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U.S. Presidents Trivia

Subjects : trivia, history
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What is the oldest you can be to get surviver benefits?






2. 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)






3. Who is the current secretary of state?






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






5. Where did Abraham Lincoln's assasination take place?

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






7. Who pays for all personal entertainment and dinners not related to teh government business in the White House?






8. Do we vote directly for the president?






9. During the Great Depression - ____% were unemployed.






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






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






12. This president swam naked in the Potomac River






13. What is NATO (not what it stands for - what it is)?






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






15. Which president started the two term tradition?






16. When Harry S Truman was president during WWII - what two places in japan were bombed (abc order)?






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






18. Who did the Banking Holiday?






19. John Quicy Adams spent time In what continent?






20. Who is the current Vice President?






21. Where did the name 'gettysburg' come from?






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






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






24. What was the Bay of Pigs?






25. What was reconstruction?






26. How many kids did John Tyler have?






27. How many kids did John Tyler have?






28. Who gave the longest inauguration speech?






29. Who was the first VP?






30. How many kids did George Washington have?






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






32. How old do you have to be to be president?






33. Did we win the Spanish American War?






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






35. What weapon was used to kill Lincoln?






36. How old do you have to be to be president?






37. In the War of 1812 - ________ (country) kept stealing our ________ (people) and _______ (items) in the middle of the ocean (separate with semicolon).






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






39. What date did the civil war begin?






40. What is the address of the white house?






41. What transportation does the president get?






42. What year was the White House burnt down?






43. What president did the Berlin airlift?






44. Who acts as an advisor to the president?






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






46. Woodrow Wilson's ideas on not to have a war - the league of nations - and the freedom to navigate the seas without interference are known as ________.






47. Who presented the Fourteen Points?






48. What was Lincoln's most famous speech?






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






50. Who built the Interstate Highway System?