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U.S. Presidents Trivia
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1. Who was the only president to be president and then supreme court chief justice?
The number of people in Congress plus 3 for DC
The Vice President
William Howard Taft
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
2. Which president was a great general - a leader - honest - and trustworth?
Massachusetts
The Gettysburg Address
George Washington
The south
3. Where does the number of electors in the electoral college come from?
The south
The number of people in Congress plus 3 for DC
Universal health care
Dwight David Eisenhower
4. Why wasn't Andrew Johnson removed from office when He was impeached?
The banks were closed because everyone wanted their money at once
Woodrow Wilson
35 said He was guilty - but he needed 36
Massachusetts
5. Which president was a lawyer - very smart - an architect - a musician - and an inventor?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
A gun
East of Africa
Thomas Jefferson
6. Who won a nobel peace prize because of the camp david accords?
1803
Worker can take three months off in a year to take care of sick relatives or him/herself and cannot be fired
Jimmy Carter
When we dropped food and supplies to people in West Berlin
7. Andrew Johnson was _________'s VP
Abraham Lincoln
The first Tuesday of Novermber that follows a monday in November
Teddy Roosevelt
Teddy Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt
8. Where was George Washington born?
Dental; medical
Barack Obama
Mount Vernon - Virginia
Polio
9. What year was the White House burnt down?
Barack Obama
Ronald Reagan
4
1814
10. Who ran the country when Woodrow Wilson couldn't?
Buffalo - New York
The number of people in Congress plus 3 for DC
November 22nd - 1963
His wife
11. Gerald Ford pardons _____________ for all crimes committed.
Alien and sedition acts
James Polk
Richard Nixon
James Polk
12. What was the league of nations?
Money goes to kids when a parent dies
The first Tuesday of Novermber that follows a monday in November
Club with all countries where problems were discussed peacefully
Thomas Jefferson
13. Who was the first VP to move up on death of a president?
Thomas Jefferson
England
John Tyler
Forced the president to issue all military orders through general of the army who could not be removed without senate approval
14. Who acts as an advisor to the president?
The Vice President
Ford's Theater
George H. W. Bush
444
15. What does NATO stand for?
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Andrew Jackson
Mom
538
16. How many terms is a president alowed to serve?
$150000
George W. Bush
2
The US was prepared to send money and military support to countries that want to resist communism
17. What was a talent of John Wilkes Booth?
Georgia
Acting
Monticello - Virginia
Ford's Theater
18. Why was Andrew Johnson impeached?
The House of Representatives selects the President and the Senate selects the Vice President
George Washington
John Boehner
He fired the Secretary of War Staton
19. What does 'Sic Semper Tyrranis' mean?
Thus always to tyrants
Teddy Roosevelt
Woodrow Wilson
Cuba wanted to overthrow Castrow and our military helped train them
20. Who was the first President during WWII?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
John Wilkes Booth
When peace was made between Israel and Egypt at Camp David
Mary Todd-Lincoln
21. Who was the only catholic president?
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
The south
Dental; medical
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
22. Which presient send Lewis and Clark on their journey?
Thomas Jefferson
William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison
The number of people in Congress plus 3 for DC
John Adams
23. Who was president for the persian gulf war?
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
William Jefferson Clinton
The Vice President
George H. W. Bush
24. What is the inauguration date?
Money goes to kids when a parent dies
January 20th
Guam - Midway Islands - Philippines - and Puerto Rico
A gun
25. During the Great Depression - ____% were unemployed.
He fired the Secretary of War Staton
George H. W. Bush
Woodrow Wilson
25
26. What state is Camp David in?
The idea to own all the land from the pacific to the atlantic ocean; 1.2 million
They were classmates in college
Maryland
James Madison
27. What were the territories we gained in the Spanish American War? (ABC order with commas inbetween)
Guam - Midway Islands - Philippines - and Puerto Rico
Civil rights
The government
Daniel Inouye
28. What was the Tenure of Office Act/
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Teddy Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Thomas Jefferson
The president could not fire and federal official who had gotten their job with Senate approval
29. Who was sent to a mental institution after Abraham Lincoln's death?
George Washington - John Adams - Thomas Jefferson - James Madison - James Monroe - and John Quincy Adams
Mary Todd-Lincoln
Dwight David Eisenhower
John Tyler
30. Congress passed 2 laws designed to limit __________'s (a president) power .
John Adams and John Quincy Adams
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson; July 4th - 1826
Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Pearl Harbor bombing
Andrew Johnson
31. How many electoral votes do you need to win the election?
Ft. Sumter - South Carolina
The president
270
4
32. Manifest Destiny was to have all the land from __________ to ___________ (east to west)
8
George Washington - John Adams - Thomas Jefferson - James Madison - James Monroe - and John Quincy Adams
New Mexico to California
A person who knew the truth about Richard Nixon and told Woodward and Bernstein
33. What weapon was used to kill Lincoln?
Dallas - Texas
30
A gun
Harry S Truman
34. Who balanced the budget?
2
X-ray
Dwight David Eisenhower
William Jefferson Clinton
35. How many kids did John Tyler have?
World War I
15
Teddy Roosevelt
Richard Nixon
36. What was the Banking Holiday?
0
England
132
The banks were closed because everyone wanted their money at once
37. What was the name of the airplane that bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki
James Madison
November
John Quicy Adams
Enola Gay
38. How many electors are in the electoral college?
William Jefferson Clinton
4
538
Sic Semper Tyrannis - the south is avenged
39. John Adams went to what college?
The north and the south were split up
100
Saving a picture of Washington during the war
Harvard
40. Who said 'The buck stops here'?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Harry S Truman
Self
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
41. Who was President during the Spanish American War?
Woodrow Wilson
Guam - Midway Islands - Philippines - and Puerto Rico
The government
William McKinley
42. How was James Garfield killed?
William Henry Harrison - Zachary Taylor - Warren Harding - and Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Jimmy Carter
He was shot on his way to a college reunion
A person who knew the truth about Richard Nixon and told Woodward and Bernstein
43. What was a popular film of John Fitzgerald Kennedy's assassination?
Getting out of the Great depression by hiring people - which would start a chain reaction
The three day battle in July in Gettysburg about slaves
Social Security
Zapruder film
44. What were the years of WWI?
1914-1918
The Civil War
Iraq invaded Kuwait - and a coalition of naions push Iraq out of Kuwait
He resigned before the impeachment trial
45. Who was embarrassed when they received the Nobel Peace Prize?
George Washington
East of Africa
Abigail
Barack Obama
46. Which president made the panama canal?
He was shot on his way to a college reunion
Cuba wanted to overthrow Castrow and our military helped train them
Teddy Roosevelt
James Madison
47. What is Camp David?
Gerald Ford
USA
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
A 2nd home for the president
48. Who was FDR's VP Who was president for WWII?
Hillary Clinton
Harry S Truman
When we dropped food and supplies to people in West Berlin
He gets shot
49. How many kids did George Washington have?
George H. W. Bush
0
John Adams
None
50. During the civil war - the south's president was _____________.
Jefferson Davis
The House of Representatives selects the President and the Senate selects the Vice President
4
When we dropped food and supplies to people in West Berlin