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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 many presidents were killed in office?






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






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






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






5. What happens to John Wilkes Booth?






6. Which president was former ambassador to China?






7. Where do electors vote?

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8. What presidents lost the popular vote but won the electoral vote? (in order)






9. How tall was Abraham Lincoln?

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10. What war did George Washington lead the army for?






11. Which president got Alzheimers and forgot being president?






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






13. Which president presented the bill of rights at the first Congress?






14. When was the Emancipation proclamation?






15. Who was the oldest elected president (age 73 at 2nd term)?






16. Where did Thomas Jefferson go to college?






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






18. Who is the current speaker of the House?






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






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






21. What was reconstruction?






22. What was the New Deal?






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






24. What was a talent of John Wilkes Booth?






25. Who were Woodward and Bernstein?

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






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






28. How much was the Louisiana Territory when it was purchased?






29. Who was the only catholic president?






30. How many kids did George Washington have?






31. Who is considered 'the father of our country'?






32. How many rooms in the white house?






33. Which president served the most terms?






34. What was the Berlin Airlift?






35. How many states broke away during the civil war AT FIRST? how many total ending up breaking away?






36. Why was Andrew Johnson impeached?






37. Why did we invade Iraq?

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38. Who became president when Richard Nixon resigend because they were his VP?






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






40. Which president got Alzheimers and forgot being president?






41. Who is the current Vice President?






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






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






44. Where do electors vote?

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






46. What were John Adams's last words?






47. Which presidents were great grandfather and grandson?






48. Who was our president during the Korean war?






49. Who balanced the budget?






50. What does 'Sic Semper Tyrranis' mean?