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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. Who was the first African American President?






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






3. Who was the youngest elected president?






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






5. Who said 'The buck stops here'?






6. Who was the first president not to win the popular vote and to become president?






7. What is the address of the white house?






8. Why wasn't Richard Nixon thrown out of office?






9. How many former vice presidents have become president?






10. How was James Garfield killed?






11. What president had the watergate scandal?






12. 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)






13. Who had many affairs during their presidency but claimed not to?






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






15. How many kids did John Tyler have?






16. How many presidents died of natural causes in office?






17. Who was president during the Great depression?






18. Who was President during the Spanish American War?






19. What is the Truman Doctrine?






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






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






22. What did the monroe doctrine say?

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23. Which president was author of the Virginia Plan?






24. What was the New Deal?






25. What is NATO (not what it stands for - what it is)?






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






27. Alien Acts






28. Who was the first African American President?






29. Which president helped create the Library of Congress when he sells and donates 6000 books?






30. What was the point of the Gettysburg Address (two things)?






31. Why was Andrew Johnson impeached?






32. Which president was obnoxious and disliked?






33. William Jefferson Clinton paid Paula Jones $____.






34. Who did the Banking Holiday?






35. 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 ________.






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






37. Franklin Delano Roosevelt got his middle name because his _____'s favorite relative was de la Noye






38. Why didn't the Emancipation proclamation work?






39. Who was president for the Bay of Pigs?






40. What are surviver benefits?






41. Who is the current Vice President?






42. Who passed Universal health care?






43. Who was president for the Bay of Pigs?






44. Which president was the youngest to serve?






45. Who was William McKinley's VP that moved up when He was killed?






46. How many former vice presidents have become president?






47. Who introduced disability benefits?






48. During the civil war - the south's general was ____________.






49. During the civil war - the south's president was _____________.






50. Who was Deep Throat?