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U.S. Presidents Trivia
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. How many Vice Presidents have moved up because the president resigned?
1
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Harry S Truman
In their state's capital
2. What month and day do we vote for the president?
The White House
Air Force One - Marine One - and limousines
7; 11
The first Tuesday of Novermber that follows a monday in November
3. Where did the civil war begin?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
John Adams
The first Tuesday of Novermber that follows a monday in November
Ft. Sumter - South Carolina
4. Who attends diplomatic functions in place of the president?
The Vice President
Dwight David Eisenhower
Barack Obama
George H. W. Bush
5. Which presidents were cousins?
If he serves 2 or less years of someone else's term plus 8 years on his own
Germany invaded Poland
John Adams
Teddy Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt
6. What were John Adams's last words?
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson; July 4th - 1826
1814
Lyndon Johnson
Jefferson still survives
7. Lyndon Johnson got lots of bills passed involving ______.
William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison
6'4'
Free the slaves in the south
Civil rights
8. Where was George Washington born?
Getting out of the Great depression by hiring people - which would start a chain reaction
The government
Mount Vernon - Virginia
15 million
9. What was the league of nations?
Club with all countries where problems were discussed peacefully
2
Gerald Ford
Harry S Truman
10. Who was president for the persian gulf war?
January 20th
George H. W. Bush
Club with all countries where problems were discussed peacefully
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
11. Who is thought to have assassinated John Fitzgerald Kennedy?
Lee Harvey Oswald
A person who knew the truth about Richard Nixon and told Woodward and Bernstein
Germany invaded Poland
Harry S Truman
12. Which president was former ambassador to China?
George H. W. Bush
French and Indian War
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
William Henry Harrison
13. What were the sides for the Korean war and the Vietnam war?
Barack Obama
William and Mary College
The north were comunists and the south were not
The north and the south were split up
14. Who was sent to a mental institution after Abraham Lincoln's death?
Self
Mary Todd-Lincoln
John Tyler
Polio
15. Who was on the bad side for WWI (abc order)?
Perjury and obstruction of justice
Germany - Hungary - Turkey
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
16. Who introduced surviver benefits?
He was shot on his way to a college reunion
John Adams
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
None
17. Which president was the 'father of the constitution'?
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Barack Obama
James Madison
A group of representatives chosen by the voters to elect the President
18. Who was the first VP to move up on death of a president?
A person who knew the truth about Richard Nixon and told Woodward and Bernstein
John Tyler
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Harry S Truman
19. Who invaded Iraq?
George W. Bush
Money goes to kids when a parent dies
Mom
John Adams
20. Who introduced surviver benefits?
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Thomas Jefferson
George Washington
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
21. Which president adopted independence - was loyal - smart - and a lawyer?
John Adams
George Washington
George Washington - John Adams - Thomas Jefferson - James Madison - James Monroe - and John Quincy Adams
George Washington
22. What was reconstruction?
Teddy Roosevelt
Sic Semper Tyrannis - the south is avenged
Period after the Civil War and how we reunited
His wife
23. What was the Banking Holiday?
25
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The banks were closed because everyone wanted their money at once
James Madison
24. Who was a Great General in war of 1812?
Dwight David Eisenhower
The government
Andrew Jackson
Money goes to kids when a parent dies
25. What are surviver benefits?
Thus always to tyrants
Ft. Sumter - South Carolina
Money goes to kids when a parent dies
Barack Obama
26. What did John Wilkes Booth say after he shot Lincoln?
Sic Semper Tyrannis - the south is avenged
Dwight David Eisenhower
January 1st - 1863
Medical insurance for all americans
27. What was the name of the airplane that bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Teddy Roosevelt - Woodrow Wilson - Jimmy Carter - and Barack Obama
1914-1918
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
Enola Gay
28. Andrew Johnson had a (good/bad) relation ship with congress over reconstruction
Monroe
The federal government guarentees your money at a bank
Bad
Teddy Roosevelt
29. What president did the Berlin airlift?
15
William Jefferson Clinton
Gerald Ford
Harry S Truman
30. What state was John Adams from?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Gerald Ford
Massachusetts
Teddy Roosevelt
31. How many states broke away during the civil war AT FIRST? how many total ending up breaking away?
World War I
7; 11
$400000
Barack Obama
32. What is the inauguration date?
Teddy Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt
William Howard Taft
Andrew Jackson
January 20th
33. What was the Bay of Pigs?
William McKinley
Teddy Roosevelt - Woodrow Wilson - Jimmy Carter - and Barack Obama
Harry S Truman
Cuba wanted to overthrow Castrow and our military helped train them
34. What was the nullification crisis?
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35. What president had the watergate scandal?
England - France - Russia - USA
George W. Bush
Richard Nixon
OK to send home foregienors if they looked dangerous; also if we were in war with their country
36. What does 'Sic Semper Tyrranis' mean?
Medical insurance for all americans
Thomas Jefferson
Thus always to tyrants
George Washington
37. Sedition acts
Crime to print false or meliscious or scandalist stuff about the U.S. gov.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Providing a backup place for military plane landing
Dwight David Eisenhower
38. What month and day do we vote for the president?
William Jefferson Clinton
The first Tuesday of Novermber that follows a monday in November
John Wilkes Booth
England; sailors; products
39. Who said 'The buck stops here'?
1
Harry S Truman
Teddy Roosevelt
538
40. Who introduced disability benefits?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
If he serves 2 or less years of someone else's term plus 8 years on his own
8
George Washington
41. In the War of 1812 - ________ (country) kept stealing our ________ (people) and _______ (items) in the middle of the ocean (separate with semicolon).
Germany invaded Poland
The White House
England; sailors; products
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
42. Which president was a great general - a leader - honest - and trustworth?
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
George Washington
Woodrow Wilson
43. Where did Thomas Jefferson go to college?
William and Mary College
The Confederate States of America
Dallas - Texas
April 12th - 1861
44. Did we win the Spanish American War?
Civil rights
Germany - Hungary - Turkey
The Confederate States of America
Yes
45. Who was president when the United Nations was formed?
The north and the south were split up
Ulysses S. Grant
Harry S Truman
Ulysses S. Grant
46. Why didn't the Emancipation proclamation work?
Sic Semper Tyrannis - the south is avenged
The north and the south were split up
Abraham Lincoln
The three day battle in July in Gettysburg about slaves
47. Which president adopted independence - was loyal - smart - and a lawyer?
John Adams
Andrew Jackson
The number of people in Congress plus 3 for DC
Europe
48. How many Vice Presidents have moved up because the president died?
Money goes to kids when a parent dies
Germany invaded Poland
Universal health care
8
49. Lyndon Johnson got lots of bills passed involving ______.
Richard Nixon
Civil rights
Monticello - Virginia
George H. W. Bush
50. What is FDIC (explaIn what it means - not what it stands for)?
The federal government guarentees your money at a bank
Crime to print false or meliscious or scandalist stuff about the U.S. gov.
November
A 2nd home for the president