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U.S. Presidents Trivia

Subjects : trivia, history
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What was Lincoln's most famous speech?






2. Which presidents won the nobel peace prize (in order)?






3. How many states broke away during the civil war AT FIRST? how many total ending up breaking away?






4. How many presidents were killed in office?






5. What date was John Fitzgerald Kennedy killed on?






6. William Jefferson Clinton paid Paula Jones $____.






7. Why was Andrew Johnson impeached?






8. During the civil war - the north's general was ___________.






9. What is the inauguration date?






10. How many former vice presidents have become president?






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






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






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






14. How much money does the president earn per year?






15. What was the persian gulf war/desert storm?






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






17. Who was the only president to resign?






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






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






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






21. Why wasn't Andrew Johnson removed from office when He was impeached?






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






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






24. Who was sent to a mental institution after Abraham Lincoln's death?






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






26. Who is the current Vice President?






27. During the Great Depression - ____% were unemployed.






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






29. Why was Andrew Johnson impeached?






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






31. what ended a couple of days before Abraham Lincoln's Assasination?






32. What president had the watergate scandal?






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






34. The ______ was invented when William McKinley was killed - and it could have saved him.






35. Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant knew eachother because _________.






36. Where does the president live for free?






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






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

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






40. When was the Emancipation proclamation?






41. Who had the first death in office?






42. Woodrow Wilson's ideas on not to have a war - the league of nations - and the freedom to navigate the seas without interference are known as ________.






43. How many former vice presidents have become president?






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






45. How many presidents died in office?






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






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






48. Alien Acts






49. Who did fireside chats?






50. When did we enter WWII?