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U.S. Presidents Trivia
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. How many electoral votes does Florida have?
Jimmy Carter
John Quicy Adams
Woodrow Wilson
27
2. 'Speak softley and carry a big stick' was a quote of who?
Free the slaves in the south
Money goes to kids when a parent dies
A 2nd home for the president
Teddy Roosevelt
3. What year was the White House burnt down?
Sic Semper Tyrannis - the south is avenged
Civil rights
1814
Woodrow Wilson
4. Can the amount of money a president earns be increased/decreased during someone's term of office?
Zapruder film
Ulysses S. Grant
No
4
5. Which president started the two term tradition?
Dwight David Eisenhower
A support group of countries
He was shot on his way to a college reunion
George Washington
6. Who was Franklin Delano Roosevelt married to?
Eleanor
15 million
George Washington - John Adams - Thomas Jefferson - James Madison - James Monroe - and John Quincy Adams
Ulysses S. Grant
7. How many Vice Presidents have moved up because the president resigned?
1
Dallas - Texas
Daniel Inouye
George Washington
8. What is the Electoral College?
A group of representatives chosen by the voters to elect the President
Harry S Truman
Woodrow Wilson
Universal health care
9. The committee of the watergate scandal illegally entered the __________ (building) and spied on Nixon's opponent Who was in the _______ complex.
He was shot
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.
Democratic National Headquarters; Watergate
Enola Gay
10. How did John Wilkes Booth break his leg?
When he jumped out of the balcony - his foot got stuck in the bunting and he fell onto stage
1803
Jefferson Davis
The Korean War
11. Name the Founding Fathers plus the son in order...
Lee Harvey Oswald
George Washington - John Adams - Thomas Jefferson - James Madison - James Monroe - and John Quincy Adams
Europe
Dolley
12. What was reconstruction?
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
Joe Biden
The president
Period after the Civil War and how we reunited
13. What war never officially ended but just doesn't fight any more?
The Korean War
When peace was made between Israel and Egypt at Camp David
Lee Harvey Oswald
Eleanor
14. Which president was author of the Virginia Plan?
James Madison
The banks were closed because everyone wanted their money at once
A group of representatives chosen by the voters to elect the President
Barack Obama
15. What was the Berlin Airlift?
French and Indian War
When we dropped food and supplies to people in West Berlin
Teddy Roosevelt
Iraq invaded Kuwait - and a coalition of naions push Iraq out of Kuwait
16. Manifest Destiny was to have all the land from __________ to ___________ (east to west)
Germany invaded Poland
New Mexico to California
They were classmates in college
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
17. How much was the Louisiana Territory when it was purchased?
18
John Adams
Ronald Reagan
15 million
18. what ended a couple of days before Abraham Lincoln's Assasination?
Dolley
Lyndon Johnson
The president
Civil War
19. Who was the only man to be president Who was not elected to either vp spot or the presidency?
Jimmy Carter
East of Africa
Gerald Ford
Lyndon Johnson
20. During the civil war - the ________ wanted slaves and the ________ did not.
November
X-ray
The banks were closed because everyone wanted their money at once
South; north
21. Who was president during the Great depression?
The government
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor - Hawaii
Europe
22. Who is thought to have assassinated John Fitzgerald Kennedy?
The president could not fire and federal official who had gotten their job with Senate approval
The north and the south were split up
Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Pearl Harbor bombing
Lee Harvey Oswald
23. Who said 'The only thing we have to fear is fear itself' at their 1st inaugural?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
January 1st - 1863
30
60; unconstitutional
24. Who had the shortest presidency?
Harry S Truman
John Adams
William Henry Harrison
15 million
25. How long do you have to be a citizen for to be president?
Since birth
1814
Eleanor
Worker can take three months off in a year to take care of sick relatives or him/herself and cannot be fired
26. James Madison's wife was ________ Madison.
The three day battle in July in Gettysburg about slaves
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Dolley
35 said He was guilty - but he needed 36
27. How long do you have to be a citizen for to be president?
Mom
Getting out of the Great depression by hiring people - which would start a chain reaction
Teddy Roosevelt - Woodrow Wilson - Jimmy Carter - and Barack Obama
Since birth
28. Which president was a great general - a leader - honest - and trustworth?
USA
East of Africa
George Washington
132
29. Who were the second presidents to be father and son?
George H.W. Bush and George Bush
Dallas - Texas
Ulysses S. Grant
William Henry Harrison - Zachary Taylor - Warren Harding - and Franklin Delano Roosevelt
30. James Madison's wife was ________ Madison.
James Madison
Dolley
He was shot
Saving a picture of Washington during the war
31. Who had many affairs during their presidency but claimed not to?
William Jefferson Clinton
Barack Obama
No
Saving a picture of Washington during the war
32. Who became president when Richard Nixon resigend because they were his VP?
Gerald Ford
Social Security
John Adams and John Quincy Adams
1
33. How many terms is a president alowed to serve?
Georgia
2
Barack Obama
Guam - Midway Islands - Philippines - and Puerto Rico
34. Where was Abraham Lincoln born? What kind of house did he live in?
Thomas Jefferson
Kentucky; Log cabin
The president
Since birth
35. Where does the right to navigate teh seas without interference not apply?
1803
The Vice President
538
East of Africa
36. Who balanced the budget?
He was shot on his way to a college reunion
In their state's capital
William Jefferson Clinton
27
37. The president get ____ care and _____ care for free.
Dental; medical
Enola Gay
John Wilkes Booth
1814
38. This president swam naked in the Potomac River
John Quicy Adams
60; unconstitutional
Barack Obama
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
39. Who's son is Camp David named after?
6'4'
Since birth
Martha
Dwight David Eisenhower
40. Paula Jones sued William Jefferson Clinton for _______.
The government
Electors
The Vice President
Sexual harrassment
41. What did the Interstate Highway System also do besides provide a road for driving?
William Jefferson Clinton
Providing a backup place for military plane landing
Saving a picture of Washington during the war
The south
42. How much of a retirement income per year does the president make (for life)?
$150000
George Washington
England; sailors; products
Massachusetts
43. Which president was a great general - a leader - honest - and trustworth?
7; 11
George Washington
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
14
44. Who introduced social security?
No
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
A 2nd home for the president
James Madison
45. Which president adopted independence - was loyal - smart - and a lawyer?
Teddy Roosevelt
35
Mount Vernon - Virginia
John Adams
46. Who was the commander in charge of Europe afor the Allies in WWII?
Harry S Truman
Martha
Dwight David Eisenhower
George W. Bush
47. Did we win the Spanish American War?
Yes
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson; July 4th - 1826
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Bad
48. Alien Acts
OK to send home foregienors if they looked dangerous; also if we were in war with their country
35 said He was guilty - but he needed 36
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Ford's Theater
49. Who was the first President during WWII?
14
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
0
James Polk
50. Who was a Great General in war of 1812?
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Dwight David Eisenhower
1914-1918
Andrew Jackson