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U.S. Presidents Trivia
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Franklin Delano Roosevelt's wife was related to him how?
England - France - Russia - USA
Dwight David Eisenhower
His 5th cousin
14
2. Alien Acts
William and Mary College
His 5th cousin
OK to send home foregienors if they looked dangerous; also if we were in war with their country
George Washington
3. Who was FDR's VP Who was president for WWII?
John Adams
The idea to own all the land from the pacific to the atlantic ocean; 1.2 million
Harry S Truman
Jimmy Carter
4. How many electors are in the electoral college?
John Quincy Adams - Rutherford B. Hayes - Benjamin Harrison - and George W. Bush
30
538
William Seward; $7.2 million; Alaska
5. Why did we enter WWII?
East of Africa
Teddy Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor - Hawaii
Dental; medical
6. After Abraham Lincoln was shot - He was carried across the street to ________________ where he dies when?
444
Peterson House; the next morning
30
Dwight David Eisenhower
7. Who was on the good side for WWI (abc order)?
England - France - Russia - USA
George H. W. Bush
The Vice President
John Adams
8. Who is thought to have assassinated John Fitzgerald Kennedy?
Lee Harvey Oswald
Monroe
Ford's Theater
Acting
9. Which president started the two term tradition?
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.
George Washington
Gerald Ford
East of Africa
10. Who was the only president to resign?
22 - 24
Perjury and obstruction of justice
Richard Nixon
Kentucky; Log cabin
11. Which president made the panama canal?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The federal government guarentees your money at a bank
Teddy Roosevelt
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
12. Abraham Lincoln was ______ educated
$400000
Self
Ulysses S. Grant
Speeches given for hope
13. Who was the only president to resign?
Richard Nixon
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Thomas Jefferson
18
14. Which president got Alzheimers and forgot being president?
Jimmy Carter
Ronald Reagan
Thomas Jefferson
James Madison
15. What were the sides for the Korean war and the Vietnam war?
Teddy Roosevelt
Acting
The north were comunists and the south were not
Lyndon Johnson
16. Which president was the 'father of the constitution'?
James Madison
Dwight David Eisenhower
William Seward; $7.2 million; Alaska
Richard Nixon
17. Who was president during the War of 1812 against England?
William McKinley
Club with all countries where problems were discussed peacefully
James Madison
Jimmy Carter
18. Who was the first African American President?
132
Barack Obama
George Washington
England; sailors; products
19. How long do you have to be a citizen for to be president?
England; sailors; products
Eleanor
Since birth
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
20. How much money does the president earn per year?
$400000
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Jimmy Carter
John Wilkes Booth
21. What state is Camp David in?
Ronald Reagan
Maryland
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
1 million
22. Who was our president during the Korean war?
Lyndon Johnson
1803
Dwight David Eisenhower
John Tyler
23. Who was Franklin Delano Roosevelt married to?
Eleanor
The US was prepared to send money and military support to countries that want to resist communism
The president could not fire and federal official who had gotten their job with Senate approval
Polio
24. Who's son is Camp David named after?
Jefferson Davis
Thomas Jefferson
He resigned before the impeachment trial
Dwight David Eisenhower
25. How many kids did John Tyler have?
Forced the president to issue all military orders through general of the army who could not be removed without senate approval
No
World War I
15
26. Where does the number of electors in the electoral college come from?
John Adams
None
The number of people in Congress plus 3 for DC
Conspiracy
27. Who introduced disability benefits?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Alien and sedition acts
The Vice President
Thomas Jefferson
28. Where did Thomas Jefferson go to college?
William and Mary College
The north were comunists and the south were not
George Washington
The US was prepared to send money and military support to countries that want to resist communism
29. Who presented the Fourteen Points?
John Quincy Adams - Rutherford B. Hayes - Benjamin Harrison - and George W. Bush
Woodrow Wilson
270
William McKinley
30. During the civil war - the north's general was ___________.
William and Mary College
Maryland
15
Ulysses S. Grant
31. How many Vice Presidents have moved up because the president died?
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor - Hawaii
30
William Howard Taft
8
32. Who went to the Supreme court and tried to increase it to fifteen judges - but was told no?
Harvard
He was shot on his way to a college reunion
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
You can collect money if you become disabled before retirement
33. Who were Woodward and Bernstein?
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34. Which president created the University of Virgina?
When peace was made between Israel and Egypt at Camp David
Thomas Jefferson
The north and the south were split up
None
35. After Abraham Lincoln was shot - He was carried across the street to ________________ where he dies when?
He wanted a date Jodie Foster
Germany - Hungary - Turkey
George Washington
Peterson House; the next morning
36. Which president was a lawyer - very smart - an architect - a musician - and an inventor?
Thomas Jefferson
Period after the Civil War and how we reunited
Jefferson Davis
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor - Hawaii
37. how many years is a score?
Robert E. Lee
The president
20
George H. W. Bush
38. Who's son married Nixon's daughter?
He was shot on his way to a college reunion
Dwight David Eisenhower
None
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
39. What month is the election in?
April 12th - 1861
November
Harry S Truman
His 5th cousin
40. During the Great Depression - ____% were unemployed.
Ronald Reagan
25
538
James Madison
41. Who created the Family Medical Leave Act?
Self
Polio
William Jefferson Clinton
Gerald Ford
42. This president helped write the federalist papers.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
November
$400000
James Madison
43. Who was president for the persian gulf war?
William Jefferson Clinton
George H. W. Bush
25
132
44. What is the oldest you can be to get surviver benefits?
If he serves 2 or less years of someone else's term plus 8 years on his own
18
Thomas Jefferson
1803
45. What war was Abraham Lincoln president during?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
January 20th
John Quicy Adams
The Civil War
46. How many years is a presidential term?
4
Lee Harvey Oswald
35
8
47. Franklin Delano Roosevelt died a short time into his ____ term.
Teddy Roosevelt
X-ray
4th
John Quicy Adams
48. James Madison's wife was ________ Madison.
35
The Korean War
Dolley
Buffalo - New York
49. How much was the Louisiana Territory when it was purchased?
Jimmy Carter
A person who knew the truth about Richard Nixon and told Woodward and Bernstein
England - France - Russia - USA
15 million
50. How many states broke away during the civil war AT FIRST? how many total ending up breaking away?
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Germany was attacking ships
James Madison
7; 11