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






2. Who is the current secretary of state?






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






4. Where was George Washington born?






5. Name the two presidents (ABC order by last name - write first and last name) who died on the same day - and the date they died (separate with semi colon)






6. Who was president for the Bay of Pigs?






7. What is the address of the white house?






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






9. Who was Abraham Lincoln married to?






10. Who was president for the Cuban Missile Crisis?






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






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






13. Why did WWII begin?






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






15. How many presidents died in office?






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






17. Who was the first African American President?






18. Who was sent to a mental institution after Abraham Lincoln's death?






19. Where was Thomas Jefferson born?






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






21. How tall was Abraham Lincoln?

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






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






24. Do we vote directly for the president?






25. What was the Bay of Pigs?






26. What war did George Washington lead the army for?






27. Who did the Banking Holiday?






28. Lyndon Johnson got lots of bills passed involving ______.






29. What year was the White House burnt down?






30. Which president was former ambassador to China?






31. Who passed Universal health care?






32. Abraham Lincoln was ______ educated






33. How old do you have to be to be president?






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






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






36. What president did the Berlin airlift?






37. Who attempted to assassinate Ronald Reagan?






38. During the Great Depression - ____% were unemployed.






39. Who acts as an advisor to the president?






40. Who was the first president not to win the popular vote and to become president?






41. What are the people in the electoral college called?






42. Who was president for the 9/11 attacks?






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






44. Who was the first president not to win the popular vote and to become president?






45. What to laws did Adams TRY to pass?






46. The person who killed John Fitzgerald Kennedy is thought to have killed him in a _______ - or not alone.






47. Who introduced social security?






48. Sewards Folly was when ________ (secretary of state) bought land for $______ - which was thought to be as a joke then - but now that land is known as ________.






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






50. What president did the Berlin airlift?