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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. Which president started the two term tradition?






2. What is the command of army act?






3. Who killed Abraham Lincoln?






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






5. Who was President during the Spanish American War?






6. Which president recognized Israel and traded with them and gave money and embassadors to them?






7. What year was the Louisiana Territory bought?






8. Who was president during the Great depression?






9. Where did the civil war begin?






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






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






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






13. Which president was a great general - a leader - honest - and trustworth?






14. What was the point of the Gettysburg Address (two things)?






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






16. What is the family Medical Leave Act?






17. What were fireside chats?






18. Which president had a stroke in his bathroom?






19. Name the two presidents (ABC order by last name - write first and last name) who died on the same day - and the date they died (separate with semi colon)






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






21. Lyndon Johnson got lots of bills passed involving ______.






22. Where did Abraham Lincoln's assasination take place?


23. Who was our president during the Korean war?






24. Who was President during the Spanish American War?






25. What year was the White House burnt down?






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






27. Which president got Alzheimers and forgot being president?






28. Who was on the bad side for WWI (abc order)?






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






30. Can the amount of money a president earns be increased/decreased during someone's term of office?






31. Did we win the Spanish American War?






32. How many pounds was William Howard Taft?






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






34. What president made the emancipation proclamtion?






35. How many presidents died in office?






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






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






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






39. 'Speak softley and carry a big stick' was a quote of who?






40. Gerald Ford pardons _____________ for all crimes committed.






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






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






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






44. 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 ________.






45. Who's son married Nixon's daughter?






46. Who was president for the Bay of Pigs?






47. Why did WWII begin?






48. How did William McKinley die?






49. Who is the current secretary of state?






50. What war was George Washington in the military for?