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U.S. Presidents Trivia
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1. ______ years later - the Tenure of Office act was gotten rid of by the Supreme court because it was ________.
Civil rights
George Washington
They were classmates in college
60; unconstitutional
2. In most states - what percent of the state's electoral votes does a candidate get if they win the popular vote?
1914-1918
When we dropped food and supplies to people in West Berlin
100
William Henry Harrison
3. Who supported manifest destiny?
30
John Hinkley Jr.
James Polk
The south
4. Who was William McKinley's VP that moved up when He was killed?
Teddy Roosevelt
George Washington
George Washington
Ulysses S. Grant
5. What date was John Fitzgerald Kennedy killed on?
USA
2
Andrew Johnson
November 22nd - 1963
6. How was James Garfield killed?
Social Security
He was shot on his way to a college reunion
James Madison
132
7. Who ran the country when Woodrow Wilson couldn't?
The fourteen points
His wife
Barack Obama
Bad
8. What date was John Fitzgerald Kennedy killed on?
Jefferson Davis
November 22nd - 1963
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Harry S Truman
9. Which president was the 'father of the constitution'?
James Madison
The Vice President
1914-1918
Teddy Roosevelt
10. Who was Deep Throat?
When we dropped food and supplies to people in West Berlin
The banks were closed because everyone wanted their money at once
A person who knew the truth about Richard Nixon and told Woodward and Bernstein
The fourteen points
11. Which president made the panama canal?
$150000
Guam - Midway Islands - Philippines - and Puerto Rico
Teddy Roosevelt
4
12. Who did fireside chats?
In their state's capital
Teddy Roosevelt
Lyndon Johnson
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
13. How many rooms in the white house?
132
George H. W. Bush
The Gettysburg Address
John Quicy Adams
14. Who did the Banking Holiday?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Thomas Jefferson
Ford's Theater
25
15. John Quicy Adams spent time In what continent?
Free the slaves in the south
Europe
Thomas Jefferson
132
16. 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 ________.
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
The fourteen points
Sic Semper Tyrannis - the south is avenged
Club with all countries where problems were discussed peacefully
17. Can the amount of money a president earns be increased/decreased during someone's term of office?
Lyndon Johnson
World War I
No
8
18. what ended a couple of days before Abraham Lincoln's Assasination?
They were classmates in college
27
Thomas Jefferson
Civil War
19. Who was the youngest elected president?
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Honor people who died - make sure the country survies
25
Speeches given for hope
20. During the civil war - the south's president was _____________.
Ft. Sumter - South Carolina
George Washington
John Adams
Jefferson Davis
21. Who was president during the Great depression?
The idea to own all the land from the pacific to the atlantic ocean; 1.2 million
Iraq invaded Kuwait - and a coalition of naions push Iraq out of Kuwait
John Quincy Adams - Rutherford B. Hayes - Benjamin Harrison - and George W. Bush
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
22. When did we get involved and stop being involved with WWI? (month and year)
He gets shot
April 1917- November 1918
James Polk
Peterson House; the next morning
23. Franklin Delano Roosevelt's wife was related to him how?
538
Says to Europe to stay out of the western memosphere and don't colonize; the U.S. will consider colonization a threat to our secruity; we will stay out of European affairs unless they affect us
His 5th cousin
When we dropped food and supplies to people in West Berlin
24. Grover Cleveland was the ____ and ____ president (numbers)
Saving a picture of Washington during the war
John Boehner
22 - 24
Andrew Jackson
25. How was James Garfield killed?
Eleanor
He was shot on his way to a college reunion
Ulysses S. Grant
Cuba wanted to overthrow Castrow and our military helped train them
26. Who was our president during the Vietnam War?
Lyndon Johnson
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Richard Nixon
Honor people who died - make sure the country survies
27. During the civil war - the ________ wanted slaves and the ________ did not.
1 million
Woodrow Wilson
8
South; north
28. How many years do you have to live in the U.S. for to be president?
Andrew Jackson
Thomas Jefferson
14
George Washington
29. Which president started the two term tradition?
The Vice President
George Washington
2
England - France - Russia - USA
30. The committee of the watergate scandal illegally entered the __________ (building) and spied on Nixon's opponent Who was in the _______ complex.
A support group of countries
Democratic National Headquarters; Watergate
USA
Ft. Sumter - South Carolina
31. Which presidents were cousins?
Teddy Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Woodrow Wilson
We thought there were weapons of mass destruction - but there weren't
The fourteen points
32. Where did Abraham Lincoln's assasination take place?
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33. What was the Bay of Pigs?
William Howard Taft
John Adams and John Quincy Adams
Barack Obama
Cuba wanted to overthrow Castrow and our military helped train them
34. What president made the emancipation proclamtion?
X-ray
35 said He was guilty - but he needed 36
Abraham Lincoln
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor - Hawaii
35. Who had the first death in office?
The Civil War
4
William Henry Harrison
Dwight David Eisenhower
36. What law that Barack Obama passed might be unconstitutional and is being looked at by the supreme court now?
Universal health care
Acting
A group of representatives chosen by the voters to elect the President
George Washington
37. Who is thought to have assassinated John Fitzgerald Kennedy?
November 1863
Saving a picture of Washington during the war
Lee Harvey Oswald
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
38. Which presidents were cousins?
He wanted a date Jodie Foster
We thought there were weapons of mass destruction - but there weren't
Teddy Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt
$150000
39. what disease did Franklin Delano Roosevelt have?
Bad
April 1917- November 1918
Polio
George H. W. Bush
40. Where does the right to navigate teh seas without interference not apply?
22 - 24
East of Africa
George H. W. Bush
Social Security
41. When was the Emancipation proclamation?
January 20th
Ronald Reagan
Sic Semper Tyrannis - the south is avenged
January 1st - 1863
42. Which president adopted independence - was loyal - smart - and a lawyer?
John Adams
Enola Gay
1
December 7th - 1941
43. Who was the only president to be president and then supreme court chief justice?
William Howard Taft
James Madison
Buffalo - New York
The Vice President
44. How many years is a presidential term?
Jimmy Carter
14
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
4
45. Where was William McKinley killed?
Free the slaves in the south
Buffalo - New York
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
The number of people in Congress plus 3 for DC
46. James Madison's wife was ________ Madison.
Crime to print false or meliscious or scandalist stuff about the U.S. gov.
1914-1918
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.
Dolley
47. Who's son is Camp David named after?
4
Free the slaves in the south
Dwight David Eisenhower
Ronald Reagan
48. John Adams went to what college?
John Hinkley Jr.
John Quincy Adams - Rutherford B. Hayes - Benjamin Harrison - and George W. Bush
Harvard
In their state's capital
49. What date did WWII begin?
Speeches given for hope
September 1st - 1939
Conspiracy
South; north
50. Did we win the Spanish American War?
The Korean War
George W. Bush
Yes
Europe