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U.S. Presidents Trivia
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1. Who did the Banking Holiday?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Jefferson still survives
The US was prepared to send money and military support to countries that want to resist communism
Worker can take three months off in a year to take care of sick relatives or him/herself and cannot be fired
2. What was the nullification crisis?
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3. Who had the shortest presidency?
John Quincy Adams - Rutherford B. Hayes - Benjamin Harrison - and George W. Bush
35 said He was guilty - but he needed 36
William Henry Harrison
Robert E. Lee
4. Why wasn't Richard Nixon thrown out of office?
The Vice President
He resigned before the impeachment trial
Mount Vernon - Virginia
James Madison
5. What was the point of the Gettysburg Address (two things)?
Honor people who died - make sure the country survies
2
Joe Biden
25
6. Where does the right to navigate teh seas without interference not apply?
1914-1918
Mary Todd-Lincoln
East of Africa
The president
7. James Madison's wife was ________ Madison.
Dolley
The federal government guarentees your money at a bank
In their state's capital
January 20th
8. Who said 'The buck stops here'?
Jefferson Davis
Harry S Truman
Ronald Reagan
Sexual harrassment
9. What was the nullification crisis?
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10. What month and year was the Gettysburg Address said?
The Gettysburg Address
He was shot
November 1863
Jefferson Davis
11. Who said 'The only thing we have to fear is fear itself' at their 1st inaugural?
East of Africa
Peterson House; the next morning
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
12. Who attends diplomatic functions in place of the president?
Ulysses S. Grant
$400000
George Washington
The Vice President
13. In most states - what percent of the state's electoral votes does a candidate get if they win the popular vote?
Club with all countries where problems were discussed peacefully
100
His wife
Air Force One - Marine One - and limousines
14. How many former vice presidents have become president?
14
The government
Richard Nixon
He wanted a date Jodie Foster
15. Who won the Nobel peace prize because he told Russia and Japan not to fight - but to love?
William Howard Taft
Acting
Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Pearl Harbor bombing
Teddy Roosevelt
16. How many days was the Iran Hostage crisis?
Massachusetts
Free the slaves in the south
Teddy Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt
444
17. what ended a couple of days before Abraham Lincoln's Assasination?
Teddy Roosevelt
Civil War
New Mexico to California
Harry S Truman
18. When was the Emancipation proclamation?
The three day battle in July in Gettysburg about slaves
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.
January 1st - 1863
Teddy Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt
19. In the War of 1812 - ________ (country) kept stealing our ________ (people) and _______ (items) in the middle of the ocean (separate with semicolon).
270
Andrew Jackson
George H.W. Bush and George Bush
England; sailors; products
20. Who did the Banking Holiday?
John Quicy Adams
8
Hillary Clinton
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
21. What presidents (in order) died of natural causes?
8
William Henry Harrison - Zachary Taylor - Warren Harding - and Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Self
William Jefferson Clinton
22. Who moved up when John Fitzgerald Kennedy died because He was his VP?
New Mexico to California
Lyndon Johnson
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
350
23. What is the oldest you can be to get surviver benefits?
William Jefferson Clinton
Alien and sedition acts
18
England; sailors; products
24. Who was president during the War of 1812 against England?
George H. W. Bush
April 12th - 1861
James Madison
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
25. Sewards Folly was when ________ (secretary of state) bought land for $______ - which was thought to be as a joke then - but now that land is known as ________.
William Seward; $7.2 million; Alaska
Mary Todd-Lincoln
A support group of countries
The fourteen points
26. What was the league of nations?
John Adams
Club with all countries where problems were discussed peacefully
The south
He fired the Secretary of War Staton
27. What war never officially ended but just doesn't fight any more?
The Korean War
A group of representatives chosen by the voters to elect the President
X-ray
Saving a picture of Washington during the war
28. Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant knew eachother because _________.
Thus always to tyrants
They were classmates in college
Money goes to kids when a parent dies
Money goes to kids when a parent dies
29. After what event was the Fourteen Points presented?
Thomas Jefferson
William Seward; $7.2 million; Alaska
World War I
Maine and Nebraska
30. What was the Emancipation proclamation meant to do?
Free the slaves in the south
Sexual harrassment
Conspiracy
The Vice President
31. Who introduced social security?
November
Yes
James Polk
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
32. How many years is a presidential term?
Teddy Roosevelt
Martha
$150000
4
33. How many pounds was William Howard Taft?
350
Club with all countries where problems were discussed peacefully
A support group of countries
William Henry Harrison - Zachary Taylor - Warren Harding - and Franklin Delano Roosevelt
34. Franklin Delano Roosevelt died a short time into his ____ term.
A support group of countries
4th
Ford's Theater
Universal health care
35. During the civil war - the north's general was ___________.
Teddy Roosevelt
Ulysses S. Grant
Martha
George W. Bush
36. Which president was a 'rough rider' in the Spanish American War?
Teddy Roosevelt
When he jumped out of the balcony - his foot got stuck in the bunting and he fell onto stage
A person who knew the truth about Richard Nixon and told Woodward and Bernstein
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
37. What presidents lost the popular vote but won the electoral vote? (in order)
William Henry Harrison
Richard Nixon
Woodrow Wilson
John Quincy Adams - Rutherford B. Hayes - Benjamin Harrison - and George W. Bush
38. What were the territories we gained in the Spanish American War? (ABC order with commas inbetween)
$150000
Guam - Midway Islands - Philippines - and Puerto Rico
Jimmy Carter
William McKinley
39. Who's son married Nixon's daughter?
Dwight David Eisenhower
Richard Nixon
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Getting out of the Great depression by hiring people - which would start a chain reaction
40. What date was John Fitzgerald Kennedy killed on?
Europe
Saving a picture of Washington during the war
Civil War
November 22nd - 1963
41. What were the territories we gained in the Spanish American War? (ABC order with commas inbetween)
Thus always to tyrants
Guam - Midway Islands - Philippines - and Puerto Rico
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
132
42. William Jefferson Clinton paid Paula Jones $____.
November 1863
1 million
Iraq invaded Kuwait - and a coalition of naions push Iraq out of Kuwait
Money goes to kids when a parent dies
43. Who was president for the 9/11 attacks?
George W. Bush
Barack Obama
John Hinkley Jr.
The government
44. Who built the Interstate Highway System?
The Civil War
1
Dolley
Dwight David Eisenhower
45. How many Vice Presidents have moved up because the president died?
8
James Madison
Dwight David Eisenhower
George Washington - John Adams - Thomas Jefferson - James Madison - James Monroe - and John Quincy Adams
46. When Harry S Truman was president during WWII - what two places in japan were bombed (abc order)?
Electors
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Abraham Lincoln
The idea to own all the land from the pacific to the atlantic ocean; 1.2 million
47. What to laws did Adams TRY to pass?
The Civil War
Club with all countries where problems were discussed peacefully
Alien and sedition acts
Electors
48. which president was former head of CIA?
New Mexico to California
Speeches given for hope
1
George H. W. Bush
49. How can a president serve up to ten years?
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50. What did the monroe doctrine say?
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