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U.S. Presidents Trivia
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1. which president was former head of CIA?
George H. W. Bush
Woodrow Wilson
November
Mary Todd-Lincoln
2. Who was President during the Spanish American War?
Zapruder film
35
William McKinley
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
3. Who pays for all personal entertainment and dinners not related to teh government business in the White House?
A 2nd home for the president
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Harry S Truman
The president
4. The committee of the watergate scandal illegally entered the __________ (building) and spied on Nixon's opponent Who was in the _______ complex.
Democratic National Headquarters; Watergate
Civil War
November
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
5. Who introduced surviver benefits?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Woodrow Wilson
Ulysses S. Grant
Thomas Jefferson
6. Which presient send Lewis and Clark on their journey?
Maine and Nebraska
Dallas - Texas
He was shot
Thomas Jefferson
7. What is the command of army act?
England - France - Russia - USA
Forced the president to issue all military orders through general of the army who could not be removed without senate approval
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
8. Who burnt down the White House during a war?
George H. W. Bush
England
William Henry Harrison - Zachary Taylor - Warren Harding - and Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Free the slaves in the south
9. Who won the Civil war for Lincoln and later on became a president?
Dwight David Eisenhower
Ulysses S. Grant
Barack Obama
William McKinley
10. What was reconstruction?
If he serves 2 or less years of someone else's term plus 8 years on his own
John Wilkes Booth
Period after the Civil War and how we reunited
4th
11. Who was embarrassed when they received the Nobel Peace Prize?
20
William Howard Taft
Barack Obama
Enola Gay
12. Where was Abraham Lincoln born? What kind of house did he live in?
If he serves 2 or less years of someone else's term plus 8 years on his own
When peace was made between Israel and Egypt at Camp David
Kentucky; Log cabin
George Washington
13. Paula Jones sued William Jefferson Clinton for _______.
Harry S Truman
The Vice President
Sexual harrassment
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson; July 4th - 1826
14. What is the family Medical Leave Act?
Worker can take three months off in a year to take care of sick relatives or him/herself and cannot be fired
1 million
Jimmy Carter
Thomas Jefferson
15. James Madison's wife is famous for...
When we dropped food and supplies to people in West Berlin
Daniel Inouye
The banks were closed because everyone wanted their money at once
Saving a picture of Washington during the war
16. ______ years later - the Tenure of Office act was gotten rid of by the Supreme court because it was ________.
35
John Tyler
OK to send home foregienors if they looked dangerous; also if we were in war with their country
60; unconstitutional
17. What war did George Washington lead the army for?
Revolutionary War
22 - 24
None
The idea to own all the land from the pacific to the atlantic ocean; 1.2 million
18. What was the camp david accords?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
When peace was made between Israel and Egypt at Camp David
John Tyler
The fourteen points
19. Where did the name 'gettysburg' come from?
The three day battle in July in Gettysburg about slaves
November 22nd - 1963
George Washington
You can collect money if you become disabled before retirement
20. How many terms is a president alowed to serve?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
2
Mary Todd-Lincoln
Andrew Johnson
21. Can the amount of money a president earns be increased/decreased during someone's term of office?
The three day battle in July in Gettysburg about slaves
Ulysses S. Grant
In their state's capital
No
22. how many years is a score?
Zapruder film
20
George H. W. Bush
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.
23. What transportation does the president get?
Maine and Nebraska
Air Force One - Marine One - and limousines
Ft. Sumter - South Carolina
John Hinkley Jr.
24. Sewards Folly was when ________ (secretary of state) bought land for $______ - which was thought to be as a joke then - but now that land is known as ________.
William Seward; $7.2 million; Alaska
$400000
Speeches given for hope
Teddy Roosevelt
25. What happens if no candidate gets the majorit y of electoral votes?
The president
The House of Representatives selects the President and the Senate selects the Vice President
Bad
Barack Obama
26. Who was embarrassed when they received the Nobel Peace Prize?
Barack Obama
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor - Hawaii
Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Pearl Harbor bombing
The Civil War
27. Who won the Nobel peace prize because he told Russia and Japan not to fight - but to love?
He wanted a date Jodie Foster
Dwight David Eisenhower
William Henry Harrison
Teddy Roosevelt
28. what disease did Franklin Delano Roosevelt have?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Polio
John Quicy Adams
29. Who was William McKinley's VP that moved up when He was killed?
Teddy Roosevelt
Massachusetts
Civil War
French and Indian War
30. What was reconstruction?
The Vice President
Andrew Jackson
Jimmy Carter
Period after the Civil War and how we reunited
31. How did William McKinley die?
Period after the Civil War and how we reunited
7; 11
He was shot
Richard Nixon
32. What is the Electoral College?
The government
Barack Obama
Conspiracy
A group of representatives chosen by the voters to elect the President
33. After Abraham Lincoln was shot - He was carried across the street to ________________ where he dies when?
Dwight David Eisenhower
Peterson House; the next morning
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
34. Which presidents were great grandfather and grandson?
William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison
The US was prepared to send money and military support to countries that want to resist communism
Thomas Jefferson
Dallas - Texas
35. Why was Andrew Johnson impeached?
James Madison
John Quicy Adams
Alien and sedition acts
He fired the Secretary of War Staton
36. Where did Thomas Jefferson go to college?
Teddy Roosevelt
William and Mary College
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
November
37. Who was the first African American President?
In their state's capital
Barack Obama
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor - Hawaii
38. Who takes over if the President is disabled or dies?
Zapruder film
The Vice President
Thomas Jefferson
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
39. Who was Franklin Delano Roosevelt married to?
USA
Eleanor
Richard Nixon
The three day battle in July in Gettysburg about slaves
40. Which president created Yellowstone National Park and Yosemite?
The three day battle in July in Gettysburg about slaves
Electors
The federal government guarentees your money at a bank
Teddy Roosevelt
41. What is NATO (not what it stands for - what it is)?
A support group of countries
Gerald Ford
538
A 2nd home for the president
42. Who had the first death in office?
William Henry Harrison
Mount Vernon - Virginia
James Madison
Thomas Jefferson
43. Who was a Great General in war of 1812?
Andrew Jackson
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Joe Biden
The Korean War
44. The person who killed John Fitzgerald Kennedy is thought to have killed him in a _______ - or not alone.
Enola Gay
Conspiracy
Daniel Inouye
Sic Semper Tyrannis - the south is avenged
45. Why did the person who tried to assassinate Ronald Reagan do it?
January 20th
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
He wanted a date Jodie Foster
The Vice President
46. Did we win the Spanish American War?
Ulysses S. Grant
The north and the south were split up
Alien and sedition acts
Yes
47. Who was the first VP?
8
Dallas - Texas
John Adams
4
48. Who was the only catholic president?
Crime to print false or meliscious or scandalist stuff about the U.S. gov.
Dolley
William McKinley
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
49. Who said 'The buck stops here'?
35
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Harry S Truman
Jefferson Davis
50. Who said 'A date that will live in infamy'? What were they talking about (separate with semicolon)?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Pearl Harbor bombing
He wanted a date Jodie Foster
George W. Bush
William Henry Harrison
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