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U.S. Presidents Trivia
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1. What is the address of the white house?
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
John Quincy Adams - Rutherford B. Hayes - Benjamin Harrison - and George W. Bush
1 million
Ronald Reagan
2. What was the name of the airplane that bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Enola Gay
Forced the president to issue all military orders through general of the army who could not be removed without senate approval
Teddy Roosevelt - Woodrow Wilson - Jimmy Carter - and Barack Obama
Cuba wanted to overthrow Castrow and our military helped train them
3. How many Vice Presidents have moved up because the president died?
January 20th
Bad
8
Civil rights
4. Where do electors vote?
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5. Who was Franklin Delano Roosevelt married to?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Eleanor
Woodrow Wilson
England - France - Russia - USA
6. Who was president for the 9/11 attacks?
John Quicy Adams
George W. Bush
20
England
7. Who was Deep Throat?
George H. W. Bush
A person who knew the truth about Richard Nixon and told Woodward and Bernstein
The north were comunists and the south were not
The south
8. Which president was a great general - a leader - honest - and trustworth?
George Washington
The Vice President
35 said He was guilty - but he needed 36
Conspiracy
9. ______ years later - the Tenure of Office act was gotten rid of by the Supreme court because it was ________.
Andrew Jackson
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Ronald Reagan
60; unconstitutional
10. Who is the current speaker of the House?
0
Crime to print false or meliscious or scandalist stuff about the U.S. gov.
When we dropped food and supplies to people in West Berlin
John Boehner
11. Who is the current President Pro-Tempore of the Senate?
James Madison
Writters for Washington Post who figured out Richard Nixon's case
Universal health care
Daniel Inouye
12. How many former vice presidents have become president?
14
George H.W. Bush and George Bush
Ft. Sumter - South Carolina
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
13. Who was on the good side for WWI (abc order)?
Enola Gay
England - France - Russia - USA
Cuba wanted to overthrow Castrow and our military helped train them
The north and the south were split up
14. How many former vice presidents have become president?
April 1917- November 1918
14
William Jefferson Clinton
James Polk
15. Who attends diplomatic functions in place of the president?
Buffalo - New York
The Vice President
4
Thomas Jefferson
16. Who was our president during the Vietnam War?
George Washington - John Adams - Thomas Jefferson - James Madison - James Monroe - and John Quincy Adams
Yes
Lyndon Johnson
The Vice President
17. Why wasn't Andrew Johnson removed from office when He was impeached?
William Jefferson Clinton
35 said He was guilty - but he needed 36
Andrew Johnson
1803
18. What was William Jefferson Clinton impeached for?
Yes
The three day battle in July in Gettysburg about slaves
The south
Perjury and obstruction of justice
19. During the civil war - the south's general was ____________.
Teddy Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Robert E. Lee
Woodrow Wilson
20. Which president had a stroke in his bathroom?
They were classmates in college
The Civil War
Woodrow Wilson
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
21. Who created the Family Medical Leave Act?
William Jefferson Clinton
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson; July 4th - 1826
Germany - Hungary - Turkey
John Adams
22. How many pounds was William Howard Taft?
Enola Gay
350
John Boehner
15
23. What presidents lost the popular vote but won the electoral vote? (in order)
John Quincy Adams - Rutherford B. Hayes - Benjamin Harrison - and George W. Bush
James Madison
Honor people who died - make sure the country survies
Thomas Jefferson
24. What is the Truman Doctrine?
George Washington - John Adams - Thomas Jefferson - James Madison - James Monroe - and John Quincy Adams
The US was prepared to send money and military support to countries that want to resist communism
William Jefferson Clinton
0
25. Which presidents were great grandfather and grandson?
William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison
1914-1918
William Henry Harrison
538
26. Grover Cleveland was the ____ and ____ president (numbers)
Peterson House; the next morning
22 - 24
The federal government guarentees your money at a bank
A gun
27. Where did Abraham Lincoln's assasination take place?
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28. Which president created the University of Virgina?
1914-1918
A support group of countries
35
Thomas Jefferson
29. Who was Abraham Lincoln married to?
Mary Todd-Lincoln
Ulysses S. Grant
20
8
30. When was the Emancipation proclamation?
John Adams
William Henry Harrison
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
January 1st - 1863
31. What was the Tenure of Office Act/
The president could not fire and federal official who had gotten their job with Senate approval
The president
60; unconstitutional
Money goes to kids when a parent dies
32. What is the family Medical Leave Act?
4
Worker can take three months off in a year to take care of sick relatives or him/herself and cannot be fired
Buffalo - New York
William Henry Harrison
33. Who is the current secretary of state?
Harry S Truman
George H. W. Bush
Ford's Theater
Hillary Clinton
34. What presidents (in order) died of natural causes?
4th
William Henry Harrison - Zachary Taylor - Warren Harding - and Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Barack Obama
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
35. Who was on the bad side for WWI (abc order)?
Germany - Hungary - Turkey
Free the slaves in the south
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
England - France - Russia - USA
36. There was a _________ - or a group of people - who helped John Wilkes Booth kill Lincoln and also planned to kill the VP and Secretary.
Maryland
Ft. Sumter - South Carolina
Conspiracy
Ronald Reagan
37. What is the oldest you can be to get surviver benefits?
George H. W. Bush
Bad
18
The Vice President
38. What was the New Deal?
Abraham Lincoln
Getting out of the Great depression by hiring people - which would start a chain reaction
Barack Obama
Gerald Ford
39. The president get ____ care and _____ care for free.
4th
1803
Dental; medical
35
40. Who built the Interstate Highway System?
The idea to own all the land from the pacific to the atlantic ocean; 1.2 million
Hillary Clinton
Dwight David Eisenhower
Ronald Reagan
41. What was Lincoln's most famous speech?
Mary Todd-Lincoln
The Gettysburg Address
He was shot on his way to a college reunion
Abraham Lincoln
42. The ______ was invented when William McKinley was killed - and it could have saved him.
X-ray
Period after the Civil War and how we reunited
Richard Nixon
Woodrow Wilson
43. Who is the current speaker of the House?
William and Mary College
John Boehner
350
15 million
44. Which president presented the bill of rights at the first Congress?
James Madison
George H.W. Bush and George Bush
Abigail
Money goes to kids when a parent dies
45. Who created the Family Medical Leave Act?
January 1st - 1863
Ulysses S. Grant
William Jefferson Clinton
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
46. Which president was former ambassador to China?
When peace was made between Israel and Egypt at Camp David
George H. W. Bush
Abigail
The three day battle in July in Gettysburg about slaves
47. What was the Banking Holiday?
The banks were closed because everyone wanted their money at once
Mary Todd-Lincoln
Teddy Roosevelt
George H. W. Bush
48. How many kids did John Tyler have?
15
Providing a backup place for military plane landing
Period after the Civil War and how we reunited
8
49. Who had the first death in office?
William Henry Harrison
None
The Confederate States of America
The Vice President
50. Who was the commander in charge of Europe afor the Allies in WWII?
Democratic National Headquarters; Watergate
Dwight David Eisenhower
Air Force One - Marine One - and limousines
Mary Todd-Lincoln
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