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U.S. Presidents Trivia
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Who was on the bad side for WWI (abc order)?
John Adams
The Vice President
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Germany - Hungary - Turkey
2. Who created the Family Medical Leave Act?
William Jefferson Clinton
Honor people who died - make sure the country survies
Woodrow Wilson
Yes
3. what ended a couple of days before Abraham Lincoln's Assasination?
5
1 million
Maine and Nebraska
Civil War
4. Who did we help in the Vietnam war and the korean war?
20
William and Mary College
The south
Dallas - Texas
5. Who's son is Camp David named after?
The banks were closed because everyone wanted their money at once
Barack Obama
Dwight David Eisenhower
April 12th - 1861
6. Andrew Johnson had a (good/bad) relation ship with congress over reconstruction
$400000
Speeches given for hope
Ford's Theater
Bad
7. Who passed Universal health care?
Sic Semper Tyrannis - the south is avenged
0
Barack Obama
14
8. The committee of the watergate scandal illegally entered the __________ (building) and spied on Nixon's opponent Who was in the _______ complex.
Yes
Democratic National Headquarters; Watergate
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Crime to print false or meliscious or scandalist stuff about the U.S. gov.
9. Where do electors vote?
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10. Abraham Lincoln was ______ educated
George Washington
Harry S Truman
George Washington - John Adams - Thomas Jefferson - James Madison - James Monroe - and John Quincy Adams
Self
11. Which president made the panama canal?
George Washington
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
4
Teddy Roosevelt
12. Which presidents won the nobel peace prize (in order)?
270
Teddy Roosevelt - Woodrow Wilson - Jimmy Carter - and Barack Obama
John Quicy Adams
Sexual harrassment
13. Which president made the panama canal?
60; unconstitutional
35
Teddy Roosevelt
Harvard
14. Congress passed 2 laws designed to limit __________'s (a president) power .
Harvard
538
Andrew Johnson
4th
15. How much was the Louisiana Territory when it was purchased?
30
15 million
Richard Nixon
Iraq invaded Kuwait - and a coalition of naions push Iraq out of Kuwait
16. Where did Abraham Lincoln's assasination take place?
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17. What state is Camp David in?
35
Maryland
No
William Seward; $7.2 million; Alaska
18. What did John Wilkes Booth say after he shot Lincoln?
8
Free the slaves in the south
15
Sic Semper Tyrannis - the south is avenged
19. Who was president for the persian gulf war?
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Teddy Roosevelt
Dwight David Eisenhower
George H. W. Bush
20. During the civil war - the south's general was ____________.
Robert E. Lee
Europe
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Conspiracy
21. What to laws did Adams TRY to pass?
George H. W. Bush
Alien and sedition acts
Ronald Reagan
George Washington
22. How did William McKinley die?
Acting
Period after the Civil War and how we reunited
He was shot
Thus always to tyrants
23. Who was the first African American President?
Barack Obama
Polio
7; 11
No
24. Who had many affairs during their presidency but claimed not to?
William Henry Harrison - Zachary Taylor - Warren Harding - and Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
William Jefferson Clinton
John Adams and John Quincy Adams
25. Who did fireside chats?
December 7th - 1941
Barack Obama
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
26. What is Camp David?
Crime to print false or meliscious or scandalist stuff about the U.S. gov.
A 2nd home for the president
Dwight David Eisenhower
Democratic National Headquarters; Watergate
27. What was the point of the Gettysburg Address (two things)?
Barack Obama
Daniel Inouye
Dolley
Honor people who died - make sure the country survies
28. What is the command of army act?
John Wilkes Booth
Forced the president to issue all military orders through general of the army who could not be removed without senate approval
Conspiracy
James Madison
29. Who is considered 'the father of our country'?
444
George Washington
Barack Obama
Dwight David Eisenhower
30. How can a president serve up to ten years?
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31. What weapon was used to kill Lincoln?
A gun
Conspiracy
Teddy Roosevelt
Hillary Clinton
32. Which president presented the bill of rights at the first Congress?
Lyndon Johnson
April 12th - 1861
Teddy Roosevelt
James Madison
33. How many presidents died of natural causes in office?
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Buffalo - New York
4
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
34. What transportation does the president get?
George Washington
Massachusetts
Air Force One - Marine One - and limousines
William Seward; $7.2 million; Alaska
35. Who had a 12 year affair with Gennifer Flowers?
60; unconstitutional
Daniel Inouye
William Jefferson Clinton
William Henry Harrison
36. Who won a nobel peace prize because of the camp david accords?
The three day battle in July in Gettysburg about slaves
Jimmy Carter
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Guam - Midway Islands - Philippines - and Puerto Rico
37. Who had the shortest presidency?
4th
William Henry Harrison
350
George H. W. Bush
38. Who was the oldest elected president (age 73 at 2nd term)?
April 1917- November 1918
14
Ronald Reagan
James Polk
39. Which president created the University of Virgina?
Ronald Reagan
Massachusetts
Thomas Jefferson
25
40. Who is thought to have assassinated John Fitzgerald Kennedy?
When peace was made between Israel and Egypt at Camp David
A person who knew the truth about Richard Nixon and told Woodward and Bernstein
When peace was made between Israel and Egypt at Camp David
Lee Harvey Oswald
41. Which presidents were cousins?
We thought there were weapons of mass destruction - but there weren't
John Adams and John Quincy Adams
He fired the Secretary of War Staton
Teddy Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt
42. Who did we help in the Vietnam war and the korean war?
Lyndon Johnson
The south
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.
Harry S Truman
43. how many years is a score?
20
Ulysses S. Grant
Electors
When we dropped food and supplies to people in West Berlin
44. Franklin Delano Roosevelt died a short time into his ____ term.
100
No
He resigned before the impeachment trial
4th
45. This president swam naked in the Potomac River
John Quicy Adams
Enola Gay
Polio
William Howard Taft
46. How many electors are in the electoral college?
The president
538
14
Mary Todd-Lincoln
47. Who takes over if the President is disabled or dies?
1814
The Vice President
Money goes to kids when a parent dies
Social Security
48. What did John Wilkes Booth say after he shot Lincoln?
The Confederate States of America
Sic Semper Tyrannis - the south is avenged
He wanted a date Jodie Foster
Teddy Roosevelt - Woodrow Wilson - Jimmy Carter - and Barack Obama
49. Who balanced the budget?
John Boehner
The Vice President
Crime to print false or meliscious or scandalist stuff about the U.S. gov.
William Jefferson Clinton
50. When Harry S Truman was president during WWII - what two places in japan were bombed (abc order)?
35 said He was guilty - but he needed 36
The three day battle in July in Gettysburg about slaves
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Thomas Jefferson