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U.S. Presidents Trivia
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What does NATO stand for?
4
A gun
Andrew Jackson
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
2. How many Vice Presidents ran again for president and became president?
William McKinley
5
Andrew Jackson
Abigail
3. Congress passed 2 laws designed to limit __________'s (a president) power .
Civil rights
William Jefferson Clinton
Ft. Sumter - South Carolina
Andrew Johnson
4. Who is the current secretary of state?
A 2nd home for the president
Hillary Clinton
Harry S Truman
The Korean War
5. Who was sent to a mental institution after Abraham Lincoln's death?
Conspiracy
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson; July 4th - 1826
The Vice President
Mary Todd-Lincoln
6. How many pounds was William Howard Taft?
350
538
John Wilkes Booth
John Tyler
7. How tall was Abraham Lincoln?
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8. Who is the current secretary of state?
Hillary Clinton
Germany - Hungary - Turkey
Mount Vernon - Virginia
6'4'
9. Who introduced disability benefits?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The government
USA
Germany invaded Poland
10. what president was also president of the constitutional convention?
December 7th - 1941
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
George Washington
No
11. What are disability benefits?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Revolutionary War
You can collect money if you become disabled before retirement
John Hinkley Jr.
12. What month is the election in?
Harry S Truman
November
Andrew Jackson
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
13. Who introduced surviver benefits?
0
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
5
25
14. During the civil war - the north's general was ___________.
6'4'
James Madison
8
Ulysses S. Grant
15. 'Speak softley and carry a big stick' was a quote of who?
Thomas Jefferson
Zapruder film
Teddy Roosevelt
George W. Bush
16. Where do electors vote?
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17. Who won a nobel peace prize because of the camp david accords?
His 5th cousin
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Jimmy Carter
Abraham Lincoln
18. Where does the president live for free?
The federal government guarentees your money at a bank
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The White House
Germany was attacking ships
19. Who was president during the Great depression?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
When peace was made between Israel and Egypt at Camp David
4
Providing a backup place for military plane landing
20. Who did the Banking Holiday?
England
James Madison
Dwight David Eisenhower
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
21. Do we vote directly for the president?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Maryland
No
Iraq invaded Kuwait - and a coalition of naions push Iraq out of Kuwait
22. Where does the number of electors in the electoral college come from?
Civil rights
England; sailors; products
Period after the Civil War and how we reunited
The number of people in Congress plus 3 for DC
23. Which president created Yellowstone National Park and Yosemite?
Germany was attacking ships
He gets shot
January 20th
Teddy Roosevelt
24. Which president was former ambassador to China?
Enola Gay
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
George H. W. Bush
The Confederate States of America
25. what disease did Franklin Delano Roosevelt have?
Polio
Georgia
Sic Semper Tyrannis - the south is avenged
The Korean War
26. Who was the only president to resign?
Richard Nixon
Lyndon Johnson
444
Harry S Truman
27. What president had the watergate scandal?
William Jefferson Clinton
Richard Nixon
John Adams
John Quincy Adams - Rutherford B. Hayes - Benjamin Harrison - and George W. Bush
28. Which president started the two term tradition?
Barack Obama
George Washington
Acting
December 7th - 1941
29. Who had a 12 year affair with Gennifer Flowers?
William Henry Harrison
Harry S Truman
His 5th cousin
William Jefferson Clinton
30. Who said 'A date that will live in infamy'? What were they talking about (separate with semicolon)?
15 million
Joe Biden
Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Pearl Harbor bombing
4
31. What was the New Deal?
William Jefferson Clinton
Teddy Roosevelt
George W. Bush
Getting out of the Great depression by hiring people - which would start a chain reaction
32. What date was John Fitzgerald Kennedy killed on?
The idea to own all the land from the pacific to the atlantic ocean; 1.2 million
January 20th
November 22nd - 1963
John Quicy Adams
33. Which presidents were great grandfather and grandson?
George Washington
350
William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison
Monroe
34. How long do you have to be a citizen for to be president?
In their state's capital
Since birth
Forced the president to issue all military orders through general of the army who could not be removed without senate approval
Acting
35. During the civil war - the south's general was ____________.
William Henry Harrison
Robert E. Lee
England; sailors; products
Writters for Washington Post who figured out Richard Nixon's case
36. Which president adopted independence - was loyal - smart - and a lawyer?
The Vice President
A group of representatives chosen by the voters to elect the President
John Adams
William Seward; $7.2 million; Alaska
37. How many presidents were killed in office?
Thomas Jefferson
18
You can collect money if you become disabled before retirement
4
38. Who was the first African American President?
Barack Obama
Honor people who died - make sure the country survies
Hillary Clinton
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
39. How many terms is a president alowed to serve?
When peace was made between Israel and Egypt at Camp David
2
Electors
The White House
40. What was reconstruction?
The Vice President
Period after the Civil War and how we reunited
35 said He was guilty - but he needed 36
14
41. What does 'Sic Semper Tyrranis' mean?
George Washington
Thus always to tyrants
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
John Quicy Adams
42. What was William Jefferson Clinton impeached for?
The Vice President
Honor people who died - make sure the country survies
Electors
Perjury and obstruction of justice
43. Who was Deep Throat?
1
A person who knew the truth about Richard Nixon and told Woodward and Bernstein
Richard Nixon
James Madison
44. Who had a 12 year affair with Gennifer Flowers?
Richard Nixon
George H. W. Bush
William Henry Harrison
William Jefferson Clinton
45. Which president had a stroke in his bathroom?
Gerald Ford
William Seward; $7.2 million; Alaska
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Woodrow Wilson
46. What was the point of the Gettysburg Address (two things)?
Abraham Lincoln
Honor people who died - make sure the country survies
William and Mary College
1914-1918
47. During the civil war - the north's general was ___________.
Teddy Roosevelt - Woodrow Wilson - Jimmy Carter - and Barack Obama
444
Ulysses S. Grant
Democratic National Headquarters; Watergate
48. How many years do you have to live in the U.S. for to be president?
John Adams
Ronald Reagan
35 said He was guilty - but he needed 36
14
49. How much money does the president earn per year?
$400000
You can collect money if you become disabled before retirement
Lyndon Johnson
Germany invaded Poland
50. Which president was a lawyer - very smart - an architect - a musician - and an inventor?
Gerald Ford
Andrew Jackson
Period after the Civil War and how we reunited
Thomas Jefferson