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U.S. Presidents Trivia
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1. What happens if no candidate gets the majorit y of electoral votes?
Perjury and obstruction of justice
George W. Bush
The Vice President
The House of Representatives selects the President and the Senate selects the Vice President
2. What weapon was used to kill Lincoln?
Cuba wanted to overthrow Castrow and our military helped train them
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Gerald Ford
A gun
3. What are disability benefits?
You can collect money if you become disabled before retirement
Woodrow Wilson
Teddy Roosevelt
Germany - Hungary - Turkey
4. What was the most terms served by a president?
4
Universal health care
Democratic National Headquarters; Watergate
Free the slaves in the south
5. Paula Jones sued William Jefferson Clinton for _______.
Hillary Clinton
Sexual harrassment
John Adams
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
6. Who was the first president not to win the popular vote and to become president?
Teddy Roosevelt
The Vice President
John Quicy Adams
Acting
7. Who was the only president to get all the electoral votes?
Richard Nixon
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
George Washington
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
8. Who introduced social security?
Dwight David Eisenhower
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Revolutionary War
Gerald Ford
9. What date did WWII begin?
James Madison
Lee Harvey Oswald
September 1st - 1939
Germany was attacking ships
10. John Adams had a successful marriage with ______ (first name).
The banks were closed because everyone wanted their money at once
Abigail
$150000
William Jefferson Clinton
11. What state is Camp David in?
Maryland
William Henry Harrison - Zachary Taylor - Warren Harding - and Franklin Delano Roosevelt
John Adams and John Quincy Adams
The north and the south were split up
12. Who was the first President during WWII?
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
The north and the south were split up
Guam - Midway Islands - Philippines - and Puerto Rico
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
13. Did we win the Spanish American War?
Teddy Roosevelt - Woodrow Wilson - Jimmy Carter - and Barack Obama
William Howard Taft
Dallas - Texas
Yes
14. What is the mandatory retirement plan run by the government?
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.
$150000
5
Social Security
15. What does NATO stand for?
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Bad
His 5th cousin
Saving a picture of Washington during the war
16. This president helped write the federalist papers.
Dwight David Eisenhower
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Georgia
James Madison
17. William Jefferson Clinton paid Paula Jones $____.
Daniel Inouye
1 million
George W. Bush
Andrew Jackson
18. Why did we enter WWII?
George Washington
East of Africa
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor - Hawaii
The north were comunists and the south were not
19. What month and year was the Gettysburg Address said?
Polio
When we dropped food and supplies to people in West Berlin
4
November 1863
20. What war was George Washington in the military for?
Alien and sedition acts
William Henry Harrison
Guam - Midway Islands - Philippines - and Puerto Rico
French and Indian War
21. Who's son is Camp David named after?
Dwight David Eisenhower
Gerald Ford
Lyndon Johnson
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
22. Who won the Civil war for Lincoln and later on became a president?
Maine and Nebraska
Speeches given for hope
Ulysses S. Grant
Joe Biden
23. How many presidents died in office?
8
William Howard Taft
Ulysses S. Grant
Massachusetts
24. Where does the right to navigate teh seas without interference not apply?
East of Africa
Germany was attacking ships
The president
No
25. Who was FDR's VP Who was president for WWII?
Civil rights
He wanted a date Jodie Foster
George W. Bush
Harry S Truman
26. What war did George Washington lead the army for?
The Vice President
Revolutionary War
Dwight David Eisenhower
4
27. Who's son married Nixon's daughter?
Dwight David Eisenhower
He wanted a date Jodie Foster
Barack Obama
The Vice President
28. Who was embarrassed when they received the Nobel Peace Prize?
Barack Obama
Abraham Lincoln
Harry S Truman
Electors
29. After Abraham Lincoln was shot - He was carried across the street to ________________ where he dies when?
Richard Nixon
Peterson House; the next morning
When we dropped food and supplies to people in West Berlin
The Confederate States of America
30. How many states broke away during the civil war AT FIRST? how many total ending up breaking away?
September 1st - 1939
Germany was attacking ships
James Polk
7; 11
31. Who was George Washington's wife?
John Adams and John Quincy Adams
Martha
Jimmy Carter
November 1863
32. What was the persian gulf war/desert storm?
Iraq invaded Kuwait - and a coalition of naions push Iraq out of Kuwait
Ronald Reagan
Dental; medical
He was shot
33. How much money does the president earn per year?
William Henry Harrison - Zachary Taylor - Warren Harding - and Franklin Delano Roosevelt
USA
The north were comunists and the south were not
$400000
34. Who was on the good side for WWI (abc order)?
Cuba wanted to overthrow Castrow and our military helped train them
Perjury and obstruction of justice
0
England - France - Russia - USA
35. What presidents (in order) died of natural causes?
William Henry Harrison - Zachary Taylor - Warren Harding - and Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The Civil War
4
The federal government guarentees your money at a bank
36. Which president served the most terms?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
USA
Ulysses S. Grant
Andrew Jackson
37. How many electoral votes do you need to win the election?
The president could not fire and federal official who had gotten their job with Senate approval
8
James Madison
270
38. Who introduced surviver benefits?
John Adams and John Quincy Adams
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Mount Vernon - Virginia
35
39. Congress passed 2 laws designed to limit __________'s (a president) power .
25
April 1917- November 1918
Andrew Johnson
14
40. Can the amount of money a president earns be increased/decreased during someone's term of office?
6'4'
No
Since birth
Democratic National Headquarters; Watergate
41. John Adams went to what college?
The president
December 7th - 1941
William Seward; $7.2 million; Alaska
Harvard
42. Which president created the University of Virgina?
Forced the president to issue all military orders through general of the army who could not be removed without senate approval
444
The Civil War
Thomas Jefferson
43. What was the persian gulf war/desert storm?
The Vice President
His 5th cousin
27
Iraq invaded Kuwait - and a coalition of naions push Iraq out of Kuwait
44. Who gave the longest inauguration speech?
7; 11
William Henry Harrison
Teddy Roosevelt
Andrew Johnson
45. what president was also president of the constitutional convention?
4
In their state's capital
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
George Washington
46. Who ran the country when Woodrow Wilson couldn't?
0
Dolley
His wife
15
47. What did John Wilkes Booth say after he shot Lincoln?
World War I
Sic Semper Tyrannis - the south is avenged
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Dwight David Eisenhower
48. How many years is a presidential term?
January 20th
538
4
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
49. Who was the first President during WWII?
They were classmates in college
England; sailors; products
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Club with all countries where problems were discussed peacefully
50. Who was the only president to be president and then supreme court chief justice?
132
The idea to own all the land from the pacific to the atlantic ocean; 1.2 million
Harry S Truman
William Howard Taft
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