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U.S. Presidents Trivia
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Can the amount of money a president earns be increased/decreased during someone's term of office?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
0
No
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
2. Who is considered 'the father of our country'?
Dwight David Eisenhower
George Washington
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The White House
3. What is the oldest you can be to get surviver benefits?
Richard Nixon
No
Harry S Truman
18
4. What transportation does the president get?
Woodrow Wilson
East of Africa
Acting
Air Force One - Marine One - and limousines
5. During the Great Depression - ____% were unemployed.
The north and the south were split up
25
8
Richard Nixon
6. How many kids did John Tyler have?
Barack Obama
Monroe
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
15
7. Who pays for all personal entertainment and dinners not related to teh government business in the White House?
Andrew Jackson
The president
The south
The Confederate States of America
8. Where was Thomas Jefferson born?
Jimmy Carter
Monticello - Virginia
Dwight David Eisenhower
Revolutionary War
9. Who were the first presidents to be father and son?
270
John Adams and John Quincy Adams
April 12th - 1861
French and Indian War
10. Who was president for the persian gulf war?
The first Tuesday of Novermber that follows a monday in November
John Wilkes Booth
Teddy Roosevelt
George H. W. Bush
11. Who was the first President during WWII?
His 5th cousin
Monroe
7; 11
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
12. Why did we invade Iraq?
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13. How many electoral votes does Florida have?
27
John Quincy Adams - Rutherford B. Hayes - Benjamin Harrison - and George W. Bush
A group of representatives chosen by the voters to elect the President
No
14. Who went to the Supreme court and tried to increase it to fifteen judges - but was told no?
Self
Jimmy Carter
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
15. What was the Emancipation proclamation meant to do?
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Free the slaves in the south
Mom
George Washington
16. John Adams went to what college?
Harvard
George H. W. Bush
Barack Obama
5
17. Who won the Nobel peace prize because he told Russia and Japan not to fight - but to love?
Teddy Roosevelt
Club with all countries where problems were discussed peacefully
Speeches given for hope
Jimmy Carter
18. Which president was the youngest to serve?
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
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
November 1863
Teddy Roosevelt
19. Who was the youngest elected president?
$400000
132
Teddy Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
20. Which president presented the bill of rights at the first Congress?
Lyndon Johnson
James Madison
4
John Wilkes Booth
21. Who had a 12 year affair with Gennifer Flowers?
William Jefferson Clinton
$150000
John Adams
Teddy Roosevelt
22. When Harry S Truman was president during WWII - what two places in japan were bombed (abc order)?
The Vice President
Saving a picture of Washington during the war
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The Civil War
23. What year was the Louisiana Territory bought?
1803
William Henry Harrison
6'4'
He fired the Secretary of War Staton
24. Where do electors vote?
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25. Who was on the good side for WWI (abc order)?
South; north
Thomas Jefferson
England - France - Russia - USA
Teddy Roosevelt - Woodrow Wilson - Jimmy Carter - and Barack Obama
26. What war did George Washington lead the army for?
X-ray
His wife
Revolutionary War
Ulysses S. Grant
27. The ______ was invented when William McKinley was killed - and it could have saved him.
Acting
Iraq invaded Kuwait - and a coalition of naions push Iraq out of Kuwait
X-ray
East of Africa
28. Who was president during the War of 1812 against England?
Richard Nixon
Richard Nixon
He fired the Secretary of War Staton
James Madison
29. Jimmy Carter was the former governor of ____.
The number of people in Congress plus 3 for DC
Richard Nixon
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Georgia
30. The president get ____ care and _____ care for free.
Dental; medical
4
Teddy Roosevelt
Alien and sedition acts
31. What year was the Louisiana Territory bought?
James Madison
1803
You can collect money if you become disabled before retirement
538
32. Who presented the Fourteen Points?
The north and the south were split up
1
Woodrow Wilson
Teddy Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt
33. 'Speak softley and carry a big stick' was a quote of who?
Conspiracy
Teddy Roosevelt
Thus always to tyrants
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
34. Who was on the bad side for WWI (abc order)?
William Seward; $7.2 million; Alaska
George W. Bush
Hillary Clinton
Germany - Hungary - Turkey
35. How many kids did John Tyler have?
$150000
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
4
15
36. Franklin Delano Roosevelt died a short time into his ____ term.
4th
He fired the Secretary of War Staton
Dallas - Texas
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
37. What is NATO (not what it stands for - what it is)?
Abraham Lincoln
A support group of countries
You can collect money if you become disabled before retirement
He was shot
38. Sewards Folly was when ________ (secretary of state) bought land for $______ - which was thought to be as a joke then - but now that land is known as ________.
William Seward; $7.2 million; Alaska
4
John Quincy Adams - Rutherford B. Hayes - Benjamin Harrison - and George W. Bush
A group of representatives chosen by the voters to elect the President
39. How did John Wilkes Booth break his leg?
John Adams
When he jumped out of the balcony - his foot got stuck in the bunting and he fell onto stage
Dwight David Eisenhower
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
40. Who is the current secretary of state?
The House of Representatives selects the President and the Senate selects the Vice President
The House of Representatives selects the President and the Senate selects the Vice President
Guam - Midway Islands - Philippines - and Puerto Rico
Hillary Clinton
41. What were the years of WWI?
1914-1918
Self
The idea to own all the land from the pacific to the atlantic ocean; 1.2 million
Teddy Roosevelt - Woodrow Wilson - Jimmy Carter - and Barack Obama
42. Who was the only president to be president and then supreme court chief justice?
Barack Obama
8
William Howard Taft
Crime to print false or meliscious or scandalist stuff about the U.S. gov.
43. How many terms is a president alowed to serve?
2
Zapruder film
X-ray
7; 11
44. William Jefferson Clinton paid Paula Jones $____.
Thomas Jefferson
Robert E. Lee
John Adams
1 million
45. What was the most terms served by a president?
November
4
Abraham Lincoln
Europe
46. Which president recognized Israel and traded with them and gave money and embassadors to them?
538
Harry S Truman
Medical insurance for all americans
5
47. What is the Truman Doctrine?
Mary Todd-Lincoln
USA
No
The US was prepared to send money and military support to countries that want to resist communism
48. What was the camp david accords?
The Vice President
When peace was made between Israel and Egypt at Camp David
Cuba wanted to overthrow Castrow and our military helped train them
James Madison
49. Who killed Abraham Lincoln?
He wanted a date Jodie Foster
John Wilkes Booth
Mount Vernon - Virginia
Free the slaves in the south
50. In most states - what percent of the state's electoral votes does a candidate get if they win the popular vote?
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
100
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
William Howard Taft