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U.S. Presidents Trivia
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1. Who is the current secretary of state?
John Quincy Adams - Rutherford B. Hayes - Benjamin Harrison - and George W. Bush
Medical insurance for all americans
January 1st - 1863
Hillary Clinton
2. What was the persian gulf war/desert storm?
Perjury and obstruction of justice
30
Iraq invaded Kuwait - and a coalition of naions push Iraq out of Kuwait
Georgia
3. Who attempted to assassinate Ronald Reagan?
John Hinkley Jr.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Yes
Polio
4. What happens to John Wilkes Booth?
William Jefferson Clinton
George H. W. Bush
Cuba wanted to overthrow Castrow and our military helped train them
He gets shot
5. Who was embarrassed when they received the Nobel Peace Prize?
George Washington
Joe Biden
John Wilkes Booth
Barack Obama
6. What war never officially ended but just doesn't fight any more?
George Washington
Jefferson Davis
The Vice President
The Korean War
7. Why did we enter WWII?
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor - Hawaii
James Madison
The Civil War
When we dropped food and supplies to people in West Berlin
8. Who had a 12 year affair with Gennifer Flowers?
Providing a backup place for military plane landing
60; unconstitutional
The White House
William Jefferson Clinton
9. Who is the current President Pro-Tempore of the Senate?
Eleanor
Daniel Inouye
William and Mary College
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
10. What date did the civil war begin?
He wanted a date Jodie Foster
A gun
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
April 12th - 1861
11. Which president was former ambassador to China?
George H. W. Bush
If he serves 2 or less years of someone else's term plus 8 years on his own
Jefferson still survives
Electors
12. What does NATO stand for?
Maine and Nebraska
William Henry Harrison
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
13. what ended a couple of days before Abraham Lincoln's Assasination?
Civil War
Honor people who died - make sure the country survies
If he serves 2 or less years of someone else's term plus 8 years on his own
Peterson House; the next morning
14. What did the Interstate Highway System also do besides provide a road for driving?
22 - 24
Providing a backup place for military plane landing
Teddy Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Hillary Clinton
15. What was the camp david accords?
132
When peace was made between Israel and Egypt at Camp David
Abigail
Harry S Truman
16. Who is thought to have assassinated John Fitzgerald Kennedy?
4
Lee Harvey Oswald
William Henry Harrison
22 - 24
17. How many presidents were killed in office?
Club with all countries where problems were discussed peacefully
USA
George H. W. Bush
4
18. How many kids did George Washington have?
November 22nd - 1963
James Madison
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
0
19. Which president made the panama canal?
Teddy Roosevelt
Medical insurance for all americans
Conspiracy
A support group of countries
20. What president made the emancipation proclamtion?
Abraham Lincoln
Since birth
25
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
21. Who was president for the 9/11 attacks?
George W. Bush
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Abraham Lincoln
John Adams
22. how many years is a score?
East of Africa
The Vice President
Thus always to tyrants
20
23. How much was the Louisiana Territory when it was purchased?
Woodrow Wilson
No
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
15 million
24. Who pays for all personal entertainment and dinners not related to teh government business in the White House?
The president
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
Maine and Nebraska
The Vice President
25. What are the people in the electoral college called?
Harvard
Electors
Richard Nixon
Club with all countries where problems were discussed peacefully
26. Who did the Banking Holiday?
Cuba wanted to overthrow Castrow and our military helped train them
The number of people in Congress plus 3 for DC
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
John Adams
27. what ended a couple of days before Abraham Lincoln's Assasination?
Civil War
Robert E. Lee
The president
Barack Obama
28. Who was president when the United Nations was formed?
James Madison
Buffalo - New York
Revolutionary War
Harry S Truman
29. How many presidents were killed in office?
Teddy Roosevelt
John Quincy Adams - Rutherford B. Hayes - Benjamin Harrison - and George W. Bush
Electors
4
30. Which president was obnoxious and disliked?
John Adams
The number of people in Congress plus 3 for DC
Dwight David Eisenhower
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
31. Who gave the longest inauguration speech?
John Quicy Adams
35 said He was guilty - but he needed 36
William Henry Harrison
He resigned before the impeachment trial
32. What was the Tenure of Office Act/
1
The federal government guarentees your money at a bank
The three day battle in July in Gettysburg about slaves
The president could not fire and federal official who had gotten their job with Senate approval
33. Who moved up when John Fitzgerald Kennedy died because He was his VP?
William Jefferson Clinton
George W. Bush
No
Lyndon Johnson
34. What is the oldest you can be to get surviver benefits?
18
Period after the Civil War and how we reunited
Teddy Roosevelt
He gets shot
35. Who built the Interstate Highway System?
He was shot on his way to a college reunion
Dwight David Eisenhower
November 1863
Revolutionary War
36. What law that Barack Obama passed might be unconstitutional and is being looked at by the supreme court now?
John Quicy Adams
Germany invaded Poland
Universal health care
Zapruder film
37. Franklin Delano Roosevelt got his middle name because his _____'s favorite relative was de la Noye
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
William Henry Harrison
Ronald Reagan
Mom
38. Who supported manifest destiny?
Thomas Jefferson
James Polk
OK to send home foregienors if they looked dangerous; also if we were in war with their country
Robert E. Lee
39. What was the New Deal?
Getting out of the Great depression by hiring people - which would start a chain reaction
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Yes
Sexual harrassment
40. Who was president for the Bay of Pigs?
Teddy Roosevelt
William Jefferson Clinton
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Teddy Roosevelt
41. Who won a Nobel Peace Prize for what they were going to do?
The White House
Barack Obama
The fourteen points
20
42. Manifest Destiny was to have all the land from __________ to ___________ (east to west)
4
John Adams
Dwight David Eisenhower
New Mexico to California
43. who pays for the costs of operating the white house?
Richard Nixon
The government
7; 11
He fired the Secretary of War Staton
44. Which presidents were cousins?
No
Teddy Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Gerald Ford
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
45. How many presidents died of natural causes in office?
You can collect money if you become disabled before retirement
December 7th - 1941
4
Jimmy Carter
46. This president helped write the federalist papers.
French and Indian War
John Adams
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
James Madison
47. Who had many affairs during their presidency but claimed not to?
William Jefferson Clinton
The president
Kentucky; Log cabin
Alien and sedition acts
48. Who was president for the Cuban Missile Crisis?
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
John Adams
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Mary Todd-Lincoln
49. Who attends diplomatic functions in place of the president?
Woodrow Wilson
William Jefferson Clinton
The Vice President
2
50. Who was our president during the Korean war?
Conspiracy
Dwight David Eisenhower
The US was prepared to send money and military support to countries that want to resist communism
Hillary Clinton
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