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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 reconstruction?
Period after the Civil War and how we reunited
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
35
Harry S Truman
2. how many years is a score?
The Vice President
He resigned before the impeachment trial
20
A gun
3. Who introduced surviver benefits?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Ulysses S. Grant
Daniel Inouye
Dallas - Texas
4. Who was president when the United Nations was formed?
USA
Free the slaves in the south
John Tyler
Harry S Truman
5. Who was on the good side for WWI (abc order)?
William Jefferson Clinton
England - France - Russia - USA
He wanted a date Jodie Foster
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
6. Why did WWII begin?
Germany invaded Poland
John Wilkes Booth
Free the slaves in the south
England; sailors; products
7. What date did WWII begin?
Medical insurance for all americans
Woodrow Wilson
September 1st - 1939
Maryland
8. What was the persian gulf war/desert storm?
Iraq invaded Kuwait - and a coalition of naions push Iraq out of Kuwait
James Madison
Bad
William Henry Harrison - Zachary Taylor - Warren Harding - and Franklin Delano Roosevelt
9. Who attends diplomatic functions in place of the president?
William McKinley
The Vice President
Buffalo - New York
The president
10. Did we win the Spanish American War?
New Mexico to California
John Quicy Adams
The north and the south were split up
Yes
11. What weapon was used to kill Lincoln?
A gun
Providing a backup place for military plane landing
George H. W. Bush
Woodrow Wilson
12. When did we enter WWII?
Money goes to kids when a parent dies
Richard Nixon
December 7th - 1941
November
13. James Monroe created the ________ Doctrine
Gerald Ford
15 million
Monroe
He wanted a date Jodie Foster
14. When Harry S Truman was president during WWII - what two places in japan were bombed (abc order)?
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Sexual harrassment
They were classmates in college
538
15. Who were the first presidents to be father and son?
John Adams
John Adams and John Quincy Adams
George Washington
Dwight David Eisenhower
16. Alien Acts
Eleanor
Teddy Roosevelt
Ronald Reagan
OK to send home foregienors if they looked dangerous; also if we were in war with their country
17. How did William McKinley die?
Monroe
He was shot
John Adams and John Quincy Adams
A gun
18. Where did Abraham Lincoln's assasination take place?
19. What college did George Washington go to?
Electors
Kentucky; Log cabin
None
John Hinkley Jr.
20. Where does the president live for free?
Conspiracy
The White House
Maryland
Teddy Roosevelt - Woodrow Wilson - Jimmy Carter - and Barack Obama
21. Who was embarrassed when they received the Nobel Peace Prize?
Universal health care
Barack Obama
Cuba wanted to overthrow Castrow and our military helped train them
His 5th cousin
22. What is the mandatory retirement plan run by the government?
Social Security
OK to send home foregienors if they looked dangerous; also if we were in war with their country
Forced the president to issue all military orders through general of the army who could not be removed without senate approval
William Henry Harrison
23. How many years younger was John Tyler's wife than him?
30
James Madison
X-ray
The three day battle in July in Gettysburg about slaves
24. Where was George Washington born?
4th
Mount Vernon - Virginia
He was shot on his way to a college reunion
Richard Nixon
25. Why did we enter WWII?
James Polk
The number of people in Congress plus 3 for DC
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor - Hawaii
French and Indian War
26. Which presient send Lewis and Clark on their journey?
The fourteen points
Thomas Jefferson
27
Gerald Ford
27. How many days was the Iran Hostage crisis?
Peterson House; the next morning
November
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
444
28. Who attends diplomatic functions in place of the president?
September 1st - 1939
4th
The Vice President
Mount Vernon - Virginia
29. Franklin Delano Roosevelt's wife was related to him how?
Teddy Roosevelt
Harry S Truman
England; sailors; products
His 5th cousin
30. What is FDIC (explaIn what it means - not what it stands for)?
The president could not fire and federal official who had gotten their job with Senate approval
Gerald Ford
The federal government guarentees your money at a bank
Ford's Theater
31. What was a popular film of John Fitzgerald Kennedy's assassination?
George Washington
0
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.
Zapruder film
32. How many presidents were killed in office?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The Confederate States of America
Dwight David Eisenhower
4
33. Who was Deep Throat?
Barack Obama
Sexual harrassment
Germany invaded Poland
A person who knew the truth about Richard Nixon and told Woodward and Bernstein
34. Who supported manifest destiny?
4
James Polk
William Jefferson Clinton
Thomas Jefferson
35. Who was William McKinley's VP that moved up when He was killed?
George W. Bush
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Teddy Roosevelt
Iraq invaded Kuwait - and a coalition of naions push Iraq out of Kuwait
36. During the civil war - the ________ wanted slaves and the ________ did not.
England; sailors; products
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Acting
South; north
37. Who is the current Vice President?
Harry S Truman
James Madison
Joe Biden
The House of Representatives selects the President and the Senate selects the Vice President
38. What was the name of the airplane that bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Enola Gay
George Washington
He resigned before the impeachment trial
Dental; medical
39. What are the people in the electoral college called?
Abraham Lincoln
Electors
The federal government guarentees your money at a bank
January 20th
40. Which president was a lawyer - very smart - an architect - a musician - and an inventor?
Gerald Ford
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Thomas Jefferson
Polio
41. How did John Wilkes Booth break his leg?
When he jumped out of the balcony - his foot got stuck in the bunting and he fell onto stage
OK to send home foregienors if they looked dangerous; also if we were in war with their country
Maryland
John Quicy Adams
42. Who was Deep Throat?
A person who knew the truth about Richard Nixon and told Woodward and Bernstein
The president could not fire and federal official who had gotten their job with Senate approval
1 million
He fired the Secretary of War Staton
43. Who is the current secretary of state?
Yes
George Washington - John Adams - Thomas Jefferson - James Madison - James Monroe - and John Quincy Adams
William Jefferson Clinton
Hillary Clinton
44. Alien Acts
OK to send home foregienors if they looked dangerous; also if we were in war with their country
The Korean War
Teddy Roosevelt
Richard Nixon
45. Which presidents were great grandfather and grandson?
William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison
Perjury and obstruction of justice
The idea to own all the land from the pacific to the atlantic ocean; 1.2 million
Alien and sedition acts
46. Who's son married Nixon's daughter?
James Madison
Dwight David Eisenhower
He resigned before the impeachment trial
Mary Todd-Lincoln
47. Who was president for the Cuban Missile Crisis?
The three day battle in July in Gettysburg about slaves
French and Indian War
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Bad
48. During the civil war - the south's president was _____________.
Harry S Truman
George H.W. Bush and George Bush
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Jefferson Davis
49. What was William Jefferson Clinton impeached for?
Mary Todd-Lincoln
2
4
Perjury and obstruction of justice
50. Where was William McKinley killed?
William Jefferson Clinton
East of Africa
England - France - Russia - USA
Buffalo - New York