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U.S. Presidents Trivia
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. When did we enter WWII?
Harry S Truman
None
Dwight David Eisenhower
December 7th - 1941
2. What president had the watergate scandal?
April 1917- November 1918
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Richard Nixon
The first Tuesday of Novermber that follows a monday in November
3. Andrew Johnson had a (good/bad) relation ship with congress over reconstruction
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Bad
January 20th
4
4. Jimmy Carter was the former governor of ____.
5
Teddy Roosevelt - Woodrow Wilson - Jimmy Carter - and Barack Obama
Georgia
Richard Nixon
5. What was William Jefferson Clinton impeached for?
Getting out of the Great depression by hiring people - which would start a chain reaction
USA
Perjury and obstruction of justice
444
6. Who was the first President during WWII?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Dwight David Eisenhower
Free the slaves in the south
Thomas Jefferson
7. Where does the president live for free?
The White House
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
When peace was made between Israel and Egypt at Camp David
8
8. Why did we enter WWII?
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor - Hawaii
We thought there were weapons of mass destruction - but there weren't
The banks were closed because everyone wanted their money at once
Dental; medical
9. How many electoral votes does Florida have?
Perjury and obstruction of justice
John Quincy Adams - Rutherford B. Hayes - Benjamin Harrison - and George W. Bush
Lyndon Johnson
27
10. How much of a retirement income per year does the president make (for life)?
Iraq invaded Kuwait - and a coalition of naions push Iraq out of Kuwait
270
350
$150000
11. Who's son married Nixon's daughter?
Dwight David Eisenhower
Iraq invaded Kuwait - and a coalition of naions push Iraq out of Kuwait
James Madison
No
12. What was Lincoln's most famous speech?
The Gettysburg Address
John Quicy Adams
132
4th
13. Who was president for the persian gulf war?
George H. W. Bush
William Henry Harrison
Ulysses S. Grant
Germany invaded Poland
14. What are disability benefits?
He wanted a date Jodie Foster
George H. W. Bush
You can collect money if you become disabled before retirement
Ft. Sumter - South Carolina
15. What were the territories we gained in the Spanish American War? (ABC order with commas inbetween)
Guam - Midway Islands - Philippines - and Puerto Rico
OK to send home foregienors if they looked dangerous; also if we were in war with their country
Since birth
The Gettysburg Address
16. Who went to the Supreme court and tried to increase it to fifteen judges - but was told no?
Germany invaded Poland
Barack Obama
Iraq invaded Kuwait - and a coalition of naions push Iraq out of Kuwait
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
17. What is FDIC (explaIn what it means - not what it stands for)?
When he jumped out of the balcony - his foot got stuck in the bunting and he fell onto stage
He gets shot
James Madison
The federal government guarentees your money at a bank
18. Who was embarrassed when they received the Nobel Peace Prize?
Barack Obama
Harry S Truman
Harvard
8
19. Who was the youngest elected president?
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
John Boehner
Democratic National Headquarters; Watergate
The north were comunists and the south were not
20. The committee of the watergate scandal illegally entered the __________ (building) and spied on Nixon's opponent Who was in the _______ complex.
Hillary Clinton
Period after the Civil War and how we reunited
Democratic National Headquarters; Watergate
27
21. Which president created Yellowstone National Park and Yosemite?
Revolutionary War
Revolutionary War
Teddy Roosevelt
January 20th
22. Did we win the Spanish American War?
Yes
Dwight David Eisenhower
Conspiracy
The banks were closed because everyone wanted their money at once
23. Which president was a great general - a leader - honest - and trustworth?
Teddy Roosevelt
George Washington
He gets shot
Dwight David Eisenhower
24. what ended a couple of days before Abraham Lincoln's Assasination?
Civil War
April 1917- November 1918
James Madison
John Quicy Adams
25. Where does the number of electors in the electoral college come from?
Acting
Abraham Lincoln
French and Indian War
The number of people in Congress plus 3 for DC
26. Who won the Nobel peace prize because he told Russia and Japan not to fight - but to love?
7; 11
Abraham Lincoln
William Jefferson Clinton
Teddy Roosevelt
27. Which president adopted independence - was loyal - smart - and a lawyer?
Forced the president to issue all military orders through general of the army who could not be removed without senate approval
He resigned before the impeachment trial
Harry S Truman
John Adams
28. Which presidents were great grandfather and grandson?
Teddy Roosevelt - Woodrow Wilson - Jimmy Carter - and Barack Obama
Sic Semper Tyrannis - the south is avenged
William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
29. What were fireside chats?
He gets shot
September 1st - 1939
Speeches given for hope
William Jefferson Clinton
30. What president had the watergate scandal?
The first Tuesday of Novermber that follows a monday in November
1
None
Richard Nixon
31. Where was John Fitzgerald Kennedy assassinated?
538
270
Teddy Roosevelt
Dallas - Texas
32. What state is Camp David in?
April 12th - 1861
The Gettysburg Address
Maryland
John Hinkley Jr.
33. Who was our president during the Korean war?
Mom
Richard Nixon
Dwight David Eisenhower
New Mexico to California
34. John Adams went to what college?
Harvard
Saving a picture of Washington during the war
England; sailors; products
Harry S Truman
35. What president did the Berlin airlift?
When peace was made between Israel and Egypt at Camp David
Andrew Jackson
Andrew Jackson
Harry S Truman
36. What date did WWII begin?
132
September 1st - 1939
John Adams
15 million
37. How many rooms in the white house?
132
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
He gets shot
Dwight David Eisenhower
38. During the civil war - the south's president was _____________.
Period after the Civil War and how we reunited
They were classmates in college
538
Jefferson Davis
39. Which president was author of the Virginia Plan?
Ronald Reagan
England
James Madison
William Seward; $7.2 million; Alaska
40. Which presient send Lewis and Clark on their journey?
The Korean War
England; sailors; products
Thomas Jefferson
He resigned before the impeachment trial
41. What did the monroe doctrine say?
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42. Who were Woodward and Bernstein?
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43. What state was John Adams from?
George H. W. Bush
Massachusetts
Conspiracy
The three day battle in July in Gettysburg about slaves
44. Who passed Universal health care?
George Washington
Enola Gay
Writters for Washington Post who figured out Richard Nixon's case
Barack Obama
45. Which president helped create the Library of Congress when he sells and donates 6000 books?
1 million
George Washington
Thomas Jefferson
14
46. Who was the only president to resign?
Richard Nixon
Enola Gay
270
He wanted a date Jodie Foster
47. What was the New Deal?
Thomas Jefferson
Writters for Washington Post who figured out Richard Nixon's case
Getting out of the Great depression by hiring people - which would start a chain reaction
Universal health care
48. What was the point of the Gettysburg Address (two things)?
Revolutionary War
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.
Honor people who died - make sure the country survies
X-ray
49. What president made the emancipation proclamtion?
4
Germany invaded Poland
A group of representatives chosen by the voters to elect the President
Abraham Lincoln
50. Who's son is Camp David named after?
Dallas - Texas
If he serves 2 or less years of someone else's term plus 8 years on his own
Zapruder film
Dwight David Eisenhower