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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. Where did Thomas Jefferson go to college?






2. Who said 'The buck stops here'?






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






4. Who was our president when we kille Osama bin Laden?






5. who pays for the costs of operating the white house?






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






7. Who was the first President during WWII?






8. James Madison's wife was ________ Madison.






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






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






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






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






13. Where do electors vote?

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14. Which president started the two term tradition?






15. Who was the commander in charge of Europe afor the Allies in WWII?






16. What month and day do we vote for the president?






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






18. Which president had a stroke in his bathroom?






19. Who was the only president to resign?






20. The ______ was invented when William McKinley was killed - and it could have saved him.






21. What is the oldest you can be to get surviver benefits?






22. What does NATO stand for?






23. How many presidents were killed in office?






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






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






26. Who were Woodward and Bernstein?

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27. Andrew Johnson was _________'s VP






28. Woodrow Wilson's ideas on not to have a war - the league of nations - and the freedom to navigate the seas without interference are known as ________.






29. Who takes over if the President is disabled or dies?






30. Who was sent to a mental institution after Abraham Lincoln's death?






31. Manifest Destiny was to have all the land from __________ to ___________ (east to west)






32. which president was former head of CIA?






33. Where did the civil war begin?






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






35. Who gave the longest inauguration speech?






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






37. Who did fireside chats?






38. Alien Acts






39. Who was president for the persian gulf war?






40. This president swam naked in the Potomac River






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






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






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






44. Who did fireside chats?






45. Who was president for the Bay of Pigs?






46. John Quicy Adams spent time In what continent?






47. How many electoral votes does Florida have?






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






49. Where did the name 'gettysburg' come from?






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