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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 New Deal?
Saving a picture of Washington during the war
James Madison
Mary Todd-Lincoln
Getting out of the Great depression by hiring people - which would start a chain reaction
2. What law that Barack Obama passed might be unconstitutional and is being looked at by the supreme court now?
Crime to print false or meliscious or scandalist stuff about the U.S. gov.
The president
Speeches given for hope
Universal health care
3. Who was the first president not to win the popular vote and to become president?
Alien and sedition acts
The idea to own all the land from the pacific to the atlantic ocean; 1.2 million
Self
John Quicy Adams
4. What year was the White House burnt down?
A group of representatives chosen by the voters to elect the President
1814
Thus always to tyrants
Barack Obama
5. What president did the Berlin airlift?
Harry S Truman
Dolley
Club with all countries where problems were discussed peacefully
William Jefferson Clinton
6. Who was Deep Throat?
Jefferson Davis
Europe
A person who knew the truth about Richard Nixon and told Woodward and Bernstein
4
7. Why did the person who tried to assassinate Ronald Reagan do it?
James Madison
He wanted a date Jodie Foster
They were classmates in college
James Madison
8. Which presidents won the nobel peace prize (in order)?
15 million
We thought there were weapons of mass destruction - but there weren't
Teddy Roosevelt - Woodrow Wilson - Jimmy Carter - and Barack Obama
Dolley
9. Who said 'A date that will live in infamy'? What were they talking about (separate with semicolon)?
Jimmy Carter
Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Pearl Harbor bombing
Dolley
Speeches given for hope
10. What was the name of the airplane that bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
William Henry Harrison
Bad
Enola Gay
11. What war did George Washington lead the army for?
Revolutionary War
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor - Hawaii
Zapruder film
A person who knew the truth about Richard Nixon and told Woodward and Bernstein
12. During the civil war - the ________ wanted slaves and the ________ did not.
George W. Bush
South; north
Bad
4th
13. Which president was the youngest to serve?
William Jefferson Clinton
Teddy Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
James Polk
14. Who's son married Nixon's daughter?
Eleanor
Joe Biden
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Dwight David Eisenhower
15. During the Great Depression - ____% were unemployed.
Zapruder film
East of Africa
25
William and Mary College
16. Who was on the bad side for WWI (abc order)?
Germany - Hungary - Turkey
New Mexico to California
Teddy Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
17. Who introduced social security?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
$400000
George Washington
15
18. How was James Garfield killed?
William Henry Harrison
September 1st - 1939
The south
He was shot on his way to a college reunion
19. Name the Founding Fathers plus the son in order...
The president
George Washington - John Adams - Thomas Jefferson - James Madison - James Monroe - and John Quincy Adams
Perjury and obstruction of justice
The Vice President
20. How many days was the Iran Hostage crisis?
Maryland
Free the slaves in the south
444
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
21. Where do electors vote?
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22. What war never officially ended but just doesn't fight any more?
2
Andrew Jackson
The Korean War
Abigail
23. John Adams had a successful marriage with ______ (first name).
The House of Representatives selects the President and the Senate selects the Vice President
George Washington
5
Abigail
24. What were John Adams's last words?
Harvard
Jefferson still survives
7; 11
Andrew Johnson
25. What president had the watergate scandal?
Richard Nixon
He fired the Secretary of War Staton
A gun
Speeches given for hope
26. Who were the first presidents to be father and son?
John Adams and John Quincy Adams
15
60; unconstitutional
Mom
27. Who was the fpresident during WWI?
132
Abraham Lincoln
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Woodrow Wilson
28. Why did the league of nations fail (what country wouldn't join)?
Jefferson Davis
The Gettysburg Address
USA
Civil War
29. What date did WWII begin?
Germany invaded Poland
September 1st - 1939
Germany invaded Poland
25
30. How did William McKinley die?
Forced the president to issue all military orders through general of the army who could not be removed without senate approval
He was shot
His wife
Revolutionary War
31. What college did George Washington go to?
Massachusetts
None
4
Europe
32. Who was George Washington's wife?
William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison
Martha
World War I
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
33. Who built the Interstate Highway System?
Harry S Truman
Enola Gay
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Dwight David Eisenhower
34. What was the New Deal?
Forced the president to issue all military orders through general of the army who could not be removed without senate approval
The federal government guarentees your money at a bank
Woodrow Wilson
Getting out of the Great depression by hiring people - which would start a chain reaction
35. What is the oldest you can be to get surviver benefits?
January 1st - 1863
Teddy Roosevelt
18
James Madison
36. What presidents lost the popular vote but won the electoral vote? (in order)
35
World War I
John Quincy Adams - Rutherford B. Hayes - Benjamin Harrison - and George W. Bush
The Korean War
37. Alien Acts
OK to send home foregienors if they looked dangerous; also if we were in war with their country
25
Woodrow Wilson
Teddy Roosevelt
38. Who was the only man to be president Who was not elected to either vp spot or the presidency?
Gerald Ford
Bad
William Jefferson Clinton
$400000
39. James Madison's wife was ________ Madison.
William Henry Harrison
William and Mary College
Ulysses S. Grant
Dolley
40. What was the Berlin Airlift?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
A person who knew the truth about Richard Nixon and told Woodward and Bernstein
When we dropped food and supplies to people in West Berlin
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
41. Why did we invade Iraq?
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42. What president made the emancipation proclamtion?
George Washington
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Monticello - Virginia
Abraham Lincoln
43. Who was a peanut farmer?
Jimmy Carter
Hillary Clinton
George W. Bush
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
44. Who was sent to a mental institution after Abraham Lincoln's death?
If he serves 2 or less years of someone else's term plus 8 years on his own
Civil rights
Teddy Roosevelt
Mary Todd-Lincoln
45. Did we win the Spanish American War?
Yes
Speeches given for hope
Saving a picture of Washington during the war
January 20th
46. What state is Camp David in?
Buffalo - New York
Gerald Ford
Maryland
Harry S Truman
47. Where was John Fitzgerald Kennedy assassinated?
Alien and sedition acts
The idea to own all the land from the pacific to the atlantic ocean; 1.2 million
Dallas - Texas
Air Force One - Marine One - and limousines
48. Where was George Washington born?
East of Africa
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Mount Vernon - Virginia
Teddy Roosevelt
49. Manifest Destiny was to have all the land from __________ to ___________ (east to west)
New Mexico to California
September 1st - 1939
The banks were closed because everyone wanted their money at once
Civil rights
50. Who was sent to a mental institution after Abraham Lincoln's death?
Teddy Roosevelt
Mary Todd-Lincoln
8
Abraham Lincoln