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






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






3. Which presidents won the nobel peace prize (in order)?






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






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






6. What is the Electoral College?






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

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8. How many years do you have to live in the U.S. for to be president?






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






10. Who supported manifest destiny?






11. Who was president for the Bay of Pigs?






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






13. During the civil war - the south named itself _____.






14. How many former vice presidents have become president?






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






16. What was Lincoln's most famous speech?






17. Who had an affair with Monica Lewinsky - a young intern at the White House?






18. What is universal health care?






19. What are disability benefits?






20. Which president made the panama canal?






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






22. Who was the fpresident during WWI?






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






24. What were the years of WWI?






25. Who introduced disability benefits?






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






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






28. Who created the Family Medical Leave Act?






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






30. Why wasn't Andrew Johnson removed from office when He was impeached?






31. What president made the emancipation proclamtion?






32. Who is the current speaker of the House?






33. What did the monroe doctrine say?

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






35. Where was John Fitzgerald Kennedy assassinated?






36. What were fireside chats?






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






38. This president swam naked in the Potomac River






39. Who was a peanut farmer?






40. What president did the Berlin airlift?






41. How many electoral votes does Florida have?






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






43. Who was president for the persian gulf war?






44. This president helped write the federalist papers.






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






46. Andrew Johnson was _________'s VP






47. What date was John Fitzgerald Kennedy killed on?






48. Who was our president during the Korean war?






49. William Jefferson Clinton paid Paula Jones $____.






50. What is the oldest you can be to get surviver benefits?