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U.S. Presidents Trivia
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Who were the second presidents to be father and son?
Teddy Roosevelt - Woodrow Wilson - Jimmy Carter - and Barack Obama
George H.W. Bush and George Bush
The banks were closed because everyone wanted their money at once
The president
2. Who did we help in the Vietnam war and the korean war?
5
Monroe
November 22nd - 1963
The south
3. How many presidents died of natural causes in office?
George H. W. Bush
Lee Harvey Oswald
4
South; north
4. How many states broke away during the civil war AT FIRST? how many total ending up breaking away?
7; 11
14
$150000
The north were comunists and the south were not
5. Franklin Delano Roosevelt got his middle name because his _____'s favorite relative was de la Noye
The president could not fire and federal official who had gotten their job with Senate approval
November
Mom
Thomas Jefferson
6. During the civil war - the south's president was _____________.
Universal health care
Jefferson Davis
Joe Biden
4
7. Congress passed 2 laws designed to limit __________'s (a president) power .
Harry S Truman
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
William Henry Harrison - Zachary Taylor - Warren Harding - and Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Andrew Johnson
8. Who was the fpresident during WWI?
Woodrow Wilson
Saving a picture of Washington during the war
Maryland
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor - Hawaii
9. What is Camp David?
Honor people who died - make sure the country survies
Mary Todd-Lincoln
A 2nd home for the president
Dallas - Texas
10. John Adams had a successful marriage with ______ (first name).
Polio
Zapruder film
Abigail
Lee Harvey Oswald
11. Who was the only president to get all the electoral votes?
Monroe
William Jefferson Clinton
George Washington
John Boehner
12. What war was George Washington in the military for?
Ulysses S. Grant
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Writters for Washington Post who figured out Richard Nixon's case
French and Indian War
13. Which president was a 'rough rider' in the Spanish American War?
November 1863
Teddy Roosevelt
Andrew Jackson
7; 11
14. What two states do not use 'winner-takes all' for the electoral college?
William Howard Taft
The Vice President
Maine and Nebraska
Andrew Jackson
15. Why did the league of nations fail (what country wouldn't join)?
Massachusetts
USA
$150000
15 million
16. When did we get involved and stop being involved with WWI? (month and year)
England
Woodrow Wilson
350
April 1917- November 1918
17. Which president was a 'rough rider' in the Spanish American War?
Dwight David Eisenhower
Teddy Roosevelt
Forced the president to issue all military orders through general of the army who could not be removed without senate approval
December 7th - 1941
18. Why wasn't Andrew Johnson removed from office when He was impeached?
Peterson House; the next morning
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
20
35 said He was guilty - but he needed 36
19. During the Great Depression - ____% were unemployed.
1914-1918
25
Harry S Truman
George H. W. Bush
20. Do we vote directly for the president?
1
No
8
He was shot
21. Where was William McKinley killed?
Buffalo - New York
November
Gerald Ford
Enola Gay
22. Which president helped create the Library of Congress when he sells and donates 6000 books?
15
Ft. Sumter - South Carolina
Thomas Jefferson
Cuba wanted to overthrow Castrow and our military helped train them
23. Where was William McKinley killed?
Buffalo - New York
Monticello - Virginia
Abigail
1803
24. Where does the president live for free?
Dwight David Eisenhower
Jefferson still survives
William McKinley
The White House
25. What year was the White House burnt down?
1814
He was shot
Worker can take three months off in a year to take care of sick relatives or him/herself and cannot be fired
Abraham Lincoln
26. Who was the only catholic president?
Germany was attacking ships
George Washington
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Ulysses S. Grant
27. Who had an affair with Monica Lewinsky - a young intern at the White House?
William Jefferson Clinton
Sic Semper Tyrannis - the south is avenged
OK to send home foregienors if they looked dangerous; also if we were in war with their country
4
28. Who was the first VP?
England; sailors; products
John Adams
December 7th - 1941
Dental; medical
29. What date did WWII begin?
1
September 1st - 1939
USA
538
30. What war was Abraham Lincoln president during?
If he serves 2 or less years of someone else's term plus 8 years on his own
George H. W. Bush
Teddy Roosevelt
The Civil War
31. Who burnt down the White House during a war?
John Adams
The Vice President
Woodrow Wilson
England
32. Who was Deep Throat?
270
A person who knew the truth about Richard Nixon and told Woodward and Bernstein
Electors
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
33. What does 'Sic Semper Tyrranis' mean?
Writters for Washington Post who figured out Richard Nixon's case
444
Teddy Roosevelt - Woodrow Wilson - Jimmy Carter - and Barack Obama
Thus always to tyrants
34. ______ years later - the Tenure of Office act was gotten rid of by the Supreme court because it was ________.
Hillary Clinton
60; unconstitutional
Dwight David Eisenhower
When we dropped food and supplies to people in West Berlin
35. Who passed Universal health care?
James Madison
Barack Obama
Mary Todd-Lincoln
William Jefferson Clinton
36. The ______ was invented when William McKinley was killed - and it could have saved him.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Monroe
Dwight David Eisenhower
X-ray
37. Which president was the 'father of the constitution'?
James Madison
Dwight David Eisenhower
100
A 2nd home for the president
38. Who was on the good side for WWI (abc order)?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Thomas Jefferson
Since birth
England - France - Russia - USA
39. How was James Garfield killed?
Since birth
When he jumped out of the balcony - his foot got stuck in the bunting and he fell onto stage
Thomas Jefferson
He was shot on his way to a college reunion
40. Alien Acts
OK to send home foregienors if they looked dangerous; also if we were in war with their country
Robert E. Lee
April 1917- November 1918
Teddy Roosevelt
41. What is the Truman Doctrine?
The US was prepared to send money and military support to countries that want to resist communism
East of Africa
Buffalo - New York
The Vice President
42. Where did the civil war begin?
Ft. Sumter - South Carolina
Teddy Roosevelt
30
Thomas Jefferson
43. How many kids did John Tyler have?
15
Air Force One - Marine One - and limousines
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Teddy Roosevelt
44. Jimmy Carter was the former governor of ____.
Dwight David Eisenhower
Richard Nixon
Georgia
Ulysses S. Grant
45. Who was the only president to be president and then supreme court chief justice?
William Howard Taft
George H. W. Bush
Zapruder film
George W. Bush
46. How many kids did John Tyler have?
Europe
15
4
England; sailors; products
47. Manifest Destiny was to have all the land from __________ to ___________ (east to west)
New Mexico to California
The US was prepared to send money and military support to countries that want to resist communism
William Jefferson Clinton
5
48. What does NATO stand for?
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
George Washington
Harry S Truman
1814
49. There was a _________ - or a group of people - who helped John Wilkes Booth kill Lincoln and also planned to kill the VP and Secretary.
John Adams
No
Conspiracy
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
50. What are surviver benefits?
Harvard
A group of representatives chosen by the voters to elect the President
Money goes to kids when a parent dies
Writters for Washington Post who figured out Richard Nixon's case