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






2. Who was president for the Iran Hostage crisis?






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






4. What law that Barack Obama passed might be unconstitutional and is being looked at by the supreme court now?






5. Who were Woodward and Bernstein?

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6. What did the monroe doctrine say?

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7. Andrew Johnson had a (good/bad) relation ship with congress over reconstruction






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






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






10. How many pounds was William Howard Taft?






11. Who built the Interstate Highway System?






12. What was the camp david accords?






13. Which president was obnoxious and disliked?






14. What war was George Washington in the military for?






15. What happens if no candidate gets the majorit y of electoral votes?






16. What happens to John Wilkes Booth?






17. What are disability benefits?






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






19. Who was president for the Bay of Pigs?






20. Who said 'The buck stops here'?






21. What is manifest destiny? how many square miles was it?






22. What was the league of nations?






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






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






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






26. What was the Banking Holiday?






27. Where did the civil war begin?






28. What president had the watergate scandal?






29. Who was president when the United Nations was formed?






30. Who killed Abraham Lincoln?






31. Who was the first VP?






32. Who had a 12 year affair with Gennifer Flowers?






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






34. What was reconstruction?






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

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36. James Monroe created the ________ Doctrine






37. Why did WWI happen?






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






39. Where was George Washington born?






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






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






42. Who was the youngest elected president?






43. What was a talent of John Wilkes Booth?






44. ______ years later - the Tenure of Office act was gotten rid of by the Supreme court because it was ________.






45. What was the nullification crisis?

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






47. Who introduced disability benefits?






48. Who was Franklin Delano Roosevelt married to?






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






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