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U.S. Presidents Trivia
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What was reconstruction?
The president
Maine and Nebraska
Period after the Civil War and how we reunited
Ft. Sumter - South Carolina
2. Who did fireside chats?
Revolutionary War
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Writters for Washington Post who figured out Richard Nixon's case
3. 'Speak softley and carry a big stick' was a quote of who?
Barack Obama
New Mexico to California
Teddy Roosevelt
A support group of countries
4. What war was George Washington in the military for?
November
Since birth
Barack Obama
French and Indian War
5. Who was president for the nullification crisis?
Massachusetts
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
1
Andrew Jackson
6. What president made the emancipation proclamtion?
John Quicy Adams
William McKinley
Abraham Lincoln
2
7. How long do you have to be a citizen for to be president?
James Madison
Since birth
Teddy Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
8. Franklin Delano Roosevelt got his middle name because his _____'s favorite relative was de la Noye
Teddy Roosevelt - Woodrow Wilson - Jimmy Carter - and Barack Obama
Crime to print false or meliscious or scandalist stuff about the U.S. gov.
William Jefferson Clinton
Mom
9. Where was Abraham Lincoln born? What kind of house did he live in?
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Buffalo - New York
Kentucky; Log cabin
John Quicy Adams
10. Who was on the good side for WWI (abc order)?
Teddy Roosevelt
England - France - Russia - USA
John Adams
French and Indian War
11. Who was Deep Throat?
William McKinley
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Ronald Reagan
A person who knew the truth about Richard Nixon and told Woodward and Bernstein
12. Who had many affairs during their presidency but claimed not to?
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson; July 4th - 1826
William Henry Harrison - Zachary Taylor - Warren Harding - and Franklin Delano Roosevelt
William Jefferson Clinton
Yes
13. Who were the second presidents to be father and son?
Andrew Jackson
George H.W. Bush and George Bush
When we dropped food and supplies to people in West Berlin
350
14. What is the mandatory retirement plan run by the government?
Social Security
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.
April 12th - 1861
Teddy Roosevelt - Woodrow Wilson - Jimmy Carter - and Barack Obama
15. Which president adopted independence - was loyal - smart - and a lawyer?
John Adams
Martha
14
15 million
16. How many kids did John Tyler have?
Jefferson still survives
World War I
The fourteen points
15
17. How many states broke away during the civil war AT FIRST? how many total ending up breaking away?
Europe
7; 11
September 1st - 1939
1803
18. How many kids did George Washington have?
They were classmates in college
Thus always to tyrants
0
Air Force One - Marine One - and limousines
19. William Jefferson Clinton paid Paula Jones $____.
X-ray
William Henry Harrison
USA
1 million
20. Where did Abraham Lincoln's assasination take place?
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21. 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
Zapruder film
538
William Henry Harrison - Zachary Taylor - Warren Harding - and Franklin Delano Roosevelt
22. what ended a couple of days before Abraham Lincoln's Assasination?
Civil War
Money goes to kids when a parent dies
December 7th - 1941
35 said He was guilty - but he needed 36
23. What is the oldest you can be to get surviver benefits?
William Jefferson Clinton
Jimmy Carter
18
Gerald Ford
24. What president made the emancipation proclamtion?
Abraham Lincoln
Abigail
Conspiracy
James Madison
25. What did the Interstate Highway System also do besides provide a road for driving?
2
Providing a backup place for military plane landing
Harry S Truman
Woodrow Wilson
26. James Madison's wife was ________ Madison.
Money goes to kids when a parent dies
Richard Nixon
Dolley
He wanted a date Jodie Foster
27. Who was our president when we kille Osama bin Laden?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Jimmy Carter
Barack Obama
14
28. Who burnt down the White House during a war?
132
England
John Hinkley Jr.
William Seward; $7.2 million; Alaska
29. Which president recognized Israel and traded with them and gave money and embassadors to them?
4
The fourteen points
If he serves 2 or less years of someone else's term plus 8 years on his own
Harry S Truman
30. Which president helped create the Library of Congress when he sells and donates 6000 books?
Cuba wanted to overthrow Castrow and our military helped train them
John Hinkley Jr.
The president
Thomas Jefferson
31. What did the monroe doctrine say?
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32. Who's son married Nixon's daughter?
William Seward; $7.2 million; Alaska
Dwight David Eisenhower
You can collect money if you become disabled before retirement
Sic Semper Tyrannis - the south is avenged
33. Which president got Alzheimers and forgot being president?
Cuba wanted to overthrow Castrow and our military helped train them
Mary Todd-Lincoln
George H.W. Bush and George Bush
Ronald Reagan
34. Who introduced social security?
John Adams
18
Thomas Jefferson
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
35. What law that Barack Obama passed might be unconstitutional and is being looked at by the supreme court now?
Universal health care
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
James Madison
36. Who was the first President during WWII?
Providing a backup place for military plane landing
James Madison
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Abigail
37. What is the address of the white house?
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Revolutionary War
27
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson; July 4th - 1826
38. How many presidents died in office?
Barack Obama
25
8
November 1863
39. What is the address of the white house?
New Mexico to California
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
William Jefferson Clinton
The president could not fire and federal official who had gotten their job with Senate approval
40. Who was president for the Bay of Pigs?
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
His 5th cousin
Thomas Jefferson
William Seward; $7.2 million; Alaska
41. This president swam naked in the Potomac River
Monticello - Virginia
December 7th - 1941
Dallas - Texas
John Quicy Adams
42. The ______ was invented when William McKinley was killed - and it could have saved him.
John Quicy Adams
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
X-ray
Bad
43. The president get ____ care and _____ care for free.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
The Vice President
Dental; medical
44. How many years younger was John Tyler's wife than him?
William Jefferson Clinton
French and Indian War
30
Self
45. How was James Garfield killed?
We thought there were weapons of mass destruction - but there weren't
December 7th - 1941
Dwight David Eisenhower
He was shot on his way to a college reunion
46. Who killed Abraham Lincoln?
25
John Wilkes Booth
Ulysses S. Grant
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
47. What was the persian gulf war/desert storm?
Dental; medical
1 million
Iraq invaded Kuwait - and a coalition of naions push Iraq out of Kuwait
Germany invaded Poland
48. During the civil war - the south named itself _____.
The Confederate States of America
Barack Obama
Jefferson Davis
South; north
49. Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant knew eachother because _________.
60; unconstitutional
They were classmates in college
Conspiracy
George H. W. Bush
50. Which president served the most terms?
Germany was attacking ships
George H.W. Bush and George Bush
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Sic Semper Tyrannis - the south is avenged