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U.S. Presidents Trivia
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1. Who was the first president not to win the popular vote and to become president?
The House of Representatives selects the President and the Senate selects the Vice President
John Quicy Adams
4th
Ronald Reagan
2. Which president started the two term tradition?
George Washington
Teddy Roosevelt
When peace was made between Israel and Egypt at Camp David
X-ray
3. What war did George Washington lead the army for?
Revolutionary War
The Vice President
Teddy Roosevelt
$400000
4. What was Lincoln's most famous speech?
Free the slaves in the south
The Gettysburg Address
Teddy Roosevelt
Providing a backup place for military plane landing
5. Which president helped create the Library of Congress when he sells and donates 6000 books?
Eleanor
Daniel Inouye
20
Thomas Jefferson
6. Who acts as an advisor to the president?
The Vice President
Dolley
When peace was made between Israel and Egypt at Camp David
Bad
7. After what event was the Fourteen Points presented?
4
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson; July 4th - 1826
15
World War I
8. Who is considered 'the father of our country'?
His 5th cousin
2
George Washington
OK to send home foregienors if they looked dangerous; also if we were in war with their country
9. James Monroe created the ________ Doctrine
Revolutionary War
No
Monticello - Virginia
Monroe
10. Who was president during the Great depression?
George Washington
William Howard Taft
The number of people in Congress plus 3 for DC
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
11. Who was president for the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Mom
September 1st - 1939
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Iraq invaded Kuwait - and a coalition of naions push Iraq out of Kuwait
12. What was the most terms served by a president?
4
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
John Hinkley Jr.
Polio
13. Who was the first VP to move up on death of a president?
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
John Tyler
Honor people who died - make sure the country survies
November 22nd - 1963
14. Who was Deep Throat?
A person who knew the truth about Richard Nixon and told Woodward and Bernstein
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
George Washington
November 22nd - 1963
15. Which president helped create the Library of Congress when he sells and donates 6000 books?
Since birth
Thomas Jefferson
Eleanor
England; sailors; products
16. What happens to John Wilkes Booth?
George H. W. Bush
He gets shot
December 7th - 1941
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
17. What was the point of the Gettysburg Address (two things)?
Honor people who died - make sure the country survies
The government
William and Mary College
Germany - Hungary - Turkey
18. which president was former head of CIA?
Barack Obama
Air Force One - Marine One - and limousines
George H. W. Bush
4th
19. Who said 'The buck stops here'?
April 12th - 1861
4
Self
Harry S Truman
20. What are the people in the electoral college called?
Teddy Roosevelt
Andrew Johnson
Andrew Johnson
Electors
21. What president did the Berlin airlift?
Thus always to tyrants
John Adams
Harry S Truman
January 1st - 1863
22. Who was the only president to get all the electoral votes?
Europe
Mary Todd-Lincoln
John Adams
George Washington
23. Franklin Delano Roosevelt's wife was related to him how?
Lyndon Johnson
The idea to own all the land from the pacific to the atlantic ocean; 1.2 million
His 5th cousin
Teddy Roosevelt
24. During the Great Depression - ____% were unemployed.
25
The banks were closed because everyone wanted their money at once
Writters for Washington Post who figured out Richard Nixon's case
William Jefferson Clinton
25. Paula Jones sued William Jefferson Clinton for _______.
Social Security
1814
Gerald Ford
Sexual harrassment
26. Who takes over if the President is disabled or dies?
George Washington - John Adams - Thomas Jefferson - James Madison - James Monroe - and John Quincy Adams
Barack Obama
The Vice President
November
27. James Madison's wife was ________ Madison.
Thomas Jefferson
New Mexico to California
Dolley
The three day battle in July in Gettysburg about slaves
28. Who attempted to assassinate Ronald Reagan?
John Hinkley Jr.
Writters for Washington Post who figured out Richard Nixon's case
John Quicy Adams
Perjury and obstruction of justice
29. What date did WWII begin?
Mount Vernon - Virginia
Perjury and obstruction of justice
Ft. Sumter - South Carolina
September 1st - 1939
30. Why did WWI happen?
Joe Biden
Germany was attacking ships
2
Zapruder film
31. Where was Thomas Jefferson born?
30
Monticello - Virginia
Dwight David Eisenhower
December 7th - 1941
32. What was the point of the Gettysburg Address (two things)?
Honor people who died - make sure the country survies
Germany was attacking ships
$400000
Thomas Jefferson
33. Who passed Universal health care?
When we dropped food and supplies to people in West Berlin
Teddy Roosevelt
Barack Obama
Woodrow Wilson
34. Lyndon Johnson got lots of bills passed involving ______.
The south
Gerald Ford
The idea to own all the land from the pacific to the atlantic ocean; 1.2 million
Civil rights
35. Which president was a 'rough rider' in the Spanish American War?
Teddy Roosevelt
Ulysses S. Grant
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
30
36. How many pounds was William Howard Taft?
350
30
William Jefferson Clinton
Harry S Truman
37. After Abraham Lincoln was shot - He was carried across the street to ________________ where he dies when?
132
November 22nd - 1963
Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Pearl Harbor bombing
Peterson House; the next morning
38. Who was Abraham Lincoln married to?
Mary Todd-Lincoln
Democratic National Headquarters; Watergate
William Seward; $7.2 million; Alaska
Crime to print false or meliscious or scandalist stuff about the U.S. gov.
39. This president helped write the federalist papers.
Lee Harvey Oswald
James Madison
Teddy Roosevelt
England; sailors; products
40. Which president was the 'father of the constitution'?
Sexual harrassment
Ulysses S. Grant
James Madison
Monticello - Virginia
41. What was William Jefferson Clinton impeached for?
Perjury and obstruction of justice
Dental; medical
George H.W. Bush and George Bush
John Adams and John Quincy Adams
42. How much of a retirement income per year does the president make (for life)?
Peterson House; the next morning
George W. Bush
4
$150000
43. James Madison's wife was ________ Madison.
Dolley
John Adams
1914-1918
The first Tuesday of Novermber that follows a monday in November
44. Who had the first death in office?
Alien and sedition acts
William Henry Harrison
November 1863
Buffalo - New York
45. What happens if no candidate gets the majorit y of electoral votes?
60; unconstitutional
James Polk
35
The House of Representatives selects the President and the Senate selects the Vice President
46. What were the years of WWI?
$150000
1914-1918
A person who knew the truth about Richard Nixon and told Woodward and Bernstein
George Washington
47. ______ years later - the Tenure of Office act was gotten rid of by the Supreme court because it was ________.
Monroe
George Washington
John Wilkes Booth
60; unconstitutional
48. What happens if no candidate gets the majorit y of electoral votes?
The House of Representatives selects the President and the Senate selects the Vice President
Alien and sedition acts
The president
The number of people in Congress plus 3 for DC
49. When did we enter WWII?
Acting
No
England
December 7th - 1941
50. Jimmy Carter was the former governor of ____.
X-ray
Georgia
George H. W. Bush
Social Security
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