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U.S. Presidents Trivia

Subjects : trivia, history
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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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 won a nobel peace prize because of the camp david accords?






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






3. Who was our president during the Korean war?






4. Who was the only catholic president?






5. Where do electors vote?

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6. Who was president for the Cuban Missile Crisis?






7. Abraham Lincoln was ______ educated






8. What is universal health care?






9. Which president was former ambassador to China?






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






11. Who was the only president to resign?






12. Who was the only president to resign?






13. Andrew Johnson had a (good/bad) relation ship with congress over reconstruction






14. What is the command of army act?






15. What date was John Fitzgerald Kennedy killed on?






16. Which president had a stroke in his bathroom?






17. 'Speak softley and carry a big stick' was a quote of who?






18. Who said 'A date that will live in infamy'? What were they talking about (separate with semicolon)?






19. What were the territories we gained in the Spanish American War? (ABC order with commas inbetween)






20. How many kids did George Washington have?






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






22. Who invaded Iraq?






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






24. What state was John Adams from?






25. Who was president for the nullification crisis?






26. what president was also president of the constitutional convention?






27. Where does the number of electors in the electoral college come from?






28. What was a popular film of John Fitzgerald Kennedy's assassination?






29. How many former vice presidents have become president?






30. Gerald Ford pardons _____________ for all crimes committed.






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






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






33. How many presidents were killed in office?






34. which president was former head of CIA?






35. What was the name of the airplane that bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki






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






37. Do we vote directly for the president?






38. What does 'Sic Semper Tyrranis' mean?






39. What war never officially ended but just doesn't fight any more?






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






41. How much money does the president earn per year?






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






43. Who was the first African American President?






44. Andrew Johnson was _________'s VP






45. Lyndon Johnson got lots of bills passed involving ______.






46. Sedition acts






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






48. What was the Emancipation proclamation meant to do?






49. What were fireside chats?






50. During the civil war - the ________ wanted slaves and the ________ did not.