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U.S. Presidents Trivia
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. How many electors are in the electoral college?
538
The Confederate States of America
15
Ford's Theater
2. During the Great Depression - ____% were unemployed.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Pearl Harbor bombing
George Washington
25
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
3. When did we get involved and stop being involved with WWI? (month and year)
April 1917- November 1918
The government
Speeches given for hope
20
4. In the War of 1812 - ________ (country) kept stealing our ________ (people) and _______ (items) in the middle of the ocean (separate with semicolon).
Andrew Jackson
2
1 million
England; sailors; products
5. what disease did Franklin Delano Roosevelt have?
Polio
Guam - Midway Islands - Philippines - and Puerto Rico
Medical insurance for all americans
John Quicy Adams
6. Who moved up when John Fitzgerald Kennedy died because He was his VP?
Lyndon Johnson
The three day battle in July in Gettysburg about slaves
444
Daniel Inouye
7. How many kids did John Tyler have?
Thomas Jefferson
French and Indian War
15
The Korean War
8. Where was William McKinley killed?
Providing a backup place for military plane landing
Teddy Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Buffalo - New York
9. Which president was author of the Virginia Plan?
Jimmy Carter
James Madison
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
A 2nd home for the president
10. James Monroe created the ________ Doctrine
8
Monroe
The Vice President
John Quicy Adams
11. Which president made the panama canal?
Teddy Roosevelt
Thomas Jefferson
November 1863
John Quicy Adams
12. Which president was a great general - a leader - honest - and trustworth?
7; 11
Massachusetts
George Washington
132
13. Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant knew eachother because _________.
The government
OK to send home foregienors if they looked dangerous; also if we were in war with their country
They were classmates in college
George Washington
14. Which president served the most terms?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
27
Dwight David Eisenhower
15. Who was a Great General in war of 1812?
George Washington
Andrew Jackson
September 1st - 1939
5
16. Who balanced the budget?
Harry S Truman
William Jefferson Clinton
In their state's capital
The three day battle in July in Gettysburg about slaves
17. Why did we enter WWII?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor - Hawaii
4th
Saving a picture of Washington during the war
18. Which presidents won the nobel peace prize (in order)?
Teddy Roosevelt - Woodrow Wilson - Jimmy Carter - and Barack Obama
Acting
Cuba wanted to overthrow Castrow and our military helped train them
John Quicy Adams
19. What is the oldest you can be to get surviver benefits?
The south
November
18
Self
20. Who was president for the persian gulf war?
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
George H. W. Bush
The south
William and Mary College
21. Who was president for the persian gulf war?
Since birth
444
George H. W. Bush
Harry S Truman
22. Who was on the bad side for WWI (abc order)?
April 12th - 1861
Robert E. Lee
Writters for Washington Post who figured out Richard Nixon's case
Germany - Hungary - Turkey
23. How can a president serve up to ten years?
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24. How much money does the president earn per year?
The idea to own all the land from the pacific to the atlantic ocean; 1.2 million
Harry S Truman
$400000
Teddy Roosevelt
25. What were John Adams's last words?
East of Africa
20
538
Jefferson still survives
26. How many electoral votes does Florida have?
Harry S Truman
27
The president
Sexual harrassment
27. Where does the number of electors in the electoral college come from?
Harry S Truman
100
Dallas - Texas
The number of people in Congress plus 3 for DC
28. What was the Tenure of Office Act/
$150000
They were classmates in college
The president could not fire and federal official who had gotten their job with Senate approval
When peace was made between Israel and Egypt at Camp David
29. Who killed Abraham Lincoln?
George Washington - John Adams - Thomas Jefferson - James Madison - James Monroe - and John Quincy Adams
John Wilkes Booth
Maine and Nebraska
Barack Obama
30. Franklin Delano Roosevelt's wife was related to him how?
His 5th cousin
The Korean War
Maine and Nebraska
Kentucky; Log cabin
31. What war did George Washington lead the army for?
27
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
William Henry Harrison
Revolutionary War
32. Congress passed 2 laws designed to limit __________'s (a president) power .
Crime to print false or meliscious or scandalist stuff about the U.S. gov.
Andrew Johnson
Teddy Roosevelt
Abraham Lincoln
33. Who is the current secretary of state?
George Washington
George H. W. Bush
Hillary Clinton
John Hinkley Jr.
34. What president made the emancipation proclamtion?
22 - 24
John Adams
He gets shot
Abraham Lincoln
35. When was the Emancipation proclamation?
January 1st - 1863
England
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.
Teddy Roosevelt
36. When did we get involved and stop being involved with WWI? (month and year)
April 1917- November 1918
Thomas Jefferson
William Jefferson Clinton
Jefferson Davis
37. Jimmy Carter was the former governor of ____.
Barack Obama
East of Africa
35 said He was guilty - but he needed 36
Georgia
38. What was the name of the airplane that bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Guam - Midway Islands - Philippines - and Puerto Rico
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Enola Gay
100
39. Which president presented the bill of rights at the first Congress?
Germany was attacking ships
Ulysses S. Grant
The Civil War
James Madison
40. During the civil war - the north's general was ___________.
Ulysses S. Grant
350
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
The Vice President
41. Who did we help in the Vietnam war and the korean war?
7; 11
The south
Andrew Jackson
Conspiracy
42. Lyndon Johnson got lots of bills passed involving ______.
X-ray
Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Pearl Harbor bombing
5
Civil rights
43. William Jefferson Clinton paid Paula Jones $____.
1
Europe
1914-1918
1 million
44. Who were the second presidents to be father and son?
George H.W. Bush and George Bush
French and Indian War
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
William Howard Taft
45. This president swam naked in the Potomac River
Alien and sedition acts
Period after the Civil War and how we reunited
John Quicy Adams
November 1863
46. What was the persian gulf war/desert storm?
Iraq invaded Kuwait - and a coalition of naions push Iraq out of Kuwait
James Madison
Conspiracy
Abigail
47. Who supported manifest destiny?
James Polk
John Quincy Adams - Rutherford B. Hayes - Benjamin Harrison - and George W. Bush
The north were comunists and the south were not
0
48. The committee of the watergate scandal illegally entered the __________ (building) and spied on Nixon's opponent Who was in the _______ complex.
The Vice President
Democratic National Headquarters; Watergate
Abigail
No
49. What presidents lost the popular vote but won the electoral vote? (in order)
Mary Todd-Lincoln
John Quincy Adams - Rutherford B. Hayes - Benjamin Harrison - and George W. Bush
He gets shot
Ronald Reagan
50. Who was the only president to resign?
Germany - Hungary - Turkey
Enola Gay
Richard Nixon
The banks were closed because everyone wanted their money at once