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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. Who burnt down the White House during a war?






3. Who was president for the nullification crisis?






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






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






6. What was a talent of John Wilkes Booth?






7. What is the Electoral College?






8. How did John Wilkes Booth break his leg?






9. Who is the current secretary of state?






10. Who was the first VP?






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






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


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






14. Where do electors vote?


15. What happens to John Wilkes Booth?






16. Who balanced the budget?






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






18. Who gave the longest inauguration speech?






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






20. What year was the Louisiana Territory bought?






21. Which president made the panama canal?






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






23. Who won a Nobel Peace Prize for what they were going to do?






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






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






26. What was the New Deal?






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






28. Who balanced the budget?






29. During the civil war - the south named itself _____.






30. Which president was obnoxious and disliked?






31. Andrew Johnson was _________'s VP






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






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






34. Do we vote directly for the president?






35. This president helped write the federalist papers.






36. Who was Franklin Delano Roosevelt married to?






37. Who was the oldest elected president (age 73 at 2nd term)?






38. What is the command of army act?






39. Who is the current Vice President?






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






41. What state was John Adams from?






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






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






44. Who was the only man to be president Who was not elected to either vp spot or the presidency?






45. John Quicy Adams spent time In what continent?






46. What was a talent of John Wilkes Booth?






47. Who was president during the War of 1812 against England?






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






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






50. William Jefferson Clinton paid Paula Jones $____.