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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 was Deep Throat?






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






3. What happens to John Wilkes Booth?






4. Sedition acts






5. What law that Barack Obama passed might be unconstitutional and is being looked at by the supreme court now?






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






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






8. Who invaded Iraq?






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






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






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






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






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






14. How many years is a presidential term?






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






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






17. Who was our president during the Vietnam War?






18. Who was a peanut farmer?






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






20. What was the New Deal?






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






22. what disease did Franklin Delano Roosevelt have?






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






24. Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant knew eachother because _________.






25. Which president was obnoxious and disliked?






26. What is the Truman Doctrine?






27. What president made the emancipation proclamtion?






28. Who is thought to have assassinated John Fitzgerald Kennedy?






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


30. What was the New Deal?






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






32. Who invaded Iraq?






33. Sedition acts






34. When did we enter WWII?






35. What date was John Fitzgerald Kennedy killed on?






36. Who is thought to have assassinated John Fitzgerald Kennedy?






37. 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)






38. Who was William McKinley's VP that moved up when He was killed?






39. Where does the president live for free?






40. What date did WWII begin?






41. What is the Truman Doctrine?






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






43. What happens if no candidate gets the majorit y of electoral votes?






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






45. what disease did Franklin Delano Roosevelt have?






46. Who was the only catholic president?






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






48. Which president made the panama canal?






49. What transportation does the president get?






50. Where did Thomas Jefferson go to college?