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U.S. Presidents Trivia
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1. How many years younger was John Tyler's wife than him?
30
The president
East of Africa
Self
2. Who was Franklin Delano Roosevelt married to?
Eleanor
He fired the Secretary of War Staton
Gerald Ford
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
3. Where was George Washington born?
0
Electors
4
Mount Vernon - Virginia
4. Franklin Delano Roosevelt got his middle name because his _____'s favorite relative was de la Noye
Mom
The government
4
Cuba wanted to overthrow Castrow and our military helped train them
5. Do we vote directly for the president?
No
27
Teddy Roosevelt
John Wilkes Booth
6. Which presidents won the nobel peace prize (in order)?
USA
Teddy Roosevelt - Woodrow Wilson - Jimmy Carter - and Barack Obama
East of Africa
Andrew Jackson
7. Where does the right to navigate teh seas without interference not apply?
East of Africa
January 1st - 1863
If he serves 2 or less years of someone else's term plus 8 years on his own
Gerald Ford
8. What is the family Medical Leave Act?
4th
132
John Wilkes Booth
Worker can take three months off in a year to take care of sick relatives or him/herself and cannot be fired
9. Sedition acts
Woodrow Wilson
1914-1918
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Crime to print false or meliscious or scandalist stuff about the U.S. gov.
10. The person who killed John Fitzgerald Kennedy is thought to have killed him in a _______ - or not alone.
In their state's capital
1814
Conspiracy
When he jumped out of the balcony - his foot got stuck in the bunting and he fell onto stage
11. This president helped write the federalist papers.
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson; July 4th - 1826
James Madison
Harry S Truman
Lee Harvey Oswald
12. In most states - what percent of the state's electoral votes does a candidate get if they win the popular vote?
100
Woodrow Wilson
Dolley
William McKinley
13. Who was president for the 9/11 attacks?
George H. W. Bush
Richard Nixon
George W. Bush
Harry S Truman
14. How many kids did George Washington have?
Thomas Jefferson
0
Barack Obama
Civil War
15. Which president got Alzheimers and forgot being president?
Ronald Reagan
His 5th cousin
Writters for Washington Post who figured out Richard Nixon's case
Teddy Roosevelt
16. Who had the first death in office?
William and Mary College
William Henry Harrison
1814
Woodrow Wilson
17. Which president recognized Israel and traded with them and gave money and embassadors to them?
Teddy Roosevelt
Teddy Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt
James Madison
Harry S Truman
18. What was the Banking Holiday?
Andrew Jackson
The banks were closed because everyone wanted their money at once
22 - 24
John Quicy Adams
19. What is the address of the white house?
Barack Obama
4
Alien and sedition acts
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
20. Andrew Johnson had a (good/bad) relation ship with congress over reconstruction
Teddy Roosevelt
England; sailors; products
Bad
Lee Harvey Oswald
21. Where was Abraham Lincoln born? What kind of house did he live in?
Kentucky; Log cabin
Alien and sedition acts
A 2nd home for the president
April 12th - 1861
22. Which presidents were cousins?
George Washington
Dwight David Eisenhower
Woodrow Wilson
Teddy Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt
23. Who is thought to have assassinated John Fitzgerald Kennedy?
Lee Harvey Oswald
4th
January 20th
Martha
24. Who gave the longest inauguration speech?
Teddy Roosevelt - Woodrow Wilson - Jimmy Carter - and Barack Obama
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Lyndon Johnson
William Henry Harrison
25. Which president started the two term tradition?
John Quicy Adams
George Washington
George Washington - John Adams - Thomas Jefferson - James Madison - James Monroe - and John Quincy Adams
Worker can take three months off in a year to take care of sick relatives or him/herself and cannot be fired
26. During the civil war - the ________ wanted slaves and the ________ did not.
Universal health care
George Washington
15 million
South; north
27. During the civil war - the north's general was ___________.
Cuba wanted to overthrow Castrow and our military helped train them
William Jefferson Clinton
Ulysses S. Grant
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
28. what disease did Franklin Delano Roosevelt have?
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Andrew Jackson
Polio
8
29. How old do you have to be to be president?
England
George H. W. Bush
35
You can collect money if you become disabled before retirement
30. How can a president serve up to ten years?
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31. Who was the first President during WWII?
Daniel Inouye
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The Confederate States of America
Harry S Truman
32. What were the sides for the Korean war and the Vietnam war?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
When peace was made between Israel and Egypt at Camp David
The north were comunists and the south were not
Gerald Ford
33. which president was former head of CIA?
George H. W. Bush
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
England; sailors; products
100
34. What was Lincoln's most famous speech?
The Gettysburg Address
Enola Gay
OK to send home foregienors if they looked dangerous; also if we were in war with their country
A person who knew the truth about Richard Nixon and told Woodward and Bernstein
35. How long do you have to be a citizen for to be president?
Conspiracy
A group of representatives chosen by the voters to elect the President
Since birth
When we dropped food and supplies to people in West Berlin
36. What is the mandatory retirement plan run by the government?
Social Security
Club with all countries where problems were discussed peacefully
The fourteen points
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson; July 4th - 1826
37. Who said 'A date that will live in infamy'? What were they talking about (separate with semicolon)?
Mom
Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Pearl Harbor bombing
New Mexico to California
John Adams
38. What presidents (in order) died of natural causes?
Hillary Clinton
Harry S Truman
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
William Henry Harrison - Zachary Taylor - Warren Harding - and Franklin Delano Roosevelt
39. Andrew Johnson was _________'s VP
Abraham Lincoln
Germany invaded Poland
Ulysses S. Grant
7; 11
40. What is the command of army act?
You can collect money if you become disabled before retirement
Forced the president to issue all military orders through general of the army who could not be removed without senate approval
Dolley
Teddy Roosevelt
41. Which president was a 'rough rider' in the Spanish American War?
Teddy Roosevelt
Money goes to kids when a parent dies
4
He was shot
42. During the Great Depression - ____% were unemployed.
Yes
Harry S Truman
Thomas Jefferson
25
43. Which president presented the bill of rights at the first Congress?
Ft. Sumter - South Carolina
Teddy Roosevelt
Free the slaves in the south
James Madison
44. What president had the watergate scandal?
Richard Nixon
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
27
1
45. Who's son is Camp David named after?
Dwight David Eisenhower
The federal government guarentees your money at a bank
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson; July 4th - 1826
35 said He was guilty - but he needed 36
46. Who was the only president to get all the electoral votes?
Enola Gay
He resigned before the impeachment trial
Jimmy Carter
George Washington
47. Who is the current secretary of state?
Hillary Clinton
Iraq invaded Kuwait - and a coalition of naions push Iraq out of Kuwait
Europe
OK to send home foregienors if they looked dangerous; also if we were in war with their country
48. The president get ____ care and _____ care for free.
Dental; medical
Since birth
Honor people who died - make sure the country survies
Gerald Ford
49. After Abraham Lincoln was shot - He was carried across the street to ________________ where he dies when?
George Washington
Peterson House; the next morning
He was shot on his way to a college reunion
A group of representatives chosen by the voters to elect the President
50. What is Camp David?
A 2nd home for the president
Massachusetts
Barack Obama
Franklin Delano Roosevelt