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U.S. Presidents Trivia
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1. Which presidents won the nobel peace prize (in order)?
Guam - Midway Islands - Philippines - and Puerto Rico
Teddy Roosevelt - Woodrow Wilson - Jimmy Carter - and Barack Obama
Barack Obama
Period after the Civil War and how we reunited
2. How many rooms in the white house?
George H. W. Bush
Crime to print false or meliscious or scandalist stuff about the U.S. gov.
Harry S Truman
132
3. 'Speak softley and carry a big stick' was a quote of who?
Honor people who died - make sure the country survies
When we dropped food and supplies to people in West Berlin
Jimmy Carter
Teddy Roosevelt
4. What did the Interstate Highway System also do besides provide a road for driving?
538
Iraq invaded Kuwait - and a coalition of naions push Iraq out of Kuwait
December 7th - 1941
Providing a backup place for military plane landing
5. Who moved up when John Fitzgerald Kennedy died because He was his VP?
Lyndon Johnson
22 - 24
Dwight David Eisenhower
George H. W. Bush
6. Where does the right to navigate teh seas without interference not apply?
1
East of Africa
George Washington
The government
7. How did William McKinley die?
He was shot
Cuba wanted to overthrow Castrow and our military helped train them
No
Barack Obama
8. Who was president for the nullification crisis?
Andrew Jackson
William Jefferson Clinton
Democratic National Headquarters; Watergate
The Vice President
9. Where did the civil war begin?
Money goes to kids when a parent dies
Ft. Sumter - South Carolina
60; unconstitutional
4th
10. Who became president when Richard Nixon resigend because they were his VP?
Lyndon Johnson
William Jefferson Clinton
Gerald Ford
World War I
11. What war was Abraham Lincoln president during?
4
Dwight David Eisenhower
John Quicy Adams
The Civil War
12. Alien Acts
Teddy Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Monticello - Virginia
James Polk
OK to send home foregienors if they looked dangerous; also if we were in war with their country
13. Which president created Yellowstone National Park and Yosemite?
The Gettysburg Address
25
You can collect money if you become disabled before retirement
Teddy Roosevelt
14. Who was William McKinley's VP that moved up when He was killed?
Ronald Reagan
Maine and Nebraska
Teddy Roosevelt
The Confederate States of America
15. Who was president for the Cuban Missile Crisis?
When we dropped food and supplies to people in West Berlin
27
George H. W. Bush
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
16. Who had many affairs during their presidency but claimed not to?
Dolley
William Jefferson Clinton
Jimmy Carter
Saving a picture of Washington during the war
17. When Harry S Truman was president during WWII - what two places in japan were bombed (abc order)?
Teddy Roosevelt
$400000
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
They were classmates in college
18. When Harry S Truman was president during WWII - what two places in japan were bombed (abc order)?
Lyndon Johnson
Teddy Roosevelt
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Forced the president to issue all military orders through general of the army who could not be removed without senate approval
19. Who was president for the Cuban Missile Crisis?
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
A support group of countries
A group of representatives chosen by the voters to elect the President
Germany was attacking ships
20. Who was the first President during WWII?
Guam - Midway Islands - Philippines - and Puerto Rico
Lyndon Johnson
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
William Jefferson Clinton
21. Who was William McKinley's VP that moved up when He was killed?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Teddy Roosevelt
350
Lee Harvey Oswald
22. What was the name of the airplane that bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Abraham Lincoln
Enola Gay
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Dwight David Eisenhower
23. Which president served the most terms?
Barack Obama
Ford's Theater
Dolley
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
24. What is the family Medical Leave Act?
Europe
Electors
New Mexico to California
Worker can take three months off in a year to take care of sick relatives or him/herself and cannot be fired
25. How many electors are in the electoral college?
French and Indian War
Teddy Roosevelt
Ulysses S. Grant
538
26. Who was on the good side for WWI (abc order)?
No
Barack Obama
1803
England - France - Russia - USA
27. Who was our president when we kille Osama bin Laden?
John Adams
22 - 24
15
Barack Obama
28. There was a _________ - or a group of people - who helped John Wilkes Booth kill Lincoln and also planned to kill the VP and Secretary.
Woodrow Wilson
14
Conspiracy
Thomas Jefferson
29. What transportation does the president get?
Air Force One - Marine One - and limousines
Says to Europe to stay out of the western memosphere and don't colonize; the U.S. will consider colonization a threat to our secruity; we will stay out of European affairs unless they affect us
John Adams
444
30. what ended a couple of days before Abraham Lincoln's Assasination?
Civil War
Woodrow Wilson
Barack Obama
September 1st - 1939
31. Which president presented the bill of rights at the first Congress?
Martha
1 million
James Madison
The government
32. Who was president when the United Nations was formed?
Gerald Ford
Harry S Truman
Teddy Roosevelt
Massachusetts
33. How many presidents were killed in office?
No
4
Teddy Roosevelt
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
34. What were the territories we gained in the Spanish American War? (ABC order with commas inbetween)
100
Guam - Midway Islands - Philippines - and Puerto Rico
Bad
The Korean War
35. Where do electors vote?
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36. Which president was a lawyer - very smart - an architect - a musician - and an inventor?
The south
James Madison
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Thomas Jefferson
37. During the Great Depression - ____% were unemployed.
The House of Representatives selects the President and the Senate selects the Vice President
Sexual harrassment
25
Hillary Clinton
38. Who was the oldest elected president (age 73 at 2nd term)?
November 1863
Ronald Reagan
John Quicy Adams
Harvard
39. How can a president serve up to ten years?
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40. The president get ____ care and _____ care for free.
George H.W. Bush and George Bush
Monroe
Andrew Jackson
Dental; medical
41. Where was Thomas Jefferson born?
Monticello - Virginia
John Boehner
Thus always to tyrants
Saving a picture of Washington during the war
42. Who was the first VP?
William Henry Harrison
Woodrow Wilson
8
John Adams
43. The committee of the watergate scandal illegally entered the __________ (building) and spied on Nixon's opponent Who was in the _______ complex.
When peace was made between Israel and Egypt at Camp David
Democratic National Headquarters; Watergate
Honor people who died - make sure the country survies
Daniel Inouye
44. How many Vice Presidents have moved up because the president died?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
8
Teddy Roosevelt
He fired the Secretary of War Staton
45. How many kids did John Tyler have?
James Polk
John Quicy Adams
0
15
46. Where did Thomas Jefferson go to college?
Mount Vernon - Virginia
William and Mary College
1914-1918
The first Tuesday of Novermber that follows a monday in November
47. Who were Woodward and Bernstein?
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48. Who pays for all personal entertainment and dinners not related to teh government business in the White House?
September 1st - 1939
Honor people who died - make sure the country survies
The president
World War I
49. What is NATO (not what it stands for - what it is)?
Speeches given for hope
The House of Representatives selects the President and the Senate selects the Vice President
William Henry Harrison
A support group of countries
50. How did John Wilkes Booth break his leg?
Dwight David Eisenhower
The south
When he jumped out of the balcony - his foot got stuck in the bunting and he fell onto stage
The Korean War
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