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U.S. Presidents Trivia
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What was the Berlin Airlift?
The Gettysburg Address
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
When we dropped food and supplies to people in West Berlin
2. Which president was a 'rough rider' in the Spanish American War?
November 22nd - 1963
Teddy Roosevelt
John Quicy Adams
0
3. Who introduced disability benefits?
James Madison
Writters for Washington Post who figured out Richard Nixon's case
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
His 5th cousin
4. Who moved up when John Fitzgerald Kennedy died because He was his VP?
Lyndon Johnson
William Henry Harrison
Speeches given for hope
35 said He was guilty - but he needed 36
5. Who gave the longest inauguration speech?
Hillary Clinton
William Henry Harrison
Peterson House; the next morning
William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison
6. What is the family Medical Leave Act?
Dwight David Eisenhower
Germany was attacking ships
Worker can take three months off in a year to take care of sick relatives or him/herself and cannot be fired
The Vice President
7. 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
December 7th - 1941
The first Tuesday of Novermber that follows a monday in November
Teddy Roosevelt
8. How many Vice Presidents have moved up because the president resigned?
William Jefferson Clinton
Richard Nixon
1
John Quincy Adams - Rutherford B. Hayes - Benjamin Harrison - and George W. Bush
9. Congress passed 2 laws designed to limit __________'s (a president) power .
Free the slaves in the south
Andrew Johnson
Jefferson Davis
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
10. Who had the first death in office?
6'4'
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
132
William Henry Harrison
11. Where was George Washington born?
Dwight David Eisenhower
Mount Vernon - Virginia
You can collect money if you become disabled before retirement
George H. W. Bush
12. What was the most terms served by a president?
5
4
A person who knew the truth about Richard Nixon and told Woodward and Bernstein
Worker can take three months off in a year to take care of sick relatives or him/herself and cannot be fired
13. Who won the Nobel peace prize because he told Russia and Japan not to fight - but to love?
$400000
The north and the south were split up
Getting out of the Great depression by hiring people - which would start a chain reaction
Teddy Roosevelt
14. What is the oldest you can be to get surviver benefits?
Woodrow Wilson
January 1st - 1863
8
18
15. Who was the commander in charge of Europe afor the Allies in WWII?
Monticello - Virginia
You can collect money if you become disabled before retirement
Dwight David Eisenhower
November
16. What war was George Washington in the military for?
30
French and Indian War
USA
60; unconstitutional
17. Manifest Destiny was to have all the land from __________ to ___________ (east to west)
New Mexico to California
World War I
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
4
18. Andrew Johnson was _________'s VP
35
0
Gerald Ford
Abraham Lincoln
19. Who was on the bad side for WWI (abc order)?
George Washington - John Adams - Thomas Jefferson - James Madison - James Monroe - and John Quincy Adams
Germany - Hungary - Turkey
4th
Barack Obama
20. Who is thought to have assassinated John Fitzgerald Kennedy?
His 5th cousin
Saving a picture of Washington during the war
Acting
Lee Harvey Oswald
21. Which president was the youngest to serve?
Thomas Jefferson
East of Africa
Since birth
Teddy Roosevelt
22. Who moved up when John Fitzgerald Kennedy died because He was his VP?
Lyndon Johnson
He fired the Secretary of War Staton
William Jefferson Clinton
Electors
23. Who balanced the budget?
Conspiracy
The president could not fire and federal official who had gotten their job with Senate approval
A gun
William Jefferson Clinton
24. Who was Franklin Delano Roosevelt married to?
Monroe
Worker can take three months off in a year to take care of sick relatives or him/herself and cannot be fired
Eleanor
William Henry Harrison
25. How many days was the Iran Hostage crisis?
Dwight David Eisenhower
William and Mary College
444
Ronald Reagan
26. Abraham Lincoln was ______ educated
John Adams
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Self
The government
27. How many states broke away during the civil war AT FIRST? how many total ending up breaking away?
A person who knew the truth about Richard Nixon and told Woodward and Bernstein
Georgia
7; 11
World War I
28. During the civil war - the south's general was ____________.
Robert E. Lee
X-ray
Polio
John Hinkley Jr.
29. How many days was the Iran Hostage crisis?
The Vice President
George Washington
444
James Madison
30. What are surviver benefits?
Abigail
James Madison
Money goes to kids when a parent dies
South; north
31. How many rooms in the white house?
Barack Obama
Robert E. Lee
132
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
32. Which president was the youngest to serve?
The fourteen points
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Teddy Roosevelt
Peterson House; the next morning
33. Who was the only man to be president Who was not elected to either vp spot or the presidency?
Gerald Ford
William Jefferson Clinton
Teddy Roosevelt
7; 11
34. How much of a retirement income per year does the president make (for life)?
$150000
Teddy Roosevelt
The idea to own all the land from the pacific to the atlantic ocean; 1.2 million
Dallas - Texas
35. Gerald Ford pardons _____________ for all crimes committed.
Polio
William Jefferson Clinton
Lee Harvey Oswald
Richard Nixon
36. What does NATO stand for?
Barack Obama
The three day battle in July in Gettysburg about slaves
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
The three day battle in July in Gettysburg about slaves
37. During the civil war - the ________ wanted slaves and the ________ did not.
Democratic National Headquarters; Watergate
South; north
East of Africa
Thomas Jefferson
38. James Madison's wife was ________ Madison.
When we dropped food and supplies to people in West Berlin
Dolley
Period after the Civil War and how we reunited
20
39. During the civil war - the north's general was ___________.
William Jefferson Clinton
Ulysses S. Grant
John Quicy Adams
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
40. Which president was a lawyer - very smart - an architect - a musician - and an inventor?
We thought there were weapons of mass destruction - but there weren't
Thomas Jefferson
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
George H. W. Bush
41. Who was the only president to get all the electoral votes?
Richard Nixon
George Washington
Providing a backup place for military plane landing
Harry S Truman
42. Who passed Universal health care?
James Madison
Free the slaves in the south
Robert E. Lee
Barack Obama
43. Who was president during the War of 1812 against England?
Polio
$400000
James Madison
Bad
44. Where did the civil war begin?
Harry S Truman
Ft. Sumter - South Carolina
The Confederate States of America
George Washington
45. In the War of 1812 - ________ (country) kept stealing our ________ (people) and _______ (items) in the middle of the ocean (separate with semicolon).
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Gerald Ford
Barack Obama
England; sailors; products
46. How much money does the president earn per year?
$400000
Jefferson still survives
James Polk
The president could not fire and federal official who had gotten their job with Senate approval
47. Who pays for all personal entertainment and dinners not related to teh government business in the White House?
Civil War
Mount Vernon - Virginia
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
The president
48. Where does the right to navigate teh seas without interference not apply?
He was shot on his way to a college reunion
East of Africa
Self
Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Pearl Harbor bombing
49. Franklin Delano Roosevelt's wife was related to him how?
Alien and sedition acts
Barack Obama
Europe
His 5th cousin
50. What two states do not use 'winner-takes all' for the electoral college?
Writters for Washington Post who figured out Richard Nixon's case
November 22nd - 1963
Maine and Nebraska
His wife