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U.S. Presidents Trivia
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1. The person who killed John Fitzgerald Kennedy is thought to have killed him in a _______ - or not alone.
Mom
George Washington - John Adams - Thomas Jefferson - James Madison - James Monroe - and John Quincy Adams
Conspiracy
Thomas Jefferson
2. Andrew Johnson was _________'s VP
A person who knew the truth about Richard Nixon and told Woodward and Bernstein
A gun
Harry S Truman
Abraham Lincoln
3. What did John Wilkes Booth say after he shot Lincoln?
Thus always to tyrants
Sic Semper Tyrannis - the south is avenged
James Madison
Speeches given for hope
4. Andrew Johnson had a (good/bad) relation ship with congress over reconstruction
Universal health care
Yes
Civil War
Bad
5. Which president was obnoxious and disliked?
Abraham Lincoln
The US was prepared to send money and military support to countries that want to resist communism
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
John Adams
6. What date did the civil war begin?
John Hinkley Jr.
Mount Vernon - Virginia
5
April 12th - 1861
7. Who was the first African American President?
You can collect money if you become disabled before retirement
Crime to print false or meliscious or scandalist stuff about the U.S. gov.
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor - Hawaii
Barack Obama
8. Which president was the 'father of the constitution'?
Barack Obama
James Madison
Andrew Johnson
4
9. What are surviver benefits?
4th
William Henry Harrison
Money goes to kids when a parent dies
Harry S Truman
10. Which president started the two term tradition?
George Washington
We thought there were weapons of mass destruction - but there weren't
Georgia
Thus always to tyrants
11. Where was Thomas Jefferson born?
Jimmy Carter
They were classmates in college
Monticello - Virginia
Thus always to tyrants
12. How many kids did John Tyler have?
1
The banks were closed because everyone wanted their money at once
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
15
13. Who was president during the War of 1812 against England?
The Korean War
James Madison
4
William Henry Harrison
14. Who had a 12 year affair with Gennifer Flowers?
William Jefferson Clinton
A support group of countries
Teddy Roosevelt
Georgia
15. Franklin Delano Roosevelt got his middle name because his _____'s favorite relative was de la Noye
Mom
William and Mary College
Barack Obama
Eleanor
16. who pays for the costs of operating the white house?
November 1863
No
The first Tuesday of Novermber that follows a monday in November
The government
17. Who created the Family Medical Leave Act?
Providing a backup place for military plane landing
Lyndon Johnson
William Jefferson Clinton
Kentucky; Log cabin
18. Who was FDR's VP Who was president for WWII?
Harry S Truman
Zapruder film
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Conspiracy
19. James Monroe created the ________ Doctrine
A group of representatives chosen by the voters to elect the President
November 1863
$150000
Monroe
20. What is the mandatory retirement plan run by the government?
Perjury and obstruction of justice
Social Security
George H. W. Bush
14
21. Where did the civil war begin?
James Polk
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Ft. Sumter - South Carolina
Civil rights
22. Why wasn't Andrew Johnson removed from office when He was impeached?
5
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
William Henry Harrison
23. What happens if no candidate gets the majorit y of electoral votes?
He fired the Secretary of War Staton
Richard Nixon
William Jefferson Clinton
The House of Representatives selects the President and the Senate selects the Vice President
24. Who said 'The buck stops here'?
Harvard
Harry S Truman
April 1917- November 1918
538
25. what ended a couple of days before Abraham Lincoln's Assasination?
Civil War
5
James Madison
A 2nd home for the president
26. What was reconstruction?
The Vice President
Germany invaded Poland
A support group of countries
Period after the Civil War and how we reunited
27. Who acts as an advisor to the president?
James Madison
The Vice President
Jimmy Carter
James Polk
28. Who was the only president to resign?
Harvard
Richard Nixon
William Henry Harrison
Worker can take three months off in a year to take care of sick relatives or him/herself and cannot be fired
29. Who supported manifest destiny?
Sic Semper Tyrannis - the south is avenged
6'4'
Dwight David Eisenhower
James Polk
30. Where was John Fitzgerald Kennedy assassinated?
January 20th
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Dallas - Texas
8
31. What is universal health care?
South; north
Abraham Lincoln
Andrew Johnson
Medical insurance for all americans
32. Who introduced surviver benefits?
The government
14
$150000
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
33. Who takes over if the President is disabled or dies?
George H. W. Bush
The Vice President
538
April 12th - 1861
34. ______ years later - the Tenure of Office act was gotten rid of by the Supreme court because it was ________.
538
60; unconstitutional
James Madison
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
35. Which president helped create the Library of Congress when he sells and donates 6000 books?
November
Medical insurance for all americans
Thomas Jefferson
Teddy Roosevelt
36. How many days was the Iran Hostage crisis?
444
Europe
The number of people in Congress plus 3 for DC
Perjury and obstruction of justice
37. Who passed Universal health care?
Richard Nixon
Period after the Civil War and how we reunited
Barack Obama
Iraq invaded Kuwait - and a coalition of naions push Iraq out of Kuwait
38. What was the New Deal?
USA
Crime to print false or meliscious or scandalist stuff about the U.S. gov.
Ft. Sumter - South Carolina
Getting out of the Great depression by hiring people - which would start a chain reaction
39. Andrew Johnson had a (good/bad) relation ship with congress over reconstruction
Eleanor
You can collect money if you become disabled before retirement
Bad
Dolley
40. Who did the Banking Holiday?
Ulysses S. Grant
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
When peace was made between Israel and Egypt at Camp David
James Madison
41. How many Vice Presidents ran again for president and became president?
Barack Obama
George H. W. Bush
5
George H. W. Bush
42. Who said 'A date that will live in infamy'? What were they talking about (separate with semicolon)?
The White House
Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Pearl Harbor bombing
When peace was made between Israel and Egypt at Camp David
They were classmates in college
43. What law that Barack Obama passed might be unconstitutional and is being looked at by the supreme court now?
Universal health care
Enola Gay
$150000
Maine and Nebraska
44. How many presidents were killed in office?
The north and the south were split up
4
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
December 7th - 1941
45. Why did the league of nations fail (what country wouldn't join)?
Zapruder film
18
USA
The White House
46. Which president adopted independence - was loyal - smart - and a lawyer?
James Madison
Harry S Truman
John Adams
4th
47. Who is thought to have assassinated John Fitzgerald Kennedy?
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor - Hawaii
Jimmy Carter
South; north
Lee Harvey Oswald
48. Who was president during the War of 1812 against England?
You can collect money if you become disabled before retirement
December 7th - 1941
George H.W. Bush and George Bush
James Madison
49. Who was embarrassed when they received the Nobel Peace Prize?
Dwight David Eisenhower
USA
Barack Obama
When peace was made between Israel and Egypt at Camp David
50. Who was the youngest elected president?
Teddy Roosevelt - Woodrow Wilson - Jimmy Carter - and Barack Obama
8
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Enola Gay