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U.S. Presidents Trivia
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1. What two states do not use 'winner-takes all' for the electoral college?
Ft. Sumter - South Carolina
Maine and Nebraska
Air Force One - Marine One - and limousines
The president
2. What was the name of the airplane that bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki
60; unconstitutional
John Quicy Adams
Enola Gay
If he serves 2 or less years of someone else's term plus 8 years on his own
3. How many Vice Presidents ran again for president and became president?
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor - Hawaii
5
We thought there were weapons of mass destruction - but there weren't
Harry S Truman
4. The president get ____ care and _____ care for free.
James Polk
Democratic National Headquarters; Watergate
Teddy Roosevelt
Dental; medical
5. When did we get involved and stop being involved with WWI? (month and year)
April 1917- November 1918
Gerald Ford
The Vice President
Lyndon Johnson
6. Where do electors vote?
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7. Why wasn't Richard Nixon thrown out of office?
The government
He resigned before the impeachment trial
Worker can take three months off in a year to take care of sick relatives or him/herself and cannot be fired
George H. W. Bush
8. What date did WWII begin?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
George H.W. Bush and George Bush
September 1st - 1939
5
9. Which presidents were cousins?
Teddy Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
The idea to own all the land from the pacific to the atlantic ocean; 1.2 million
1803
10. Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant knew eachother because _________.
Martha
Social Security
22 - 24
They were classmates in college
11. What war did George Washington lead the army for?
Thomas Jefferson
Revolutionary War
George H.W. Bush and George Bush
Richard Nixon
12. What was the most terms served by a president?
January 1st - 1863
OK to send home foregienors if they looked dangerous; also if we were in war with their country
4
Richard Nixon
13. Who was the first president not to win the popular vote and to become president?
John Quicy Adams
Teddy Roosevelt
OK to send home foregienors if they looked dangerous; also if we were in war with their country
Polio
14. James Madison's wife is famous for...
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
John Adams
James Madison
Saving a picture of Washington during the war
15. Which president started the two term tradition?
George Washington
John Adams
Electors
James Madison
16. 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 ________.
When peace was made between Israel and Egypt at Camp David
USA
Harry S Truman
The fourteen points
17. What are surviver benefits?
The three day battle in July in Gettysburg about slaves
John Adams and John Quincy Adams
Money goes to kids when a parent dies
You can collect money if you become disabled before retirement
18. What did John Wilkes Booth say after he shot Lincoln?
Sic Semper Tyrannis - the south is avenged
Civil War
Buffalo - New York
Social Security
19. Who was the only man to be president Who was not elected to either vp spot or the presidency?
4
Gerald Ford
4
The president could not fire and federal official who had gotten their job with Senate approval
20. Who said 'A date that will live in infamy'? What were they talking about (separate with semicolon)?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Pearl Harbor bombing
4th
Germany invaded Poland
William Jefferson Clinton
21. Who did the Banking Holiday?
30
Dwight David Eisenhower
Jimmy Carter
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
22. What college did George Washington go to?
James Madison
Martha
None
0
23. Did we win the Spanish American War?
Yes
George H. W. Bush
Woodrow Wilson
John Hinkley Jr.
24. Which president adopted independence - was loyal - smart - and a lawyer?
Hillary Clinton
John Adams
Revolutionary War
George Washington
25. Who attends diplomatic functions in place of the president?
William Howard Taft
The Vice President
Jefferson Davis
George Washington - John Adams - Thomas Jefferson - James Madison - James Monroe - and John Quincy Adams
26. Who were the second presidents to be father and son?
George H.W. Bush and George Bush
Says to Europe to stay out of the western memosphere and don't colonize; the U.S. will consider colonization a threat to our secruity; we will stay out of European affairs unless they affect us
27
The House of Representatives selects the President and the Senate selects the Vice President
27. During the Great Depression - ____% were unemployed.
William Howard Taft
25
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Massachusetts
28. Which president was former ambassador to China?
The fourteen points
George H. W. Bush
John Adams and John Quincy Adams
Ft. Sumter - South Carolina
29. Who were the first presidents to be father and son?
Zapruder film
Polio
William Henry Harrison
John Adams and John Quincy Adams
30. Which president recognized Israel and traded with them and gave money and embassadors to them?
Harry S Truman
Bad
James Madison
Speeches given for hope
31. Who was President during the Spanish American War?
James Polk
Period after the Civil War and how we reunited
William McKinley
Bad
32. Who was our president when we kille Osama bin Laden?
Barack Obama
Dwight David Eisenhower
East of Africa
April 1917- November 1918
33. What month is the election in?
Club with all countries where problems were discussed peacefully
John Quincy Adams - Rutherford B. Hayes - Benjamin Harrison - and George W. Bush
November
September 1st - 1939
34. Who was president during the War of 1812 against England?
James Madison
444
Medical insurance for all americans
Jefferson still survives
35. John Adams had a successful marriage with ______ (first name).
20
James Madison
Perjury and obstruction of justice
Abigail
36. Who was the oldest elected president (age 73 at 2nd term)?
England; sailors; products
Ronald Reagan
None
5
37. Who acts as an advisor to the president?
Gerald Ford
The Civil War
The Vice President
Ford's Theater
38. James Monroe created the ________ Doctrine
Mary Todd-Lincoln
Bad
James Madison
Monroe
39. Why was Andrew Johnson impeached?
England - France - Russia - USA
George H. W. Bush
Richard Nixon
He fired the Secretary of War Staton
40. What was the camp david accords?
Hillary Clinton
8
35
When peace was made between Israel and Egypt at Camp David
41. Who introduced social security?
Jimmy Carter
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Kentucky; Log cabin
The Vice President
42. How many terms is a president alowed to serve?
Ford's Theater
6'4'
2
The US was prepared to send money and military support to countries that want to resist communism
43. Who won a Nobel Peace Prize for what they were going to do?
Barack Obama
April 12th - 1861
1 million
Cuba wanted to overthrow Castrow and our military helped train them
44. Who was on the bad side for WWI (abc order)?
Germany - Hungary - Turkey
The three day battle in July in Gettysburg about slaves
Jefferson still survives
The president could not fire and federal official who had gotten their job with Senate approval
45. Which president helped create the Library of Congress when he sells and donates 6000 books?
Perjury and obstruction of justice
Thomas Jefferson
Ulysses S. Grant
Ft. Sumter - South Carolina
46. Who was president for the Iran Hostage crisis?
The fourteen points
William Seward; $7.2 million; Alaska
Jimmy Carter
The south
47. Who introduced social security?
John Boehner
The Confederate States of America
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
When he jumped out of the balcony - his foot got stuck in the bunting and he fell onto stage
48. The person who killed John Fitzgerald Kennedy is thought to have killed him in a _______ - or not alone.
Perjury and obstruction of justice
Conspiracy
4th
England - France - Russia - USA
49. Which presidents were cousins?
20
Ulysses S. Grant
Electors
Teddy Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt
50. How was James Garfield killed?
He was shot on his way to a college reunion
William Jefferson Clinton
No
A person who knew the truth about Richard Nixon and told Woodward and Bernstein
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