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U.S. Presidents Trivia
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1. What is Camp David?
No
Jimmy Carter
A 2nd home for the president
New Mexico to California
2. Who was embarrassed when they received the Nobel Peace Prize?
William Henry Harrison
Teddy Roosevelt
1814
Barack Obama
3. How many states broke away during the civil war AT FIRST? how many total ending up breaking away?
Jimmy Carter
7; 11
He was shot on his way to a college reunion
Richard Nixon
4. Who was on the bad side for WWI (abc order)?
Germany - Hungary - Turkey
Universal health care
George Washington
The president could not fire and federal official who had gotten their job with Senate approval
5. Where does the right to navigate teh seas without interference not apply?
East of Africa
Medical insurance for all americans
Thus always to tyrants
Democratic National Headquarters; Watergate
6. Which president presented the bill of rights at the first Congress?
East of Africa
James Madison
Europe
Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Pearl Harbor bombing
7. What president made the emancipation proclamtion?
Abraham Lincoln
Jefferson still survives
Dwight David Eisenhower
Yes
8. Why was Andrew Johnson impeached?
20
The US was prepared to send money and military support to countries that want to resist communism
He fired the Secretary of War Staton
The Vice President
9. What was the Banking Holiday?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
1
The banks were closed because everyone wanted their money at once
John Tyler
10. Why wasn't Richard Nixon thrown out of office?
60; unconstitutional
He resigned before the impeachment trial
George Washington
18
11. During the civil war - the south's president was _____________.
East of Africa
6'4'
4
Jefferson Davis
12. What two states do not use 'winner-takes all' for the electoral college?
Club with all countries where problems were discussed peacefully
14
Maine and Nebraska
The Civil War
13. Which president got Alzheimers and forgot being president?
4
William Seward; $7.2 million; Alaska
Ronald Reagan
When we dropped food and supplies to people in West Berlin
14. Who built the Interstate Highway System?
Dwight David Eisenhower
William Henry Harrison
John Hinkley Jr.
William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison
15. Who is considered 'the father of our country'?
The president
4
George Washington
William and Mary College
16. During the civil war - the south's general was ____________.
4
Since birth
Robert E. Lee
New Mexico to California
17. What president made the emancipation proclamtion?
Abraham Lincoln
Jimmy Carter
John Adams
William Jefferson Clinton
18. Who was the only catholic president?
Thomas Jefferson
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
He was shot
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
19. During the civil war - the north's general was ___________.
Ulysses S. Grant
He was shot on his way to a college reunion
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Teddy Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt
20. Who went to the Supreme court and tried to increase it to fifteen judges - but was told no?
Jefferson Davis
Dwight David Eisenhower
Thomas Jefferson
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
21. What college did George Washington go to?
Barack Obama
Germany invaded Poland
None
Hillary Clinton
22. Who created the Family Medical Leave Act?
$150000
6'4'
John Hinkley Jr.
William Jefferson Clinton
23. What were John Adams's last words?
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
6'4'
Jefferson still survives
20
24. Which president was a great general - a leader - honest - and trustworth?
George Washington
100
Since birth
Democratic National Headquarters; Watergate
25. How old do you have to be to be president?
35
The Gettysburg Address
Gerald Ford
Perjury and obstruction of justice
26. What were the sides for the Korean war and the Vietnam war?
The north were comunists and the south were not
The first Tuesday of Novermber that follows a monday in November
14
You can collect money if you become disabled before retirement
27. Who won a Nobel Peace Prize for what they were going to do?
Barack Obama
Since birth
Teddy Roosevelt
1
28. Which president got Alzheimers and forgot being president?
England
Dwight David Eisenhower
November 1863
Ronald Reagan
29. Which president adopted independence - was loyal - smart - and a lawyer?
Harry S Truman
John Adams
18
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
30. Where do electors vote?
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31. Who acts as an advisor to the president?
Monroe
No
100
The Vice President
32. Which president created the University of Virgina?
Dwight David Eisenhower
Thomas Jefferson
Guam - Midway Islands - Philippines - and Puerto Rico
Germany invaded Poland
33. Why did the person who tried to assassinate Ronald Reagan do it?
He wanted a date Jodie Foster
Conspiracy
4th
Dwight David Eisenhower
34. John Quicy Adams spent time In what continent?
Europe
William Jefferson Clinton
Ft. Sumter - South Carolina
The Vice President
35. Which president made the panama canal?
A 2nd home for the president
Ronald Reagan
Teddy Roosevelt
Daniel Inouye
36. How many electoral votes do you need to win the election?
James Madison
1803
270
Georgia
37. Who was our president when we kille Osama bin Laden?
James Madison
Barack Obama
5
1814
38. Who supported manifest destiny?
Medical insurance for all americans
538
John Adams
James Polk
39. How many Vice Presidents have moved up because the president resigned?
Thomas Jefferson
1
He wanted a date Jodie Foster
Barack Obama
40. Who is the current secretary of state?
15 million
Hillary Clinton
Conspiracy
The south
41. How many electors are in the electoral college?
Honor people who died - make sure the country survies
538
Getting out of the Great depression by hiring people - which would start a chain reaction
If he serves 2 or less years of someone else's term plus 8 years on his own
42. What presidents lost the popular vote but won the electoral vote? (in order)
John Quincy Adams - Rutherford B. Hayes - Benjamin Harrison - and George W. Bush
George H.W. Bush and George Bush
Dwight David Eisenhower
The Vice President
43. Who were the first presidents to be father and son?
Guam - Midway Islands - Philippines - and Puerto Rico
John Adams and John Quincy Adams
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
John Quicy Adams
44. Who did fireside chats?
Massachusetts
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Jefferson Davis
15 million
45. What was William Jefferson Clinton impeached for?
William McKinley
George H.W. Bush and George Bush
Perjury and obstruction of justice
444
46. Which president was former ambassador to China?
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
Gerald Ford
Abraham Lincoln
George H. W. Bush
47. What was the nullification crisis?
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48. How many electoral votes does Florida have?
The Gettysburg Address
Writters for Washington Post who figured out Richard Nixon's case
George Washington
27
49. This president helped write the federalist papers.
James Madison
George Washington
George Washington
Sic Semper Tyrannis - the south is avenged
50. What was the name of the airplane that bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The Gettysburg Address
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Sexual harrassment
Enola Gay