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U.S. Presidents Trivia
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1. Who was the only catholic president?
Guam - Midway Islands - Philippines - and Puerto Rico
World War I
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
444
2. During the civil war - the south named itself _____.
April 1917- November 1918
The Confederate States of America
The president could not fire and federal official who had gotten their job with Senate approval
Polio
3. What date did the civil war begin?
Harry S Truman
USA
Electors
April 12th - 1861
4. What president had the watergate scandal?
Richard Nixon
Dental; medical
George Washington
Teddy Roosevelt
5. Who burnt down the White House during a war?
England
Robert E. Lee
George Washington
April 12th - 1861
6. Abraham Lincoln was ______ educated
A group of representatives chosen by the voters to elect the President
Maryland
Self
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
7. What date did WWII begin?
Kentucky; Log cabin
James Madison
The north were comunists and the south were not
September 1st - 1939
8. There was a _________ - or a group of people - who helped John Wilkes Booth kill Lincoln and also planned to kill the VP and Secretary.
Daniel Inouye
Conspiracy
Thus always to tyrants
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
9. Who did fireside chats?
Jimmy Carter
Richard Nixon
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Sic Semper Tyrannis - the south is avenged
10. Who was the first VP to move up on death of a president?
35
Monroe
John Tyler
Dwight David Eisenhower
11. Who built the Interstate Highway System?
The Vice President
John Tyler
Dwight David Eisenhower
27
12. What was the name of the airplane that bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Georgia
James Madison
Enola Gay
George H.W. Bush and George Bush
13. What was reconstruction?
Period after the Civil War and how we reunited
Zapruder film
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Eleanor
14. Who were the second presidents to be father and son?
The federal government guarentees your money at a bank
Robert E. Lee
George H.W. Bush and George Bush
He wanted a date Jodie Foster
15. How many kids did George Washington have?
0
Kentucky; Log cabin
April 12th - 1861
George W. Bush
16. Which presient send Lewis and Clark on their journey?
Ulysses S. Grant
Speeches given for hope
George H.W. Bush and George Bush
Thomas Jefferson
17. Which president was a 'rough rider' in the Spanish American War?
Thomas Jefferson
444
Teddy Roosevelt
132
18. Who was Abraham Lincoln married to?
East of Africa
Mary Todd-Lincoln
Gerald Ford
William and Mary College
19. How was James Garfield killed?
He was shot on his way to a college reunion
George Washington
The president
James Madison
20. Who created the Family Medical Leave Act?
William McKinley
World War I
William Jefferson Clinton
The banks were closed because everyone wanted their money at once
21. Who was the first VP?
Jimmy Carter
John Adams
Money goes to kids when a parent dies
Dental; medical
22. Where did the civil war begin?
A support group of countries
Ft. Sumter - South Carolina
Monticello - Virginia
He gets shot
23. How many electoral votes do you need to win the election?
Andrew Jackson
You can collect money if you become disabled before retirement
270
Richard Nixon
24. What are the people in the electoral college called?
USA
$150000
Enola Gay
Electors
25. How many presidents died in office?
8
27
Dwight David Eisenhower
Harry S Truman
26. During the civil war - the south's president was _____________.
Electors
4
Free the slaves in the south
Jefferson Davis
27. Who was president for the 9/11 attacks?
William Jefferson Clinton
The Vice President
George W. Bush
Ulysses S. Grant
28. Who attends diplomatic functions in place of the president?
Worker can take three months off in a year to take care of sick relatives or him/herself and cannot be fired
William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison
Club with all countries where problems were discussed peacefully
The Vice President
29. Which president was a 'rough rider' in the Spanish American War?
Teddy Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
His wife
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
30. What month and year was the Gettysburg Address said?
The government
Germany - Hungary - Turkey
Ronald Reagan
November 1863
31. Franklin Delano Roosevelt died a short time into his ____ term.
The Vice President
$400000
4th
Thomas Jefferson
32. This president swam naked in the Potomac River
John Quicy Adams
Money goes to kids when a parent dies
Money goes to kids when a parent dies
Harry S Truman
33. Who presented the Fourteen Points?
20
Barack Obama
John Quincy Adams - Rutherford B. Hayes - Benjamin Harrison - and George W. Bush
Woodrow Wilson
34. Who was president for the persian gulf war?
January 20th
4
George H. W. Bush
George Washington
35. Who was Abraham Lincoln married to?
Woodrow Wilson
Mary Todd-Lincoln
Jimmy Carter
Revolutionary War
36. Did we win the Spanish American War?
Yes
Teddy Roosevelt
Dallas - Texas
He gets shot
37. ______ years later - the Tenure of Office act was gotten rid of by the Supreme court because it was ________.
60; unconstitutional
Social Security
1 million
Crime to print false or meliscious or scandalist stuff about the U.S. gov.
38. What month is the election in?
Iraq invaded Kuwait - and a coalition of naions push Iraq out of Kuwait
Lyndon Johnson
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
November
39. Which president was obnoxious and disliked?
Dallas - Texas
George H. W. Bush
John Adams
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
40. Who pays for all personal entertainment and dinners not related to teh government business in the White House?
8
Writters for Washington Post who figured out Richard Nixon's case
The president
Providing a backup place for military plane landing
41. How many Vice Presidents have moved up because the president died?
14
8
Crime to print false or meliscious or scandalist stuff about the U.S. gov.
A person who knew the truth about Richard Nixon and told Woodward and Bernstein
42. During the civil war - the south's president was _____________.
Jefferson Davis
Germany was attacking ships
The north were comunists and the south were not
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
43. Who was FDR's VP Who was president for WWII?
350
The first Tuesday of Novermber that follows a monday in November
The Vice President
Harry S Truman
44. Which president was former ambassador to China?
George H. W. Bush
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Forced the president to issue all military orders through general of the army who could not be removed without senate approval
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
45. What was the Tenure of Office Act/
Harvard
Dwight David Eisenhower
His 5th cousin
The president could not fire and federal official who had gotten their job with Senate approval
46. Who went to the Supreme court and tried to increase it to fifteen judges - but was told no?
35
Jimmy Carter
Richard Nixon
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
47. Who was President during the Spanish American War?
William McKinley
Dallas - Texas
Thus always to tyrants
William Jefferson Clinton
48. Who said 'A date that will live in infamy'? What were they talking about (separate with semicolon)?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Pearl Harbor bombing
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Andrew Jackson
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
49. What was the point of the Gettysburg Address (two things)?
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson; July 4th - 1826
The number of people in Congress plus 3 for DC
Honor people who died - make sure the country survies
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
50. Who is the current President Pro-Tempore of the Senate?
Barack Obama
Daniel Inouye
George Washington
Writters for Washington Post who figured out Richard Nixon's case