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U.S. Presidents Trivia

Subjects : trivia, history
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Who had a 12 year affair with Gennifer Flowers?






2. Who balanced the budget?






3. Who pays for all personal entertainment and dinners not related to teh government business in the White House?






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






5. Franklin Delano Roosevelt died a short time into his ____ term.






6. Which president created the University of Virgina?






7. What was William Jefferson Clinton impeached for?






8. Which president started the two term tradition?






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






10. What was the Emancipation proclamation meant to do?






11. What war did George Washington lead the army for?






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






13. What college did George Washington go to?






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






15. Why did we invade Iraq?

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16. Who supported manifest destiny?






17. Jimmy Carter was the former governor of ____.






18. What was reconstruction?






19. William Jefferson Clinton paid Paula Jones $____.






20. Which president was author of the Virginia Plan?






21. What was a talent of John Wilkes Booth?






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






23. What date was John Fitzgerald Kennedy killed on?






24. How many Vice Presidents have moved up because the president resigned?






25. Who was president during the Great depression?






26. In most states - what percent of the state's electoral votes does a candidate get if they win the popular vote?






27. What happens to John Wilkes Booth?






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






29. Who had the first death in office?






30. Name the Founding Fathers plus the son in order...






31. Alien Acts






32. Who was our president during the Korean war?






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






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






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






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






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






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






39. What were the territories we gained in the Spanish American War? (ABC order with commas inbetween)






40. What is the inauguration date?






41. When did we enter WWII?






42. What month is the election in?






43. Who was the first VP?






44. What were fireside chats?






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






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






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






48. What year was the White House burnt down?






49. Who is the current secretary of state?






50. How many rooms in the white house?