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U.S. Presidents Trivia
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1. What president made the emancipation proclamtion?
Mom
Abraham Lincoln
None
Germany invaded Poland
2. The committee of the watergate scandal illegally entered the __________ (building) and spied on Nixon's opponent Who was in the _______ complex.
Democratic National Headquarters; Watergate
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
We thought there were weapons of mass destruction - but there weren't
Money goes to kids when a parent dies
3. Who was our president during the Vietnam War?
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Daniel Inouye
Lyndon Johnson
Europe
4. How did John Wilkes Booth break his leg?
Thomas Jefferson
1 million
The Korean War
When he jumped out of the balcony - his foot got stuck in the bunting and he fell onto stage
5. Why did we enter WWII?
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor - Hawaii
Getting out of the Great depression by hiring people - which would start a chain reaction
John Tyler
Woodrow Wilson
6. What is universal health care?
James Madison
Medical insurance for all americans
April 12th - 1861
The Vice President
7. Why did WWI happen?
The White House
444
Germany was attacking ships
270
8. Who introduced disability benefits?
William and Mary College
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Electors
Richard Nixon
9. Who balanced the budget?
William Jefferson Clinton
Germany invaded Poland
Hillary Clinton
60; unconstitutional
10. John Adams went to what college?
22 - 24
Teddy Roosevelt
Harvard
George Washington
11. Who won a Nobel Peace Prize for what they were going to do?
He wanted a date Jodie Foster
1803
Barack Obama
OK to send home foregienors if they looked dangerous; also if we were in war with their country
12. Who is the current secretary of state?
Revolutionary War
The Korean War
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Hillary Clinton
13. Who was William McKinley's VP that moved up when He was killed?
The idea to own all the land from the pacific to the atlantic ocean; 1.2 million
Teddy Roosevelt
When he jumped out of the balcony - his foot got stuck in the bunting and he fell onto stage
William Howard Taft
14. What law that Barack Obama passed might be unconstitutional and is being looked at by the supreme court now?
Universal health care
England - France - Russia - USA
William McKinley
Mom
15. Who was George Washington's wife?
Teddy Roosevelt - Woodrow Wilson - Jimmy Carter - and Barack Obama
The Korean War
Martha
$150000
16. What president did the Berlin airlift?
Harry S Truman
Teddy Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
1 million
17. During the civil war - the south's general was ____________.
Teddy Roosevelt - Woodrow Wilson - Jimmy Carter - and Barack Obama
Harvard
14
Robert E. Lee
18. How many former vice presidents have become president?
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson; July 4th - 1826
444
14
OK to send home foregienors if they looked dangerous; also if we were in war with their country
19. Which president was the youngest to serve?
The Vice President
Jefferson still survives
Georgia
Teddy Roosevelt
20. Sewards Folly was when ________ (secretary of state) bought land for $______ - which was thought to be as a joke then - but now that land is known as ________.
He gets shot
Air Force One - Marine One - and limousines
Harry S Truman
William Seward; $7.2 million; Alaska
21. ______ years later - the Tenure of Office act was gotten rid of by the Supreme court because it was ________.
60; unconstitutional
World War I
November 1863
George Washington
22. Where did the civil war begin?
Club with all countries where problems were discussed peacefully
Dwight David Eisenhower
Teddy Roosevelt
Ft. Sumter - South Carolina
23. Who were the first presidents to be father and son?
A person who knew the truth about Richard Nixon and told Woodward and Bernstein
Revolutionary War
John Adams and John Quincy Adams
South; north
24. What college did George Washington go to?
None
He was shot on his way to a college reunion
Dwight David Eisenhower
The Gettysburg Address
25. Who had the first death in office?
William Henry Harrison
Iraq invaded Kuwait - and a coalition of naions push Iraq out of Kuwait
He gets shot
0
26. How many rooms in the white house?
Teddy Roosevelt
A group of representatives chosen by the voters to elect the President
132
The Vice President
27. Why wasn't Richard Nixon thrown out of office?
6'4'
Buffalo - New York
4
He resigned before the impeachment trial
28. Who was the youngest elected president?
Free the slaves in the south
Ft. Sumter - South Carolina
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Dwight David Eisenhower
29. What weapon was used to kill Lincoln?
Barack Obama
Richard Nixon
Ford's Theater
A gun
30. Name the Founding Fathers plus the son in order...
444
William Jefferson Clinton
Barack Obama
George Washington - John Adams - Thomas Jefferson - James Madison - James Monroe - and John Quincy Adams
31. Which president created Yellowstone National Park and Yosemite?
Teddy Roosevelt
444
Civil rights
Conspiracy
32. What was the New Deal?
Getting out of the Great depression by hiring people - which would start a chain reaction
World War I
Democratic National Headquarters; Watergate
The Vice President
33. Who was the commander in charge of Europe afor the Allies in WWII?
Civil rights
Dwight David Eisenhower
We thought there were weapons of mass destruction - but there weren't
William Howard Taft
34. What presidents (in order) died of natural causes?
The Korean War
We thought there were weapons of mass destruction - but there weren't
USA
William Henry Harrison - Zachary Taylor - Warren Harding - and Franklin Delano Roosevelt
35. What two states do not use 'winner-takes all' for the electoral college?
1814
Ft. Sumter - South Carolina
Maine and Nebraska
William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison
36. When did we get involved and stop being involved with WWI? (month and year)
East of Africa
April 1917- November 1918
Teddy Roosevelt
Mary Todd-Lincoln
37. What were the territories we gained in the Spanish American War? (ABC order with commas inbetween)
Guam - Midway Islands - Philippines - and Puerto Rico
French and Indian War
Dwight David Eisenhower
25
38. In most states - what percent of the state's electoral votes does a candidate get if they win the popular vote?
He fired the Secretary of War Staton
He resigned before the impeachment trial
100
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
39. Who was president during the Great depression?
Honor people who died - make sure the country survies
A group of representatives chosen by the voters to elect the President
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
1803
40. What are disability benefits?
James Polk
You can collect money if you become disabled before retirement
Teddy Roosevelt
William McKinley
41. Who is the current Vice President?
1814
Getting out of the Great depression by hiring people - which would start a chain reaction
Joe Biden
John Quicy Adams
42. Who is thought to have assassinated John Fitzgerald Kennedy?
The president
Lee Harvey Oswald
John Adams
November 1863
43. Which president was the 'father of the constitution'?
No
George H. W. Bush
James Madison
Ford's Theater
44. Did we win the Spanish American War?
George H. W. Bush
The president
Yes
Democratic National Headquarters; Watergate
45. When did we enter WWII?
When we dropped food and supplies to people in West Berlin
Dallas - Texas
December 7th - 1941
World War I
46. Where did the name 'gettysburg' come from?
Ulysses S. Grant
14
The three day battle in July in Gettysburg about slaves
Hillary Clinton
47. Why didn't the Emancipation proclamation work?
22 - 24
Andrew Jackson
The north and the south were split up
Lyndon Johnson
48. Who attends diplomatic functions in place of the president?
The Vice President
John Adams
444
27
49. Which president was former ambassador to China?
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
A group of representatives chosen by the voters to elect the President
George H. W. Bush
2
50. What is NATO (not what it stands for - what it is)?
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
A support group of countries
15
Crime to print false or meliscious or scandalist stuff about the U.S. gov.