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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 date did WWII begin?






2. Why did we enter WWII?






3. Who is the current Vice President?






4. Who created the Family Medical Leave Act?






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






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






7. What was the Banking Holiday?






8. Where did Thomas Jefferson go to college?






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






10. Where does the number of electors in the electoral college come from?






11. What is the Electoral College?






12. Gerald Ford pardons _____________ for all crimes committed.






13. What college did George Washington go to?






14. Who was Abraham Lincoln married to?






15. Who's son is Camp David named after?






16. What transportation does the president get?






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






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






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






20. Which president made the panama canal?






21. This president helped write the federalist papers.






22. How many Vice Presidents ran again for president and became president?






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






24. Who supported manifest destiny?






25. Who's son is Camp David named after?






26. Who was the only president to be president and then supreme court chief justice?






27. Where was Abraham Lincoln born? What kind of house did he live in?






28. During the civil war - the ________ wanted slaves and the ________ did not.






29. Who was the youngest elected president?






30. Do we vote directly for the president?






31. After Abraham Lincoln was shot - He was carried across the street to ________________ where he dies when?






32. Who were the second presidents to be father and son?






33. Who pays for all personal entertainment and dinners not related to teh government business in the White House?






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






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






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






37. What is the address of the white house?






38. Who balanced the budget?






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






40. Who was president for the nullification crisis?






41. Who was the first African American President?






42. Who was president for the persian gulf war?






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






44. Who was the only president to resign?






45. Who acts as an advisor to the president?






46. Who killed Abraham Lincoln?






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






48. Franklin Delano Roosevelt got his middle name because his _____'s favorite relative was de la Noye






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






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