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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 the youngest to serve?






2. Who was the youngest elected president?






3. who pays for the costs of operating the white house?






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






5. What president did the Berlin airlift?






6. What was reconstruction?






7. Who went to the Supreme court and tried to increase it to fifteen judges - but was told no?






8. Who passed Universal health care?






9. What is FDIC (explaIn what it means - not what it stands for)?






10. What was the New Deal?






11. Who was our president when we kille Osama bin Laden?






12. James Madison's wife was ________ Madison.






13. Gerald Ford pardons _____________ for all crimes committed.






14. What were fireside chats?






15. What was the Banking Holiday?






16. Who was a Great General in war of 1812?






17. How many presidents were killed in office?






18. Who did the Banking Holiday?






19. How many electoral votes do you need to win the election?






20. What was the Emancipation proclamation meant to do?






21. How long do you have to be a citizen for to be president?






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






23. What happens to John Wilkes Booth?






24. Who ran the country when Woodrow Wilson couldn't?






25. What month is the election in?






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






27. Manifest Destiny was to have all the land from __________ to ___________ (east to west)






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






29. how many years is a score?






30. This president helped write the federalist papers.






31. What was a talent of John Wilkes Booth?






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






33. Who did we help in the Vietnam war and the korean war?






34. Who did fireside chats?






35. Who were Woodward and Bernstein?


36. John Adams had a successful marriage with ______ (first name).






37. Which president was former ambassador to China?






38. Who won the Nobel peace prize because he told Russia and Japan not to fight - but to love?






39. Who presented the Fourteen Points?






40. Which president created Yellowstone National Park and Yosemite?






41. Where did the civil war begin?






42. How was James Garfield killed?






43. what disease did Franklin Delano Roosevelt have?






44. What war did George Washington lead the army for?






45. What transportation does the president get?






46. How many Vice Presidents have moved up because the president resigned?






47. 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 ________.






48. Who was the only president to resign?






49. What does 'Sic Semper Tyrranis' mean?






50. 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)