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U.S. Presidents Trivia

Subjects : trivia, history
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Why was Andrew Johnson impeached?






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






3. Why did the league of nations fail (what country wouldn't join)?






4. What does NATO stand for?






5. Who was on the bad side for WWI (abc order)?






6. Who was the commander in charge of Europe afor the Allies in WWII?






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






8. Which president presented the bill of rights at the first Congress?






9. Andrew Johnson was _________'s VP






10. Who were the second presidents to be father and son?






11. Who is considered 'the father of our country'?






12. Who was the only catholic president?






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






14. Who was the only president to get all the electoral votes?






15. What state was John Adams from?






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






17. Why did WWI happen?






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






19. Paula Jones sued William Jefferson Clinton for _______.






20. What were John Adams's last words?






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






22. which president was former head of CIA?






23. What was the nullification crisis?

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24. Who takes over if the President is disabled or dies?






25. The committee of the watergate scandal illegally entered the __________ (building) and spied on Nixon's opponent Who was in the _______ complex.






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






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






28. what disease did Franklin Delano Roosevelt have?






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






30. What is Camp David?






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






32. How many pounds was William Howard Taft?






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






34. What is the address of the white house?






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






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






37. What are surviver benefits?






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






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






40. What was reconstruction?






41. What was a talent of John Wilkes Booth?






42. What state is Camp David in?






43. How did William McKinley die?






44. Where was John Fitzgerald Kennedy assassinated?






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






46. What year was the White House burnt down?






47. What is the family Medical Leave Act?






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






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






50. Which president was the 'father of the constitution'?