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






2. John Adams had a successful marriage with ______ (first name).






3. James Madison's wife is famous for...






4. How many presidents died in office?






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






6. William Jefferson Clinton paid Paula Jones $____.






7. What is the oldest you can be to get surviver benefits?






8. Who was president for the Iran Hostage crisis?






9. Who passed Universal health care?






10. After what event was the Fourteen Points presented?






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






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






13. How many presidents were killed in office?






14. Franklin Delano Roosevelt died a short time into his ____ term.






15. Why was Andrew Johnson impeached?






16. What are the people in the electoral college called?






17. Who built the Interstate Highway System?






18. Which president created the University of Virgina?






19. What does NATO stand for?






20. What are disability benefits?






21. How many pounds was William Howard Taft?






22. What is Camp David?






23. who pays for the costs of operating the white house?






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






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






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






27. What month and year was the Gettysburg Address said?






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






29. How long do you have to be a citizen for to be president?






30. Who was the youngest elected president?






31. Who had the shortest presidency?






32. How did William McKinley die?






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






34. Who was on the good side for WWI (abc order)?






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






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






37. When Harry S Truman was president during WWII - what two places in japan were bombed (abc order)?






38. Which president had a stroke in his bathroom?






39. What president made the emancipation proclamtion?






40. What month is the election in?






41. What are the people in the electoral college called?






42. Who gave the longest inauguration speech?






43. What did John Wilkes Booth say after he shot Lincoln?






44. Sewards Folly was when ________ (secretary of state) bought land for $______ - which was thought to be as a joke then - but now that land is known as ________.






45. What was the league of nations?






46. Who had the shortest presidency?






47. Where did the name 'gettysburg' come from?






48. How many kids did George Washington have?






49. Which president made the panama canal?






50. What is the Electoral College?