U.S. Presidents Trivia

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1. Gerald Ford pardons _____________ for all crimes committed.
Richard Nixon
The fourteen points
14
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue


2. Abraham Lincoln was ______ educated
The Civil War
Self
Abigail
Franklin Delano Roosevelt


3. Who was the only catholic president?
No
John Quicy Adams
Dallas - Texas
John Fitzgerald Kennedy


4. Who was president during the War of 1812 against England?
William McKinley
8
James Madison
Maine and Nebraska


5. Who was president for the nullification crisis?
Jimmy Carter
He was shot on his way to a college reunion
Teddy Roosevelt
Andrew Jackson


6. What did the monroe doctrine say?

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7. Who burnt down the White House during a war?
England
William Jefferson Clinton
Richard Nixon
The fourteen points


8. Who was embarrassed when they received the Nobel Peace Prize?
Barack Obama
Civil rights
Maryland
John Fitzgerald Kennedy


9. Who had the shortest presidency?
Free the slaves in the south
270
William Henry Harrison
The Vice President


10. Who is the current President Pro-Tempore of the Senate?
Monticello - Virginia
The north and the south were split up
Teddy Roosevelt - Woodrow Wilson - Jimmy Carter - and Barack Obama
Daniel Inouye


11. Who was president for the Bay of Pigs?
John Hinkley Jr.
April 1917- November 1918
His wife
John Fitzgerald Kennedy


12. Who attempted to assassinate Ronald Reagan?
22 - 24
Mary Todd-Lincoln
November
John Hinkley Jr.


13. Who presented the Fourteen Points?
Jimmy Carter
Forced the president to issue all military orders through general of the army who could not be removed without senate approval
Massachusetts
Woodrow Wilson


14. Who had many affairs during their presidency but claimed not to?
No
William Jefferson Clinton
The first Tuesday of Novermber that follows a monday in November
A 2nd home for the president


15. How many Vice Presidents have moved up because the president died?
Massachusetts
Dolley
George Washington
8


16. How can a president serve up to ten years?

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17. Who was president for the persian gulf war?
Maryland
November 22nd - 1963
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
George H. W. Bush


18. How did William McKinley die?
The first Tuesday of Novermber that follows a monday in November
He wanted a date Jodie Foster
He resigned before the impeachment trial
He was shot


19. What was the Banking Holiday?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Pearl Harbor bombing
The banks were closed because everyone wanted their money at once
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
John Hinkley Jr.


20. What was the persian gulf war/desert storm?
William Jefferson Clinton
Iraq invaded Kuwait - and a coalition of naions push Iraq out of Kuwait
George W. Bush
England; sailors; products


21. Grover Cleveland was the ____ and ____ president (numbers)
When we dropped food and supplies to people in West Berlin
Universal health care
22 - 24
John Quicy Adams


22. What were John Adams's last words?
Jefferson still survives
Maine and Nebraska
He was shot on his way to a college reunion
The idea to own all the land from the pacific to the atlantic ocean; 1.2 million


23. What is the command of army act?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
George H. W. Bush
538
Forced the president to issue all military orders through general of the army who could not be removed without senate approval


24. Who pays for all personal entertainment and dinners not related to teh government business in the White House?
James Madison
East of Africa
The president
Hillary Clinton


25. What was William Jefferson Clinton impeached for?
4
Perjury and obstruction of justice
When peace was made between Israel and Egypt at Camp David
Thomas Jefferson


26. What is FDIC (explaIn what it means - not what it stands for)?
Teddy Roosevelt
The federal government guarentees your money at a bank
George Washington
Franklin Delano Roosevelt


27. How many electoral votes does Florida have?
1803
Universal health care
27
None


28. what ended a couple of days before Abraham Lincoln's Assasination?
Ulysses S. Grant
Medical insurance for all americans
January 1st - 1863
Civil War


29. What president had the watergate scandal?
George Washington
Saving a picture of Washington during the war
Mary Todd-Lincoln
Richard Nixon


30. Name the two presidents (ABC order by last name - write first and last name) who died on the same day - and the date they died (separate with semi colon)
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson; July 4th - 1826
Teddy Roosevelt
James Polk
George W. Bush


31. Which president created the University of Virgina?
Thomas Jefferson
Teddy Roosevelt
Abigail
Barack Obama


32. ______ years later - the Tenure of Office act was gotten rid of by the Supreme court because it was ________.
Jefferson still survives
60; unconstitutional
Thomas Jefferson
Conspiracy


33. what disease did Franklin Delano Roosevelt have?
Polio
George Washington
Ford's Theater
England


34. How many presidents died of natural causes in office?
The first Tuesday of Novermber that follows a monday in November
X-ray
4
April 12th - 1861


35. Who was president during the Great depression?
George Washington
Crime to print false or meliscious or scandalist stuff about the U.S. gov.
350
Franklin Delano Roosevelt


36. Who invaded Iraq?
Ft. Sumter - South Carolina
Since birth
Europe
George W. Bush


37. Andrew Johnson had a (good/bad) relation ship with congress over reconstruction
Iraq invaded Kuwait - and a coalition of naions push Iraq out of Kuwait
The three day battle in July in Gettysburg about slaves
Bad
The government


38. Where do electors vote?

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39. How tall was Abraham Lincoln?

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40. Grover Cleveland was the ____ and ____ president (numbers)
William Jefferson Clinton
William Henry Harrison - Zachary Taylor - Warren Harding - and Franklin Delano Roosevelt
George H. W. Bush
22 - 24


41. What was the Berlin Airlift?
They were classmates in college
Barack Obama
When we dropped food and supplies to people in West Berlin
John Adams


42. which president was former head of CIA?
William Henry Harrison
George H. W. Bush
Teddy Roosevelt
Perjury and obstruction of justice


43. What is NATO (not what it stands for - what it is)?
January 1st - 1863
25
Polio
A support group of countries


44. How many former vice presidents have become president?
None
Europe
Bad
14


45. The ______ was invented when William McKinley was killed - and it could have saved him.
X-ray
$150000
His wife
His 5th cousin


46. Who pays for all personal entertainment and dinners not related to teh government business in the White House?
The president
George Washington
A person who knew the truth about Richard Nixon and told Woodward and Bernstein
Hillary Clinton


47. Who is considered 'the father of our country'?
Gerald Ford
The north and the south were split up
George Washington
Social Security


48. What were John Adams's last words?
Jefferson still survives
Massachusetts
4
Writters for Washington Post who figured out Richard Nixon's case


49. When Harry S Truman was president during WWII - what two places in japan were bombed (abc order)?
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Monroe
Lee Harvey Oswald
$400000


50. How tall was Abraham Lincoln?

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