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U.S. Presidents Trivia
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What is the inauguration date?
James Madison
William Jefferson Clinton
Maine and Nebraska
January 20th
2. Who were the second presidents to be father and son?
George H.W. Bush and George Bush
Abigail
Dolley
Enola Gay
3. Who was president during the War of 1812 against England?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
James Madison
Barack Obama
14
4. The ______ was invented when William McKinley was killed - and it could have saved him.
The White House
Gerald Ford
X-ray
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
5. Who was the only man to be president Who was not elected to either vp spot or the presidency?
Gerald Ford
Club with all countries where problems were discussed peacefully
A group of representatives chosen by the voters to elect the President
Worker can take three months off in a year to take care of sick relatives or him/herself and cannot be fired
6. Who was a Great General in war of 1812?
The US was prepared to send money and military support to countries that want to resist communism
John Boehner
100
Andrew Jackson
7. Who was Deep Throat?
Robert E. Lee
The banks were closed because everyone wanted their money at once
A person who knew the truth about Richard Nixon and told Woodward and Bernstein
The Gettysburg Address
8. Where does the president live for free?
William Henry Harrison
Andrew Jackson
The White House
Andrew Jackson
9. Which president was a lawyer - very smart - an architect - a musician - and an inventor?
His wife
Teddy Roosevelt
Conspiracy
Thomas Jefferson
10. Franklin Delano Roosevelt got his middle name because his _____'s favorite relative was de la Noye
538
1 million
Mom
James Madison
11. What is NATO (not what it stands for - what it is)?
James Madison
1814
A support group of countries
Germany was attacking ships
12. What date was John Fitzgerald Kennedy killed on?
When he jumped out of the balcony - his foot got stuck in the bunting and he fell onto stage
James Madison
Ulysses S. Grant
November 22nd - 1963
13. Who's son is Camp David named after?
Harry S Truman
Harry S Truman
Dwight David Eisenhower
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
14. When Harry S Truman was president during WWII - what two places in japan were bombed (abc order)?
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
He resigned before the impeachment trial
George Washington
2
15. Who was Abraham Lincoln married to?
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
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
A gun
Mary Todd-Lincoln
16. Who won a Nobel Peace Prize for what they were going to do?
Barack Obama
Thomas Jefferson
William Seward; $7.2 million; Alaska
1803
17. Grover Cleveland was the ____ and ____ president (numbers)
22 - 24
Cuba wanted to overthrow Castrow and our military helped train them
Providing a backup place for military plane landing
Universal health care
18. Which president recognized Israel and traded with them and gave money and embassadors to them?
Harry S Truman
William Jefferson Clinton
X-ray
No
19. Who acts as an advisor to the president?
Martha
George W. Bush
When he jumped out of the balcony - his foot got stuck in the bunting and he fell onto stage
The Vice President
20. During the civil war - the north's general was ___________.
Ulysses S. Grant
George H. W. Bush
Germany was attacking ships
The Vice President
21. Who invaded Iraq?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
George W. Bush
Gerald Ford
Richard Nixon
22. What are surviver benefits?
James Madison
Money goes to kids when a parent dies
Polio
He fired the Secretary of War Staton
23. Can the amount of money a president earns be increased/decreased during someone's term of office?
No
George H. W. Bush
X-ray
The Confederate States of America
24. Who was the only man to be president Who was not elected to either vp spot or the presidency?
November 1863
Gerald Ford
Since birth
John Hinkley Jr.
25. What was reconstruction?
Peterson House; the next morning
6'4'
Period after the Civil War and how we reunited
Teddy Roosevelt
26. Alien Acts
The president could not fire and federal official who had gotten their job with Senate approval
You can collect money if you become disabled before retirement
OK to send home foregienors if they looked dangerous; also if we were in war with their country
John Tyler
27. Who's son is Camp David named after?
Dwight David Eisenhower
Harvard
A gun
None
28. How tall was Abraham Lincoln?
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29. 'Speak softley and carry a big stick' was a quote of who?
Woodrow Wilson
Teddy Roosevelt
The Confederate States of America
X-ray
30. What state is Camp David in?
Free the slaves in the south
November 1863
John Tyler
Maryland
31. What does 'Sic Semper Tyrranis' mean?
Thus always to tyrants
Yes
Getting out of the Great depression by hiring people - which would start a chain reaction
The north were comunists and the south were not
32. What happens to John Wilkes Booth?
Harry S Truman
The government
He gets shot
When he jumped out of the balcony - his foot got stuck in the bunting and he fell onto stage
33. During the civil war - the south named itself _____.
James Madison
OK to send home foregienors if they looked dangerous; also if we were in war with their country
The Confederate States of America
When peace was made between Israel and Egypt at Camp David
34. How many years younger was John Tyler's wife than him?
Lyndon Johnson
William Jefferson Clinton
30
Buffalo - New York
35. What was the New Deal?
A person who knew the truth about Richard Nixon and told Woodward and Bernstein
Getting out of the Great depression by hiring people - which would start a chain reaction
Revolutionary War
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
36. Which president helped create the Library of Congress when he sells and donates 6000 books?
Thomas Jefferson
Alien and sedition acts
4
They were classmates in college
37. Why was Andrew Johnson impeached?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
He fired the Secretary of War Staton
0
James Madison
38. which president was former head of CIA?
Andrew Johnson
Dwight David Eisenhower
French and Indian War
George H. W. Bush
39. Who introduced surviver benefits?
Saving a picture of Washington during the war
4
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The Gettysburg Address
40. Who had an affair with Monica Lewinsky - a young intern at the White House?
30
William Jefferson Clinton
Iraq invaded Kuwait - and a coalition of naions push Iraq out of Kuwait
William Henry Harrison - Zachary Taylor - Warren Harding - and Franklin Delano Roosevelt
41. How many years younger was John Tyler's wife than him?
30
27
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
He wanted a date Jodie Foster
42. Who was president during the Great depression?
2
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Acting
Teddy Roosevelt
43. The president get ____ care and _____ care for free.
Universal health care
4
Dental; medical
4
44. Who was our president when we kille Osama bin Laden?
Barack Obama
Robert E. Lee
William Jefferson Clinton
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
45. What state was John Adams from?
4
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson; July 4th - 1826
Conspiracy
Massachusetts
46. The ______ was invented when William McKinley was killed - and it could have saved him.
X-ray
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson; July 4th - 1826
Peterson House; the next morning
2
47. Who was our president during the Korean war?
Zapruder film
John Hinkley Jr.
Civil rights
Dwight David Eisenhower
48. Where was Thomas Jefferson born?
James Madison
Monticello - Virginia
William and Mary College
When peace was made between Israel and Egypt at Camp David
49. Name the two presidents (ABC order by last name - write first and last name) who died on the same day - and the date they died (separate with semi colon)
Abraham Lincoln
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson; July 4th - 1826
South; north
7; 11
50. Who was president for the Cuban Missile Crisis?
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
New Mexico to California
Dwight David Eisenhower
James Madison