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U.S. Presidents Trivia
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What was the camp david accords?
Civil War
The three day battle in July in Gettysburg about slaves
Saving a picture of Washington during the war
When peace was made between Israel and Egypt at Camp David
2. Who was FDR's VP Who was president for WWII?
Teddy Roosevelt
Harry S Truman
Barack Obama
George Washington - John Adams - Thomas Jefferson - James Madison - James Monroe - and John Quincy Adams
3. What was the nullification crisis?
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4. Who were the second presidents to be father and son?
14
The Vice President
George H.W. Bush and George Bush
27
5. What is the Truman Doctrine?
His 5th cousin
15
The US was prepared to send money and military support to countries that want to resist communism
100
6. Who won a Nobel Peace Prize for what they were going to do?
The idea to own all the land from the pacific to the atlantic ocean; 1.2 million
Europe
Conspiracy
Barack Obama
7. How many rooms in the white house?
William McKinley
Dwight David Eisenhower
132
George H.W. Bush and George Bush
8. Who was the only president to resign?
John Quincy Adams - Rutherford B. Hayes - Benjamin Harrison - and George W. Bush
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson; July 4th - 1826
4
Richard Nixon
9. How many former vice presidents have become president?
1
Polio
14
Massachusetts
10. What was a talent of John Wilkes Booth?
He gets shot
Acting
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
$150000
11. How many years do you have to live in the U.S. for to be president?
14
Monroe
Providing a backup place for military plane landing
Money goes to kids when a parent dies
12. Which presidents won the nobel peace prize (in order)?
The first Tuesday of Novermber that follows a monday in November
Civil War
Monroe
Teddy Roosevelt - Woodrow Wilson - Jimmy Carter - and Barack Obama
13. What was William Jefferson Clinton impeached for?
Money goes to kids when a parent dies
November 1863
Perjury and obstruction of justice
Jefferson Davis
14. Who balanced the budget?
William Jefferson Clinton
Lee Harvey Oswald
November 22nd - 1963
September 1st - 1939
15. What were the sides for the Korean war and the Vietnam war?
James Madison
The Korean War
The north were comunists and the south were not
Richard Nixon
16. Which president created the University of Virgina?
6'4'
They were classmates in college
Democratic National Headquarters; Watergate
Thomas Jefferson
17. how many years is a score?
Writters for Washington Post who figured out Richard Nixon's case
William Henry Harrison
Writters for Washington Post who figured out Richard Nixon's case
20
18. Franklin Delano Roosevelt's wife was related to him how?
Yes
George W. Bush
His 5th cousin
Jimmy Carter
19. Which president started the two term tradition?
Saving a picture of Washington during the war
Forced the president to issue all military orders through general of the army who could not be removed without senate approval
George Washington
William Jefferson Clinton
20. How tall was Abraham Lincoln?
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21. After Abraham Lincoln was shot - He was carried across the street to ________________ where he dies when?
The House of Representatives selects the President and the Senate selects the Vice President
Teddy Roosevelt - Woodrow Wilson - Jimmy Carter - and Barack Obama
Peterson House; the next morning
George H. W. Bush
22. 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 ________.
George Washington
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
John Adams
The fourteen points
23. James Madison's wife is famous for...
Saving a picture of Washington during the war
A 2nd home for the president
Dental; medical
The first Tuesday of Novermber that follows a monday in November
24. Where do electors vote?
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25. How many presidents were killed in office?
Harry S Truman
He fired the Secretary of War Staton
4
We thought there were weapons of mass destruction - but there weren't
26. Who moved up when John Fitzgerald Kennedy died because He was his VP?
George W. Bush
270
Lyndon Johnson
A group of representatives chosen by the voters to elect the President
27. Who was William McKinley's VP that moved up when He was killed?
When we dropped food and supplies to people in West Berlin
Teddy Roosevelt
0
The Vice President
28. Why didn't the Emancipation proclamation work?
The north and the south were split up
Mary Todd-Lincoln
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Buffalo - New York
29. Who was the first VP?
John Adams
Abraham Lincoln
Iraq invaded Kuwait - and a coalition of naions push Iraq out of Kuwait
South; north
30. Why was Andrew Johnson impeached?
6'4'
Providing a backup place for military plane landing
Ronald Reagan
He fired the Secretary of War Staton
31. What was a talent of John Wilkes Booth?
William Jefferson Clinton
George Washington
Acting
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
32. James Madison's wife is famous for...
Saving a picture of Washington during the war
Dwight David Eisenhower
Social Security
Teddy Roosevelt
33. Did we win the Spanish American War?
USA
Bad
Yes
George Washington
34. Who was the first President during WWII?
Worker can take three months off in a year to take care of sick relatives or him/herself and cannot be fired
Dwight David Eisenhower
Free the slaves in the south
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
35. What was the nullification crisis?
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36. Who was president for the persian gulf war?
George H. W. Bush
John Adams
Mount Vernon - Virginia
George Washington
37. What is manifest destiny? how many square miles was it?
The idea to own all the land from the pacific to the atlantic ocean; 1.2 million
The Vice President
Andrew Jackson
The Confederate States of America
38. During the civil war - the south's president was _____________.
4
1
Jefferson Davis
Social Security
39. Who gave the longest inauguration speech?
60; unconstitutional
William Henry Harrison
John Adams and John Quincy Adams
Martha
40. Which president was the 'father of the constitution'?
Richard Nixon
James Madison
Thomas Jefferson
350
41. Who was president for the 9/11 attacks?
Thomas Jefferson
William Henry Harrison - Zachary Taylor - Warren Harding - and Franklin Delano Roosevelt
George W. Bush
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
42. How many presidents died in office?
When we dropped food and supplies to people in West Berlin
The Civil War
8
If he serves 2 or less years of someone else's term plus 8 years on his own
43. How can a president serve up to ten years?
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44. Who was the first African American President?
Peterson House; the next morning
4
Barack Obama
5
45. What presidents (in order) died of natural causes?
Daniel Inouye
2
William Henry Harrison - Zachary Taylor - Warren Harding - and Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Barack Obama
46. How old do you have to be to be president?
Harry S Truman
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Hillary Clinton
35
47. Which presidents won the nobel peace prize (in order)?
James Madison
John Adams
Teddy Roosevelt - Woodrow Wilson - Jimmy Carter - and Barack Obama
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
48. How many electoral votes does Florida have?
Sexual harrassment
27
The federal government guarentees your money at a bank
Period after the Civil War and how we reunited
49. What presidents (in order) died of natural causes?
William Henry Harrison - Zachary Taylor - Warren Harding - and Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor - Hawaii
Dental; medical
William Henry Harrison
50. What are disability benefits?
The idea to own all the land from the pacific to the atlantic ocean; 1.2 million
You can collect money if you become disabled before retirement
George Washington
Jefferson Davis