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U.S. Presidents Trivia
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What was the Berlin Airlift?
4
Teddy Roosevelt
You can collect money if you become disabled before retirement
When we dropped food and supplies to people in West Berlin
2. Who was president for the Bay of Pigs?
Europe
England - France - Russia - USA
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Harry S Truman
3. What presidents lost the popular vote but won the electoral vote? (in order)
Lyndon Johnson
John Quincy Adams - Rutherford B. Hayes - Benjamin Harrison - and George W. Bush
He wanted a date Jodie Foster
0
4. Who was Deep Throat?
William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison
Dolley
A person who knew the truth about Richard Nixon and told Woodward and Bernstein
William and Mary College
5. William Jefferson Clinton paid Paula Jones $____.
1 million
Lyndon Johnson
William Henry Harrison
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
6. Who said 'A date that will live in infamy'? What were they talking about (separate with semicolon)?
The president
Teddy Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Pearl Harbor bombing
George W. Bush
7. What president made the emancipation proclamtion?
Abraham Lincoln
Sic Semper Tyrannis - the south is avenged
Dwight David Eisenhower
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
8. Who was our president when we kille Osama bin Laden?
Dolley
Barack Obama
35 said He was guilty - but he needed 36
John Adams
9. Who ran the country when Woodrow Wilson couldn't?
England; sailors; products
Worker can take three months off in a year to take care of sick relatives or him/herself and cannot be fired
His wife
William Henry Harrison - Zachary Taylor - Warren Harding - and Franklin Delano Roosevelt
10. Where did the name 'gettysburg' come from?
Dwight David Eisenhower
The three day battle in July in Gettysburg about slaves
Period after the Civil War and how we reunited
Teddy Roosevelt
11. Where does the right to navigate teh seas without interference not apply?
Since birth
Ft. Sumter - South Carolina
Conspiracy
East of Africa
12. Who was president when the United Nations was formed?
In their state's capital
Harry S Truman
Richard Nixon
Richard Nixon
13. Which president adopted independence - was loyal - smart - and a lawyer?
Gerald Ford
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
George Washington - John Adams - Thomas Jefferson - James Madison - James Monroe - and John Quincy Adams
John Adams
14. Who was embarrassed when they received the Nobel Peace Prize?
Barack Obama
George Washington
The Vice President
November 22nd - 1963
15. Which president was former ambassador to China?
George H. W. Bush
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
East of Africa
Dwight David Eisenhower
16. Franklin Delano Roosevelt got his middle name because his _____'s favorite relative was de la Noye
The Confederate States of America
Ft. Sumter - South Carolina
1803
Mom
17. What happens if no candidate gets the majorit y of electoral votes?
John Wilkes Booth
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor - Hawaii
The House of Representatives selects the President and the Senate selects the Vice President
35
18. When did we get involved and stop being involved with WWI? (month and year)
John Quicy Adams
Thomas Jefferson
April 1917- November 1918
Teddy Roosevelt
19. What president did the Berlin airlift?
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.
Harry S Truman
Maryland
$400000
20. Who was president when the United Nations was formed?
George Washington
World War I
132
Harry S Truman
21. 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)
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson; July 4th - 1826
USA
South; north
Barack Obama
22. The person who killed John Fitzgerald Kennedy is thought to have killed him in a _______ - or not alone.
George Washington
Thomas Jefferson
27
Conspiracy
23. James Monroe created the ________ Doctrine
Universal health care
January 1st - 1863
The Korean War
Monroe
24. Who was a Great General in war of 1812?
Electors
30
Andrew Jackson
No
25. What was the New Deal?
Ft. Sumter - South Carolina
538
William Henry Harrison
Getting out of the Great depression by hiring people - which would start a chain reaction
26. How many Vice Presidents have moved up because the president resigned?
1
X-ray
Teddy Roosevelt
Ft. Sumter - South Carolina
27. Who was Franklin Delano Roosevelt married to?
Ford's Theater
Thomas Jefferson
Lee Harvey Oswald
Eleanor
28. Who were Woodward and Bernstein?
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29. What president made the emancipation proclamtion?
The House of Representatives selects the President and the Senate selects the Vice President
Andrew Johnson
Abraham Lincoln
5
30. 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)
Universal health care
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson; July 4th - 1826
William Jefferson Clinton
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor - Hawaii
31. How many Vice Presidents have moved up because the president died?
The idea to own all the land from the pacific to the atlantic ocean; 1.2 million
William Henry Harrison
New Mexico to California
8
32. Who is the current President Pro-Tempore of the Senate?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Getting out of the Great depression by hiring people - which would start a chain reaction
Daniel Inouye
1914-1918
33. Who is thought to have assassinated John Fitzgerald Kennedy?
Lee Harvey Oswald
Germany was attacking ships
Ulysses S. Grant
Maine and Nebraska
34. Which presient send Lewis and Clark on their journey?
Thomas Jefferson
George Washington
December 7th - 1941
Teddy Roosevelt
35. Which president created Yellowstone National Park and Yosemite?
Teddy Roosevelt
4th
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson; July 4th - 1826
No
36. What is NATO (not what it stands for - what it is)?
Thomas Jefferson
Andrew Jackson
A support group of countries
The three day battle in July in Gettysburg about slaves
37. What were the years of WWI?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
French and Indian War
1914-1918
Teddy Roosevelt
38. Who attempted to assassinate Ronald Reagan?
The north were comunists and the south were not
Lee Harvey Oswald
Yes
John Hinkley Jr.
39. Who was the only president to resign?
November 22nd - 1963
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Richard Nixon
15
40. Who was George Washington's wife?
1
Teddy Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt
James Polk
Martha
41. Who was the only president to resign?
Dental; medical
Dwight David Eisenhower
OK to send home foregienors if they looked dangerous; also if we were in war with their country
Richard Nixon
42. Who was the oldest elected president (age 73 at 2nd term)?
Ronald Reagan
Teddy Roosevelt
He resigned before the impeachment trial
George W. Bush
43. Where did Abraham Lincoln's assasination take place?
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44. How many presidents were killed in office?
Dallas - Texas
The government
2
4
45. What is universal health care?
Sic Semper Tyrannis - the south is avenged
Gerald Ford
Free the slaves in the south
Medical insurance for all americans
46. What president had the watergate scandal?
Richard Nixon
Harry S Truman
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Enola Gay
47. Who supported manifest destiny?
Europe
Saving a picture of Washington during the war
James Polk
When peace was made between Israel and Egypt at Camp David
48. Who had many affairs during their presidency but claimed not to?
William Jefferson Clinton
35
The north and the south were split up
Hillary Clinton
49. Which president recognized Israel and traded with them and gave money and embassadors to them?
He was shot on his way to a college reunion
Harry S Truman
Yes
When he jumped out of the balcony - his foot got stuck in the bunting and he fell onto stage
50. Which presidents were cousins?
Honor people who died - make sure the country survies
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Abigail
Teddy Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt