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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 month and day do we vote for the president?






2. What is the command of army act?






3. What to laws did Adams TRY to pass?






4. How much of a retirement income per year does the president make (for life)?






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






6. Which president was the youngest to serve?






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






8. How many presidents died in office?






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






10. What were the sides for the Korean war and the Vietnam war?






11. What does NATO stand for?






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






13. Which president got Alzheimers and forgot being president?






14. Who was on the bad side for WWI (abc order)?






15. Where does the president live for free?






16. Who was the youngest elected president?






17. When was the Emancipation proclamation?






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






19. What are surviver benefits?






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






21. What are disability benefits?






22. Where does the right to navigate teh seas without interference not apply?






23. Where was Thomas Jefferson born?






24. Which president helped create the Library of Congress when he sells and donates 6000 books?






25. Who was president during the Great depression?






26. Where did the civil war begin?






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






28. What was the camp david accords?






29. Which president got Alzheimers and forgot being president?






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






31. What state is Camp David in?






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






33. Who was the first President during WWII?






34. Who was the first VP to move up on death of a president?






35. ______ years later - the Tenure of Office act was gotten rid of by the Supreme court because it was ________.






36. What was the Tenure of Office Act/






37. Who did the Banking Holiday?






38. Who was the only president to get all the electoral votes?






39. What was the persian gulf war/desert storm?






40. Where did the civil war begin?






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






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






43. Who built the Interstate Highway System?






44. Who was president for the nullification crisis?






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






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






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






48. Which president was former ambassador to China?






49. Who was our president during the Korean war?






50. What is the command of army act?