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U.S. Presidents Trivia
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1. When was the Emancipation proclamation?
4
Forced the president to issue all military orders through general of the army who could not be removed without senate approval
6'4'
January 1st - 1863
2. 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 ________.
John Boehner
Dallas - Texas
William Seward; $7.2 million; Alaska
1803
3. Who was Franklin Delano Roosevelt married to?
George Washington
Eleanor
Speeches given for hope
William Jefferson Clinton
4. What is the Truman Doctrine?
Teddy Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt
8
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The US was prepared to send money and military support to countries that want to resist communism
5. Who was the only president to resign?
John Quincy Adams - Rutherford B. Hayes - Benjamin Harrison - and George W. Bush
Yes
George Washington
Richard Nixon
6. Who was the only president to get all the electoral votes?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Pearl Harbor bombing
John Quincy Adams - Rutherford B. Hayes - Benjamin Harrison - and George W. Bush
George Washington
8
7. Why wasn't Andrew Johnson removed from office when He was impeached?
Harry S Truman
35 said He was guilty - but he needed 36
In their state's capital
Electors
8. Andrew Johnson had a (good/bad) relation ship with congress over reconstruction
George H. W. Bush
Bad
Dwight David Eisenhower
444
9. Why did WWII begin?
Sic Semper Tyrannis - the south is avenged
5
Germany invaded Poland
We thought there were weapons of mass destruction - but there weren't
10. How did William McKinley die?
He was shot
Lee Harvey Oswald
Gerald Ford
His 5th cousin
11. Why did the league of nations fail (what country wouldn't join)?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
USA
James Madison
14
12. Where does the number of electors in the electoral college come from?
The number of people in Congress plus 3 for DC
Richard Nixon
5
Harry S Truman
13. Who created the Family Medical Leave Act?
William Jefferson Clinton
Monroe
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Ronald Reagan
14. Where was John Fitzgerald Kennedy assassinated?
If he serves 2 or less years of someone else's term plus 8 years on his own
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Dallas - Texas
Lee Harvey Oswald
15. How did John Wilkes Booth break his leg?
Richard Nixon
When he jumped out of the balcony - his foot got stuck in the bunting and he fell onto stage
William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison
Bad
16. Who was president when the United Nations was formed?
William McKinley
Abraham Lincoln
The House of Representatives selects the President and the Senate selects the Vice President
Harry S Truman
17. Why wasn't Andrew Johnson removed from office when He was impeached?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Pearl Harbor bombing
William Henry Harrison - Zachary Taylor - Warren Harding - and Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Money goes to kids when a parent dies
35 said He was guilty - but he needed 36
18. During the Great Depression - ____% were unemployed.
The president could not fire and federal official who had gotten their job with Senate approval
25
George H. W. Bush
22 - 24
19. 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 ________.
Germany was attacking ships
Barack Obama
When peace was made between Israel and Egypt at Camp David
The fourteen points
20. Why did we enter WWII?
William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison
Ft. Sumter - South Carolina
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor - Hawaii
November 1863
21. What transportation does the president get?
Germany was attacking ships
Jimmy Carter
Teddy Roosevelt - Woodrow Wilson - Jimmy Carter - and Barack Obama
Air Force One - Marine One - and limousines
22. Which presidents were great grandfather and grandson?
Dwight David Eisenhower
Democratic National Headquarters; Watergate
Richard Nixon
William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison
23. Who was on the bad side for WWI (abc order)?
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
OK to send home foregienors if they looked dangerous; also if we were in war with their country
Germany - Hungary - Turkey
1
24. Name the two presidents (ABC order by last name - write first and last name) who died on the same day - and the date they died (separate with semi colon)
A person who knew the truth about Richard Nixon and told Woodward and Bernstein
1803
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson; July 4th - 1826
4
25. how many years is a score?
20
The banks were closed because everyone wanted their money at once
John Hinkley Jr.
Ft. Sumter - South Carolina
26. What was Lincoln's most famous speech?
Dwight David Eisenhower
George Washington
The fourteen points
The Gettysburg Address
27. What was the Emancipation proclamation meant to do?
Free the slaves in the south
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
George H.W. Bush and George Bush
Europe
28. Which president created the University of Virgina?
Iraq invaded Kuwait - and a coalition of naions push Iraq out of Kuwait
Thomas Jefferson
60; unconstitutional
Martha
29. Why wasn't Richard Nixon thrown out of office?
1814
The idea to own all the land from the pacific to the atlantic ocean; 1.2 million
He resigned before the impeachment trial
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
30. Where does the number of electors in the electoral college come from?
The number of people in Congress plus 3 for DC
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
4
Since birth
31. Paula Jones sued William Jefferson Clinton for _______.
A 2nd home for the president
30
Gerald Ford
Sexual harrassment
32. Which president was a lawyer - very smart - an architect - a musician - and an inventor?
John Tyler
Thomas Jefferson
George H. W. Bush
When we dropped food and supplies to people in West Berlin
33. In most states - what percent of the state's electoral votes does a candidate get if they win the popular vote?
George H. W. Bush
Eleanor
Monroe
100
34. Which president was the youngest to serve?
Thomas Jefferson
5
Teddy Roosevelt
Worker can take three months off in a year to take care of sick relatives or him/herself and cannot be fired
35. Who was FDR's VP Who was president for WWII?
Harry S Truman
Lyndon Johnson
Andrew Jackson
John Quicy Adams
36. Who did the Banking Holiday?
Teddy Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt
27
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
270
37. ______ years later - the Tenure of Office act was gotten rid of by the Supreme court because it was ________.
The US was prepared to send money and military support to countries that want to resist communism
Dwight David Eisenhower
60; unconstitutional
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
38. This president helped write the federalist papers.
Dallas - Texas
William Howard Taft
James Madison
22 - 24
39. How much money does the president earn per year?
$400000
He was shot on his way to a college reunion
Barack Obama
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
40. Who was president for the Bay of Pigs?
England - France - Russia - USA
Civil War
35
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
41. What is NATO (not what it stands for - what it is)?
Writters for Washington Post who figured out Richard Nixon's case
Monticello - Virginia
Conspiracy
A support group of countries
42. How tall was Abraham Lincoln?
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43. What month is the election in?
November
Saving a picture of Washington during the war
Self
April 12th - 1861
44. During the civil war - the south named itself _____.
Worker can take three months off in a year to take care of sick relatives or him/herself and cannot be fired
The Confederate States of America
No
Zapruder film
45. What were the years of WWI?
1914-1918
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Germany invaded Poland
Ulysses S. Grant
46. How many terms is a president alowed to serve?
1 million
Gerald Ford
William and Mary College
2
47. Who was the fpresident during WWI?
George Washington
Woodrow Wilson
Germany - Hungary - Turkey
Teddy Roosevelt
48. Who gave the longest inauguration speech?
William Henry Harrison
Jimmy Carter
Free the slaves in the south
John Adams and John Quincy Adams
49. What presidents (in order) died of natural causes?
Acting
James Polk
Conspiracy
William Henry Harrison - Zachary Taylor - Warren Harding - and Franklin Delano Roosevelt
50. Where does the right to navigate teh seas without interference not apply?
5
East of Africa
Germany was attacking ships
Woodrow Wilson