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U.S. Presidents Trivia
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1. What state is Camp David in?
Maryland
A gun
When we dropped food and supplies to people in West Berlin
Acting
2. Who was president for the 9/11 attacks?
George W. Bush
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
His 5th cousin
He fired the Secretary of War Staton
3. What is the family Medical Leave Act?
22 - 24
Worker can take three months off in a year to take care of sick relatives or him/herself and cannot be fired
George Washington
Providing a backup place for military plane landing
4. Who was President during the Spanish American War?
Germany - Hungary - Turkey
Honor people who died - make sure the country survies
Electors
William McKinley
5. What war was George Washington in the military for?
Andrew Jackson
England; sailors; products
William Jefferson Clinton
French and Indian War
6. Which presidents won the nobel peace prize (in order)?
Teddy Roosevelt - Woodrow Wilson - Jimmy Carter - and Barack Obama
Dwight David Eisenhower
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Sic Semper Tyrannis - the south is avenged
7. Who was George Washington's wife?
Teddy Roosevelt
Martha
4th
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
8. Woodrow Wilson's ideas on not to have a war - the league of nations - and the freedom to navigate the seas without interference are known as ________.
Harry S Truman
The fourteen points
Revolutionary War
James Madison
9. Who was Abraham Lincoln married to?
James Madison
Mary Todd-Lincoln
Dwight David Eisenhower
Germany was attacking ships
10. Lyndon Johnson got lots of bills passed involving ______.
Civil rights
27
Yes
April 1917- November 1918
11. Who was president for the persian gulf war?
The Vice President
Dwight David Eisenhower
The south
George H. W. Bush
12. What was the New Deal?
John Adams
Getting out of the Great depression by hiring people - which would start a chain reaction
Jefferson still survives
5
13. What was the Tenure of Office Act/
The idea to own all the land from the pacific to the atlantic ocean; 1.2 million
Thomas Jefferson
Acting
The president could not fire and federal official who had gotten their job with Senate approval
14. What is the oldest you can be to get surviver benefits?
James Madison
A group of representatives chosen by the voters to elect the President
The north and the south were split up
18
15. During the civil war - the south named itself _____.
The three day battle in July in Gettysburg about slaves
The Confederate States of America
Mount Vernon - Virginia
$150000
16. What state is Camp David in?
Teddy Roosevelt
5
French and Indian War
Maryland
17. Which president created the University of Virgina?
Thomas Jefferson
September 1st - 1939
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The three day battle in July in Gettysburg about slaves
18. What was the most terms served by a president?
4
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor - Hawaii
A gun
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.
19. Who's son is Camp David named after?
Dwight David Eisenhower
Honor people who died - make sure the country survies
7; 11
Jimmy Carter
20. How many electoral votes does Florida have?
27
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
We thought there were weapons of mass destruction - but there weren't
January 1st - 1863
21. Why did WWII begin?
15 million
Germany invaded Poland
Gerald Ford
Thomas Jefferson
22. Who were Woodward and Bernstein?
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23. What month and year was the Gettysburg Address said?
Conspiracy
$400000
He fired the Secretary of War Staton
November 1863
24. How did John Wilkes Booth break his leg?
444
A gun
When he jumped out of the balcony - his foot got stuck in the bunting and he fell onto stage
Abraham Lincoln
25. Where does the number of electors in the electoral college come from?
Barack Obama
The Vice President
The number of people in Congress plus 3 for DC
Germany was attacking ships
26. Name the Founding Fathers plus the son in order...
George Washington - John Adams - Thomas Jefferson - James Madison - James Monroe - and John Quincy Adams
Jefferson still survives
Self
April 1917- November 1918
27. Who introduced disability benefits?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Dwight David Eisenhower
60; unconstitutional
Thomas Jefferson
28. Who had the shortest presidency?
John Quincy Adams - Rutherford B. Hayes - Benjamin Harrison - and George W. Bush
Thomas Jefferson
William Henry Harrison
William Seward; $7.2 million; Alaska
29. What year was the White House burnt down?
He fired the Secretary of War Staton
1
1814
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
30. Who balanced the budget?
Ulysses S. Grant
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.
William Jefferson Clinton
The Confederate States of America
31. Who were the first presidents to be father and son?
Money goes to kids when a parent dies
John Adams and John Quincy Adams
15 million
William Seward; $7.2 million; Alaska
32. Which president was a great general - a leader - honest - and trustworth?
0
Revolutionary War
George Washington
Robert E. Lee
33. Who was Deep Throat?
14
A person who knew the truth about Richard Nixon and told Woodward and Bernstein
Teddy Roosevelt
The federal government guarentees your money at a bank
34. Who was the first President during WWII?
Harry S Truman
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Democratic National Headquarters; Watergate
January 20th
35. What month and day do we vote for the president?
4
George H. W. Bush
He gets shot
The first Tuesday of Novermber that follows a monday in November
36. Who was the first African American President?
John Adams and John Quincy Adams
OK to send home foregienors if they looked dangerous; also if we were in war with their country
The federal government guarentees your money at a bank
Barack Obama
37. How many presidents were killed in office?
X-ray
Barack Obama
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
4
38. In the War of 1812 - ________ (country) kept stealing our ________ (people) and _______ (items) in the middle of the ocean (separate with semicolon).
England; sailors; products
The US was prepared to send money and military support to countries that want to resist communism
John Boehner
Robert E. Lee
39. Which president adopted independence - was loyal - smart - and a lawyer?
John Adams
January 20th
14
November
40. This president swam naked in the Potomac River
John Quicy Adams
James Madison
George Washington
Teddy Roosevelt
41. How many kids did George Washington have?
350
0
Eleanor
The president could not fire and federal official who had gotten their job with Senate approval
42. Where was John Fitzgerald Kennedy assassinated?
Buffalo - New York
Mount Vernon - Virginia
Dallas - Texas
Thomas Jefferson
43. Grover Cleveland was the ____ and ____ president (numbers)
20
22 - 24
Polio
Peterson House; the next morning
44. Who was a Great General in war of 1812?
Ronald Reagan
22 - 24
John Adams
Andrew Jackson
45. How many Vice Presidents have moved up because the president resigned?
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Crime to print false or meliscious or scandalist stuff about the U.S. gov.
1
His wife
46. Which president recognized Israel and traded with them and gave money and embassadors to them?
Harry S Truman
John Quincy Adams - Rutherford B. Hayes - Benjamin Harrison - and George W. Bush
January 1st - 1863
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
47. Who did we help in the Vietnam war and the korean war?
The federal government guarentees your money at a bank
1803
Guam - Midway Islands - Philippines - and Puerto Rico
The south
48. What are the people in the electoral college called?
Teddy Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt
14
Thomas Jefferson
Electors
49. How many presidents died of natural causes in office?
4
No
The Civil War
A group of representatives chosen by the voters to elect the President
50. What was the Bay of Pigs?
South; north
Cuba wanted to overthrow Castrow and our military helped train them
Harry S Truman
Teddy Roosevelt