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U.S. Presidents Trivia
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1. Who was the only president to resign?
Richard Nixon
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.
James Madison
Sexual harrassment
2. After what event was the Fourteen Points presented?
132
The Vice President
World War I
Germany was attacking ships
3. What was the name of the airplane that bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Civil War
Enola Gay
Ft. Sumter - South Carolina
Ford's Theater
4. Who did the Banking Holiday?
25
South; north
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Mount Vernon - Virginia
5. Who was president for the Iran Hostage crisis?
Civil War
Jimmy Carter
Acting
April 1917- November 1918
6. What is universal health care?
Medical insurance for all americans
Harry S Truman
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
The fourteen points
7. Who was president during the Great depression?
X-ray
Zapruder film
George Washington
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
8. Who was the oldest elected president (age 73 at 2nd term)?
Dwight David Eisenhower
Ronald Reagan
The Civil War
Barack Obama
9. Who is the current Vice President?
Jefferson Davis
Joe Biden
Dental; medical
Thomas Jefferson
10. What to laws did Adams TRY to pass?
None
Abraham Lincoln
Since birth
Alien and sedition acts
11. What is the family Medical Leave Act?
John Quicy Adams
Worker can take three months off in a year to take care of sick relatives or him/herself and cannot be fired
Conspiracy
John Tyler
12. What was the most terms served by a president?
4
The US was prepared to send money and military support to countries that want to resist communism
Andrew Johnson
Sexual harrassment
13. Who won a nobel peace prize because of the camp david accords?
Jimmy Carter
Germany was attacking ships
John Adams
18
14. What was the persian gulf war/desert storm?
Iraq invaded Kuwait - and a coalition of naions push Iraq out of Kuwait
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Zapruder film
X-ray
15. What was reconstruction?
OK to send home foregienors if they looked dangerous; also if we were in war with their country
Period after the Civil War and how we reunited
William Jefferson Clinton
Jimmy Carter
16. What is the command of army act?
April 12th - 1861
Worker can take three months off in a year to take care of sick relatives or him/herself and cannot be fired
Martha
Forced the president to issue all military orders through general of the army who could not be removed without senate approval
17. What is universal health care?
Monticello - Virginia
Medical insurance for all americans
William Henry Harrison
January 1st - 1863
18. What happens to John Wilkes Booth?
He gets shot
England - France - Russia - USA
USA
Perjury and obstruction of justice
19. Who moved up when John Fitzgerald Kennedy died because He was his VP?
Lyndon Johnson
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Teddy Roosevelt
14
20. What war did George Washington lead the army for?
Revolutionary War
Kentucky; Log cabin
X-ray
Monroe
21. Name the Founding Fathers plus the son in order...
George Washington - John Adams - Thomas Jefferson - James Madison - James Monroe - and John Quincy Adams
John Wilkes Booth
The federal government guarentees your money at a bank
A group of representatives chosen by the voters to elect the President
22. Sedition acts
You can collect money if you become disabled before retirement
Europe
Crime to print false or meliscious or scandalist stuff about the U.S. gov.
East of Africa
23. Who is considered 'the father of our country'?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The president could not fire and federal official who had gotten their job with Senate approval
George Washington
William Henry Harrison
24. What is the oldest you can be to get surviver benefits?
William Jefferson Clinton
Enola Gay
18
Thus always to tyrants
25. Who was the first president not to win the popular vote and to become president?
No
His 5th cousin
Universal health care
John Quicy Adams
26. Why did we invade Iraq?
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27. Who won a Nobel Peace Prize for what they were going to do?
35 said He was guilty - but he needed 36
James Polk
Barack Obama
132
28. What weapon was used to kill Lincoln?
Teddy Roosevelt
14
A gun
Dental; medical
29. When did we get involved and stop being involved with WWI? (month and year)
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Richard Nixon
Harry S Truman
April 1917- November 1918
30. Which president had a stroke in his bathroom?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Woodrow Wilson
Thomas Jefferson
Sic Semper Tyrannis - the south is avenged
31. how many years is a score?
Maine and Nebraska
20
French and Indian War
Jimmy Carter
32. How many rooms in the white house?
Zapruder film
Daniel Inouye
Revolutionary War
132
33. When was the Emancipation proclamation?
January 20th
Thus always to tyrants
January 1st - 1863
John Wilkes Booth
34. What are disability benefits?
4
Dwight David Eisenhower
You can collect money if you become disabled before retirement
William Howard Taft
35. Who said 'The buck stops here'?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Worker can take three months off in a year to take care of sick relatives or him/herself and cannot be fired
8
Harry S Truman
36. Who won the Nobel peace prize because he told Russia and Japan not to fight - but to love?
William Jefferson Clinton
Abigail
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.
Teddy Roosevelt
37. During the civil war - the south named itself _____.
England
We thought there were weapons of mass destruction - but there weren't
The Confederate States of America
Dolley
38. Who was president for the Bay of Pigs?
Conspiracy
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
George Washington
39. Who was George Washington's wife?
William Henry Harrison
Martha
Teddy Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
40. What year was the Louisiana Territory bought?
Richard Nixon
November 1863
1803
Richard Nixon
41. Which president was obnoxious and disliked?
John Adams
Ulysses S. Grant
Cuba wanted to overthrow Castrow and our military helped train them
Hillary Clinton
42. There was a _________ - or a group of people - who helped John Wilkes Booth kill Lincoln and also planned to kill the VP and Secretary.
Conspiracy
Dwight David Eisenhower
John Adams
Harry S Truman
43. What war was Abraham Lincoln president during?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
18
The Civil War
Ronald Reagan
44. What was reconstruction?
Period after the Civil War and how we reunited
Thomas Jefferson
Air Force One - Marine One - and limousines
Saving a picture of Washington during the war
45. Franklin Delano Roosevelt got his middle name because his _____'s favorite relative was de la Noye
The House of Representatives selects the President and the Senate selects the Vice President
Abraham Lincoln
Barack Obama
Mom
46. During the civil war - the south's president was _____________.
Jefferson Davis
Harry S Truman
Guam - Midway Islands - Philippines - and Puerto Rico
William McKinley
47. Who was president for the persian gulf war?
He was shot on his way to a college reunion
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.
Harvard
George H. W. Bush
48. Lyndon Johnson got lots of bills passed involving ______.
Maine and Nebraska
Germany - Hungary - Turkey
Civil rights
When we dropped food and supplies to people in West Berlin
49. Who won the Nobel peace prize because he told Russia and Japan not to fight - but to love?
Teddy Roosevelt
4th
Monticello - Virginia
John Quincy Adams - Rutherford B. Hayes - Benjamin Harrison - and George W. Bush
50. What month and day do we vote for the president?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
444
No
The first Tuesday of Novermber that follows a monday in November
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