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U.S. Presidents Trivia
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What happens if no candidate gets the majorit y of electoral votes?
The House of Representatives selects the President and the Senate selects the Vice President
Harry S Truman
The north were comunists and the south were not
William Jefferson Clinton
2. Which president helped create the Library of Congress when he sells and donates 6000 books?
Thomas Jefferson
Teddy Roosevelt
George H. W. Bush
Richard Nixon
3. Who was president during the Great depression?
Writters for Washington Post who figured out Richard Nixon's case
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
4
George Washington
4. Which president helped create the Library of Congress when he sells and donates 6000 books?
Monroe
Thomas Jefferson
4
He was shot on his way to a college reunion
5. What are surviver benefits?
Money goes to kids when a parent dies
4
Andrew Johnson
The Gettysburg Address
6. How many rooms in the white house?
$150000
132
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
He wanted a date Jodie Foster
7. What was a talent of John Wilkes Booth?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Ulysses S. Grant
Acting
Providing a backup place for military plane landing
8. What was the name of the airplane that bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Conspiracy
New Mexico to California
Enola Gay
The federal government guarentees your money at a bank
9. What was the most terms served by a president?
Barack Obama
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 1917- November 1918
4
10. How many Vice Presidents ran again for president and became president?
The US was prepared to send money and military support to countries that want to resist communism
John Adams
Harvard
5
11. Who did we help in the Vietnam war and the korean war?
James Madison
The south
William McKinley
Sexual harrassment
12. Why didn't the Emancipation proclamation work?
William McKinley
The north and the south were split up
4
The Gettysburg Address
13. Who did fireside chats?
25
Monticello - Virginia
Jimmy Carter
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
14. what disease did Franklin Delano Roosevelt have?
Polio
The White House
5
Gerald Ford
15. How can a president serve up to ten years?
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16. What weapon was used to kill Lincoln?
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Jefferson still survives
A gun
17. How many terms is a president alowed to serve?
$400000
George H. W. Bush
X-ray
2
18. How many years younger was John Tyler's wife than him?
Electors
Sic Semper Tyrannis - the south is avenged
30
60; unconstitutional
19. Which president was author of the Virginia Plan?
The federal government guarentees your money at a bank
James Madison
Zapruder film
Mom
20. What are the people in the electoral college called?
Civil War
John Adams
Honor people who died - make sure the country survies
Electors
21. Who invaded Iraq?
Electors
George W. Bush
James Madison
Self
22. When Harry S Truman was president during WWII - what two places in japan were bombed (abc order)?
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Andrew Jackson
Electors
23. Who takes over if the President is disabled or dies?
George H. W. Bush
Thomas Jefferson
Free the slaves in the south
The Vice President
24. Who had the shortest presidency?
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
January 1st - 1863
William Henry Harrison
Mary Todd-Lincoln
25. Who was the first president not to win the popular vote and to become president?
John Wilkes Booth
Jimmy Carter
Andrew Johnson
John Quicy Adams
26. Who was president for the Iran Hostage crisis?
8
Jimmy Carter
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
George Washington
27. How many kids did John Tyler have?
15
William Jefferson Clinton
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Maine and Nebraska
28. Who had an affair with Monica Lewinsky - a young intern at the White House?
His 5th cousin
The banks were closed because everyone wanted their money at once
Ft. Sumter - South Carolina
William Jefferson Clinton
29. Paula Jones sued William Jefferson Clinton for _______.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Sexual harrassment
Barack Obama
Universal health care
30. Who was the first African American President?
Barack Obama
April 1917- November 1918
Sic Semper Tyrannis - the south is avenged
September 1st - 1939
31. Where does the right to navigate teh seas without interference not apply?
East of Africa
Guam - Midway Islands - Philippines - and Puerto Rico
The fourteen points
The Korean War
32. Where does the president live for free?
Monroe
Thomas Jefferson
Polio
The White House
33. John Quicy Adams spent time In what continent?
Thomas Jefferson
Woodrow Wilson
Europe
World War I
34. Andrew Johnson was _________'s VP
The number of people in Congress plus 3 for DC
Abraham Lincoln
Providing a backup place for military plane landing
Zapruder film
35. What war was Abraham Lincoln president during?
A gun
The Civil War
John Quicy Adams
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.
36. What does 'Sic Semper Tyrranis' mean?
6'4'
Andrew Johnson
Thus always to tyrants
The Vice President
37. Where was Abraham Lincoln born? What kind of house did he live in?
You can collect money if you become disabled before retirement
November
Kentucky; Log cabin
Ronald Reagan
38. Sewards Folly was when ________ (secretary of state) bought land for $______ - which was thought to be as a joke then - but now that land is known as ________.
1 million
Lee Harvey Oswald
John Adams
William Seward; $7.2 million; Alaska
39. How many rooms in the white house?
Mom
Jimmy Carter
132
World War I
40. What is the command of army act?
14
A gun
Sexual harrassment
Forced the president to issue all military orders through general of the army who could not be removed without senate approval
41. Who pays for all personal entertainment and dinners not related to teh government business in the White House?
The president
He resigned before the impeachment trial
Free the slaves in the south
Ft. Sumter - South Carolina
42. Where was George Washington born?
John Adams
Mount Vernon - Virginia
Jefferson Davis
William and Mary College
43. Who did we help in the Vietnam war and the korean war?
Club with all countries where problems were discussed peacefully
The south
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Lee Harvey Oswald
44. Which president was author of the Virginia Plan?
James Polk
Richard Nixon
George H. W. Bush
James Madison
45. How many presidents died in office?
Dolley
William and Mary College
William Jefferson Clinton
8
46. Why did we enter WWII?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The Vice President
35 said He was guilty - but he needed 36
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor - Hawaii
47. What was the name of the airplane that bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Enola Gay
Polio
Iraq invaded Kuwait - and a coalition of naions push Iraq out of Kuwait
444
48. What college did George Washington go to?
Teddy Roosevelt
None
George W. Bush
We thought there were weapons of mass destruction - but there weren't
49. How many presidents died in office?
8
270
George H.W. Bush and George Bush
A support group of countries
50. John Adams had a successful marriage with ______ (first name).
The three day battle in July in Gettysburg about slaves
The south
Polio
Abigail