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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. What president did the Berlin airlift?






2. Which president got Alzheimers and forgot being president?






3. What president did the Berlin airlift?






4. Who was the commander in charge of Europe afor the Allies in WWII?






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






6. During the civil war - the north's general was ___________.






7. Franklin Delano Roosevelt's wife was related to him how?






8. Paula Jones sued William Jefferson Clinton for _______.






9. What date was John Fitzgerald Kennedy killed on?






10. Where does the president live for free?






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






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






13. Where was William McKinley killed?






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






15. What state is Camp David in?






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






17. How many kids did John Tyler have?






18. Congress passed 2 laws designed to limit __________'s (a president) power .






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






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






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






22. Who was the oldest elected president (age 73 at 2nd term)?






23. What was the Banking Holiday?






24. Who was the only president to be president and then supreme court chief justice?






25. Who was the youngest elected president?






26. What happens to John Wilkes Booth?






27. Who was Franklin Delano Roosevelt married to?






28. Which president was author of the Virginia Plan?






29. Where was John Fitzgerald Kennedy assassinated?






30. How many presidents were killed in office?






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






32. What two states do not use 'winner-takes all' for the electoral college?






33. Who were Woodward and Bernstein?


34. Why didn't the Emancipation proclamation work?






35. Who was George Washington's wife?






36. What were the years of WWI?






37. What year was the Louisiana Territory bought?






38. What presidents lost the popular vote but won the electoral vote? (in order)






39. 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 ________.






40. Who was president when the United Nations was formed?






41. What was the Tenure of Office Act/






42. What was reconstruction?






43. How many pounds was William Howard Taft?






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






45. During the civil war - the south's general was ____________.






46. After Abraham Lincoln was shot - He was carried across the street to ________________ where he dies when?






47. Who said 'The only thing we have to fear is fear itself' at their 1st inaugural?






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






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






50. 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 ________.