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U.S. Presidents Trivia
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Which president recognized Israel and traded with them and gave money and embassadors to them?
25
John Quicy Adams
Harry S Truman
World War I
2. Why did WWI happen?
Getting out of the Great depression by hiring people - which would start a chain reaction
Air Force One - Marine One - and limousines
Germany was attacking ships
The government
3. Who balanced the budget?
January 20th
November 22nd - 1963
William Jefferson Clinton
Free the slaves in the south
4. During the civil war - the north's general was ___________.
The White House
Andrew Jackson
Ulysses S. Grant
January 20th
5. Who had a 12 year affair with Gennifer Flowers?
The Confederate States of America
January 20th
Teddy Roosevelt
William Jefferson Clinton
6. Who was a Great General in war of 1812?
Teddy Roosevelt - Woodrow Wilson - Jimmy Carter - and Barack Obama
William Henry Harrison - Zachary Taylor - Warren Harding - and Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Andrew Jackson
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
7. Who was president when the United Nations was formed?
Woodrow Wilson
John Wilkes Booth
Germany invaded Poland
Harry S Truman
8. Who was Franklin Delano Roosevelt married to?
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
Maryland
William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison
Eleanor
9. Why wasn't Andrew Johnson removed from office when He was impeached?
X-ray
35 said He was guilty - but he needed 36
Democratic National Headquarters; Watergate
25
10. Who was our president during the Korean war?
Dwight David Eisenhower
They were classmates in college
Conspiracy
The US was prepared to send money and military support to countries that want to resist communism
11. Who had an affair with Monica Lewinsky - a young intern at the White House?
Harry S Truman
Polio
William Jefferson Clinton
35
12. Can the amount of money a president earns be increased/decreased during someone's term of office?
No
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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.
Acting
13. Franklin Delano Roosevelt got his middle name because his _____'s favorite relative was de la Noye
Period after the Civil War and how we reunited
1914-1918
George Washington
Mom
14. Franklin Delano Roosevelt's wife was related to him how?
England
Barack Obama
His 5th cousin
Social Security
15. What is manifest destiny? how many square miles was it?
Thomas Jefferson
The idea to own all the land from the pacific to the atlantic ocean; 1.2 million
William Jefferson Clinton
Richard Nixon
16. Who presented the Fourteen Points?
The White House
Sic Semper Tyrannis - the south is avenged
$150000
Woodrow Wilson
17. Where does the president live for free?
Since birth
A support group of countries
The White House
A group of representatives chosen by the voters to elect the President
18. Who was the only man to be president Who was not elected to either vp spot or the presidency?
Gerald Ford
Polio
The Vice President
2
19. Who ran the country when Woodrow Wilson couldn't?
6'4'
5
His wife
35
20. Who was the only president to get all the electoral votes?
John Adams
Woodrow Wilson
Teddy Roosevelt
George Washington
21. What date did the civil war begin?
27
Lyndon Johnson
Self
April 12th - 1861
22. 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
John Hinkley Jr.
James Polk
December 7th - 1941
23. What was the Bay of Pigs?
Cuba wanted to overthrow Castrow and our military helped train them
Forced the president to issue all military orders through general of the army who could not be removed without senate approval
Maryland
William Henry Harrison
24. What president made the emancipation proclamtion?
Abraham Lincoln
Mount Vernon - Virginia
Europe
Providing a backup place for military plane landing
25. Which president recognized Israel and traded with them and gave money and embassadors to them?
Richard Nixon
Medical insurance for all americans
Harry S Truman
The Korean War
26. Where was Thomas Jefferson born?
Thomas Jefferson
Jimmy Carter
No
Monticello - Virginia
27. What was Lincoln's most famous speech?
6'4'
The Gettysburg Address
Richard Nixon
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
28. Who was our president during the Vietnam War?
April 12th - 1861
Iraq invaded Kuwait - and a coalition of naions push Iraq out of Kuwait
Lyndon Johnson
Martha
29. What was Lincoln's most famous speech?
James Madison
James Madison
Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Pearl Harbor bombing
The Gettysburg Address
30. Who was a peanut farmer?
1914-1918
His 5th cousin
1814
Jimmy Carter
31. What was William Jefferson Clinton impeached for?
James Madison
The White House
Perjury and obstruction of justice
Mount Vernon - Virginia
32. When was the Emancipation proclamation?
Writters for Washington Post who figured out Richard Nixon's case
January 1st - 1863
1814
14
33. Why wasn't Richard Nixon thrown out of office?
X-ray
William Jefferson Clinton
He resigned before the impeachment trial
December 7th - 1941
34. what disease did Franklin Delano Roosevelt have?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Mary Todd-Lincoln
132
Polio
35. Who was the first president not to win the popular vote and to become president?
60; unconstitutional
Massachusetts
270
John Quicy Adams
36. Who was a peanut farmer?
If he serves 2 or less years of someone else's term plus 8 years on his own
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Writters for Washington Post who figured out Richard Nixon's case
Jimmy Carter
37. Who pays for all personal entertainment and dinners not related to teh government business in the White House?
0
New Mexico to California
Harvard
The president
38. Who said 'A date that will live in infamy'? What were they talking about (separate with semicolon)?
Gerald Ford
Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Pearl Harbor bombing
25
Teddy Roosevelt
39. How many years is a presidential term?
Monticello - Virginia
4
Yes
538
40. What were fireside chats?
You can collect money if you become disabled before retirement
Speeches given for hope
William Jefferson Clinton
Guam - Midway Islands - Philippines - and Puerto Rico
41. Alien Acts
1
OK to send home foregienors if they looked dangerous; also if we were in war with their country
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor - Hawaii
Crime to print false or meliscious or scandalist stuff about the U.S. gov.
42. Who said 'The only thing we have to fear is fear itself' at their 1st inaugural?
The idea to own all the land from the pacific to the atlantic ocean; 1.2 million
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
New Mexico to California
James Madison
43. 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
September 1st - 1939
Maine and Nebraska
Teddy Roosevelt - Woodrow Wilson - Jimmy Carter - and Barack Obama
44. When did we get involved and stop being involved with WWI? (month and year)
William Howard Taft
April 1917- November 1918
Barack Obama
Dwight David Eisenhower
45. Which president had a stroke in his bathroom?
The government
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Dwight David Eisenhower
Woodrow Wilson
46. What were fireside chats?
The Vice President
Speeches given for hope
A group of representatives chosen by the voters to elect the President
He was shot on his way to a college reunion
47. What does 'Sic Semper Tyrranis' mean?
Free the slaves in the south
Thus always to tyrants
Honor people who died - make sure the country survies
Maine and Nebraska
48. What is the mandatory retirement plan run by the government?
2
Teddy Roosevelt
Social Security
Writters for Washington Post who figured out Richard Nixon's case
49. Why was Andrew Johnson impeached?
He fired the Secretary of War Staton
The three day battle in July in Gettysburg about slaves
Harry S Truman
George W. Bush
50. Which presidents won the nobel peace prize (in order)?
Saving a picture of Washington during the war
Teddy Roosevelt - Woodrow Wilson - Jimmy Carter - and Barack Obama
Daniel Inouye
French and Indian War