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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 president when the United Nations was formed?






2. How was James Garfield killed?






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






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






5. Who was President during the Spanish American War?






6. What state is Camp David in?






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






8. Where was Thomas Jefferson born?






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






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






11. Who is considered 'the father of our country'?






12. What president made the emancipation proclamtion?






13. Who was the first VP?






14. Who was president for the Bay of Pigs?






15. Who was the youngest elected president?






16. What were the sides for the Korean war and the Vietnam war?






17. Who was Abraham Lincoln married to?






18. Who gave the longest inauguration speech?






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






20. What is the family Medical Leave Act?






21. Who killed Abraham Lincoln?






22. What president did the Berlin airlift?






23. Which president started the two term tradition?






24. how many years is a score?






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






26. Where was Thomas Jefferson born?






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






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






29. Which president was former ambassador to China?






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






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






32. Do we vote directly for the president?






33. What did the Interstate Highway System also do besides provide a road for driving?






34. Manifest Destiny was to have all the land from __________ to ___________ (east to west)






35. Who did we help in the Vietnam war and the korean war?






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






37. Paula Jones sued William Jefferson Clinton for _______.






38. Who was on the bad side for WWI (abc order)?






39. What were John Adams's last words?






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






41. Who introduced surviver benefits?






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






43. How many years do you have to live in the U.S. for to be president?






44. What was the league of nations?






45. How can a president serve up to ten years?

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46. John Quicy Adams spent time In what continent?






47. How many rooms in the white house?






48. What was the name of the airplane that bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki






49. What happens to John Wilkes Booth?






50. Who did the Banking Holiday?