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U.S. Presidents Trivia

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1. Manifest Destiny was to have all the land from __________ to ___________ (east to west)
Civil War
Andrew Johnson
New Mexico to California
Mary Todd-Lincoln

2. What was the camp david accords?
The north were comunists and the south were not
Maine and Nebraska
Jimmy Carter
When peace was made between Israel and Egypt at Camp David

3. Where was Abraham Lincoln born? What kind of house did he live in?
Social Security
The fourteen points
Kentucky; Log cabin
World War I

4. Can the amount of money a president earns be increased/decreased during someone's term of office?
35 said He was guilty - but he needed 36
No
7; 11
Ronald Reagan

5. What was the Banking Holiday?
No
The Korean War
The banks were closed because everyone wanted their money at once
John Fitzgerald Kennedy

6. What are the people in the electoral college called?
Civil rights
William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison
Worker can take three months off in a year to take care of sick relatives or him/herself and cannot be fired
Electors

7. Why did the league of nations fail (what country wouldn't join)?
Sexual harrassment
John Adams and John Quincy Adams
USA
William McKinley

8. How did John Wilkes Booth break his leg?
When he jumped out of the balcony - his foot got stuck in the bunting and he fell onto stage
Dwight David Eisenhower
James Madison
The Gettysburg Address

9. Why did WWII begin?
The south
Germany invaded Poland
November 1863
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue

10. Which president served the most terms?
William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison
22 - 24
John Quicy Adams
Franklin Delano Roosevelt

11. Abraham Lincoln was ______ educated
Self
Gerald Ford
Monroe
East of Africa

12. Paula Jones sued William Jefferson Clinton for _______.
November
Sexual harrassment
Money goes to kids when a parent dies
Jefferson still survives

13. What were the territories we gained in the Spanish American War? (ABC order with commas inbetween)
Guam - Midway Islands - Philippines - and Puerto Rico
He fired the Secretary of War Staton
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The White House

14. What presidents lost the popular vote but won the electoral vote? (in order)
A gun
Germany invaded Poland
Teddy Roosevelt
John Quincy Adams - Rutherford B. Hayes - Benjamin Harrison - and George W. Bush

15. Which president helped create the Library of Congress when he sells and donates 6000 books?
The north were comunists and the south were not
Dwight David Eisenhower
Peterson House; the next morning
Thomas Jefferson

16. Can the amount of money a president earns be increased/decreased during someone's term of office?
He resigned before the impeachment trial
The federal government guarentees your money at a bank
1803
No

17. Which president was the youngest to serve?
Teddy Roosevelt
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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
George Washington

18. Who was the only president to be president and then supreme court chief justice?
William Jefferson Clinton
William Jefferson Clinton
Getting out of the Great depression by hiring people - which would start a chain reaction
William Howard Taft

19. Who was William McKinley's VP that moved up when He was killed?
Harry S Truman
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor - Hawaii
Teddy Roosevelt
James Polk

20. Alien Acts
350
6'4'
OK to send home foregienors if they looked dangerous; also if we were in war with their country
Jimmy Carter

21. Franklin Delano Roosevelt's wife was related to him how?
Kentucky; Log cabin
Harry S Truman
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
His 5th cousin

22. Franklin Delano Roosevelt's wife was related to him how?
The three day battle in July in Gettysburg about slaves
Forced the president to issue all military orders through general of the army who could not be removed without senate approval
His 5th cousin
The number of people in Congress plus 3 for DC

23. Where was George Washington born?
Mount Vernon - Virginia
Teddy Roosevelt
Teddy Roosevelt
The Vice President

24. Who's son married Nixon's daughter?
The north and the south were split up
South; north
Dwight David Eisenhower
James Madison

25. Which president made the panama canal?
The president could not fire and federal official who had gotten their job with Senate approval
When peace was made between Israel and Egypt at Camp David
Free the slaves in the south
Teddy Roosevelt

26. Who said 'The only thing we have to fear is fear itself' at their 1st inaugural?
George Washington
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Jefferson still survives
Alien and sedition acts

27. The person who killed John Fitzgerald Kennedy is thought to have killed him in a _______ - or not alone.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Money goes to kids when a parent dies
Monroe
Conspiracy

28. Who said 'A date that will live in infamy'? What were they talking about (separate with semicolon)?
The Vice President
Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Pearl Harbor bombing
James Polk
Harvard

29. Who was president during the Great depression?
1803
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
September 1st - 1939
John Quicy Adams

30. What does 'Sic Semper Tyrranis' mean?
Ronald Reagan
The south
Thus always to tyrants
6'4'

31. which president was former head of CIA?
15 million
Lee Harvey Oswald
George H. W. Bush
Providing a backup place for military plane landing

32. James Madison's wife is famous for...
England
If he serves 2 or less years of someone else's term plus 8 years on his own
William Jefferson Clinton
Saving a picture of Washington during the war

33. What is the Electoral College?
William Seward; $7.2 million; Alaska
George H.W. Bush and George Bush
A group of representatives chosen by the voters to elect the President
Acting

34. Which president presented the bill of rights at the first Congress?
James Madison
Harvard
November 1863
Crime to print false or meliscious or scandalist stuff about the U.S. gov.

35. Who were Woodward and Bernstein?

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36. Which presidents were great grandfather and grandson?
None
William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison
George H.W. Bush and George Bush
Peterson House; the next morning

37. How long do you have to be a citizen for to be president?
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor - Hawaii
OK to send home foregienors if they looked dangerous; also if we were in war with their country
Dallas - Texas
Since birth

38. Who was president during the War of 1812 against England?
60; unconstitutional
World War I
James Madison
Woodrow Wilson

39. Who were Woodward and Bernstein?

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40. Who had many affairs during their presidency but claimed not to?
132
George W. Bush
William Jefferson Clinton
444

41. Who is the current President Pro-Tempore of the Senate?
27
John Hinkley Jr.
Daniel Inouye
We thought there were weapons of mass destruction - but there weren't

42. How many former vice presidents have become president?
4
James Polk
Ulysses S. Grant
14

43. After Abraham Lincoln was shot - He was carried across the street to ________________ where he dies when?
132
Peterson House; the next morning
Teddy Roosevelt
He gets shot

44. Who was president for the nullification crisis?
Andrew Jackson
27
A 2nd home for the president
The Gettysburg Address

45. This president helped write the federalist papers.
James Madison
William Seward; $7.2 million; Alaska
The White House
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

46. How tall was Abraham Lincoln?

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47. What was the nullification crisis?

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48. Who supported manifest destiny?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
He fired the Secretary of War Staton
James Polk
Dwight David Eisenhower

49. What happens to John Wilkes Booth?
William Jefferson Clinton
John Quincy Adams - Rutherford B. Hayes - Benjamin Harrison - and George W. Bush
Guam - Midway Islands - Philippines - and Puerto Rico
He gets shot

50. Who is considered 'the father of our country'?
George Washington
Joe Biden
April 1917- November 1918
Harry S Truman