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U.S. Presidents Trivia
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Which presidents won the nobel peace prize (in order)?
Andrew Jackson
Teddy Roosevelt - Woodrow Wilson - Jimmy Carter - and Barack Obama
John Boehner
April 1917- November 1918
2. What did the monroe doctrine say?
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3. Who is the current Vice President?
Joe Biden
The north and the south were split up
George W. Bush
We thought there were weapons of mass destruction - but there weren't
4. Who's son is Camp David named after?
John Adams
Iraq invaded Kuwait - and a coalition of naions push Iraq out of Kuwait
4
Dwight David Eisenhower
5. Who introduced social security?
Since birth
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The government
Money goes to kids when a parent dies
6. What war was Abraham Lincoln president during?
USA
4
William McKinley
The Civil War
7. Who was the only president to be president and then supreme court chief justice?
January 20th
Ronald Reagan
Ford's Theater
William Howard Taft
8. Who was the first President during WWII?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
George Washington - John Adams - Thomas Jefferson - James Madison - James Monroe - and John Quincy Adams
Civil rights
The banks were closed because everyone wanted their money at once
9. How many electors are in the electoral college?
Sexual harrassment
60; unconstitutional
Teddy Roosevelt - Woodrow Wilson - Jimmy Carter - and Barack Obama
538
10. What was a popular film of John Fitzgerald Kennedy's assassination?
A gun
Zapruder film
Germany - Hungary - Turkey
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
11. Who won a nobel peace prize because of the camp david accords?
Jimmy Carter
Electors
December 7th - 1941
In their state's capital
12. Which presidents were cousins?
Teddy Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt
George W. Bush
Mount Vernon - Virginia
X-ray
13. Which president was former ambassador to China?
Saving a picture of Washington during the war
He wanted a date Jodie Foster
George H. W. Bush
25
14. What presidents (in order) died of natural causes?
The president
January 1st - 1863
William Henry Harrison - Zachary Taylor - Warren Harding - and Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The House of Representatives selects the President and the Senate selects the Vice President
15. Who moved up when John Fitzgerald Kennedy died because He was his VP?
Daniel Inouye
Lyndon Johnson
Peterson House; the next morning
William Henry Harrison - Zachary Taylor - Warren Harding - and Franklin Delano Roosevelt
16. James Madison's wife was ________ Madison.
James Madison
Mary Todd-Lincoln
USA
Dolley
17. Who was a peanut farmer?
Zapruder film
Andrew Jackson
Jimmy Carter
18
18. Sedition acts
Crime to print false or meliscious or scandalist stuff about the U.S. gov.
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.
Medical insurance for all americans
14
19. Who attempted to assassinate Ronald Reagan?
John Hinkley Jr.
George H.W. Bush and George Bush
Richard Nixon
14
20. Who was president for the persian gulf war?
A support group of countries
4
Alien and sedition acts
George H. W. Bush
21. What are surviver benefits?
A gun
Period after the Civil War and how we reunited
Dwight David Eisenhower
Money goes to kids when a parent dies
22. What date did WWII begin?
538
The Vice President
1
September 1st - 1939
23. Who was William McKinley's VP that moved up when He was killed?
Teddy Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Teddy Roosevelt
The White House
Ulysses S. Grant
24. During the Great Depression - ____% were unemployed.
Barack Obama
1 million
25
Teddy Roosevelt
25. What is the inauguration date?
January 20th
Barack Obama
John Adams
Lee Harvey Oswald
26. What were the territories we gained in the Spanish American War? (ABC order with commas inbetween)
Barack Obama
Guam - Midway Islands - Philippines - and Puerto Rico
Harry S Truman
Medical insurance for all americans
27. Who did fireside chats?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
You can collect money if you become disabled before retirement
4
William Henry Harrison
28. Why was Andrew Johnson impeached?
Kentucky; Log cabin
A support group of countries
Harvard
He fired the Secretary of War Staton
29. Who was Abraham Lincoln married to?
Barack Obama
Mary Todd-Lincoln
No
Buffalo - New York
30. Who was the first President during WWII?
Teddy Roosevelt
William McKinley
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
James Madison
31. Which president was a lawyer - very smart - an architect - a musician - and an inventor?
The Gettysburg Address
The federal government guarentees your money at a bank
Thomas Jefferson
Teddy Roosevelt
32. What is the Truman Doctrine?
7; 11
Harry S Truman
The US was prepared to send money and military support to countries that want to resist communism
A 2nd home for the president
33. Where did the name 'gettysburg' come from?
350
270
Andrew Johnson
The three day battle in July in Gettysburg about slaves
34. Who introduced disability benefits?
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Self
35. Which president served the most terms?
Mom
Dolley
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Andrew Jackson
36. Who was our president during the Vietnam War?
Teddy Roosevelt
Lyndon Johnson
Sexual harrassment
A 2nd home for the president
37. What was the Emancipation proclamation meant to do?
Free the slaves in the south
Joe Biden
8
Dwight David Eisenhower
38. Alien Acts
OK to send home foregienors if they looked dangerous; also if we were in war with their country
His wife
20
Self
39. What war was Abraham Lincoln president during?
The Civil War
Club with all countries where problems were discussed peacefully
14
England
40. Who was the only president to be president and then supreme court chief justice?
The president could not fire and federal official who had gotten their job with Senate approval
William Howard Taft
4
$150000
41. Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant knew eachother because _________.
William McKinley
George H. W. Bush
Martha
They were classmates in college
42. Where was George Washington born?
Bad
Mount Vernon - Virginia
Woodrow Wilson
Andrew Jackson
43. What was the Bay of Pigs?
Cuba wanted to overthrow Castrow and our military helped train them
Monroe
James Madison
Teddy Roosevelt
44. Who were the first presidents to be father and son?
April 1917- November 1918
John Adams and John Quincy Adams
1814
December 7th - 1941
45. Who is considered 'the father of our country'?
The number of people in Congress plus 3 for DC
George Washington
Speeches given for hope
Universal health care
46. Who takes over if the President is disabled or dies?
George H. W. Bush
Woodrow Wilson
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
The Vice President
47. Who was the first president not to win the popular vote and to become president?
He fired the Secretary of War Staton
John Quicy Adams
The president
The president
48. Who had the shortest presidency?
Harry S Truman
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
William Henry Harrison
Acting
49. Name the Founding Fathers plus the son in order...
Teddy Roosevelt
A group of representatives chosen by the voters to elect the President
George Washington - John Adams - Thomas Jefferson - James Madison - James Monroe - and John Quincy Adams
James Polk
50. Who was the first president not to win the popular vote and to become president?
They were classmates in college
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
0
John Quicy Adams