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U.S. Presidents Trivia

Subjects : trivia, history
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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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. What was the persian gulf war/desert storm?






2. Who attempted to assassinate Ronald Reagan?






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






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

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






6. Who was president for the persian gulf war?






7. Who built the Interstate Highway System?






8. How many presidents died of natural causes in office?






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






10. Who said 'The buck stops here'?






11. Where was Thomas Jefferson born?






12. Which presidents were great grandfather and grandson?






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






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






15. What is universal health care?






16. Which president served the most terms?






17. Who were Woodward and Bernstein?

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18. Who killed Abraham Lincoln?






19. How many days was the Iran Hostage crisis?






20. What year was the White House burnt down?






21. Franklin Delano Roosevelt got his middle name because his _____'s favorite relative was de la Noye






22. Who acts as an advisor to the president?






23. How many Vice Presidents have moved up because the president died?






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






25. How many presidents died in office?






26. Who gave the longest inauguration speech?






27. Alien Acts






28. Who was the first President during WWII?






29. Why wasn't Richard Nixon thrown out of office?






30. Who won a nobel peace prize because of the camp david accords?






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






32. Why did WWI happen?






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






34. Who invaded Iraq?






35. What are surviver benefits?






36. What state is Camp David in?






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






38. What happens if no candidate gets the majorit y of electoral votes?






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






40. John Adams went to what college?






41. Who had a 12 year affair with Gennifer Flowers?






42. How did John Wilkes Booth break his leg?






43. Who was the only president to resign?






44. Which president was author of the Virginia Plan?






45. What are disability benefits?






46. Who were Woodward and Bernstein?

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






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






49. What president did the Berlin airlift?






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