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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 did we help in the Vietnam war and the korean war?






2. What were John Adams's last words?






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






4. Who was George Washington's wife?






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






6. Why did the person who tried to assassinate Ronald Reagan do it?






7. Where does the right to navigate teh seas without interference not apply?






8. What did the monroe doctrine say?

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9. What was the most terms served by a president?






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

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11. Who were Woodward and Bernstein?

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






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






14. Who was Franklin Delano Roosevelt married to?






15. What were the territories we gained in the Spanish American War? (ABC order with commas inbetween)






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






17. Which president was obnoxious and disliked?






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






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






20. What was reconstruction?






21. What was the camp david accords?






22. Who did the Banking Holiday?






23. What college did George Washington go to?






24. James Madison's wife was ________ Madison.






25. What month and year was the Gettysburg Address said?






26. What are disability benefits?






27. Who won the Civil war for Lincoln and later on became a president?






28. Who was the first VP?






29. Why did WWI happen?






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






31. Who was the only president to resign?






32. Who had the first death in office?






33. James Monroe created the ________ Doctrine






34. How many former vice presidents have become president?






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






36. Which president was the youngest to serve?






37. Who introduced disability benefits?






38. Which presidents were great grandfather and grandson?






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






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






41. What was the Banking Holiday?






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






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






44. What was the Emancipation proclamation meant to do?






45. Who passed Universal health care?






46. How many days was the Iran Hostage crisis?






47. What is the family Medical Leave Act?






48. Where did the civil war begin?






49. Who is the current President Pro-Tempore of the Senate?






50. Who was the first President during WWII?