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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 was William McKinley killed?






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






3. What to laws did Adams TRY to pass?






4. Where was John Fitzgerald Kennedy assassinated?






5. Where does the president live for free?






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






7. How long do you have to be a citizen for to be president?






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

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9. Who supported manifest destiny?






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






11. Which president got Alzheimers and forgot being president?






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






13. Why did we invade Iraq?

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14. Who did fireside chats?






15. What presidents lost the popular vote but won the electoral vote? (in order)






16. What are the people in the electoral college called?






17. Who was president for the nullification crisis?






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






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






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






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






22. Who was President during the Spanish American War?






23. What was the camp david accords?






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






25. What state was John Adams from?






26. What were fireside chats?






27. What is the inauguration date?






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






29. How many presidents died in office?






30. Do we vote directly for the president?






31. Who were Woodward and Bernstein?

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






33. Andrew Johnson was _________'s VP






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






35. When did we enter WWII?






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






37. Who was the first VP to move up on death of a president?






38. When was the Emancipation proclamation?






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






40. Who had an affair with Monica Lewinsky - a young intern at the White House?






41. What is the command of army act?






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






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






44. Which president was former ambassador to China?






45. How much money does the president earn per year?






46. What was the Tenure of Office Act/






47. Who balanced the budget?






48. During the Great Depression - ____% were unemployed.






49. Who was FDR's VP Who was president for WWII?






50. Where was George Washington born?