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U.S. Presidents Trivia
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What is Camp David?
November 1863
A 2nd home for the president
The president could not fire and federal official who had gotten their job with Senate approval
Revolutionary War
2. Where was George Washington born?
6'4'
Period after the Civil War and how we reunited
William Howard Taft
Mount Vernon - Virginia
3. James Madison's wife is famous for...
Mom
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Saving a picture of Washington during the war
Monroe
4. Why did the person who tried to assassinate Ronald Reagan do it?
Maryland
He wanted a date Jodie Foster
A support group of countries
Ft. Sumter - South Carolina
5. Who is thought to have assassinated John Fitzgerald Kennedy?
Lee Harvey Oswald
8
Getting out of the Great depression by hiring people - which would start a chain reaction
Teddy Roosevelt
6. Which president was obnoxious and disliked?
French and Indian War
James Madison
John Adams
2
7. Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant knew eachother because _________.
They were classmates in college
James Madison
Self
England
8. Which president was a lawyer - very smart - an architect - a musician - and an inventor?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
East of Africa
Andrew Jackson
Thomas Jefferson
9. Where did Abraham Lincoln's assasination take place?
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10. After what event was the Fourteen Points presented?
World War I
15 million
George Washington
Richard Nixon
11. Franklin Delano Roosevelt's wife was related to him how?
His 5th cousin
Teddy Roosevelt
George H. W. Bush
538
12. Sedition acts
He gets shot
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor - Hawaii
1814
Crime to print false or meliscious or scandalist stuff about the U.S. gov.
13. What was the nullification crisis?
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14. Where did the name 'gettysburg' come from?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Harry S Truman
6'4'
The three day battle in July in Gettysburg about slaves
15. James Monroe created the ________ Doctrine
Dallas - Texas
Worker can take three months off in a year to take care of sick relatives or him/herself and cannot be fired
Monroe
Lyndon Johnson
16. What weapon was used to kill Lincoln?
A gun
The number of people in Congress plus 3 for DC
Dallas - Texas
Monticello - Virginia
17. What is NATO (not what it stands for - what it is)?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
A support group of countries
Abigail
December 7th - 1941
18. Which president was the 'father of the constitution'?
Democratic National Headquarters; Watergate
James Madison
Period after the Civil War and how we reunited
Massachusetts
19. What did the monroe doctrine say?
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20. How many presidents were killed in office?
England - France - Russia - USA
Lyndon Johnson
4
Yes
21. Grover Cleveland was the ____ and ____ president (numbers)
When peace was made between Israel and Egypt at Camp David
Teddy Roosevelt
Eleanor
22 - 24
22. Where was Thomas Jefferson born?
William McKinley
The president could not fire and federal official who had gotten their job with Senate approval
Monticello - Virginia
A group of representatives chosen by the voters to elect the President
23. This president swam naked in the Potomac River
Dwight David Eisenhower
John Quicy Adams
England; sailors; products
William Henry Harrison - Zachary Taylor - Warren Harding - and Franklin Delano Roosevelt
24. Who is considered 'the father of our country'?
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
1814
Teddy Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt
George Washington
25. Who was Deep Throat?
Teddy Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Teddy Roosevelt
A person who knew the truth about Richard Nixon and told Woodward and Bernstein
26. Why did the person who tried to assassinate Ronald Reagan do it?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
He was shot
He wanted a date Jodie Foster
The south
27. Where did the civil war begin?
The Gettysburg Address
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor - Hawaii
Ft. Sumter - South Carolina
Jefferson Davis
28. How many Vice Presidents have moved up because the president died?
8
Since birth
Monroe
2
29. What war never officially ended but just doesn't fight any more?
James Madison
Electors
$150000
The Korean War
30. Who was the oldest elected president (age 73 at 2nd term)?
Robert E. Lee
$150000
Guam - Midway Islands - Philippines - and Puerto Rico
Ronald Reagan
31. Which presidents won the nobel peace prize (in order)?
Teddy Roosevelt - Woodrow Wilson - Jimmy Carter - and Barack Obama
Teddy Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt
French and Indian War
4
32. Why was Andrew Johnson impeached?
He fired the Secretary of War Staton
A group of representatives chosen by the voters to elect the President
Writters for Washington Post who figured out Richard Nixon's case
Acting
33. how many years is a score?
He resigned before the impeachment trial
20
Free the slaves in the south
Germany invaded Poland
34. Who's son is Camp David named after?
Bad
John Quicy Adams
350
Dwight David Eisenhower
35. Franklin Delano Roosevelt got his middle name because his _____'s favorite relative was de la Noye
Andrew Jackson
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
$400000
Mom
36. What was the league of nations?
Sexual harrassment
England; sailors; products
Club with all countries where problems were discussed peacefully
Ronald Reagan
37. Who was the only catholic president?
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Teddy Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Conspiracy
Enola Gay
38. When Harry S Truman was president during WWII - what two places in japan were bombed (abc order)?
The Civil War
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison
William Jefferson Clinton
39. Which presidents were cousins?
Teddy Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The north and the south were split up
They were classmates in college
25
40. Who introduced surviver benefits?
James Madison
William McKinley
French and Indian War
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
41. What weapon was used to kill Lincoln?
James Madison
A gun
Maine and Nebraska
William Howard Taft
42. ______ years later - the Tenure of Office act was gotten rid of by the Supreme court because it was ________.
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson; July 4th - 1826
William Seward; $7.2 million; Alaska
Ronald Reagan
60; unconstitutional
43. What to laws did Adams TRY to pass?
East of Africa
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
George Washington
Alien and sedition acts
44. 'Speak softley and carry a big stick' was a quote of who?
John Quicy Adams
Teddy Roosevelt
Peterson House; the next morning
Dwight David Eisenhower
45. Where did the name 'gettysburg' come from?
East of Africa
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Harry S Truman
The three day battle in July in Gettysburg about slaves
46. What does 'Sic Semper Tyrranis' mean?
350
The Vice President
Thus always to tyrants
September 1st - 1939
47. Who was President during the Spanish American War?
William McKinley
John Wilkes Booth
4
1914-1918
48. Who was the fpresident during WWI?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Pearl Harbor bombing
Jefferson Davis
35
Woodrow Wilson
49. Alien Acts
OK to send home foregienors if they looked dangerous; also if we were in war with their country
Social Security
John Adams
Democratic National Headquarters; Watergate
50. What is the command of army act?
George Washington
Forced the president to issue all military orders through general of the army who could not be removed without senate approval
Self
Thus always to tyrants