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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. How did John Wilkes Booth break his leg?






2. What to laws did Adams TRY to pass?






3. Where was William McKinley killed?






4. What state is Camp David in?






5. What was the persian gulf war/desert storm?






6. What was the Tenure of Office Act/






7. How many presidents died in office?






8. Who is the current President Pro-Tempore of the Senate?






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






10. What is the Truman Doctrine?






11. How many electoral votes does Florida have?






12. What is Camp David?






13. Who is thought to have assassinated John Fitzgerald Kennedy?






14. What are the people in the electoral college called?






15. Where did Thomas Jefferson go to college?






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






17. Who was president during the Great depression?






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






19. What law that Barack Obama passed might be unconstitutional and is being looked at by the supreme court now?






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






21. Who presented the Fourteen Points?






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






23. Who was our president during the Korean war?






24. During the civil war - the north's general was ___________.






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






26. What is the mandatory retirement plan run by the government?






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






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






29. Who is the current secretary of state?






30. Where do electors vote?

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31. Abraham Lincoln was ______ educated






32. Who moved up when John Fitzgerald Kennedy died because He was his VP?






33. What presidents (in order) died of natural causes?






34. What was the New Deal?






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






36. This president swam naked in the Potomac River






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






38. Which president got Alzheimers and forgot being president?






39. James Madison's wife was ________ Madison.






40. Who was a peanut farmer?






41. Jimmy Carter was the former governor of ____.






42. Which president was the youngest to serve?






43. Who was the only president to resign?






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






45. Which president was a 'rough rider' in the Spanish American War?






46. Who were the second presidents to be father and son?






47. Abraham Lincoln was ______ educated






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






49. Who presented the Fourteen Points?






50. What president did the Berlin airlift?