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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. What war did George Washington lead the army for?






2. What is the Truman Doctrine?






3. Which president had a stroke in his bathroom?






4. What were the years of WWI?






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






6. What is the family Medical Leave Act?






7. What date did the civil war begin?






8. Jimmy Carter was the former governor of ____.






9. Who was the only president to get all the electoral votes?






10. Who attends diplomatic functions in place of the president?






11. Which president was a 'rough rider' in the Spanish American War?






12. When did we get involved and stop being involved with WWI? (month and year)






13. How many presidents were killed in office?






14. What was the Berlin Airlift?






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






16. Lyndon Johnson got lots of bills passed involving ______.






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






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






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






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






21. Which president got Alzheimers and forgot being president?






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






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






24. Why was Andrew Johnson impeached?






25. Which president created the University of Virgina?






26. How tall was Abraham Lincoln?

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27. What president had the watergate scandal?






28. Do we vote directly for the president?






29. When was the Emancipation proclamation?






30. How many electoral votes do you need to win the election?






31. What president made the emancipation proclamtion?






32. How much of a retirement income per year does the president make (for life)?






33. What presidents lost the popular vote but won the electoral vote? (in order)






34. How many presidents died in office?






35. How was James Garfield killed?






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






37. How many electoral votes does Florida have?






38. Who introduced disability benefits?






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






40. Why did WWII begin?






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






42. How tall was Abraham Lincoln?

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43. Where did Abraham Lincoln's assasination take place?

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44. What month is the election in?






45. What to laws did Adams TRY to pass?






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






47. Who was the first VP?






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






49. What president had the watergate scandal?






50. What college did George Washington go to?