Test your basic knowledge |

U.S. Presidents Trivia

Subjects : trivia, history
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
  • If you are not ready to take this test, you can study here.
  • Match each statement with the correct term.
  • Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.

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 month is the election in?






2. Who was Deep Throat?






3. Who said 'The buck stops here'?






4. What is the Truman Doctrine?






5. The committee of the watergate scandal illegally entered the __________ (building) and spied on Nixon's opponent Who was in the _______ complex.






6. What date was John Fitzgerald Kennedy killed on?






7. Who was the fpresident during WWI?






8. How many kids did John Tyler have?






9. Which president was author of the Virginia Plan?






10. Which presidents were great grandfather and grandson?






11. What does 'Sic Semper Tyrranis' mean?






12. What was the persian gulf war/desert storm?






13. Which presidents were cousins?






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






15. Who was President during the Spanish American War?






16. Why didn't the Emancipation proclamation work?






17. Who is the current speaker of the House?






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






19. What was the most terms served by a president?






20. which president was former head of CIA?






21. Who's son is Camp David named after?






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






23. What were fireside chats?






24. What transportation does the president get?






25. 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 ________.






26. What was reconstruction?






27. What was the league of nations?






28. Which president started the two term tradition?






29. How many terms is a president alowed to serve?






30. Who was the fpresident during WWI?






31. Who burnt down the White House during a war?






32. What happens to John Wilkes Booth?






33. What are disability benefits?






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






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






36. what disease did Franklin Delano Roosevelt have?






37. What to laws did Adams TRY to pass?






38. Abraham Lincoln was ______ educated






39. Who was President during the Spanish American War?






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






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






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






43. In the War of 1812 - ________ (country) kept stealing our ________ (people) and _______ (items) in the middle of the ocean (separate with semicolon).






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






45. Which president made the panama canal?






46. What was the league of nations?






47. How many Vice Presidents ran again for president and became president?






48. Grover Cleveland was the ____ and ____ president (numbers)






49. What date was John Fitzgerald Kennedy killed on?






50. Who built the Interstate Highway System?