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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. Who supported manifest destiny?






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






3. Which president made the panama canal?






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

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5. After what event was the Fourteen Points presented?






6. Who acts as an advisor to the president?






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






8. Who was president during the War of 1812 against England?






9. Who was President during the Spanish American War?






10. Which president was obnoxious and disliked?






11. How many electoral votes does Florida have?






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






13. Why did we invade Iraq?

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14. Jimmy Carter was the former governor of ____.






15. Who takes over if the President is disabled or dies?






16. Who attends diplomatic functions in place of the president?






17. What was William Jefferson Clinton impeached for?






18. What date did the civil war begin?






19. What state is Camp David in?






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






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






22. Who was William McKinley's VP that moved up when He was killed?






23. Who was the only president to be president and then supreme court chief justice?






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






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






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






27. what ended a couple of days before Abraham Lincoln's Assasination?






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






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






30. Which president adopted independence - was loyal - smart - and a lawyer?






31. Where was Abraham Lincoln born? What kind of house did he live in?






32. What did the monroe doctrine say?

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33. What did the Interstate Highway System also do besides provide a road for driving?






34. Who was president for the persian gulf war?






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






36. What does 'Sic Semper Tyrranis' mean?






37. Who had the first death in office?






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






39. What state was John Adams from?






40. Where was Thomas Jefferson born?






41. What war was George Washington in the military for?






42. Which presient send Lewis and Clark on their journey?






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






44. Who was the fpresident during WWI?






45. Who supported manifest destiny?






46. What was William Jefferson Clinton impeached for?






47. What president did the Berlin airlift?






48. Franklin Delano Roosevelt died a short time into his ____ term.






49. What was the league of nations?






50. Which president created Yellowstone National Park and Yosemite?