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






2. What is Camp David?






3. Who was the first VP to move up on death of a president?






4. How many kids did George Washington have?






5. Who was Deep Throat?






6. What did the monroe doctrine say?

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7. What are disability benefits?






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






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






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






12. What was the nullification crisis?

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






14. Who ran the country when Woodrow Wilson couldn't?






15. What to laws did Adams TRY to pass?






16. Which presidents were great grandfather and grandson?






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






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






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






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






21. What is the Electoral College?






22. What does 'Sic Semper Tyrranis' mean?






23. Who was president for the Bay of Pigs?






24. John Quicy Adams spent time In what continent?






25. Sedition acts






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






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






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






29. During the civil war - the south's general was ____________.






30. Which president was a lawyer - very smart - an architect - a musician - and an inventor?






31. John Quicy Adams spent time In what continent?






32. Where did the civil war begin?






33. Who was Abraham Lincoln married to?






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






35. James Madison's wife was ________ Madison.






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






37. What are the people in the electoral college called?






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






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






40. Who was the only president to resign?






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






42. Which president was obnoxious and disliked?






43. Where was George Washington born?






44. Who was president for the nullification crisis?






45. When did we enter WWII?






46. What president made the emancipation proclamtion?






47. Who were Woodward and Bernstein?

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48. What state is Camp David in?






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






50. What was the nullification crisis?

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