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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 helped create the Library of Congress when he sells and donates 6000 books?






2. Who was the first VP?






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






4. Who created the Family Medical Leave Act?






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






6. What was the point of the Gettysburg Address (two things)?






7. Where do electors vote?

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8. How can a president serve up to ten years?

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9. What is the Truman Doctrine?






10. How many presidents were killed in office?






11. Who did fireside chats?






12. Who attempted to assassinate Ronald Reagan?






13. What was the Tenure of Office Act/






14. Where was Thomas Jefferson born?






15. How was James Garfield killed?






16. How many electors are in the electoral college?






17. Who is the current Vice President?






18. What date did WWII begin?






19. Who was the only president to resign?






20. What was the Bay of Pigs?






21. Who had the shortest presidency?






22. How many Vice Presidents ran again for president and became president?






23. How many years is a presidential term?






24. Why did WWI happen?






25. This president helped write the federalist papers.






26. What was the Banking Holiday?






27. Where was George Washington born?






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






29. Who won a Nobel Peace Prize for what they were going to do?






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






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






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






33. What is universal health care?






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






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






36. What was a talent of John Wilkes Booth?






37. Who won the Civil war for Lincoln and later on became a president?






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






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






40. What is the family Medical Leave Act?






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






42. Who supported manifest destiny?






43. What college did George Washington go to?






44. What is Camp David?






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






46. Grover Cleveland was the ____ and ____ president (numbers)






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






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






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






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