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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. Which president created Yellowstone National Park and Yosemite?






2. Who did fireside chats?






3. Who is the current Vice President?






4. What was the name of the airplane that bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki






5. What was the Berlin Airlift?






6. Who is the current speaker of the House?






7. Who was Deep Throat?






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






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






10. The ______ was invented when William McKinley was killed - and it could have saved him.






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






12. What to laws did Adams TRY to pass?






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






14. This president helped write the federalist papers.






15. What was the Banking Holiday?






16. Who did the Banking Holiday?






17. Who was president for the Cuban Missile Crisis?






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






19. What law that Barack Obama passed might be unconstitutional and is being looked at by the supreme court now?






20. Where does the number of electors in the electoral college come from?






21. Alien Acts






22. How many pounds was William Howard Taft?






23. What is the Electoral College?






24. Who introduced social security?






25. Franklin Delano Roosevelt's wife was related to him how?






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






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






28. What did the Interstate Highway System also do besides provide a road for driving?






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






30. Why was Andrew Johnson impeached?






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






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






33. 'Speak softley and carry a big stick' was a quote of who?






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






35. John Adams went to what college?






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






37. There was a _________ - or a group of people - who helped John Wilkes Booth kill Lincoln and also planned to kill the VP and Secretary.






38. How many pounds was William Howard Taft?






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






40. What is the Truman Doctrine?






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






42. Where did the civil war begin?






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

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






45. How many presidents died of natural causes in office?






46. What war never officially ended but just doesn't fight any more?






47. What is the family Medical Leave Act?






48. Which president created Yellowstone National Park and Yosemite?






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






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