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U.S. Presidents Trivia
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Why did WWI happen?
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Germany was attacking ships
Jimmy Carter
Europe
2. When was the Emancipation proclamation?
Thomas Jefferson
January 1st - 1863
0
4
3. What was the New Deal?
Since birth
April 12th - 1861
Mount Vernon - Virginia
Getting out of the Great depression by hiring people - which would start a chain reaction
4. Who were the first presidents to be father and son?
John Adams and John Quincy Adams
35 said He was guilty - but he needed 36
Harry S Truman
Getting out of the Great depression by hiring people - which would start a chain reaction
5. Who had a 12 year affair with Gennifer Flowers?
Conspiracy
William Jefferson Clinton
Teddy Roosevelt
Cuba wanted to overthrow Castrow and our military helped train them
6. Where did Abraham Lincoln's assasination take place?
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7. Who had many affairs during their presidency but claimed not to?
William Jefferson Clinton
Civil rights
Monroe
We thought there were weapons of mass destruction - but there weren't
8. Who was president during the War of 1812 against England?
Sic Semper Tyrannis - the south is avenged
James Madison
Jimmy Carter
Teddy Roosevelt
9. Which president made the panama canal?
Teddy Roosevelt
15
William Jefferson Clinton
New Mexico to California
10. Who is the current speaker of the House?
John Boehner
Thus always to tyrants
April 12th - 1861
The government
11. Who is thought to have assassinated John Fitzgerald Kennedy?
USA
Lee Harvey Oswald
John Adams
Teddy Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt
12. What date did WWII begin?
270
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor - Hawaii
September 1st - 1939
George H. W. Bush
13. What was the nullification crisis?
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14. Who gave the longest inauguration speech?
William Henry Harrison
1803
The number of people in Congress plus 3 for DC
Jefferson still survives
15. What are disability benefits?
You can collect money if you become disabled before retirement
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
England - France - Russia - USA
Harvard
16. What year was the White House burnt down?
Barack Obama
1814
4
Iraq invaded Kuwait - and a coalition of naions push Iraq out of Kuwait
17. What is the inauguration date?
35 said He was guilty - but he needed 36
January 20th
Zapruder film
Writters for Washington Post who figured out Richard Nixon's case
18. Who did the Banking Holiday?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Honor people who died - make sure the country survies
George H. W. Bush
Kentucky; Log cabin
19. What president did the Berlin airlift?
Thomas Jefferson
1814
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Harry S Truman
20. Who was president for the nullification crisis?
Andrew Jackson
Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Pearl Harbor bombing
The idea to own all the land from the pacific to the atlantic ocean; 1.2 million
Saving a picture of Washington during the war
21. During the civil war - the ________ wanted slaves and the ________ did not.
South; north
His wife
John Hinkley Jr.
William Howard Taft
22. Who was the first VP?
Richard Nixon
Perjury and obstruction of justice
George W. Bush
John Adams
23. Which president was author of the Virginia Plan?
Dolley
James Madison
Thomas Jefferson
South; north
24. What was Lincoln's most famous speech?
Enola Gay
James Madison
The Gettysburg Address
Ulysses S. Grant
25. What was reconstruction?
Period after the Civil War and how we reunited
Self
Mount Vernon - Virginia
Lyndon Johnson
26. What is Camp David?
The north were comunists and the south were not
5
Crime to print false or meliscious or scandalist stuff about the U.S. gov.
A 2nd home for the president
27. Who attempted to assassinate Ronald Reagan?
George Washington
The idea to own all the land from the pacific to the atlantic ocean; 1.2 million
John Hinkley Jr.
Germany invaded Poland
28. what disease did Franklin Delano Roosevelt have?
November 1863
Polio
Gerald Ford
14
29. Where did the name 'gettysburg' come from?
The three day battle in July in Gettysburg about slaves
4
William Jefferson Clinton
Harry S Truman
30. Who were Woodward and Bernstein?
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31. Why was Andrew Johnson impeached?
No
Jimmy Carter
Lyndon Johnson
He fired the Secretary of War Staton
32. Abraham Lincoln was ______ educated
John Tyler
Lyndon Johnson
Teddy Roosevelt
Self
33. Franklin Delano Roosevelt died a short time into his ____ term.
4th
Revolutionary War
Dallas - Texas
Barack Obama
34. What is the family Medical Leave Act?
Saving a picture of Washington during the war
270
Worker can take three months off in a year to take care of sick relatives or him/herself and cannot be fired
Ulysses S. Grant
35. Name the Founding Fathers plus the son in order...
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
George Washington - John Adams - Thomas Jefferson - James Madison - James Monroe - and John Quincy Adams
Bad
December 7th - 1941
36. Who had the shortest presidency?
Hillary Clinton
January 20th
Richard Nixon
William Henry Harrison
37. What is the Electoral College?
Germany was attacking ships
Eleanor
A group of representatives chosen by the voters to elect the President
Richard Nixon
38. Who is the current Vice President?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Joe Biden
George H. W. Bush
Thus always to tyrants
39. What are surviver benefits?
Money goes to kids when a parent dies
Dwight David Eisenhower
Kentucky; Log cabin
Germany - Hungary - Turkey
40. What is manifest destiny? how many square miles was it?
The idea to own all the land from the pacific to the atlantic ocean; 1.2 million
Woodrow Wilson
James Madison
Universal health care
41. Jimmy Carter was the former governor of ____.
Teddy Roosevelt
Democratic National Headquarters; Watergate
New Mexico to California
Georgia
42. Who presented the Fourteen Points?
John Hinkley Jr.
Woodrow Wilson
Gerald Ford
132
43. Who built the Interstate Highway System?
The US was prepared to send money and military support to countries that want to resist communism
If he serves 2 or less years of someone else's term plus 8 years on his own
0
Dwight David Eisenhower
44. Franklin Delano Roosevelt's wife was related to him how?
Cuba wanted to overthrow Castrow and our military helped train them
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
14
His 5th cousin
45. Who won the Civil war for Lincoln and later on became a president?
Buffalo - New York
Ulysses S. Grant
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson; July 4th - 1826
November 1863
46. How many kids did John Tyler have?
Saving a picture of Washington during the war
15
Teddy Roosevelt
Barack Obama
47. What was the Tenure of Office Act/
John Hinkley Jr.
James Madison
James Madison
The president could not fire and federal official who had gotten their job with Senate approval
48. Where does the right to navigate teh seas without interference not apply?
Teddy Roosevelt
James Madison
East of Africa
Worker can take three months off in a year to take care of sick relatives or him/herself and cannot be fired
49. What war never officially ended but just doesn't fight any more?
The Korean War
William Henry Harrison
Perjury and obstruction of justice
He resigned before the impeachment trial
50. This president helped write the federalist papers.
Daniel Inouye
James Madison
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor - Hawaii
132