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U.S. Presidents Trivia
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1. What are disability benefits?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
You can collect money if you become disabled before retirement
Providing a backup place for military plane landing
John Adams
2. What were the territories we gained in the Spanish American War? (ABC order with commas inbetween)
Kentucky; Log cabin
Guam - Midway Islands - Philippines - and Puerto Rico
Gerald Ford
When he jumped out of the balcony - his foot got stuck in the bunting and he fell onto stage
3. Who balanced the budget?
William Jefferson Clinton
Air Force One - Marine One - and limousines
Self
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
4. Who was the fpresident during WWI?
Thomas Jefferson
Woodrow Wilson
132
His wife
5. what disease did Franklin Delano Roosevelt have?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
4
Polio
George Washington - John Adams - Thomas Jefferson - James Madison - James Monroe - and John Quincy Adams
6. Who gave the longest inauguration speech?
Germany invaded Poland
20
William Henry Harrison
18
7. What was the New Deal?
Getting out of the Great depression by hiring people - which would start a chain reaction
George Washington
Hillary Clinton
Monticello - Virginia
8. In most states - what percent of the state's electoral votes does a candidate get if they win the popular vote?
Lee Harvey Oswald
100
22 - 24
November 1863
9. What were the sides for the Korean war and the Vietnam war?
The north were comunists and the south were not
Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Pearl Harbor bombing
England; sailors; products
20
10. Where does the right to navigate teh seas without interference not apply?
He was shot on his way to a college reunion
Harry S Truman
East of Africa
Georgia
11. What is Camp David?
A person who knew the truth about Richard Nixon and told Woodward and Bernstein
A 2nd home for the president
Sic Semper Tyrannis - the south is avenged
Dwight David Eisenhower
12. What is universal health care?
Medical insurance for all americans
Gerald Ford
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
13. What date was John Fitzgerald Kennedy killed on?
November 1863
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
A 2nd home for the president
November 22nd - 1963
14. What transportation does the president get?
Thomas Jefferson
Abigail
Air Force One - Marine One - and limousines
Jimmy Carter
15. What college did George Washington go to?
100
Thomas Jefferson
James Polk
None
16. How much money does the president earn per year?
Harry S Truman
Dental; medical
$400000
18
17. What is the address of the white house?
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
None
James Madison
William McKinley
18. During the civil war - the south's general was ____________.
His 5th cousin
Jefferson still survives
8
Robert E. Lee
19. When was the Emancipation proclamation?
0
January 1st - 1863
X-ray
He was shot on his way to a college reunion
20. John Adams went to what college?
George Washington
Harvard
Germany - Hungary - Turkey
Harry S Truman
21. Which president was a 'rough rider' in the Spanish American War?
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Ronald Reagan
Teddy Roosevelt
Polio
22. Who was a Great General in war of 1812?
Andrew Jackson
7; 11
William Henry Harrison
They were classmates in college
23. What was the Bay of Pigs?
Cuba wanted to overthrow Castrow and our military helped train them
Acting
French and Indian War
Social Security
24. Which presidents were cousins?
Jimmy Carter
England; sailors; products
Teddy Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Dwight David Eisenhower
25. Which president was a great general - a leader - honest - and trustworth?
Barack Obama
George Washington
His 5th cousin
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
26. What were fireside chats?
5
Speeches given for hope
Forced the president to issue all military orders through general of the army who could not be removed without senate approval
Universal health care
27. Who was the only man to be president Who was not elected to either vp spot or the presidency?
0
Gerald Ford
Teddy Roosevelt
The north were comunists and the south were not
28. Which president got Alzheimers and forgot being president?
A support group of countries
Mary Todd-Lincoln
James Madison
Ronald Reagan
29. Why was Andrew Johnson impeached?
Ulysses S. Grant
Conspiracy
George H. W. Bush
He fired the Secretary of War Staton
30. How many Vice Presidents ran again for president and became president?
Dwight David Eisenhower
Lee Harvey Oswald
The White House
5
31. ______ years later - the Tenure of Office act was gotten rid of by the Supreme court because it was ________.
Providing a backup place for military plane landing
60; unconstitutional
Barack Obama
January 20th
32. What is the command of army act?
1914-1918
Harry S Truman
Lee Harvey Oswald
Forced the president to issue all military orders through general of the army who could not be removed without senate approval
33. Franklin Delano Roosevelt's wife was related to him how?
His 5th cousin
George H. W. Bush
Teddy Roosevelt
USA
34. James Madison's wife is famous for...
Joe Biden
Iraq invaded Kuwait - and a coalition of naions push Iraq out of Kuwait
Saving a picture of Washington during the war
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
35. John Adams went to what college?
Teddy Roosevelt
Harvard
Richard Nixon
The US was prepared to send money and military support to countries that want to resist communism
36. Who won the Nobel peace prize because he told Russia and Japan not to fight - but to love?
Teddy Roosevelt
William Jefferson Clinton
Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Pearl Harbor bombing
In their state's capital
37. Who built the Interstate Highway System?
Mary Todd-Lincoln
Harry S Truman
January 1st - 1863
Dwight David Eisenhower
38. Who was the only president to be president and then supreme court chief justice?
John Adams
William Howard Taft
Barack Obama
When we dropped food and supplies to people in West Berlin
39. Who invaded Iraq?
1803
George W. Bush
Dwight David Eisenhower
7; 11
40. What war never officially ended but just doesn't fight any more?
The House of Representatives selects the President and the Senate selects the Vice President
The Korean War
John Adams
Robert E. Lee
41. which president was former head of CIA?
The Confederate States of America
John Tyler
John Adams and John Quincy Adams
George H. W. Bush
42. Abraham Lincoln was ______ educated
You can collect money if you become disabled before retirement
Money goes to kids when a parent dies
Self
Mom
43. Who said 'A date that will live in infamy'? What were they talking about (separate with semicolon)?
Massachusetts
Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Pearl Harbor bombing
Jimmy Carter
William Jefferson Clinton
44. What presidents (in order) died of natural causes?
25
Teddy Roosevelt
William Henry Harrison - Zachary Taylor - Warren Harding - and Franklin Delano Roosevelt
James Madison
45. Who had a 12 year affair with Gennifer Flowers?
Forced the president to issue all military orders through general of the army who could not be removed without senate approval
William Jefferson Clinton
In their state's capital
Lyndon Johnson
46. What is the command of army act?
Abigail
Barack Obama
Forced the president to issue all military orders through general of the army who could not be removed without senate approval
England; sailors; products
47. Who invaded Iraq?
132
George W. Bush
Barack Obama
The Korean War
48. Manifest Destiny was to have all the land from __________ to ___________ (east to west)
Air Force One - Marine One - and limousines
New Mexico to California
Harry S Truman
George H. W. Bush
49. What to laws did Adams TRY to pass?
Alien and sedition acts
Richard Nixon
The federal government guarentees your money at a bank
Gerald Ford
50. How did John Wilkes Booth break his leg?
When he jumped out of the balcony - his foot got stuck in the bunting and he fell onto stage
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Thomas Jefferson