of Pigs?






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






14. Who was the youngest elected president?






15. Who introduced disability benefits?






16. What president made the emancipation proclamtion?






17. This president swam naked in the Potomac River






18. Who was Franklin Delano Roosevelt married to?






19. What was the Bay of Pigs?






20. John Adams had a successful marriage with ______ (first name).






21. What were fireside chats?






22. 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 ________.






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






24. What war did George Washington lead the army for?






25. How did William McKinley die?






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






27. Who won the Civil war for Lincoln and later on became a president?






28. John Adams went to what college?






29. In most states - what percent of the state's electoral votes does a candidate get if they win the popular vote?






30. Alien Acts






31. Who was a peanut farmer?






32. What state is Camp David in?






33. Which president made the panama canal?






34. What is universal health care?






35. What was the Emancipation proclamation meant to do?






36. How old do you have to be to be president?






37. James Madison's wife is famous for...






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






39. Who acts as an advisor to the president?






40. Who passed Universal health care?






41. Paula Jones sued William Jefferson Clinton for _______.






42. What was the Berlin Airlift?






43. How many years younger was John Tyler's wife than him?






44. Why didn't the Emancipation proclamation work?






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






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






47. Who was the youngest elected president?






48. Who killed Abraham Lincoln?






49. What was the New Deal?






50. What does NATO stand for?