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U.S. Presidents Trivia
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Who had the shortest presidency?
444
William Howard Taft
William Henry Harrison
Social Security
2. Who was the only president to be president and then supreme court chief justice?
William Howard Taft
Thomas Jefferson
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
1803
3. What was the nullification crisis?
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4. Who was the first President during WWII?
William Henry Harrison - Zachary Taylor - Warren Harding - and Franklin Delano Roosevelt
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson; July 4th - 1826
Social Security
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
5. what ended a couple of days before Abraham Lincoln's Assasination?
270
When he jumped out of the balcony - his foot got stuck in the bunting and he fell onto stage
Jimmy Carter
Civil War
6. How many years do you have to live in the U.S. for to be president?
14
Harvard
September 1st - 1939
Buffalo - New York
7. How long do you have to be a citizen for to be president?
Since birth
New Mexico to California
A person who knew the truth about Richard Nixon and told Woodward and Bernstein
The first Tuesday of Novermber that follows a monday in November
8. Who burnt down the White House during a war?
The first Tuesday of Novermber that follows a monday in November
Revolutionary War
England
When we dropped food and supplies to people in West Berlin
9. Who won a Nobel Peace Prize for what they were going to do?
Barack Obama
0
He was shot
We thought there were weapons of mass destruction - but there weren't
10. How many presidents died in office?
Eleanor
35
8
John Adams
11. What was the Bay of Pigs?
Ronald Reagan
1914-1918
Cuba wanted to overthrow Castrow and our military helped train them
Kentucky; Log cabin
12. Who were the first presidents to be father and son?
John Adams and John Quincy Adams
35
England - France - Russia - USA
Harry S Truman
13. Who had the first death in office?
Teddy Roosevelt
Thomas Jefferson
William Henry Harrison
Barack Obama
14. Where was George Washington born?
Mount Vernon - Virginia
Crime to print false or meliscious or scandalist stuff about the U.S. gov.
Ronald Reagan
George W. Bush
15. Who was the first President during WWII?
Polio
James Madison
Woodrow Wilson
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
16. What is the inauguration date?
Ulysses S. Grant
Barack Obama
January 20th
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
17. Who was a peanut farmer?
When peace was made between Israel and Egypt at Camp David
John Quicy Adams
Jimmy Carter
4
18. In the War of 1812 - ________ (country) kept stealing our ________ (people) and _______ (items) in the middle of the ocean (separate with semicolon).
None
Teddy Roosevelt
England; sailors; products
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
19. What is the Electoral College?
A group of representatives chosen by the voters to elect the President
Enola Gay
George H.W. Bush and George Bush
Teddy Roosevelt
20. Abraham Lincoln was ______ educated
Abraham Lincoln
Self
His wife
Club with all countries where problems were discussed peacefully
21. What law that Barack Obama passed might be unconstitutional and is being looked at by the supreme court now?
Universal health care
Joe Biden
Martha
December 7th - 1941
22. What was a talent of John Wilkes Booth?
Dwight David Eisenhower
Iraq invaded Kuwait - and a coalition of naions push Iraq out of Kuwait
18
Acting
23. Who were the second presidents to be father and son?
6'4'
George H.W. Bush and George Bush
Ulysses S. Grant
The north were comunists and the south were not
24. Who was president during the War of 1812 against England?
USA
England
George Washington
James Madison
25. What month and year was the Gettysburg Address said?
Teddy Roosevelt
Andrew Jackson
Harvard
November 1863
26. Who is the current President Pro-Tempore of the Senate?
John Quicy Adams
Daniel Inouye
Cuba wanted to overthrow Castrow and our military helped train them
Teddy Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt
27. What was the league of nations?
Club with all countries where problems were discussed peacefully
15
Mary Todd-Lincoln
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
28. Who ran the country when Woodrow Wilson couldn't?
Richard Nixon
The president
His wife
Harry S Truman
29. During the civil war - the south's general was ____________.
Robert E. Lee
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
The government
Honor people who died - make sure the country survies
30. Where does the president live for free?
The White House
Dolley
2
The Vice President
31. What is Camp David?
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
We thought there were weapons of mass destruction - but there weren't
Abraham Lincoln
A 2nd home for the president
32. During the Great Depression - ____% were unemployed.
No
William Henry Harrison
25
132
33. Who won the Civil war for Lincoln and later on became a president?
Civil rights
Ulysses S. Grant
England
35
34. Grover Cleveland was the ____ and ____ president (numbers)
1
22 - 24
He was shot
The Vice President
35. Do we vote directly for the president?
No
Getting out of the Great depression by hiring people - which would start a chain reaction
World War I
If he serves 2 or less years of someone else's term plus 8 years on his own
36. What is FDIC (explaIn what it means - not what it stands for)?
Teddy Roosevelt - Woodrow Wilson - Jimmy Carter - and Barack Obama
George H. W. Bush
Dwight David Eisenhower
The federal government guarentees your money at a bank
37. What is Camp David?
George H. W. Bush
A 2nd home for the president
William Henry Harrison
Germany was attacking ships
38. Who introduced surviver benefits?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
538
No
Teddy Roosevelt
39. How many presidents were killed in office?
Ford's Theater
Sic Semper Tyrannis - the south is avenged
Enola Gay
4
40. Who is the current secretary of state?
George H. W. Bush
20
Hillary Clinton
2
41. How many presidents were killed in office?
Jefferson Davis
Teddy Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
4
42. What was the most terms served by a president?
4
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
George Washington
Jimmy Carter
43. During the civil war - the north's general was ___________.
Universal health care
The federal government guarentees your money at a bank
22 - 24
Ulysses S. Grant
44. When was the Emancipation proclamation?
4
The Vice President
January 1st - 1863
The banks were closed because everyone wanted their money at once
45. What did the monroe doctrine say?
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46. Who built the Interstate Highway System?
Self
South; north
Robert E. Lee
Dwight David Eisenhower
47. Who won the Nobel peace prize because he told Russia and Japan not to fight - but to love?
Teddy Roosevelt
He fired the Secretary of War Staton
Self
James Polk
48. Who introduced social security?
William Howard Taft
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
George H. W. Bush
7; 11
49. Grover Cleveland was the ____ and ____ president (numbers)
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The House of Representatives selects the President and the Senate selects the Vice President
0
22 - 24
50. Who was the first VP?
Ronald Reagan
Polio
Harvard
John Adams