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U.S. Presidents Trivia
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1. Who was president for the nullification crisis?
A gun
Alien and sedition acts
Andrew Jackson
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
2. Who supported manifest destiny?
April 12th - 1861
James Polk
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
John Quincy Adams - Rutherford B. Hayes - Benjamin Harrison - and George W. Bush
3. Who was sent to a mental institution after Abraham Lincoln's death?
William Jefferson Clinton
Mary Todd-Lincoln
The House of Representatives selects the President and the Senate selects the Vice President
Robert E. Lee
4. What happens if no candidate gets the majorit y of electoral votes?
His wife
Thomas Jefferson
The House of Representatives selects the President and the Senate selects the Vice President
The president could not fire and federal official who had gotten their job with Senate approval
5. Who was George Washington's wife?
1
George Washington
His wife
Martha
6. Who was the only catholic president?
John Wilkes Booth
William Jefferson Clinton
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Jefferson Davis
7. Who was president for the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Dental; medical
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic National Headquarters; Watergate
Mom
8. What president did the Berlin airlift?
Guam - Midway Islands - Philippines - and Puerto Rico
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Harry S Truman
Barack Obama
9. Who passed Universal health care?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Barack Obama
January 20th
April 12th - 1861
10. what disease did Franklin Delano Roosevelt have?
Polio
We thought there were weapons of mass destruction - but there weren't
Writters for Washington Post who figured out Richard Nixon's case
Mount Vernon - Virginia
11. Who was President during the Spanish American War?
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
132
William McKinley
James Madison
12. What college did George Washington go to?
6'4'
None
Providing a backup place for military plane landing
John Boehner
13. John Adams went to what college?
Martha
Harvard
Mom
Lyndon Johnson
14. 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 ________.
Jimmy Carter
The fourteen points
Since birth
1814
15. What month and day do we vote for the president?
Teddy Roosevelt
The first Tuesday of Novermber that follows a monday in November
November 1863
Monticello - Virginia
16. John Adams went to what college?
Harvard
The House of Representatives selects the President and the Senate selects the Vice President
USA
The Vice President
17. Paula Jones sued William Jefferson Clinton for _______.
Sexual harrassment
Teddy Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Germany invaded Poland
Maryland
18. Who was president for the Cuban Missile Crisis?
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
We thought there were weapons of mass destruction - but there weren't
George H. W. Bush
Jimmy Carter
19. Who was our president when we kille Osama bin Laden?
OK to send home foregienors if they looked dangerous; also if we were in war with their country
Barack Obama
Monroe
November 22nd - 1963
20. Andrew Johnson was _________'s VP
George W. Bush
Abraham Lincoln
They were classmates in college
1914-1918
21. During the Great Depression - ____% were unemployed.
January 1st - 1863
The north and the south were split up
Dwight David Eisenhower
25
22. After what event was the Fourteen Points presented?
April 1917- November 1918
World War I
William Jefferson Clinton
Thomas Jefferson
23. Who was embarrassed when they received the Nobel Peace Prize?
Teddy Roosevelt - Woodrow Wilson - Jimmy Carter - and Barack Obama
The south
Barack Obama
USA
24. What is the oldest you can be to get surviver benefits?
25
Barack Obama
4
18
25. In the War of 1812 - ________ (country) kept stealing our ________ (people) and _______ (items) in the middle of the ocean (separate with semicolon).
Thomas Jefferson
The fourteen points
Maryland
England; sailors; products
26. Who did we help in the Vietnam war and the korean war?
New Mexico to California
The south
20
The Korean War
27. What was the league of nations?
Dolley
Saving a picture of Washington during the war
Teddy Roosevelt
Club with all countries where problems were discussed peacefully
28. Congress passed 2 laws designed to limit __________'s (a president) power .
November
Andrew Johnson
132
Conspiracy
29. What date did WWII begin?
September 1st - 1939
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
If he serves 2 or less years of someone else's term plus 8 years on his own
Thomas Jefferson
30. How many electors are in the electoral college?
The three day battle in July in Gettysburg about slaves
Social Security
538
Money goes to kids when a parent dies
31. How many kids did George Washington have?
January 1st - 1863
15 million
0
William and Mary College
32. what president was also president of the constitutional convention?
William McKinley
George Washington
January 1st - 1863
November 1863
33. Can the amount of money a president earns be increased/decreased during someone's term of office?
George H. W. Bush
No
Ulysses S. Grant
Georgia
34. How many kids did John Tyler have?
Richard Nixon
15
Enola Gay
Jimmy Carter
35. Which presidents won the nobel peace prize (in order)?
Teddy Roosevelt - Woodrow Wilson - Jimmy Carter - and Barack Obama
Dwight David Eisenhower
He fired the Secretary of War Staton
Teddy Roosevelt
36. Who was a Great General in war of 1812?
William Howard Taft
Polio
William Jefferson Clinton
Andrew Jackson
37. Who supported manifest destiny?
Enola Gay
Massachusetts
James Polk
4
38. During the Great Depression - ____% were unemployed.
Jefferson Davis
Abigail
25
Woodrow Wilson
39. What date did the civil war begin?
April 12th - 1861
Dwight David Eisenhower
Barack Obama
444
40. Who was the only man to be president Who was not elected to either vp spot or the presidency?
Gerald Ford
14
Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Pearl Harbor bombing
John Adams
41. What president did the Berlin airlift?
December 7th - 1941
Barack Obama
Harry S Truman
The House of Representatives selects the President and the Senate selects the Vice President
42. Who was on the bad side for WWI (abc order)?
Germany - Hungary - Turkey
George H. W. Bush
Period after the Civil War and how we reunited
The US was prepared to send money and military support to countries that want to resist communism
43. How much of a retirement income per year does the president make (for life)?
$150000
35
We thought there were weapons of mass destruction - but there weren't
X-ray
44. What presidents lost the popular vote but won the electoral vote? (in order)
Joe Biden
John Quincy Adams - Rutherford B. Hayes - Benjamin Harrison - and George W. Bush
James Madison
Jefferson still survives
45. What war never officially ended but just doesn't fight any more?
Richard Nixon
Bad
A person who knew the truth about Richard Nixon and told Woodward and Bernstein
The Korean War
46. What did the Interstate Highway System also do besides provide a road for driving?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Dolley
Providing a backup place for military plane landing
Thomas Jefferson
47. How many rooms in the white house?
George Washington
East of Africa
Acting
132
48. How many electoral votes do you need to win the election?
Polio
William Jefferson Clinton
He resigned before the impeachment trial
270
49. Who built the Interstate Highway System?
John Adams
Barack Obama
Dwight David Eisenhower
The federal government guarentees your money at a bank
50. Why did the person who tried to assassinate Ronald Reagan do it?
He wanted a date Jodie Foster
William Jefferson Clinton
John Adams
X-ray
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