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U.S. Presidents Trivia
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1. What are surviver benefits?
No
Iraq invaded Kuwait - and a coalition of naions push Iraq out of Kuwait
John Tyler
Money goes to kids when a parent dies
2. Who was the only president to resign?
William Howard Taft
George H.W. Bush and George Bush
French and Indian War
Richard Nixon
3. Which president adopted independence - was loyal - smart - and a lawyer?
The Gettysburg Address
Barack Obama
John Adams
Andrew Jackson
4. Who was the only man to be president Who was not elected to either vp spot or the presidency?
Gerald Ford
Dolley
1 million
In their state's capital
5. What war was George Washington in the military for?
William Jefferson Clinton
The US was prepared to send money and military support to countries that want to resist communism
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor - Hawaii
French and Indian War
6. Sedition acts
Dwight David Eisenhower
Crime to print false or meliscious or scandalist stuff about the U.S. gov.
Medical insurance for all americans
Perjury and obstruction of justice
7. What is the family Medical Leave Act?
Worker can take three months off in a year to take care of sick relatives or him/herself and cannot be fired
George Washington
Thomas Jefferson
4
8. How many presidents died of natural causes in office?
Martha
Woodrow Wilson
Massachusetts
4
9. what disease did Franklin Delano Roosevelt have?
Germany was attacking ships
Polio
In their state's capital
World War I
10. Who's son married Nixon's daughter?
You can collect money if you become disabled before retirement
We thought there were weapons of mass destruction - but there weren't
Teddy Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Dwight David Eisenhower
11. What is the address of the white house?
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Teddy Roosevelt - Woodrow Wilson - Jimmy Carter - and Barack Obama
The three day battle in July in Gettysburg about slaves
Woodrow Wilson
12. James Monroe created the ________ Doctrine
James Polk
Monroe
Dwight David Eisenhower
Acting
13. Which president had a stroke in his bathroom?
Enola Gay
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson; July 4th - 1826
Woodrow Wilson
George H.W. Bush and George Bush
14. Who was the first VP to move up on death of a president?
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
John Tyler
8
Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Pearl Harbor bombing
15. What was the Banking Holiday?
No
Since birth
OK to send home foregienors if they looked dangerous; also if we were in war with their country
The banks were closed because everyone wanted their money at once
16. What was the Tenure of Office Act/
The president could not fire and federal official who had gotten their job with Senate approval
England - France - Russia - USA
Thomas Jefferson
35 said He was guilty - but he needed 36
17. Who had the shortest presidency?
George H. W. Bush
The president
The Korean War
William Henry Harrison
18. Franklin Delano Roosevelt got his middle name because his _____'s favorite relative was de la Noye
Electors
Mom
Eleanor
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
19. Andrew Johnson was _________'s VP
He resigned before the impeachment trial
William Seward; $7.2 million; Alaska
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Abraham Lincoln
20. what ended a couple of days before Abraham Lincoln's Assasination?
Ronald Reagan
The White House
George H. W. Bush
Civil War
21. Who presented the Fourteen Points?
Woodrow Wilson
Barack Obama
Conspiracy
William Jefferson Clinton
22. Who was the oldest elected president (age 73 at 2nd term)?
The Vice President
Lee Harvey Oswald
Ronald Reagan
William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison
23. Who is thought to have assassinated John Fitzgerald Kennedy?
Lee Harvey Oswald
350
Saving a picture of Washington during the war
4th
24. When was the Emancipation proclamation?
January 1st - 1863
Universal health care
William Jefferson Clinton
Civil War
25. Why was Andrew Johnson impeached?
Jimmy Carter
He fired the Secretary of War Staton
Dental; medical
When peace was made between Israel and Egypt at Camp David
26. How many Vice Presidents have moved up because the president resigned?
January 20th
1
Andrew Johnson
The idea to own all the land from the pacific to the atlantic ocean; 1.2 million
27. How many presidents were killed in office?
French and Indian War
4
Jefferson still survives
Barack Obama
28. Which president was the 'father of the constitution'?
James Madison
Georgia
Mom
William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison
29. Who won a nobel peace prize because of the camp david accords?
If he serves 2 or less years of someone else's term plus 8 years on his own
Daniel Inouye
Robert E. Lee
Jimmy Carter
30. Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant knew eachother because _________.
Jimmy Carter
Richard Nixon
They were classmates in college
The Vice President
31. Which presidents were great grandfather and grandson?
Lee Harvey Oswald
Honor people who died - make sure the country survies
William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison
The US was prepared to send money and military support to countries that want to resist communism
32. Who was the first president not to win the popular vote and to become president?
November
John Quicy Adams
Ft. Sumter - South Carolina
William McKinley
33. What is universal health care?
Joe Biden
Ulysses S. Grant
Medical insurance for all americans
No
34. What was the most terms served by a president?
25
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The White House
4
35. What is FDIC (explaIn what it means - not what it stands for)?
Speeches given for hope
Europe
The federal government guarentees your money at a bank
The south
36. How was James Garfield killed?
He was shot on his way to a college reunion
Barack Obama
A person who knew the truth about Richard Nixon and told Woodward and Bernstein
William Henry Harrison
37. Why did the person who tried to assassinate Ronald Reagan do it?
Harvard
He wanted a date Jodie Foster
Harry S Truman
Dwight David Eisenhower
38. What war never officially ended but just doesn't fight any more?
4
The Korean War
Free the slaves in the south
The number of people in Congress plus 3 for DC
39. Who was president for the persian gulf war?
George H. W. Bush
December 7th - 1941
Mount Vernon - Virginia
0
40. Who attends diplomatic functions in place of the president?
35 said He was guilty - but he needed 36
100
South Carolina said it could nullify any law it wants - but Jackson said they would send troops and so South Carolina decided that they can't nullify and law it wants.
The Vice President
41. Who was our president during the Vietnam War?
Perjury and obstruction of justice
East of Africa
Lyndon Johnson
Mom
42. What was the Emancipation proclamation meant to do?
Lee Harvey Oswald
He was shot on his way to a college reunion
The US was prepared to send money and military support to countries that want to resist communism
Free the slaves in the south
43. Why did WWI happen?
Germany was attacking ships
The Civil War
The Vice President
Period after the Civil War and how we reunited
44. During the civil war - the south's president was _____________.
Jefferson Davis
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Dwight David Eisenhower
Lyndon Johnson
45. How many presidents died in office?
The Gettysburg Address
Dwight David Eisenhower
8
35
46. Which president created Yellowstone National Park and Yosemite?
20
The White House
South Carolina said it could nullify any law it wants - but Jackson said they would send troops and so South Carolina decided that they can't nullify and law it wants.
Teddy Roosevelt
47. What war was Abraham Lincoln president during?
The north and the south were split up
Germany - Hungary - Turkey
The Civil War
He resigned before the impeachment trial
48. Gerald Ford pardons _____________ for all crimes committed.
270
South; north
Richard Nixon
Barack Obama
49. Where does the number of electors in the electoral college come from?
4
Jimmy Carter
The number of people in Congress plus 3 for DC
The president
50. What state was John Adams from?
Mary Todd-Lincoln
Massachusetts
Abraham Lincoln
Guam - Midway Islands - Philippines - and Puerto Rico
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