Test your basic knowledge |

U.S. Presidents Trivia

Subjects : trivia, history
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
  • If you are not ready to take this test, you can study here.
  • Match each statement with the correct term.
  • Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.

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






2. Who supported manifest destiny?






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






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






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






6. Which president made the panama canal?






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






8. Who was our president when we kille Osama bin Laden?






9. Who won a nobel peace prize because of the camp david accords?






10. What weapon was used to kill Lincoln?






11. ______ years later - the Tenure of Office act was gotten rid of by the Supreme court because it was ________.






12. Which president started the two term tradition?






13. How many presidents died in office?






14. Who was the oldest elected president (age 73 at 2nd term)?






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






16. what disease did Franklin Delano Roosevelt have?






17. Who acts as an advisor to the president?






18. How many electors are in the electoral college?






19. What two states do not use 'winner-takes all' for the electoral college?






20. Where was Abraham Lincoln born? What kind of house did he live in?






21. The president get ____ care and _____ care for free.






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






23. Which president was former ambassador to China?






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






25. Which president was a 'rough rider' in the Spanish American War?






26. How much of a retirement income per year does the president make (for life)?






27. Which president was obnoxious and disliked?






28. What is the Truman Doctrine?






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






30. Who had the shortest presidency?






31. Who had the shortest presidency?






32. What is the Electoral College?






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






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

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php on line 183


35. Who was the only catholic president?






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






37. What to laws did Adams TRY to pass?






38. What state was John Adams from?






39. Who was William McKinley's VP that moved up when He was killed?






40. This president helped write the federalist papers.






41. Who was George Washington's wife?






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






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






44. Who introduced surviver benefits?






45. What does NATO stand for?






46. Who created the Family Medical Leave Act?






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






48. What month and day do we vote for the president?






49. Who was the youngest elected president?






50. Who is the current Vice President?