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U.S. Presidents Trivia
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. During the civil war - the south's general was ____________.
When we dropped food and supplies to people in West Berlin
Sexual harrassment
Robert E. Lee
Crime to print false or meliscious or scandalist stuff about the U.S. gov.
2. Who acts as an advisor to the president?
The White House
The Vice President
The president could not fire and federal official who had gotten their job with Senate approval
Cuba wanted to overthrow Castrow and our military helped train them
3. What are surviver benefits?
None
60; unconstitutional
Money goes to kids when a parent dies
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
4. What war did George Washington lead the army for?
Perjury and obstruction of justice
1803
Medical insurance for all americans
Revolutionary War
5. What date was John Fitzgerald Kennedy killed on?
November 22nd - 1963
He gets shot
He gets shot
Harry S Truman
6. How was James Garfield killed?
William Jefferson Clinton
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
November 22nd - 1963
He was shot on his way to a college reunion
7. What was a talent of John Wilkes Booth?
Acting
John Adams
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
8. How tall was Abraham Lincoln?
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9. Who was president for the 9/11 attacks?
Abigail
George W. Bush
Richard Nixon
Jimmy Carter
10. What presidents lost the popular vote but won the electoral vote? (in order)
He fired the Secretary of War Staton
Teddy Roosevelt
Jefferson Davis
John Quincy Adams - Rutherford B. Hayes - Benjamin Harrison - and George W. Bush
11. How many rooms in the white house?
1803
Dwight David Eisenhower
132
Harry S Truman
12. What is the Truman Doctrine?
Abraham Lincoln
The US was prepared to send money and military support to countries that want to resist communism
60; unconstitutional
5
13. Who created the Family Medical Leave Act?
William Jefferson Clinton
$150000
Acting
William McKinley
14. Why did the league of nations fail (what country wouldn't join)?
USA
Barack Obama
He was shot on his way to a college reunion
John Adams
15. Who said 'A date that will live in infamy'? What were they talking about (separate with semicolon)?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Pearl Harbor bombing
2
The Confederate States of America
England; sailors; products
16. Who moved up when John Fitzgerald Kennedy died because He was his VP?
George Washington - John Adams - Thomas Jefferson - James Madison - James Monroe - and John Quincy Adams
Lyndon Johnson
George H.W. Bush and George Bush
The White House
17. Why was Andrew Johnson impeached?
John Quicy Adams
April 12th - 1861
William Jefferson Clinton
He fired the Secretary of War Staton
18. What date did WWII begin?
Free the slaves in the south
132
Money goes to kids when a parent dies
September 1st - 1939
19. Who invaded Iraq?
John Quicy Adams
Thomas Jefferson
George W. Bush
Getting out of the Great depression by hiring people - which would start a chain reaction
20. Who was George Washington's wife?
Money goes to kids when a parent dies
John Quicy Adams
20
Martha
21. Which president was the youngest to serve?
April 12th - 1861
Teddy Roosevelt
John Wilkes Booth
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
22. Who was Franklin Delano Roosevelt married to?
Honor people who died - make sure the country survies
Money goes to kids when a parent dies
George Washington
Eleanor
23. Who was president for the 9/11 attacks?
We thought there were weapons of mass destruction - but there weren't
Daniel Inouye
January 1st - 1863
George W. Bush
24. How can a president serve up to ten years?
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25. Which president helped create the Library of Congress when he sells and donates 6000 books?
Civil rights
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.
Thomas Jefferson
A person who knew the truth about Richard Nixon and told Woodward and Bernstein
26. Who gave the longest inauguration speech?
William Henry Harrison
The Vice President
Barack Obama
James Madison
27. Who did we help in the Vietnam war and the korean war?
Forced the president to issue all military orders through general of the army who could not be removed without senate approval
The south
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
1914-1918
28. Can the amount of money a president earns be increased/decreased during someone's term of office?
No
1914-1918
New Mexico to California
Saving a picture of Washington during the war
29. Where was William McKinley killed?
Buffalo - New York
The Gettysburg Address
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
14
30. Who won a Nobel Peace Prize for what they were going to do?
4
You can collect money if you become disabled before retirement
Barack Obama
World War I
31. Why did we invade Iraq?
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32. Why wasn't Richard Nixon thrown out of office?
The first Tuesday of Novermber that follows a monday in November
Barack Obama
Harry S Truman
He resigned before the impeachment trial
33. What was William Jefferson Clinton impeached for?
John Tyler
7; 11
Perjury and obstruction of justice
Woodrow Wilson
34. What is NATO (not what it stands for - what it is)?
4
No
A support group of countries
Barack Obama
35. what disease did Franklin Delano Roosevelt have?
A person who knew the truth about Richard Nixon and told Woodward and Bernstein
270
England - France - Russia - USA
Polio
36. This president swam naked in the Potomac River
Dwight David Eisenhower
The government
Barack Obama
John Quicy Adams
37. Who did the Banking Holiday?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Andrew Jackson
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
William Seward; $7.2 million; Alaska
38. What are disability benefits?
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
You can collect money if you become disabled before retirement
Cuba wanted to overthrow Castrow and our military helped train them
The banks were closed because everyone wanted their money at once
39. Who was FDR's VP Who was president for WWII?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Harry S Truman
They were classmates in college
Germany invaded Poland
40. Why did we invade Iraq?
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41. How many kids did John Tyler have?
James Madison
Alien and sedition acts
15
0
42. In the War of 1812 - ________ (country) kept stealing our ________ (people) and _______ (items) in the middle of the ocean (separate with semicolon).
George H. W. Bush
Lyndon Johnson
England; sailors; products
His 5th cousin
43. How did John Wilkes Booth break his leg?
Dallas - Texas
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
East of Africa
When he jumped out of the balcony - his foot got stuck in the bunting and he fell onto stage
44. John Adams had a successful marriage with ______ (first name).
Abigail
Yes
John Quicy Adams
Jimmy Carter
45. When was the Emancipation proclamation?
Andrew Jackson
William Jefferson Clinton
22 - 24
January 1st - 1863
46. Who was president for the Cuban Missile Crisis?
George W. Bush
He resigned before the impeachment trial
The banks were closed because everyone wanted their money at once
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
47. Who introduced social security?
John Wilkes Booth
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
1914-1918
48. Who presented the Fourteen Points?
132
Woodrow Wilson
The president
James Madison
49. What month and year was the Gettysburg Address said?
November 1863
Self
He was shot
The federal government guarentees your money at a bank
50. Who ran the country when Woodrow Wilson couldn't?
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.
The idea to own all the land from the pacific to the atlantic ocean; 1.2 million
538
His wife