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U.S. Presidents Trivia
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. How long do you have to be a citizen for to be president?
Since birth
Enola Gay
Woodrow Wilson
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
2. This president swam naked in the Potomac River
John Quicy Adams
Dwight David Eisenhower
Richard Nixon
Self
3. Who attends diplomatic functions in place of the president?
He was shot on his way to a college reunion
The Vice President
England; sailors; products
December 7th - 1941
4. What was the Emancipation proclamation meant to do?
Free the slaves in the south
If he serves 2 or less years of someone else's term plus 8 years on his own
Democratic National Headquarters; Watergate
He gets shot
5. Who is considered 'the father of our country'?
7; 11
George Washington
Mary Todd-Lincoln
John Boehner
6. Sedition acts
Thomas Jefferson
The Vice President
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Crime to print false or meliscious or scandalist stuff about the U.S. gov.
7. What date did the civil war begin?
England - France - Russia - USA
The Confederate States of America
April 12th - 1861
Zapruder film
8. What year was the White House burnt down?
January 20th
Jefferson still survives
1814
Cuba wanted to overthrow Castrow and our military helped train them
9. What were fireside chats?
Speeches given for hope
Acting
14
4
10. Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant knew eachother because _________.
Gerald Ford
They were classmates in college
Peterson House; the next morning
Iraq invaded Kuwait - and a coalition of naions push Iraq out of Kuwait
11. Who had the shortest presidency?
30
Georgia
Alien and sedition acts
William Henry Harrison
12. During the civil war - the south named itself _____.
The Confederate States of America
100
Electors
Teddy Roosevelt
13. How much of a retirement income per year does the president make (for life)?
35
Dwight David Eisenhower
Jimmy Carter
$150000
14. Where did the civil war begin?
132
The White House
Dental; medical
Ft. Sumter - South Carolina
15. Who was the youngest elected president?
Barack Obama
The government
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Barack Obama
16. How much was the Louisiana Territory when it was purchased?
Jimmy Carter
Ulysses S. Grant
Honor people who died - make sure the country survies
15 million
17. What was the Tenure of Office Act/
Martha
A group of representatives chosen by the voters to elect the President
George H. W. Bush
The president could not fire and federal official who had gotten their job with Senate approval
18. What did the monroe doctrine say?
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19. Who had a 12 year affair with Gennifer Flowers?
The north were comunists and the south were not
6'4'
William Jefferson Clinton
George W. Bush
20. How many days was the Iran Hostage crisis?
444
Thomas Jefferson
The Vice President
He gets shot
21. How tall was Abraham Lincoln?
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22. Who was the first president not to win the popular vote and to become president?
Harry S Truman
His wife
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
John Quicy Adams
23. Who said 'A date that will live in infamy'? What were they talking about (separate with semicolon)?
Getting out of the Great depression by hiring people - which would start a chain reaction
When he jumped out of the balcony - his foot got stuck in the bunting and he fell onto stage
Sexual harrassment
Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Pearl Harbor bombing
24. Who was president for the Iran Hostage crisis?
The government
Jimmy Carter
Barack Obama
In their state's capital
25. 'Speak softley and carry a big stick' was a quote of who?
Getting out of the Great depression by hiring people - which would start a chain reaction
Teddy Roosevelt
USA
William McKinley
26. The president get ____ care and _____ care for free.
He was shot
Worker can take three months off in a year to take care of sick relatives or him/herself and cannot be fired
England
Dental; medical
27. Who was the first VP?
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Money goes to kids when a parent dies
John Adams
James Madison
28. Who was president for the Iran Hostage crisis?
If he serves 2 or less years of someone else's term plus 8 years on his own
January 1st - 1863
Jimmy Carter
Teddy Roosevelt
29. Who introduced disability benefits?
Crime to print false or meliscious or scandalist stuff about the U.S. gov.
January 20th
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Dwight David Eisenhower
30. Who was on the bad side for WWI (abc order)?
30
Speeches given for hope
January 20th
Germany - Hungary - Turkey
31. John Adams went to what college?
The number of people in Congress plus 3 for DC
Abraham Lincoln
William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison
Harvard
32. Who won a nobel peace prize because of the camp david accords?
George Washington
Jimmy Carter
Lyndon Johnson
No
33. What state was John Adams from?
England - France - Russia - USA
Massachusetts
1803
John Adams
34. Which president was the 'father of the constitution'?
William Henry Harrison
27
8
James Madison
35. What did John Wilkes Booth say after he shot Lincoln?
Saving a picture of Washington during the war
Sic Semper Tyrannis - the south is avenged
Period after the Civil War and how we reunited
George Washington
36. Who won a nobel peace prize because of the camp david accords?
4th
Teddy Roosevelt
William Jefferson Clinton
Jimmy Carter
37. Why did WWI happen?
He was shot
Germany was attacking ships
The fourteen points
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
38. During the Great Depression - ____% were unemployed.
William Jefferson Clinton
25
George H. W. Bush
444
39. What presidents (in order) died of natural causes?
William Henry Harrison - Zachary Taylor - Warren Harding - and Franklin Delano Roosevelt
French and Indian War
Sic Semper Tyrannis - the south is avenged
Mount Vernon - Virginia
40. Who introduced social security?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Social Security
William Henry Harrison - Zachary Taylor - Warren Harding - and Franklin Delano Roosevelt
USA
41. Who was our president when we kille Osama bin Laden?
Barack Obama
USA
The banks were closed because everyone wanted their money at once
The Vice President
42. What is the mandatory retirement plan run by the government?
The US was prepared to send money and military support to countries that want to resist communism
He resigned before the impeachment trial
Honor people who died - make sure the country survies
Social Security
43. Who was president for the Bay of Pigs?
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Jimmy Carter
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.
Ulysses S. Grant
44. Who was the only president to get all the electoral votes?
Ronald Reagan
The Vice President
George Washington
Teddy Roosevelt
45. Who said 'The buck stops here'?
Harry S Truman
Thomas Jefferson
He wanted a date Jodie Foster
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
46. Who won a Nobel Peace Prize for what they were going to do?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Thomas Jefferson
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Barack Obama
47. What did the monroe doctrine say?
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48. What is the command of army act?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Forced the president to issue all military orders through general of the army who could not be removed without senate approval
The idea to own all the land from the pacific to the atlantic ocean; 1.2 million
Abraham Lincoln
49. John Adams had a successful marriage with ______ (first name).
He resigned before the impeachment trial
Lyndon Johnson
27
Abigail
50. Grover Cleveland was the ____ and ____ president (numbers)
Polio
22 - 24
Kentucky; Log cabin
Honor people who died - make sure the country survies