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U.S. Presidents Trivia
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Where did Thomas Jefferson go to college?
Iraq invaded Kuwait - and a coalition of naions push Iraq out of Kuwait
November 22nd - 1963
William and Mary College
William Seward; $7.2 million; Alaska
2. Why did we invade Iraq?
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3. Who was a Great General in war of 1812?
Andrew Jackson
A gun
14
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
4. What presidents (in order) died of natural causes?
William Henry Harrison - Zachary Taylor - Warren Harding - and Franklin Delano Roosevelt
5
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Jimmy Carter
5. What was reconstruction?
Perjury and obstruction of justice
George Washington
Period after the Civil War and how we reunited
$150000
6. Who introduced disability benefits?
John Adams
George H. W. Bush
Conspiracy
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
7. What was the New Deal?
The US was prepared to send money and military support to countries that want to resist communism
Getting out of the Great depression by hiring people - which would start a chain reaction
November 22nd - 1963
Ronald Reagan
8. Why did we invade Iraq?
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9. What is universal health care?
Medical insurance for all americans
Teddy Roosevelt
John Adams
Says to Europe to stay out of the western memosphere and don't colonize; the U.S. will consider colonization a threat to our secruity; we will stay out of European affairs unless they affect us
10. What president had the watergate scandal?
8
Germany was attacking ships
Richard Nixon
Harry S Truman
11. What is the command of army act?
January 20th
Iraq invaded Kuwait - and a coalition of naions push Iraq out of Kuwait
Forced the president to issue all military orders through general of the army who could not be removed without senate approval
X-ray
12. How many years younger was John Tyler's wife than him?
Worker can take three months off in a year to take care of sick relatives or him/herself and cannot be fired
30
Abigail
April 12th - 1861
13. After what event was the Fourteen Points presented?
World War I
Crime to print false or meliscious or scandalist stuff about the U.S. gov.
15
444
14. What presidents lost the popular vote but won the electoral vote? (in order)
Dolley
444
John Quincy Adams - Rutherford B. Hayes - Benjamin Harrison - and George W. Bush
South; north
15. Who was Franklin Delano Roosevelt married to?
William Henry Harrison
Eleanor
1 million
1914-1918
16. Who won the Nobel peace prize because he told Russia and Japan not to fight - but to love?
Yes
Dwight David Eisenhower
Richard Nixon
Teddy Roosevelt
17. Who was embarrassed when they received the Nobel Peace Prize?
Dwight David Eisenhower
Peterson House; the next morning
1803
Barack Obama
18. Where was Abraham Lincoln born? What kind of house did he live in?
The president could not fire and federal official who had gotten their job with Senate approval
Harvard
Getting out of the Great depression by hiring people - which would start a chain reaction
Kentucky; Log cabin
19. Which presient send Lewis and Clark on their journey?
Perjury and obstruction of justice
Thomas Jefferson
Honor people who died - make sure the country survies
Saving a picture of Washington during the war
20. How did John Wilkes Booth break his leg?
Mary Todd-Lincoln
John Adams
When he jumped out of the balcony - his foot got stuck in the bunting and he fell onto stage
South; north
21. Which president was the youngest to serve?
Teddy Roosevelt
The south
Yes
William Seward; $7.2 million; Alaska
22. James Monroe created the ________ Doctrine
William Henry Harrison
The federal government guarentees your money at a bank
The first Tuesday of Novermber that follows a monday in November
Monroe
23. What were the sides for the Korean war and the Vietnam war?
14
The north were comunists and the south were not
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
USA
24. Who created the Family Medical Leave Act?
Jimmy Carter
They were classmates in college
William Jefferson Clinton
England - France - Russia - USA
25. Who was president when the United Nations was formed?
Harry S Truman
Says to Europe to stay out of the western memosphere and don't colonize; the U.S. will consider colonization a threat to our secruity; we will stay out of European affairs unless they affect us
Democratic National Headquarters; Watergate
Barack Obama
26. What were the territories we gained in the Spanish American War? (ABC order with commas inbetween)
Barack Obama
The Confederate States of America
Guam - Midway Islands - Philippines - and Puerto Rico
Civil rights
27. Where do electors vote?
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28. Who did fireside chats?
No
4
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
November 1863
29. How much of a retirement income per year does the president make (for life)?
January 1st - 1863
270
He wanted a date Jodie Foster
$150000
30. What is the Electoral College?
A group of representatives chosen by the voters to elect the President
Acting
Yes
William Jefferson Clinton
31. Who said 'The only thing we have to fear is fear itself' at their 1st inaugural?
England
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
James Madison
You can collect money if you become disabled before retirement
32. Who is the current speaker of the House?
The Civil War
Peterson House; the next morning
John Boehner
John Adams and John Quincy Adams
33. Who was the only president to get all the electoral votes?
French and Indian War
George Washington
South; north
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
34. What was William Jefferson Clinton impeached for?
September 1st - 1939
John Quicy Adams
Perjury and obstruction of justice
4
35. During the Great Depression - ____% were unemployed.
25
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Polio
In their state's capital
36. Who was our president when we kille Osama bin Laden?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
He resigned before the impeachment trial
Social Security
Barack Obama
37. What month and year was the Gettysburg Address said?
$400000
His wife
Iraq invaded Kuwait - and a coalition of naions push Iraq out of Kuwait
November 1863
38. What are the people in the electoral college called?
Civil rights
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Electors
December 7th - 1941
39. How many Vice Presidents have moved up because the president resigned?
William Jefferson Clinton
James Madison
1
Jimmy Carter
40. During the civil war - the south's general was ____________.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
When peace was made between Israel and Egypt at Camp David
Thomas Jefferson
Robert E. Lee
41. Which president created Yellowstone National Park and Yosemite?
Teddy Roosevelt
Robert E. Lee
April 12th - 1861
William Jefferson Clinton
42. Who burnt down the White House during a war?
England
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The north were comunists and the south were not
George Washington
43. Who presented the Fourteen Points?
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson; July 4th - 1826
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Jimmy Carter
Woodrow Wilson
44. Who was the first VP to move up on death of a president?
Georgia
4
New Mexico to California
John Tyler
45. Why did the person who tried to assassinate Ronald Reagan do it?
Teddy Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt
X-ray
Jimmy Carter
He wanted a date Jodie Foster
46. Who said 'The buck stops here'?
Harry S Truman
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.
He wanted a date Jodie Foster
The Confederate States of America
47. What was the persian gulf war/desert storm?
Iraq invaded Kuwait - and a coalition of naions push Iraq out of Kuwait
Medical insurance for all americans
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
William Henry Harrison
48. How many presidents died in office?
Massachusetts
132
A 2nd home for the president
8
49. ______ years later - the Tenure of Office act was gotten rid of by the Supreme court because it was ________.
$400000
None
His 5th cousin
60; unconstitutional
50. Who invaded Iraq?
Teddy Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt
If he serves 2 or less years of someone else's term plus 8 years on his own
George W. Bush
December 7th - 1941