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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. Which president was obnoxious and disliked?






2. Which president started the two term tradition?






3. What was the most terms served by a president?






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






5. Do we vote directly for the president?






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






7. How many years younger was John Tyler's wife than him?






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






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






10. James Madison's wife is famous for...






11. Which president was obnoxious and disliked?






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






13. Which president was a great general - a leader - honest - and trustworth?






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






15. How tall was Abraham Lincoln?

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16. What was the New Deal?






17. Who was our president during the Korean war?






18. Where was William McKinley killed?






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






20. Who passed Universal health care?






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






22. Who built the Interstate Highway System?






23. What date was John Fitzgerald Kennedy killed on?






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






25. Who were the first presidents to be father and son?






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






27. Who was FDR's VP Who was president for WWII?






28. How many presidents died of natural causes in office?






29. What to laws did Adams TRY to pass?






30. What year was the Louisiana Territory bought?






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






32. What did John Wilkes Booth say after he shot Lincoln?






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






34. Why did the league of nations fail (what country wouldn't join)?






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






36. How many presidents were killed in office?






37. How was James Garfield killed?






38. Jimmy Carter was the former governor of ____.






39. Abraham Lincoln was ______ educated






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






41. What president had the watergate scandal?






42. What was reconstruction?






43. Which president was former ambassador to China?






44. What month is the election in?






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






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






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






48. What was a talent of John Wilkes Booth?






49. What presidents (in order) died of natural causes?






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