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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. Which president started the two term tradition?






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






3. Who is the current Vice President?






4. Who was president for the Iran Hostage crisis?






5. Gerald Ford pardons _____________ for all crimes committed.






6. What is the address of the white house?






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






8. Jimmy Carter was the former governor of ____.






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






10. Where was Abraham Lincoln born? What kind of house did he live in?






11. Who won the Civil war for Lincoln and later on became a president?






12. Who was a peanut farmer?






13. Who had the shortest presidency?






14. Who did the Banking Holiday?






15. Who is the current speaker of the House?






16. Who created the Family Medical Leave Act?






17. What are surviver benefits?






18. What was Lincoln's most famous speech?






19. Who was George Washington's wife?






20. How many pounds was William Howard Taft?






21. During the civil war - the ________ wanted slaves and the ________ did not.






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






23. Which presidents were great grandfather and grandson?






24. What state was John Adams from?






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






26. Who was embarrassed when they received the Nobel Peace Prize?






27. What was a talent of John Wilkes Booth?






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






29. The person who killed John Fitzgerald Kennedy is thought to have killed him in a _______ - or not alone.






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






31. Who was the fpresident during WWI?






32. Which presidents were cousins?






33. Who was the first VP?






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






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






36. James Madison's wife was ________ Madison.






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






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






39. Who invaded Iraq?






40. Who was Franklin Delano Roosevelt married to?






41. What was the Banking Holiday?






42. Who was president for the 9/11 attacks?






43. which president was former head of CIA?






44. What happens to John Wilkes Booth?






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






46. Why did WWI happen?






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






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






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






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