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U.S. Presidents Trivia
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Which president was a great general - a leader - honest - and trustworth?
George Washington
Mary Todd-Lincoln
1 million
Martha
2. When was the Emancipation proclamation?
January 1st - 1863
Enola Gay
George Washington - John Adams - Thomas Jefferson - James Madison - James Monroe - and John Quincy Adams
Electors
3. Who created the Family Medical Leave Act?
William Jefferson Clinton
The Vice President
The first Tuesday of Novermber that follows a monday in November
Money goes to kids when a parent dies
4. Which president was author of the Virginia Plan?
Money goes to kids when a parent dies
132
James Madison
George Washington
5. What is the inauguration date?
Monroe
January 20th
If he serves 2 or less years of someone else's term plus 8 years on his own
Ronald Reagan
6. Which president got Alzheimers and forgot being president?
14
William Jefferson Clinton
William Henry Harrison - Zachary Taylor - Warren Harding - and Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Ronald Reagan
7. 'Speak softley and carry a big stick' was a quote of who?
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
The US was prepared to send money and military support to countries that want to resist communism
Teddy Roosevelt
George W. Bush
8. Who is the current Vice President?
Joe Biden
Period after the Civil War and how we reunited
X-ray
Teddy Roosevelt
9. What is the mandatory retirement plan run by the government?
James Polk
Social Security
The number of people in Congress plus 3 for DC
Ulysses S. Grant
10. Which president created Yellowstone National Park and Yosemite?
15
4th
James Madison
Teddy Roosevelt
11. Which presidents won the nobel peace prize (in order)?
Barack Obama
Europe
The Vice President
Teddy Roosevelt - Woodrow Wilson - Jimmy Carter - and Barack Obama
12. How long do you have to be a citizen for to be president?
4
East of Africa
Since birth
1814
13. what ended a couple of days before Abraham Lincoln's Assasination?
He gets shot
Civil War
Providing a backup place for military plane landing
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
14. Who was a peanut farmer?
Mom
Kentucky; Log cabin
November
Jimmy Carter
15. Who won the Nobel peace prize because he told Russia and Japan not to fight - but to love?
14
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Teddy Roosevelt
New Mexico to California
16. Congress passed 2 laws designed to limit __________'s (a president) power .
270
Andrew Johnson
His 5th cousin
Woodrow Wilson
17. Why was Andrew Johnson impeached?
Mary Todd-Lincoln
He fired the Secretary of War Staton
1 million
Worker can take three months off in a year to take care of sick relatives or him/herself and cannot be fired
18. John Adams had a successful marriage with ______ (first name).
Revolutionary War
Abigail
27
The House of Representatives selects the President and the Senate selects the Vice President
19. Who was Abraham Lincoln married to?
Mary Todd-Lincoln
George Washington
In their state's capital
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
20. Where does the president live for free?
The White House
Lyndon Johnson
Writters for Washington Post who figured out Richard Nixon's case
Self
21. During the civil war - the south's president was _____________.
Jefferson Davis
Forced the president to issue all military orders through general of the army who could not be removed without senate approval
Jimmy Carter
George H. W. Bush
22. Name the two presidents (ABC order by last name - write first and last name) who died on the same day - and the date they died (separate with semi colon)
England - France - Russia - USA
Jimmy Carter
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson; July 4th - 1826
6'4'
23. Who was president for the Cuban Missile Crisis?
January 20th
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Forced the president to issue all military orders through general of the army who could not be removed without senate approval
Harvard
24. How long do you have to be a citizen for to be president?
Since birth
25
Andrew Jackson
Barack Obama
25. Where was John Fitzgerald Kennedy assassinated?
Dallas - Texas
George H. W. Bush
Getting out of the Great depression by hiring people - which would start a chain reaction
Providing a backup place for military plane landing
26. When Harry S Truman was president during WWII - what two places in japan were bombed (abc order)?
The Gettysburg Address
Sexual harrassment
Electors
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
27. What year was the Louisiana Territory bought?
John Adams
John Adams
When peace was made between Israel and Egypt at Camp David
1803
28. What did John Wilkes Booth say after he shot Lincoln?
35
Germany - Hungary - Turkey
Sic Semper Tyrannis - the south is avenged
Harry S Truman
29. Which president presented the bill of rights at the first Congress?
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
James Madison
Civil rights
Monticello - Virginia
30. Which president was the 'father of the constitution'?
4
Harry S Truman
Enola Gay
James Madison
31. Grover Cleveland was the ____ and ____ president (numbers)
Conspiracy
Peterson House; the next morning
22 - 24
The south
32. Do we vote directly for the president?
No
The House of Representatives selects the President and the Senate selects the Vice President
Andrew Johnson
A person who knew the truth about Richard Nixon and told Woodward and Bernstein
33. How many years is a presidential term?
4
Harry S Truman
East of Africa
George Washington
34. Where does the number of electors in the electoral college come from?
William Howard Taft
The south
Saving a picture of Washington during the war
The number of people in Congress plus 3 for DC
35. What weapon was used to kill Lincoln?
Teddy Roosevelt
The US was prepared to send money and military support to countries that want to resist communism
Jimmy Carter
A gun
36. Where was George Washington born?
James Madison
350
William Henry Harrison - Zachary Taylor - Warren Harding - and Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Mount Vernon - Virginia
37. Franklin Delano Roosevelt died a short time into his ____ term.
4th
Bad
Martha
Teddy Roosevelt
38. What was the Bay of Pigs?
England; sailors; products
Cuba wanted to overthrow Castrow and our military helped train them
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
1
39. Who was the youngest elected president?
Since birth
4
The banks were closed because everyone wanted their money at once
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
40. What was the point of the Gettysburg Address (two things)?
William and Mary College
The White House
Harry S Truman
Honor people who died - make sure the country survies
41. Paula Jones sued William Jefferson Clinton for _______.
Sexual harrassment
4
Teddy Roosevelt
Conspiracy
42. Who was president for the persian gulf war?
Abraham Lincoln
18
George H. W. Bush
We thought there were weapons of mass destruction - but there weren't
43. Did we win the Spanish American War?
Period after the Civil War and how we reunited
He resigned before the impeachment trial
Air Force One - Marine One - and limousines
Yes
44. Who moved up when John Fitzgerald Kennedy died because He was his VP?
Lyndon Johnson
Thomas Jefferson
George H. W. Bush
0
45. Who supported manifest destiny?
James Polk
John Tyler
John Wilkes Booth
Thomas Jefferson
46. Who was president for the nullification crisis?
He gets shot
Andrew Jackson
The Gettysburg Address
Mom
47. What to laws did Adams TRY to pass?
Richard Nixon
Alien and sedition acts
Revolutionary War
John Adams
48. Why did the person who tried to assassinate Ronald Reagan do it?
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor - Hawaii
Dwight David Eisenhower
He wanted a date Jodie Foster
Abraham Lincoln
49. What were fireside chats?
Ulysses S. Grant
William Jefferson Clinton
He resigned before the impeachment trial
Speeches given for hope
50. Who was president for the 9/11 attacks?
James Polk
George H. W. Bush
Honor people who died - make sure the country survies
George W. Bush