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U.S. Presidents Trivia
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What was the most terms served by a president?
4
World War I
Richard Nixon
The Confederate States of America
2. Who were the second presidents to be father and son?
Martha
He was shot
George H.W. Bush and George Bush
Lyndon Johnson
3. Who was Abraham Lincoln married to?
Europe
Dwight David Eisenhower
The number of people in Congress plus 3 for DC
Mary Todd-Lincoln
4. Who was a Great General in war of 1812?
A gun
Jimmy Carter
Andrew Jackson
Harry S Truman
5. What was the most terms served by a president?
Revolutionary War
4
A support group of countries
William Henry Harrison
6. How many Vice Presidents have moved up because the president died?
James Madison
When peace was made between Israel and Egypt at Camp David
8
444
7. Who was on the bad side for WWI (abc order)?
William Seward; $7.2 million; Alaska
Germany - Hungary - Turkey
Barack Obama
They were classmates in college
8. During the Great Depression - ____% were unemployed.
25
Woodrow Wilson
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Lyndon Johnson
9. Who is the current President Pro-Tempore of the Senate?
$150000
James Madison
Daniel Inouye
Enola Gay
10. Who passed Universal health care?
Barack Obama
Jefferson still survives
When we dropped food and supplies to people in West Berlin
September 1st - 1939
11. What president made the emancipation proclamtion?
Thomas Jefferson
William Henry Harrison - Zachary Taylor - Warren Harding - and Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Abraham Lincoln
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
12. Which president made the panama canal?
Teddy Roosevelt
Abraham Lincoln
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
William Jefferson Clinton
13. Which president was the 'father of the constitution'?
You can collect money if you become disabled before retirement
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
George Washington
James Madison
14. Grover Cleveland was the ____ and ____ president (numbers)
Period after the Civil War and how we reunited
England; sailors; products
Free the slaves in the south
22 - 24
15. How many electoral votes do you need to win the election?
The House of Representatives selects the President and the Senate selects the Vice President
270
In their state's capital
8
16. Who was the only president to get all the electoral votes?
Conspiracy
The US was prepared to send money and military support to countries that want to resist communism
0
George Washington
17. What did the monroe doctrine say?
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18. Why did the person who tried to assassinate Ronald Reagan do it?
Gerald Ford
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson; July 4th - 1826
William and Mary College
He wanted a date Jodie Foster
19. Who was President during the Spanish American War?
18
William McKinley
We thought there were weapons of mass destruction - but there weren't
Mary Todd-Lincoln
20. What date was John Fitzgerald Kennedy killed on?
The Confederate States of America
Massachusetts
New Mexico to California
November 22nd - 1963
21. Who presented the Fourteen Points?
None
Woodrow Wilson
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The number of people in Congress plus 3 for DC
22. Where did Abraham Lincoln's assasination take place?
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23. What were John Adams's last words?
The Vice President
Germany - Hungary - Turkey
No
Jefferson still survives
24. How old do you have to be to be president?
Thomas Jefferson
35
Ft. Sumter - South Carolina
Martha
25. What is the address of the white house?
James Madison
The White House
30
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
26. Where does the right to navigate teh seas without interference not apply?
East of Africa
George H. W. Bush
When he jumped out of the balcony - his foot got stuck in the bunting and he fell onto stage
25
27. Manifest Destiny was to have all the land from __________ to ___________ (east to west)
4
William Henry Harrison - Zachary Taylor - Warren Harding - and Franklin Delano Roosevelt
New Mexico to California
Daniel Inouye
28. What are disability benefits?
Perjury and obstruction of justice
Conspiracy
You can collect money if you become disabled before retirement
Mom
29. How many years younger was John Tyler's wife than him?
Teddy Roosevelt
In their state's capital
30
New Mexico to California
30. Who had many affairs during their presidency but claimed not to?
William Jefferson Clinton
Barack Obama
He was shot on his way to a college reunion
538
31. Who introduced disability benefits?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Dwight David Eisenhower
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
William Howard Taft
32. During the civil war - the north's general was ___________.
Barack Obama
John Quincy Adams - Rutherford B. Hayes - Benjamin Harrison - and George W. Bush
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Ulysses S. Grant
33. ______ years later - the Tenure of Office act was gotten rid of by the Supreme court because it was ________.
Bad
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
George Washington
60; unconstitutional
34. How did John Wilkes Booth break his leg?
Kentucky; Log cabin
When he jumped out of the balcony - his foot got stuck in the bunting and he fell onto stage
350
14
35. Which presidents won the nobel peace prize (in order)?
Teddy Roosevelt - Woodrow Wilson - Jimmy Carter - and Barack Obama
Monroe
Andrew Jackson
The first Tuesday of Novermber that follows a monday in November
36. Why wasn't Andrew Johnson removed from office when He was impeached?
George H. W. Bush
35 said He was guilty - but he needed 36
Conspiracy
4
37. 'Speak softley and carry a big stick' was a quote of who?
Ulysses S. Grant
27
Teddy Roosevelt
Harvard
38. How many presidents were killed in office?
The banks were closed because everyone wanted their money at once
4
When we dropped food and supplies to people in West Berlin
The three day battle in July in Gettysburg about slaves
39. How many former vice presidents have become president?
18
14
His 5th cousin
Jefferson still survives
40. What month and year was the Gettysburg Address said?
Teddy Roosevelt
England
His wife
November 1863
41. Who had a 12 year affair with Gennifer Flowers?
Zapruder film
The Gettysburg Address
William Jefferson Clinton
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
42. When was the Emancipation proclamation?
Jefferson Davis
Air Force One - Marine One - and limousines
January 1st - 1863
John Quincy Adams - Rutherford B. Hayes - Benjamin Harrison - and George W. Bush
43. Who were Woodward and Bernstein?
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44. How many states broke away during the civil war AT FIRST? how many total ending up breaking away?
Abigail
Democratic National Headquarters; Watergate
7; 11
William Jefferson Clinton
45. Who is the current secretary of state?
Hillary Clinton
The Gettysburg Address
22 - 24
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
46. Who did the Banking Holiday?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
John Quicy Adams
The three day battle in July in Gettysburg about slaves
James Madison
47. Which president was the youngest to serve?
William Howard Taft
Kentucky; Log cabin
The US was prepared to send money and military support to countries that want to resist communism
Teddy Roosevelt
48. What was the Banking Holiday?
James Madison
Kentucky; Log cabin
5
The banks were closed because everyone wanted their money at once
49. What is manifest destiny? how many square miles was it?
Mount Vernon - Virginia
Dwight David Eisenhower
April 12th - 1861
The idea to own all the land from the pacific to the atlantic ocean; 1.2 million
50. Who is the current Vice President?
James Madison
Speeches given for hope
Joe Biden
35 said He was guilty - but he needed 36