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U.S. Presidents Trivia
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1. Who was the youngest elected president?
Dwight David Eisenhower
1803
Eleanor
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
2. Why did the league of nations fail (what country wouldn't join)?
James Madison
John Tyler
USA
8
3. What law that Barack Obama passed might be unconstitutional and is being looked at by the supreme court now?
Universal health care
Dwight David Eisenhower
His 5th cousin
William Henry Harrison - Zachary Taylor - Warren Harding - and Franklin Delano Roosevelt
4. Which president started the two term tradition?
George Washington
Harry S Truman
Teddy Roosevelt
They were classmates in college
5. How many years younger was John Tyler's wife than him?
The Gettysburg Address
John Tyler
30
Thomas Jefferson
6. What did John Wilkes Booth say after he shot Lincoln?
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
The south
Sic Semper Tyrannis - the south is avenged
The Civil War
7. Who created the Family Medical Leave Act?
60; unconstitutional
William Jefferson Clinton
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
William Henry Harrison
8. What were fireside chats?
27
Speeches given for hope
Andrew Jackson
The north were comunists and the south were not
9. How many pounds was William Howard Taft?
350
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Joe Biden
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
10. Sedition acts
The Korean War
Crime to print false or meliscious or scandalist stuff about the U.S. gov.
Mount Vernon - Virginia
England
11. Where did the civil war begin?
We thought there were weapons of mass destruction - but there weren't
Ft. Sumter - South Carolina
2
Germany - Hungary - Turkey
12. Which president made the panama canal?
South Carolina said it could nullify any law it wants - but Jackson said they would send troops and so South Carolina decided that they can't nullify and law it wants.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Teddy Roosevelt
The banks were closed because everyone wanted their money at once
13. Who won a Nobel Peace Prize for what they were going to do?
4th
Andrew Johnson
Revolutionary War
Barack Obama
14. What was a talent of John Wilkes Booth?
Richard Nixon
World War I
Acting
Alien and sedition acts
15. Who said 'A date that will live in infamy'? What were they talking about (separate with semicolon)?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Pearl Harbor bombing
The government
George W. Bush
Richard Nixon
16. How many presidents died in office?
Daniel Inouye
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Teddy Roosevelt
8
17. What college did George Washington go to?
None
Democratic National Headquarters; Watergate
Richard Nixon
Providing a backup place for military plane landing
18. Who did we help in the Vietnam war and the korean war?
Teddy Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The south
Hillary Clinton
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
19. How old do you have to be to be president?
Barack Obama
William and Mary College
6'4'
35
20. What are the people in the electoral college called?
Harry S Truman
Electors
George Washington
Harry S Truman
21. who pays for the costs of operating the white house?
18
The government
Gerald Ford
The banks were closed because everyone wanted their money at once
22. What was a talent of John Wilkes Booth?
Dwight David Eisenhower
538
Acting
The south
23. What president made the emancipation proclamtion?
Gerald Ford
Teddy Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Abraham Lincoln
14
24. Who was the first VP?
8
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
John Adams
Thomas Jefferson
25. What year was the White House burnt down?
Maryland
Abigail
Medical insurance for all americans
1814
26. What month is the election in?
Conspiracy
A group of representatives chosen by the voters to elect the President
November 22nd - 1963
November
27. Where do electors vote?
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28. How many electors are in the electoral college?
Thomas Jefferson
Teddy Roosevelt
538
The north were comunists and the south were not
29. Who was Deep Throat?
A person who knew the truth about Richard Nixon and told Woodward and Bernstein
George Washington - John Adams - Thomas Jefferson - James Madison - James Monroe - and John Quincy Adams
William Jefferson Clinton
A group of representatives chosen by the voters to elect the President
30. Who was William McKinley's VP that moved up when He was killed?
14
Teddy Roosevelt
1 million
Zapruder film
31. Who is the current speaker of the House?
John Boehner
Andrew Jackson
The Vice President
Lyndon Johnson
32. Where was Thomas Jefferson born?
4
When he jumped out of the balcony - his foot got stuck in the bunting and he fell onto stage
Monticello - Virginia
James Madison
33. Which president was author of the Virginia Plan?
James Madison
Enola Gay
270
A 2nd home for the president
34. How many pounds was William Howard Taft?
350
Air Force One - Marine One - and limousines
35
444
35. How can a president serve up to ten years?
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36. What is manifest destiny? how many square miles was it?
George H. W. Bush
William Henry Harrison - Zachary Taylor - Warren Harding - and Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Andrew Jackson
The idea to own all the land from the pacific to the atlantic ocean; 1.2 million
37. What was the Tenure of Office Act/
The president could not fire and federal official who had gotten their job with Senate approval
When peace was made between Israel and Egypt at Camp David
November
2
38. How tall was Abraham Lincoln?
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39. Who had a 12 year affair with Gennifer Flowers?
Speeches given for hope
Dwight David Eisenhower
8
William Jefferson Clinton
40. Who is the current President Pro-Tempore of the Senate?
Barack Obama
The Vice President
Daniel Inouye
USA
41. How was James Garfield killed?
Mary Todd-Lincoln
Dwight David Eisenhower
100
He was shot on his way to a college reunion
42. How many Vice Presidents have moved up because the president died?
Barack Obama
8
Iraq invaded Kuwait - and a coalition of naions push Iraq out of Kuwait
John Tyler
43. What is the family Medical Leave Act?
132
$400000
Worker can take three months off in a year to take care of sick relatives or him/herself and cannot be fired
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson; July 4th - 1826
44. Who was president for the nullification crisis?
The three day battle in July in Gettysburg about slaves
27
Andrew Jackson
8
45. Where was William McKinley killed?
April 12th - 1861
We thought there were weapons of mass destruction - but there weren't
Acting
Buffalo - New York
46. Who was the only president to be president and then supreme court chief justice?
George Washington
William Howard Taft
Woodrow Wilson
East of Africa
47. Lyndon Johnson got lots of bills passed involving ______.
Perjury and obstruction of justice
25
Civil rights
Monroe
48. What did John Wilkes Booth say after he shot Lincoln?
Sic Semper Tyrannis - the south is avenged
Ford's Theater
Dwight David Eisenhower
The president
49. Who introduced social security?
Ronald Reagan
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
George H. W. Bush
30
50. Who built the Interstate Highway System?
Harry S Truman
The first Tuesday of Novermber that follows a monday in November
Dwight David Eisenhower
The Civil War
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