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U.S. Presidents Trivia

Subjects : trivia, history
Instructions:
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1. Where does the president live for free?






2. Who was president for the 9/11 attacks?






3. Who was president when the United Nations was formed?






4. Who was Franklin Delano Roosevelt married to?






5. The president get ____ care and _____ care for free.






6. Who was the first African American President?






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






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






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






10. How many electors are in the electoral college?






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






12. Who gave the longest inauguration speech?






13. Where was George Washington born?






14. How was James Garfield killed?






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






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






17. What was the New Deal?






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






19. Where did the civil war begin?






20. Who created the Family Medical Leave Act?






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






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






23. How many kids did George Washington have?






24. Who was George Washington's wife?






25. What was the Emancipation proclamation meant to do?






26. What is universal health care?






27. What date was John Fitzgerald Kennedy killed on?






28. What to laws did Adams TRY to pass?






29. What were fireside chats?






30. During the civil war - the south named itself _____.






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

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32. Who were Woodward and Bernstein?

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33. What was the Tenure of Office Act/






34. Which presidents were cousins?






35. Why did the person who tried to assassinate Ronald Reagan do it?






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






37. What is manifest destiny? how many square miles was it?






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






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






40. How many presidents died in office?






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






42. What was the most terms served by a president?






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






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






45. Alien Acts






46. Who was president for the persian gulf war?






47. Why didn't the Emancipation proclamation work?






48. Who said 'The only thing we have to fear is fear itself' at their 1st inaugural?






49. Which president was former ambassador to China?






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