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U.S. Presidents Trivia
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Who was the oldest elected president (age 73 at 2nd term)?
Ronald Reagan
132
Civil War
Providing a backup place for military plane landing
2. Who was President during the Spanish American War?
William McKinley
Massachusetts
Harry S Truman
Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Pearl Harbor bombing
3. Who was a Great General in war of 1812?
Andrew Jackson
Saving a picture of Washington during the war
William Howard Taft
A gun
4. Who was Franklin Delano Roosevelt married to?
Eleanor
George H. W. Bush
Barack Obama
He was shot
5. Who won a nobel peace prize because of the camp david accords?
George Washington
Jimmy Carter
George H. W. Bush
18
6. What was the Berlin Airlift?
When we dropped food and supplies to people in West Berlin
We thought there were weapons of mass destruction - but there weren't
William Henry Harrison - Zachary Taylor - Warren Harding - and Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Free the slaves in the south
7. Who was president for the 9/11 attacks?
William Seward; $7.2 million; Alaska
George W. Bush
Dolley
Abraham Lincoln
8. During the civil war - the south's general was ____________.
No
A person who knew the truth about Richard Nixon and told Woodward and Bernstein
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
Robert E. Lee
9. Who was the only president to get all the electoral votes?
Mary Todd-Lincoln
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
George Washington
10. What date did the civil war begin?
The Vice President
Kentucky; Log cabin
April 12th - 1861
Guam - Midway Islands - Philippines - and Puerto Rico
11. Where did Abraham Lincoln's assasination take place?
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12. In most states - what percent of the state's electoral votes does a candidate get if they win the popular vote?
The banks were closed because everyone wanted their money at once
South; north
100
If he serves 2 or less years of someone else's term plus 8 years on his own
13. How old do you have to be to be president?
132
35
Getting out of the Great depression by hiring people - which would start a chain reaction
The idea to own all the land from the pacific to the atlantic ocean; 1.2 million
14. Which president helped create the Library of Congress when he sells and donates 6000 books?
John Quincy Adams - Rutherford B. Hayes - Benjamin Harrison - and George W. Bush
Thomas Jefferson
Honor people who died - make sure the country survies
New Mexico to California
15. Where was Thomas Jefferson born?
The north were comunists and the south were not
Monticello - Virginia
2
None
16. John Adams went to what college?
Ronald Reagan
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
George Washington
Harvard
17. What month and day do we vote for the president?
William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison
The first Tuesday of Novermber that follows a monday in November
Yes
Barack Obama
18. What did the monroe doctrine say?
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19. Which presidents were cousins?
35
1 million
Teddy Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt
22 - 24
20. Who is the current secretary of state?
Thomas Jefferson
Hillary Clinton
Harry S Truman
John Quincy Adams - Rutherford B. Hayes - Benjamin Harrison - and George W. Bush
21. How many kids did John Tyler have?
Monticello - Virginia
15
Abraham Lincoln
Maryland
22. Gerald Ford pardons _____________ for all crimes committed.
Germany was attacking ships
Richard Nixon
Conspiracy
22 - 24
23. Who was president for the Cuban Missile Crisis?
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Lyndon Johnson
Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Pearl Harbor bombing
John Adams
24. What were fireside chats?
Teddy Roosevelt
James Madison
Speeches given for hope
Jimmy Carter
25. Who was William McKinley's VP that moved up when He was killed?
Dolley
Club with all countries where problems were discussed peacefully
Electors
Teddy Roosevelt
26. How long do you have to be a citizen for to be president?
Since birth
Joe Biden
1 million
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
27. Which president was the 'father of the constitution'?
1914-1918
When we dropped food and supplies to people in West Berlin
Teddy Roosevelt
James Madison
28. Who was the only catholic president?
George H.W. Bush and George Bush
A 2nd home for the president
George H.W. Bush and George Bush
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
29. Who was William McKinley's VP that moved up when He was killed?
Teddy Roosevelt
Dwight David Eisenhower
Jimmy Carter
September 1st - 1939
30. Who said 'The buck stops here'?
Harry S Truman
The Confederate States of America
He wanted a date Jodie Foster
George Washington
31. What president had the watergate scandal?
Forced the president to issue all military orders through general of the army who could not be removed without senate approval
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
When we dropped food and supplies to people in West Berlin
Richard Nixon
32. How many electoral votes do you need to win the election?
The president
A gun
Conspiracy
270
33. Which president helped create the Library of Congress when he sells and donates 6000 books?
$400000
Richard Nixon
William Seward; $7.2 million; Alaska
Thomas Jefferson
34. 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 ________.
John Tyler
William Seward; $7.2 million; Alaska
Period after the Civil War and how we reunited
35
35. During the civil war - the south named itself _____.
The first Tuesday of Novermber that follows a monday in November
Germany was attacking ships
The Confederate States of America
Lyndon Johnson
36. Who said 'The buck stops here'?
Harry S Truman
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Conspiracy
Dwight David Eisenhower
37. What was Lincoln's most famous speech?
The White House
Teddy Roosevelt
30
The Gettysburg Address
38. What year was the Louisiana Territory bought?
1803
John Adams
Abigail
William and Mary College
39. Who was the first VP to move up on death of a president?
John Tyler
Teddy Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
USA
40. Which president created the University of Virgina?
Thomas Jefferson
The Confederate States of America
100
22 - 24
41. Who did the Banking Holiday?
OK to send home foregienors if they looked dangerous; also if we were in war with their country
4
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Barack Obama
42. Did we win the Spanish American War?
Joe Biden
Alien and sedition acts
1803
Yes
43. What did the Interstate Highway System also do besides provide a road for driving?
Dwight David Eisenhower
George H. W. Bush
Providing a backup place for military plane landing
They were classmates in college
44. Who passed Universal health care?
Barack Obama
7; 11
Lyndon Johnson
Alien and sedition acts
45. Sedition acts
Crime to print false or meliscious or scandalist stuff about the U.S. gov.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
No
William Howard Taft
46. ______ years later - the Tenure of Office act was gotten rid of by the Supreme court because it was ________.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
27
William McKinley
60; unconstitutional
47. What state is Camp David in?
He fired the Secretary of War Staton
Mom
Maryland
Cuba wanted to overthrow Castrow and our military helped train them
48. Who presented the Fourteen Points?
Crime to print false or meliscious or scandalist stuff about the U.S. gov.
Peterson House; the next morning
A 2nd home for the president
Woodrow Wilson
49. Who introduced disability benefits?
His 5th cousin
Harry S Truman
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Acting
50. Who was on the good side for WWI (abc order)?
Dolley
A group of representatives chosen by the voters to elect the President
England - France - Russia - USA
John Fitzgerald Kennedy