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U.S. Presidents Trivia
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1. What was the point of the Gettysburg Address (two things)?
Joe Biden
He wanted a date Jodie Foster
Dental; medical
Honor people who died - make sure the country survies
2. John Adams went to what college?
The fourteen points
Harvard
$400000
25
3. ______ years later - the Tenure of Office act was gotten rid of by the Supreme court because it was ________.
60; unconstitutional
The Korean War
Abigail
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
4. Which president was a great general - a leader - honest - and trustworth?
6'4'
The Confederate States of America
Teddy Roosevelt
George Washington
5. Why did the league of nations fail (what country wouldn't join)?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The banks were closed because everyone wanted their money at once
The House of Representatives selects the President and the Senate selects the Vice President
USA
6. What were fireside chats?
Speeches given for hope
November 22nd - 1963
Teddy Roosevelt
Guam - Midway Islands - Philippines - and Puerto Rico
7. Why wasn't Andrew Johnson removed from office when He was impeached?
James Madison
New Mexico to California
35 said He was guilty - but he needed 36
Dallas - Texas
8. Who supported manifest destiny?
James Polk
Acting
John Quincy Adams - Rutherford B. Hayes - Benjamin Harrison - and George W. Bush
Georgia
9. Who was on the good side for WWI (abc order)?
Harry S Truman
England - France - Russia - USA
Free the slaves in the south
1914-1918
10. What are the people in the electoral college called?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
George H. W. Bush
Electors
Dwight David Eisenhower
11. Who's son is Camp David named after?
Dwight David Eisenhower
John Tyler
John Hinkley Jr.
Worker can take three months off in a year to take care of sick relatives or him/herself and cannot be fired
12. How many kids did George Washington have?
538
You can collect money if you become disabled before retirement
0
The idea to own all the land from the pacific to the atlantic ocean; 1.2 million
13. What was the name of the airplane that bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Georgia
England - France - Russia - USA
Enola Gay
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
14. What month is the election in?
Lee Harvey Oswald
Honor people who died - make sure the country survies
November
Andrew Johnson
15. Who was the first VP?
Conspiracy
Club with all countries where problems were discussed peacefully
John Adams
Abigail
16. Where does the right to navigate teh seas without interference not apply?
The north were comunists and the south were not
Eleanor
William Jefferson Clinton
East of Africa
17. How much was the Louisiana Territory when it was purchased?
The House of Representatives selects the President and the Senate selects the Vice President
Ulysses S. Grant
15 million
Barack Obama
18. Why did WWI happen?
He was shot on his way to a college reunion
Germany was attacking ships
John Boehner
The Vice President
19. Where did Abraham Lincoln's assasination take place?
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20. Who was the first President during WWII?
Abraham Lincoln
Teddy Roosevelt
Woodrow Wilson
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
21. Who was the first African American President?
Worker can take three months off in a year to take care of sick relatives or him/herself and cannot be fired
Woodrow Wilson
A group of representatives chosen by the voters to elect the President
Barack Obama
22. What was the point of the Gettysburg Address (two things)?
November 22nd - 1963
Alien and sedition acts
Honor people who died - make sure the country survies
Sic Semper Tyrannis - the south is avenged
23. Who moved up when John Fitzgerald Kennedy died because He was his VP?
Joe Biden
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
The White House
Lyndon Johnson
24. The ______ was invented when William McKinley was killed - and it could have saved him.
27
X-ray
Richard Nixon
The House of Representatives selects the President and the Senate selects the Vice President
25. Who was president for the persian gulf war?
The south
100
The fourteen points
George H. W. Bush
26. Who had many affairs during their presidency but claimed not to?
8
George W. Bush
Thus always to tyrants
William Jefferson Clinton
27. Congress passed 2 laws designed to limit __________'s (a president) power .
Andrew Johnson
William Henry Harrison
John Quincy Adams - Rutherford B. Hayes - Benjamin Harrison - and George W. Bush
27
28. Why wasn't Richard Nixon thrown out of office?
The Gettysburg Address
He resigned before the impeachment trial
Buffalo - New York
The House of Representatives selects the President and the Senate selects the Vice President
29. Who was George Washington's wife?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
November 22nd - 1963
Getting out of the Great depression by hiring people - which would start a chain reaction
Martha
30. What was a popular film of John Fitzgerald Kennedy's assassination?
1 million
Teddy Roosevelt
Zapruder film
Harry S Truman
31. Which president helped create the Library of Congress when he sells and donates 6000 books?
Thomas Jefferson
The Vice President
A support group of countries
Ronald Reagan
32. What is the mandatory retirement plan run by the government?
The Gettysburg Address
Ulysses S. Grant
Social Security
Robert E. Lee
33. How many terms is a president alowed to serve?
2
George H. W. Bush
Jimmy Carter
Monticello - Virginia
34. What did the monroe doctrine say?
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35. Who introduced disability benefits?
John Adams and John Quincy Adams
Hillary Clinton
The Gettysburg Address
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
36. Where was Abraham Lincoln born? What kind of house did he live in?
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Yes
Kentucky; Log cabin
England
37. Who supported manifest destiny?
Ulysses S. Grant
James Polk
November 22nd - 1963
Dwight David Eisenhower
38. Which president helped create the Library of Congress when he sells and donates 6000 books?
William Jefferson Clinton
He gets shot
England; sailors; products
Thomas Jefferson
39. Which president created Yellowstone National Park and Yosemite?
Barack Obama
East of Africa
Honor people who died - make sure the country survies
Teddy Roosevelt
40. How many Vice Presidents ran again for president and became president?
John Adams
Bad
5
The Gettysburg Address
41. The person who killed John Fitzgerald Kennedy is thought to have killed him in a _______ - or not alone.
Conspiracy
Providing a backup place for military plane landing
132
Iraq invaded Kuwait - and a coalition of naions push Iraq out of Kuwait
42. What month and day do we vote for the president?
0
The first Tuesday of Novermber that follows a monday in November
George Washington
Self
43. William Jefferson Clinton paid Paula Jones $____.
1 million
The banks were closed because everyone wanted their money at once
George Washington
The idea to own all the land from the pacific to the atlantic ocean; 1.2 million
44. Why was Andrew Johnson impeached?
He fired the Secretary of War Staton
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
John Adams and John Quincy Adams
French and Indian War
45. What are surviver benefits?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
1914-1918
Thomas Jefferson
Money goes to kids when a parent dies
46. Who was the first VP to move up on death of a president?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Harry S Truman
John Tyler
January 20th
47. What was the camp david accords?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
When peace was made between Israel and Egypt at Camp David
William and Mary College
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
48. Who was the commander in charge of Europe afor the Allies in WWII?
Dwight David Eisenhower
George H. W. Bush
John Adams
Mary Todd-Lincoln
49. How many pounds was William Howard Taft?
A person who knew the truth about Richard Nixon and told Woodward and Bernstein
350
They were classmates in college
270
50. Who was the only president to be president and then supreme court chief justice?
The north were comunists and the south were not
2
James Madison
William Howard Taft