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U.S. Presidents Trivia
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1. Who acts as an advisor to the president?
Teddy Roosevelt
The fourteen points
Perjury and obstruction of justice
The Vice President
2. Why wasn't Richard Nixon thrown out of office?
He resigned before the impeachment trial
Money goes to kids when a parent dies
Daniel Inouye
Richard Nixon
3. How many Vice Presidents ran again for president and became president?
5
Abraham Lincoln
Social Security
1814
4. Which presidents were cousins?
November 1863
Teddy Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Teddy Roosevelt
September 1st - 1939
5. Which presidents were great grandfather and grandson?
William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison
Cuba wanted to overthrow Castrow and our military helped train them
England - France - Russia - USA
William Jefferson Clinton
6. What law that Barack Obama passed might be unconstitutional and is being looked at by the supreme court now?
Abraham Lincoln
20
Universal health care
OK to send home foregienors if they looked dangerous; also if we were in war with their country
7. Franklin Delano Roosevelt died a short time into his ____ term.
November
James Madison
4th
Harry S Truman
8. Franklin Delano Roosevelt's wife was related to him how?
Martha
His 5th cousin
South; north
Honor people who died - make sure the country survies
9. How many former vice presidents have become president?
Dwight David Eisenhower
James Madison
14
Europe
10. Andrew Johnson was _________'s VP
Abraham Lincoln
Jefferson still survives
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
The federal government guarentees your money at a bank
11. How did William McKinley die?
William Jefferson Clinton
He was shot
Richard Nixon
14
12. What is the mandatory retirement plan run by the government?
Monticello - Virginia
December 7th - 1941
Social Security
Barack Obama
13. Congress passed 2 laws designed to limit __________'s (a president) power .
Teddy Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Andrew Johnson
The president
Providing a backup place for military plane landing
14. The person who killed John Fitzgerald Kennedy is thought to have killed him in a _______ - or not alone.
Conspiracy
Germany - Hungary - Turkey
4
22 - 24
15. What president did the Berlin airlift?
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Harry S Truman
Teddy Roosevelt
James Madison
16. Who won the Nobel peace prize because he told Russia and Japan not to fight - but to love?
They were classmates in college
Teddy Roosevelt
His wife
John Boehner
17. Who said 'The buck stops here'?
Harry S Truman
$400000
George Washington
No
18. What presidents (in order) died of natural causes?
Mom
William Henry Harrison - Zachary Taylor - Warren Harding - and Franklin Delano Roosevelt
15
George Washington
19. Who was president for the Bay of Pigs?
Providing a backup place for military plane landing
William Henry Harrison
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Teddy Roosevelt - Woodrow Wilson - Jimmy Carter - and Barack Obama
20. What state is Camp David in?
Ronald Reagan
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor - Hawaii
Maryland
Ulysses S. Grant
21. When did we get involved and stop being involved with WWI? (month and year)
Sic Semper Tyrannis - the south is avenged
England - France - Russia - USA
William Seward; $7.2 million; Alaska
April 1917- November 1918
22. What is the oldest you can be to get surviver benefits?
The government
January 1st - 1863
The Korean War
18
23. Who was the only man to be president Who was not elected to either vp spot or the presidency?
George Washington
Gerald Ford
1914-1918
2
24. John Adams went to what college?
He wanted a date Jodie Foster
Harvard
George H.W. Bush and George Bush
Self
25. Who gave the longest inauguration speech?
He resigned before the impeachment trial
4
A group of representatives chosen by the voters to elect the President
William Henry Harrison
26. Abraham Lincoln was ______ educated
Self
Barack Obama
Civil War
Enola Gay
27. Who had an affair with Monica Lewinsky - a young intern at the White House?
Thomas Jefferson
Money goes to kids when a parent dies
William Jefferson Clinton
Teddy Roosevelt
28. What happens to John Wilkes Booth?
Honor people who died - make sure the country survies
The south
He gets shot
John Quincy Adams - Rutherford B. Hayes - Benjamin Harrison - and George W. Bush
29. What was the persian gulf war/desert storm?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Iraq invaded Kuwait - and a coalition of naions push Iraq out of Kuwait
7; 11
Lyndon Johnson
30. Who went to the Supreme court and tried to increase it to fifteen judges - but was told no?
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Harry S Truman
The House of Representatives selects the President and the Senate selects the Vice President
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
31. Franklin Delano Roosevelt's wife was related to him how?
His 5th cousin
Germany invaded Poland
South; north
1
32. Who invaded Iraq?
Yes
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
George W. Bush
George H.W. Bush and George Bush
33. Who was the fpresident during WWI?
Woodrow Wilson
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson; July 4th - 1826
Jefferson still survives
Thomas Jefferson
34. Which president presented the bill of rights at the first Congress?
132
James Madison
The Confederate States of America
Teddy Roosevelt - Woodrow Wilson - Jimmy Carter - and Barack Obama
35. What was a popular film of John Fitzgerald Kennedy's assassination?
Zapruder film
14
A gun
New Mexico to California
36. Who said 'A date that will live in infamy'? What were they talking about (separate with semicolon)?
The government
Buffalo - New York
Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Pearl Harbor bombing
OK to send home foregienors if they looked dangerous; also if we were in war with their country
37. Andrew Johnson was _________'s VP
14
Abraham Lincoln
Dolley
27
38. Who is thought to have assassinated John Fitzgerald Kennedy?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
James Madison
0
Lee Harvey Oswald
39. What state was John Adams from?
Ulysses S. Grant
Massachusetts
Teddy Roosevelt
Daniel Inouye
40. Who was a Great General in war of 1812?
Self
Andrew Jackson
Thomas Jefferson
Guam - Midway Islands - Philippines - and Puerto Rico
41. What year was the Louisiana Territory bought?
Ulysses S. Grant
1803
OK to send home foregienors if they looked dangerous; also if we were in war with their country
Sic Semper Tyrannis - the south is avenged
42. Which presient send Lewis and Clark on their journey?
Maryland
Thomas Jefferson
Bad
Ronald Reagan
43. What month and year was the Gettysburg Address said?
November 1863
22 - 24
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
1 million
44. What to laws did Adams TRY to pass?
1814
Alien and sedition acts
George H.W. Bush and George Bush
14
45. What did the Interstate Highway System also do besides provide a road for driving?
Providing a backup place for military plane landing
The three day battle in July in Gettysburg about slaves
Mary Todd-Lincoln
William Jefferson Clinton
46. What happens if no candidate gets the majorit y of electoral votes?
The House of Representatives selects the President and the Senate selects the Vice President
Free the slaves in the south
William Henry Harrison
Teddy Roosevelt
47. Who was president for the Bay of Pigs?
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
The Vice President
Democratic National Headquarters; Watergate
Saving a picture of Washington during the war
48. What was the most terms served by a president?
The federal government guarentees your money at a bank
4
John Adams and John Quincy Adams
William Howard Taft
49. How did John Wilkes Booth break his leg?
5
When he jumped out of the balcony - his foot got stuck in the bunting and he fell onto stage
Civil War
January 1st - 1863
50. Congress passed 2 laws designed to limit __________'s (a president) power .
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
East of Africa
William Jefferson Clinton
Andrew Johnson