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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. What was the New Deal?






2. Which president was the 'father of the constitution'?






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






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






5. What date did the civil war begin?






6. Who was President during the Spanish American War?






7. Which president created the University of Virgina?






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






9. What is the mandatory retirement plan run by the government?






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






11. What was Lincoln's most famous speech?






12. Who is the current speaker of the House?






13. Who ran the country when Woodrow Wilson couldn't?






14. How tall was Abraham Lincoln?


15. Who invaded Iraq?






16. Who was Franklin Delano Roosevelt married to?






17. Who gave the longest inauguration speech?






18. What was reconstruction?






19. Where did Thomas Jefferson go to college?






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






21. how many years is a score?






22. Who was our president during the Korean war?






23. What war was Abraham Lincoln president during?






24. What is Camp David?






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






26. Who passed Universal health care?






27. Which president created Yellowstone National Park and Yosemite?






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






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






30. Who moved up when John Fitzgerald Kennedy died because He was his VP?






31. How many presidents died in office?






32. How many electors are in the electoral college?






33. Who was the fpresident during WWI?






34. Which presidents were cousins?






35. Who presented the Fourteen Points?






36. Which president adopted independence - was loyal - smart - and a lawyer?






37. 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)






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






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






40. What were fireside chats?






41. Who attempted to assassinate Ronald Reagan?






42. What is the family Medical Leave Act?






43. How many pounds was William Howard Taft?






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






45. What did the monroe doctrine say?


46. Who said 'The only thing we have to fear is fear itself' at their 1st inaugural?






47. Who was president for the persian gulf war?






48. Which president was a lawyer - very smart - an architect - a musician - and an inventor?






49. Who ran the country when Woodrow Wilson couldn't?






50. James Monroe created the ________ Doctrine