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U.S. Presidents Trivia
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What are disability benefits?
Andrew Jackson
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson
You can collect money if you become disabled before retirement
2. What was the New Deal?
George W. Bush
Getting out of the Great depression by hiring people - which would start a chain reaction
Writters for Washington Post who figured out Richard Nixon's case
Ford's Theater
3. Who was George Washington's wife?
William Jefferson Clinton
Martha
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
John Tyler
4. Which president was a 'rough rider' in the Spanish American War?
Money goes to kids when a parent dies
Teddy Roosevelt
Germany - Hungary - Turkey
The Vice President
5. How many kids did George Washington have?
He resigned before the impeachment trial
Enola Gay
The Civil War
0
6. What happens if no candidate gets the majorit y of electoral votes?
James Madison
Teddy Roosevelt
The House of Representatives selects the President and the Senate selects the Vice President
Enola Gay
7. What does 'Sic Semper Tyrranis' mean?
The idea to own all the land from the pacific to the atlantic ocean; 1.2 million
William McKinley
Harvard
Thus always to tyrants
8. Who was the only man to be president Who was not elected to either vp spot or the presidency?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
George W. Bush
Gerald Ford
James Madison
9. What year was the Louisiana Territory bought?
1803
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
His wife
November 22nd - 1963
10. Gerald Ford pardons _____________ for all crimes committed.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Pearl Harbor bombing
Woodrow Wilson
Andrew Jackson
Richard Nixon
11. What was the Bay of Pigs?
He resigned before the impeachment trial
Cuba wanted to overthrow Castrow and our military helped train them
Dental; medical
John Tyler
12. Who became president when Richard Nixon resigend because they were his VP?
Revolutionary War
Gerald Ford
William McKinley
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
13. Who was a Great General in war of 1812?
November 22nd - 1963
George Washington
Lee Harvey Oswald
Andrew Jackson
14. How many kids did John Tyler have?
Ulysses S. Grant
Forced the president to issue all military orders through general of the army who could not be removed without senate approval
15
4
15. Gerald Ford pardons _____________ for all crimes committed.
His 5th cousin
Richard Nixon
William Henry Harrison
Abraham Lincoln
16. Who was the only president to get all the electoral votes?
15
George Washington
The Vice President
1 million
17. Why did the league of nations fail (what country wouldn't join)?
USA
John Tyler
Sexual harrassment
George Washington
18. James Monroe created the ________ Doctrine
Monroe
A 2nd home for the president
Kentucky; Log cabin
Germany was attacking ships
19. What did the monroe doctrine say?
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20. Who was our president during the Vietnam War?
Richard Nixon
Lyndon Johnson
The north were comunists and the south were not
Jimmy Carter
21. What was the persian gulf war/desert storm?
Crime to print false or meliscious or scandalist stuff about the U.S. gov.
35
John Quincy Adams - Rutherford B. Hayes - Benjamin Harrison - and George W. Bush
Iraq invaded Kuwait - and a coalition of naions push Iraq out of Kuwait
22. What is the Electoral College?
John Tyler
Ford's Theater
Teddy Roosevelt
A group of representatives chosen by the voters to elect the President
23. Who was a peanut farmer?
Jimmy Carter
John Wilkes Booth
Dental; medical
Germany - Hungary - Turkey
24. who pays for the costs of operating the white house?
Barack Obama
Ft. Sumter - South Carolina
The government
60; unconstitutional
25. What does NATO stand for?
John Adams
Worker can take three months off in a year to take care of sick relatives or him/herself and cannot be fired
Woodrow Wilson
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
26. What weapon was used to kill Lincoln?
A gun
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
0
30
27. Who won a Nobel Peace Prize for what they were going to do?
None
John Quicy Adams
William Jefferson Clinton
Barack Obama
28. Who were Woodward and Bernstein?
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29. what ended a couple of days before Abraham Lincoln's Assasination?
Civil War
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Electors
William Jefferson Clinton
30. Which president created Yellowstone National Park and Yosemite?
Guam - Midway Islands - Philippines - and Puerto Rico
Teddy Roosevelt
Perjury and obstruction of justice
Ulysses S. Grant
31. Who's son married Nixon's daughter?
Dwight David Eisenhower
The north were comunists and the south were not
Mary Todd-Lincoln
The number of people in Congress plus 3 for DC
32. Grover Cleveland was the ____ and ____ president (numbers)
George W. Bush
15 million
22 - 24
The Korean War
33. What year was the White House burnt down?
1914-1918
1814
Thomas Jefferson
George Washington
34. Name the Founding Fathers plus the son in order...
Club with all countries where problems were discussed peacefully
George Washington - John Adams - Thomas Jefferson - James Madison - James Monroe - and John Quincy Adams
Harry S Truman
Gerald Ford
35. Who had the first death in office?
William Henry Harrison
A group of representatives chosen by the voters to elect the President
Barack Obama
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
36. Abraham Lincoln was ______ educated
John Adams and John Quincy Adams
Self
December 7th - 1941
William Howard Taft
37. Who was the youngest elected president?
The president
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Daniel Inouye
He fired the Secretary of War Staton
38. Alien Acts
Zapruder film
OK to send home foregienors if they looked dangerous; also if we were in war with their country
When peace was made between Israel and Egypt at Camp David
John Boehner
39. What was the nullification crisis?
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40. ______ years later - the Tenure of Office act was gotten rid of by the Supreme court because it was ________.
Forced the president to issue all military orders through general of the army who could not be removed without senate approval
George H.W. Bush and George Bush
Harvard
60; unconstitutional
41. Which president was obnoxious and disliked?
The Korean War
OK to send home foregienors if they looked dangerous; also if we were in war with their country
John Adams
Bad
42. Who presented the Fourteen Points?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
538
Conspiracy
Woodrow Wilson
43. Who is considered 'the father of our country'?
George Washington
$400000
The Civil War
350
44. Who won the Civil war for Lincoln and later on became a president?
The US was prepared to send money and military support to countries that want to resist communism
Ulysses S. Grant
15 million
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
45. What date did WWII begin?
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The president could not fire and federal official who had gotten their job with Senate approval
September 1st - 1939
46. Who said 'The buck stops here'?
We thought there were weapons of mass destruction - but there weren't
Harvard
Harry S Truman
Period after the Civil War and how we reunited
47. How many states broke away during the civil war AT FIRST? how many total ending up breaking away?
7; 11
November 22nd - 1963
Teddy Roosevelt
Club with all countries where problems were discussed peacefully
48. What were the territories we gained in the Spanish American War? (ABC order with commas inbetween)
Guam - Midway Islands - Philippines - and Puerto Rico
Abigail
William Henry Harrison
Social Security
49. Who is the current speaker of the House?
The number of people in Congress plus 3 for DC
John Boehner
James Madison
Medical insurance for all americans
50. The ______ was invented when William McKinley was killed - and it could have saved him.
X-ray
Cuba wanted to overthrow Castrow and our military helped train them
Woodrow Wilson
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