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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 electoral votes do you need to win the election?






2. How many kids did George Washington have?






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






4. What month and year was the Gettysburg Address said?






5. Who introduced surviver benefits?






6. What date did WWII begin?






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






8. Which president had a stroke in his bathroom?






9. Franklin Delano Roosevelt's wife was related to him how?






10. what president was also president of the constitutional convention?






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






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






13. How many electors are in the electoral college?






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






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






16. How many presidents died in office?






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






18. What is Camp David?






19. What two states do not use 'winner-takes all' for the electoral college?






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






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






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






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






24. Who attempted to assassinate Ronald Reagan?






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






26. What was the Tenure of Office Act/






27. What state was John Adams from?






28. What year was the Louisiana Territory bought?






29. Who was the only president to be president and then supreme court chief justice?






30. Who said 'A date that will live in infamy'? What were they talking about (separate with semicolon)?






31. Why did we enter WWII?






32. What were the sides for the Korean war and the Vietnam war?






33. Which president created Yellowstone National Park and Yosemite?






34. When did we get involved and stop being involved with WWI? (month and year)






35. Why was Andrew Johnson impeached?






36. How many rooms in the white house?






37. What is the inauguration date?






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






39. Andrew Johnson was _________'s VP






40. What is the Truman Doctrine?






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






42. Who was the first VP?






43. Where was William McKinley killed?






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






45. What two states do not use 'winner-takes all' for the electoral college?






46. Who won the Civil war for Lincoln and later on became a president?






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






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






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






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