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U.S. Presidents Trivia

Subjects : trivia, history
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What was a popular film of John Fitzgerald Kennedy's assassination?






2. Which president created Yellowstone National Park and Yosemite?






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






4. Where was Thomas Jefferson born?






5. Who ran the country when Woodrow Wilson couldn't?






6. Who's son married Nixon's daughter?






7. Which president helped create the Library of Congress when he sells and donates 6000 books?






8. John Adams went to what college?






9. Where did the name 'gettysburg' come from?






10. How many days was the Iran Hostage crisis?






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






12. Who was the only man to be president Who was not elected to either vp spot or the presidency?






13. Who introduced surviver benefits?






14. Who was president during the War of 1812 against England?






15. Name the Founding Fathers plus the son in order...






16. John Quicy Adams spent time In what continent?






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






18. How much was the Louisiana Territory when it was purchased?






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






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






21. Sedition acts






22. Who had many affairs during their presidency but claimed not to?






23. What was the New Deal?






24. Andrew Johnson had a (good/bad) relation ship with congress over reconstruction






25. John Quicy Adams spent time In what continent?






26. What state is Camp David in?






27. Who was the only president to resign?






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






29. What were the sides for the Korean war and the Vietnam war?






30. What was the Berlin Airlift?






31. How many rooms in the white house?






32. What is the Electoral College?






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






34. Who gave the longest inauguration speech?






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






36. What is the inauguration date?






37. What president did the Berlin airlift?






38. Where did the name 'gettysburg' come from?






39. Who were Woodward and Bernstein?

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






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






42. Who had a 12 year affair with Gennifer Flowers?






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






44. Who said 'The buck stops here'?






45. When was the Emancipation proclamation?






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






47. Who created the Family Medical Leave Act?






48. Why did we invade Iraq?

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49. How many Vice Presidents have moved up because the president resigned?






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