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U.S. Presidents Trivia
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1. What was William Jefferson Clinton impeached for?
When peace was made between Israel and Egypt at Camp David
Perjury and obstruction of justice
The president could not fire and federal official who had gotten their job with Senate approval
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
2. Who was the only catholic president?
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
The Confederate States of America
World War I
Peterson House; the next morning
3. Who was on the bad side for WWI (abc order)?
Andrew Johnson
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Germany - Hungary - Turkey
A group of representatives chosen by the voters to elect the President
4. Who introduced surviver benefits?
November 22nd - 1963
8
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
5. Which president was former ambassador to China?
Barack Obama
We thought there were weapons of mass destruction - but there weren't
George H. W. Bush
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
6. Which president helped create the Library of Congress when he sells and donates 6000 books?
Universal health care
He was shot
Thomas Jefferson
French and Indian War
7. Who did the Banking Holiday?
Harry S Truman
George Washington
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
6'4'
8. What is the Electoral College?
A group of representatives chosen by the voters to elect the President
Barack Obama
The White House
Gerald Ford
9. Who was Franklin Delano Roosevelt married to?
Eleanor
Teddy Roosevelt
William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison
Medical insurance for all americans
10. Franklin Delano Roosevelt got his middle name because his _____'s favorite relative was de la Noye
Dwight David Eisenhower
Jimmy Carter
September 1st - 1939
Mom
11. What weapon was used to kill Lincoln?
15
15
A gun
Dental; medical
12. Who was the oldest elected president (age 73 at 2nd term)?
Ronald Reagan
John Tyler
Teddy Roosevelt
Abraham Lincoln
13. What month and day do we vote for the president?
Mary Todd-Lincoln
The first Tuesday of Novermber that follows a monday in November
The Gettysburg Address
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
14. What two states do not use 'winner-takes all' for the electoral college?
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Joe Biden
George H.W. Bush and George Bush
Maine and Nebraska
15. Who burnt down the White House during a war?
Thomas Jefferson
The fourteen points
England
Peterson House; the next morning
16. When did we get involved and stop being involved with WWI? (month and year)
January 20th
Mount Vernon - Virginia
The Civil War
April 1917- November 1918
17. Who ran the country when Woodrow Wilson couldn't?
OK to send home foregienors if they looked dangerous; also if we were in war with their country
His wife
No
Teddy Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt
18. Who ran the country when Woodrow Wilson couldn't?
His wife
South; north
22 - 24
When peace was made between Israel and Egypt at Camp David
19. Which president was obnoxious and disliked?
John Adams
Thomas Jefferson
X-ray
His wife
20. Which president started the two term tradition?
$400000
George Washington
Lee Harvey Oswald
Ford's Theater
21. What were fireside chats?
When he jumped out of the balcony - his foot got stuck in the bunting and he fell onto stage
He resigned before the impeachment trial
Speeches given for hope
Bad
22. What does NATO stand for?
The first Tuesday of Novermber that follows a monday in November
Richard Nixon
George Washington
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
23. Who takes over if the President is disabled or dies?
The Vice President
Daniel Inouye
The White House
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
24. Who said 'The only thing we have to fear is fear itself' at their 1st inaugural?
William Henry Harrison
William Jefferson Clinton
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Harry S Truman
25. How many Vice Presidents ran again for president and became president?
Lyndon Johnson
Massachusetts
5
Dwight David Eisenhower
26. What law that Barack Obama passed might be unconstitutional and is being looked at by the supreme court now?
Universal health care
George Washington
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
French and Indian War
27. Who was sent to a mental institution after Abraham Lincoln's death?
Mary Todd-Lincoln
William and Mary College
Germany was attacking ships
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
28. Franklin Delano Roosevelt's wife was related to him how?
His 5th cousin
In their state's capital
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
29. Who was president when the United Nations was formed?
We thought there were weapons of mass destruction - but there weren't
Harry S Truman
November 22nd - 1963
Zapruder film
30. Who is the current President Pro-Tempore of the Senate?
6'4'
4
Daniel Inouye
He gets shot
31. Who was sent to a mental institution after Abraham Lincoln's death?
William Henry Harrison
Harvard
Civil rights
Mary Todd-Lincoln
32. Who introduced disability benefits?
100
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
15 million
Jimmy Carter
33. Who was Deep Throat?
Getting out of the Great depression by hiring people - which would start a chain reaction
A person who knew the truth about Richard Nixon and told Woodward and Bernstein
November
The government
34. Who was Franklin Delano Roosevelt married to?
Eleanor
18
35 said He was guilty - but he needed 36
December 7th - 1941
35. Who was the only president to get all the electoral votes?
Bad
George Washington
Money goes to kids when a parent dies
Monroe
36. What month and day do we vote for the president?
Dwight David Eisenhower
William Jefferson Clinton
The first Tuesday of Novermber that follows a monday in November
Cuba wanted to overthrow Castrow and our military helped train them
37. How long do you have to be a citizen for to be president?
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
No
Abigail
Since birth
38. Why didn't the Emancipation proclamation work?
William Jefferson Clinton
The north and the south were split up
8
Ford's Theater
39. Where was William McKinley killed?
Buffalo - New York
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
He gets shot
Jimmy Carter
40. What is universal health care?
September 1st - 1939
Medical insurance for all americans
27
5
41. What year was the White House burnt down?
1814
William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison
William and Mary College
4
42. Who was the first VP to move up on death of a president?
Yes
John Tyler
Teddy Roosevelt
Woodrow Wilson
43. Who were the second presidents to be father and son?
The north were comunists and the south were not
England - France - Russia - USA
New Mexico to California
George H.W. Bush and George Bush
44. What is the inauguration date?
$400000
January 20th
John Adams
The president
45. Which presidents won the nobel peace prize (in order)?
Harry S Truman
William Jefferson Clinton
Gerald Ford
Teddy Roosevelt - Woodrow Wilson - Jimmy Carter - and Barack Obama
46. How many electoral votes does Florida have?
27
John Adams and John Quincy Adams
1
Maine and Nebraska
47. Why did we invade Iraq?
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48. Who was William McKinley's VP that moved up when He was killed?
The north and the south were split up
Abraham Lincoln
Teddy Roosevelt
Dental; medical
49. Why was Andrew Johnson impeached?
Civil rights
He fired the Secretary of War Staton
East of Africa
The Gettysburg Address
50. Who built the Interstate Highway System?
George H. W. Bush
January 20th
Dwight David Eisenhower
William Jefferson Clinton
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