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U.S. Presidents Trivia

Subjects : trivia, history
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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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 created the Family Medical Leave Act?






2. Who's son is Camp David named after?






3. What was the Berlin Airlift?






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






5. How can a president serve up to ten years?

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6. Who passed Universal health care?






7. Lyndon Johnson got lots of bills passed involving ______.






8. Which president created the University of Virgina?






9. 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 ________.






10. 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 ________.






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






12. How many terms is a president alowed to serve?






13. When Harry S Truman was president during WWII - what two places in japan were bombed (abc order)?






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

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15. Why did we invade Iraq?

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16. What are surviver benefits?






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






18. Who was Franklin Delano Roosevelt married to?






19. In the War of 1812 - ________ (country) kept stealing our ________ (people) and _______ (items) in the middle of the ocean (separate with semicolon).






20. Which president had a stroke in his bathroom?






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






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






23. What date did the civil war begin?






24. Who was Abraham Lincoln married to?






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






26. Who was on the good side for WWI (abc order)?






27. Why did WWII begin?






28. Sedition acts






29. What are disability benefits?






30. Who were the first presidents to be father and son?






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






32. How many former vice presidents have become president?






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






34. Which president got Alzheimers and forgot being president?






35. What is the Truman Doctrine?






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






37. What was the nullification crisis?

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38. This president swam naked in the Potomac River






39. Which president served the most terms?






40. Who was president for the Iran Hostage crisis?






41. Where was William McKinley killed?






42. What does NATO stand for?






43. Who moved up when John Fitzgerald Kennedy died because He was his VP?






44. Why did we enter WWII?






45. How much money does the president earn per year?






46. Which president started the two term tradition?






47. Where was John Fitzgerald Kennedy assassinated?






48. Who was president for the nullification crisis?






49. When was the Emancipation proclamation?






50. What is the address of the white house?