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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 we invade Iraq?
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2. What president had the watergate scandal?
Andrew Jackson
Worker can take three months off in a year to take care of sick relatives or him/herself and cannot be fired
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Richard Nixon
3. How many years younger was John Tyler's wife than him?
14
30
Money goes to kids when a parent dies
35
4. What was the point of the Gettysburg Address (two things)?
Buffalo - New York
John Adams
Forced the president to issue all military orders through general of the army who could not be removed without senate approval
Honor people who died - make sure the country survies
5. When was the Emancipation proclamation?
Kentucky; Log cabin
In their state's capital
January 1st - 1863
December 7th - 1941
6. Who supported manifest destiny?
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
100
James Polk
William and Mary College
7. Which president created Yellowstone National Park and Yosemite?
Teddy Roosevelt
Yes
The first Tuesday of Novermber that follows a monday in November
John Wilkes Booth
8. Why did we enter WWII?
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor - Hawaii
1 million
132
You can collect money if you become disabled before retirement
9. Who was a Great General in war of 1812?
Saving a picture of Washington during the war
Andrew Jackson
April 1917- November 1918
15 million
10. who pays for the costs of operating the white house?
Germany was attacking ships
The government
His 5th cousin
September 1st - 1939
11. What is the mandatory retirement plan run by the government?
French and Indian War
Social Security
Andrew Johnson
November 1863
12. ______ years later - the Tenure of Office act was gotten rid of by the Supreme court because it was ________.
60; unconstitutional
4
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Getting out of the Great depression by hiring people - which would start a chain reaction
13. Which president was the 'father of the constitution'?
John Quicy Adams
He was shot
James Madison
35
14. Who were the second presidents to be father and son?
George H.W. Bush and George Bush
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
November 22nd - 1963
When we dropped food and supplies to people in West Berlin
15. This president helped write the federalist papers.
Democratic National Headquarters; Watergate
James Madison
Iraq invaded Kuwait - and a coalition of naions push Iraq out of Kuwait
8
16. Did we win the Spanish American War?
Yes
Woodrow Wilson
Since birth
Teddy Roosevelt
17. Where was William McKinley killed?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Buffalo - New York
The House of Representatives selects the President and the Senate selects the Vice President
None
18. Alien Acts
OK to send home foregienors if they looked dangerous; also if we were in war with their country
January 1st - 1863
Georgia
60; unconstitutional
19. What presidents (in order) died of natural causes?
Lyndon Johnson
30
William Henry Harrison - Zachary Taylor - Warren Harding - and Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Harry S Truman
20. Who had an affair with Monica Lewinsky - a young intern at the White House?
Yes
William Jefferson Clinton
Teddy Roosevelt
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
21. Who won a Nobel Peace Prize for what they were going to do?
Barack Obama
$150000
Teddy Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Jimmy Carter
22. James Madison's wife was ________ Madison.
Dolley
$400000
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Ft. Sumter - South Carolina
23. What happens if no candidate gets the majorit y of electoral votes?
A 2nd home for the president
The House of Representatives selects the President and the Senate selects the Vice President
James Madison
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
24. Who went to the Supreme court and tried to increase it to fifteen judges - but was told no?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
He resigned before the impeachment trial
Ulysses S. Grant
Mary Todd-Lincoln
25. What are the people in the electoral college called?
$150000
Money goes to kids when a parent dies
John Tyler
Electors
26. What month and year was the Gettysburg Address said?
Crime to print false or meliscious or scandalist stuff about the U.S. gov.
George H.W. Bush and George Bush
November 1863
When we dropped food and supplies to people in West Berlin
27. what ended a couple of days before Abraham Lincoln's Assasination?
Civil War
Maine and Nebraska
William Jefferson Clinton
USA
28. How much was the Louisiana Territory when it was purchased?
Joe Biden
Mom
East of Africa
15 million
29. Who attempted to assassinate Ronald Reagan?
Universal health care
1914-1918
John Hinkley Jr.
George Washington - John Adams - Thomas Jefferson - James Madison - James Monroe - and John Quincy Adams
30. Which presient send Lewis and Clark on their journey?
Thomas Jefferson
George Washington
The Gettysburg Address
14
31. Who was president for the persian gulf war?
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
George H. W. Bush
Sexual harrassment
John Boehner
32. Who was president for the Cuban Missile Crisis?
The three day battle in July in Gettysburg about slaves
Andrew Jackson
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
35
33. What was the Emancipation proclamation meant to do?
Free the slaves in the south
Yes
Woodrow Wilson
Monroe
34. Who takes over if the President is disabled or dies?
Cuba wanted to overthrow Castrow and our military helped train them
The Vice President
Teddy Roosevelt
The Confederate States of America
35. How old do you have to be to be president?
Mom
George H. W. Bush
35
X-ray
36. Gerald Ford pardons _____________ for all crimes committed.
Richard Nixon
William Henry Harrison
Abraham Lincoln
Jimmy Carter
37. Who was Franklin Delano Roosevelt married to?
Eleanor
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Andrew Jackson
James Madison
38. Who was president for the Iran Hostage crisis?
Bad
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Jimmy Carter
Massachusetts
39. What was a popular film of John Fitzgerald Kennedy's assassination?
Air Force One - Marine One - and limousines
The president could not fire and federal official who had gotten their job with Senate approval
Zapruder film
The north and the south were split up
40. What is the family Medical Leave Act?
Abraham Lincoln
The Korean War
The president could not fire and federal official who had gotten their job with Senate approval
Worker can take three months off in a year to take care of sick relatives or him/herself and cannot be fired
41. Which president was a 'rough rider' in the Spanish American War?
Joe Biden
They were classmates in college
Woodrow Wilson
Teddy Roosevelt
42. During the Great Depression - ____% were unemployed.
30
John Boehner
Acting
25
43. Who were Woodward and Bernstein?
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44. How much of a retirement income per year does the president make (for life)?
Sic Semper Tyrannis - the south is avenged
Barack Obama
Teddy Roosevelt
$150000
45. Who won the Civil war for Lincoln and later on became a president?
Ulysses S. Grant
Teddy Roosevelt
Gerald Ford
Democratic National Headquarters; Watergate
46. Who was president for the Bay of Pigs?
George Washington
35 said He was guilty - but he needed 36
538
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
47. How much money does the president earn per year?
The Civil War
Woodrow Wilson
Zapruder film
$400000
48. Which president adopted independence - was loyal - smart - and a lawyer?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
John Adams
William Jefferson Clinton
September 1st - 1939
49. Who takes over if the President is disabled or dies?
The Vice President
John Adams
William Jefferson Clinton
Ronald Reagan
50. What are disability benefits?
George Washington
The president could not fire and federal official who had gotten their job with Senate approval
Iraq invaded Kuwait - and a coalition of naions push Iraq out of Kuwait
You can collect money if you become disabled before retirement