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U.S. Presidents Trivia
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1. what ended a couple of days before Abraham Lincoln's Assasination?
You can collect money if you become disabled before retirement
He was shot
Teddy Roosevelt
Civil War
2. During the civil war - the north's general was ___________.
Ulysses S. Grant
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The Korean War
Civil rights
3. What date was John Fitzgerald Kennedy killed on?
Abraham Lincoln
Money goes to kids when a parent dies
Harry S Truman
November 22nd - 1963
4. What was the Berlin Airlift?
When we dropped food and supplies to people in West Berlin
Yes
Lee Harvey Oswald
22 - 24
5. Why did the league of nations fail (what country wouldn't join)?
Ronald Reagan
William Jefferson Clinton
USA
4th
6. How many Vice Presidents have moved up because the president died?
8
Dental; medical
Daniel Inouye
The Vice President
7. Which president recognized Israel and traded with them and gave money and embassadors to them?
Saving a picture of Washington during the war
April 1917- November 1918
George Washington
Harry S Truman
8. Jimmy Carter was the former governor of ____.
Harry S Truman
Ft. Sumter - South Carolina
Georgia
Woodrow Wilson
9. Who went to the Supreme court and tried to increase it to fifteen judges - but was told no?
The first Tuesday of Novermber that follows a monday in November
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
2
Harry S Truman
10. During the civil war - the south named itself _____.
England - France - Russia - USA
William Jefferson Clinton
Dwight David Eisenhower
The Confederate States of America
11. Who was the fpresident during WWI?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Monroe
Jefferson still survives
Woodrow Wilson
12. Who pays for all personal entertainment and dinners not related to teh government business in the White House?
The Korean War
The president
Maryland
$400000
13. Why was Andrew Johnson impeached?
William Henry Harrison
If he serves 2 or less years of someone else's term plus 8 years on his own
He fired the Secretary of War Staton
Abigail
14. John Quicy Adams spent time In what continent?
Europe
Thomas Jefferson
The number of people in Congress plus 3 for DC
William Jefferson Clinton
15. Which presidents won the nobel peace prize (in order)?
Teddy Roosevelt - Woodrow Wilson - Jimmy Carter - and Barack Obama
350
The north were comunists and the south were not
George W. Bush
16. This president helped write the federalist papers.
England; sailors; products
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
James Madison
Enola Gay
17. Who won a Nobel Peace Prize for what they were going to do?
The US was prepared to send money and military support to countries that want to resist communism
His 5th cousin
William and Mary College
Barack Obama
18. Abraham Lincoln was ______ educated
William Henry Harrison
Self
Ulysses S. Grant
Dental; medical
19. How tall was Abraham Lincoln?
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20. Who was the only president to get all the electoral votes?
Jefferson Davis
Ft. Sumter - South Carolina
Medical insurance for all americans
George Washington
21. The person who killed John Fitzgerald Kennedy is thought to have killed him in a _______ - or not alone.
Conspiracy
Thomas Jefferson
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
22. Who attends diplomatic functions in place of the president?
Acting
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
The Vice President
George Washington
23. How many presidents were killed in office?
Dwight David Eisenhower
Germany - Hungary - Turkey
Acting
4
24. What happens if no candidate gets the majorit y of electoral votes?
$400000
George H. W. Bush
The House of Representatives selects the President and the Senate selects the Vice President
25
25. What was the name of the airplane that bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki
4
England
Gerald Ford
Enola Gay
26. What is the oldest you can be to get surviver benefits?
William Jefferson Clinton
Teddy Roosevelt - Woodrow Wilson - Jimmy Carter - and Barack Obama
4
18
27. Who were Woodward and Bernstein?
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28. Which president made the panama canal?
William McKinley
John Adams
Teddy Roosevelt
4
29. How many years younger was John Tyler's wife than him?
5
The number of people in Congress plus 3 for DC
30
Teddy Roosevelt
30. Where was Abraham Lincoln born? What kind of house did he live in?
William Jefferson Clinton
England - France - Russia - USA
Universal health care
Kentucky; Log cabin
31. What month is the election in?
Germany - Hungary - Turkey
4th
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
November
32. Who attempted to assassinate Ronald Reagan?
John Hinkley Jr.
April 1917- November 1918
Cuba wanted to overthrow Castrow and our military helped train them
Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Pearl Harbor bombing
33. Which president had a stroke in his bathroom?
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
George Washington
April 12th - 1861
Woodrow Wilson
34. Who is the current speaker of the House?
1914-1918
John Boehner
Peterson House; the next morning
The Gettysburg Address
35. When did we get involved and stop being involved with WWI? (month and year)
Ronald Reagan
Enola Gay
South; north
April 1917- November 1918
36. Who was the youngest elected president?
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
John Adams
0
The White House
37. What is NATO (not what it stands for - what it is)?
Germany invaded Poland
A support group of countries
The Vice President
5
38. What were the sides for the Korean war and the Vietnam war?
Harvard
George W. Bush
The north were comunists and the south were not
George Washington
39. Franklin Delano Roosevelt's wife was related to him how?
Harry S Truman
His 5th cousin
Free the slaves in the south
Yes
40. Who was president for the 9/11 attacks?
Alien and sedition acts
George W. Bush
Jimmy Carter
England - France - Russia - USA
41. Where was William McKinley killed?
4
1 million
John Adams
Buffalo - New York
42. Who won a nobel peace prize because of the camp david accords?
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
0
Thomas Jefferson
Jimmy Carter
43. Who was President during the Spanish American War?
George H. W. Bush
No
William McKinley
George H. W. Bush
44. James Monroe created the ________ Doctrine
Buffalo - New York
Thomas Jefferson
Dwight David Eisenhower
Monroe
45. Manifest Destiny was to have all the land from __________ to ___________ (east to west)
New Mexico to California
He fired the Secretary of War Staton
8
His wife
46. Who was the first president not to win the popular vote and to become president?
1803
John Quicy Adams
Dallas - Texas
Revolutionary War
47. How many states broke away during the civil war AT FIRST? how many total ending up breaking away?
7; 11
Democratic National Headquarters; Watergate
In their state's capital
35
48. Why wasn't Richard Nixon thrown out of office?
He resigned before the impeachment trial
Thomas Jefferson
Social Security
A person who knew the truth about Richard Nixon and told Woodward and Bernstein
49. Which president had a stroke in his bathroom?
England; sailors; products
January 1st - 1863
60; unconstitutional
Woodrow Wilson
50. Who acts as an advisor to the president?
The Vice President
William Henry Harrison
Acting
George Washington
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