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U.S. Presidents Trivia
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What was reconstruction?
270
Free the slaves in the south
Saving a picture of Washington during the war
Period after the Civil War and how we reunited
2. Where did Abraham Lincoln's assasination take place?
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3. Which presidents were great grandfather and grandson?
William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison
444
Enola Gay
Thomas Jefferson
4. Which president was the 'father of the constitution'?
September 1st - 1939
John Quicy Adams
James Madison
Civil War
5. How many pounds was William Howard Taft?
He wanted a date Jodie Foster
100
350
Alien and sedition acts
6. What are surviver benefits?
John Tyler
Andrew Johnson
Money goes to kids when a parent dies
The idea to own all the land from the pacific to the atlantic ocean; 1.2 million
7. How many years is a presidential term?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Pearl Harbor bombing
When peace was made between Israel and Egypt at Camp David
4
Conspiracy
8. What law that Barack Obama passed might be unconstitutional and is being looked at by the supreme court now?
George Washington
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Universal health care
Thus always to tyrants
9. Who was on the good side for WWI (abc order)?
A group of representatives chosen by the voters to elect the President
The Korean War
Forced the president to issue all military orders through general of the army who could not be removed without senate approval
England - France - Russia - USA
10. Who had many affairs during their presidency but claimed not to?
350
X-ray
George W. Bush
William Jefferson Clinton
11. How many presidents were killed in office?
4
Air Force One - Marine One - and limousines
Self
8
12. What was the most terms served by a president?
James Madison
Ronald Reagan
4
Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Pearl Harbor bombing
13. What president did the Berlin airlift?
Zapruder film
The government
Harry S Truman
William McKinley
14. Who killed Abraham Lincoln?
Alien and sedition acts
Woodrow Wilson
John Wilkes Booth
1 million
15. The ______ was invented when William McKinley was killed - and it could have saved him.
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
35 said He was guilty - but he needed 36
X-ray
William Henry Harrison
16. The person who killed John Fitzgerald Kennedy is thought to have killed him in a _______ - or not alone.
New Mexico to California
Civil War
A 2nd home for the president
Conspiracy
17. what ended a couple of days before Abraham Lincoln's Assasination?
November 1863
Civil War
Cuba wanted to overthrow Castrow and our military helped train them
Bad
18. Name the two presidents (ABC order by last name - write first and last name) who died on the same day - and the date they died (separate with semi colon)
The government
Harry S Truman
1 million
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson; July 4th - 1826
19. When did we enter WWII?
Woodrow Wilson
$400000
Abigail
December 7th - 1941
20. The committee of the watergate scandal illegally entered the __________ (building) and spied on Nixon's opponent Who was in the _______ complex.
Perjury and obstruction of justice
Democratic National Headquarters; Watergate
Andrew Johnson
John Adams and John Quincy Adams
21. Who passed Universal health care?
Dwight David Eisenhower
1803
January 20th
Barack Obama
22. Manifest Destiny was to have all the land from __________ to ___________ (east to west)
In their state's capital
4
April 12th - 1861
New Mexico to California
23. How many days was the Iran Hostage crisis?
Maryland
444
Hillary Clinton
Teddy Roosevelt - Woodrow Wilson - Jimmy Carter - and Barack Obama
24. Which president was a lawyer - very smart - an architect - a musician - and an inventor?
Zapruder film
4
Democratic National Headquarters; Watergate
Thomas Jefferson
25. Who acts as an advisor to the president?
35
The Vice President
The federal government guarentees your money at a bank
Abraham Lincoln
26. Who won a Nobel Peace Prize for what they were going to do?
George H.W. Bush and George Bush
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Richard Nixon
Barack Obama
27. What was Lincoln's most famous speech?
Germany invaded Poland
James Madison
The Gettysburg Address
Harry S Truman
28. Which president was former ambassador to China?
Free the slaves in the south
Harry S Truman
George H. W. Bush
The Vice President
29. Who was the only president to get all the electoral votes?
George Washington
6'4'
Richard Nixon
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
30. Who attempted to assassinate Ronald Reagan?
None
John Hinkley Jr.
7; 11
Getting out of the Great depression by hiring people - which would start a chain reaction
31. Why was Andrew Johnson impeached?
He fired the Secretary of War Staton
Since birth
Ulysses S. Grant
William McKinley
32. How many pounds was William Howard Taft?
350
Period after the Civil War and how we reunited
Daniel Inouye
Sic Semper Tyrannis - the south is avenged
33. Who won the Nobel peace prize because he told Russia and Japan not to fight - but to love?
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Barack Obama
Teddy Roosevelt
William Jefferson Clinton
34. Who was president for the 9/11 attacks?
Democratic National Headquarters; Watergate
Teddy Roosevelt
In their state's capital
George W. Bush
35. Where did the civil war begin?
James Madison
Kentucky; Log cabin
Ft. Sumter - South Carolina
Jefferson still survives
36. What date was John Fitzgerald Kennedy killed on?
Ford's Theater
Dental; medical
$400000
November 22nd - 1963
37. Which president made the panama canal?
Teddy Roosevelt
Harvard
20
Crime to print false or meliscious or scandalist stuff about the U.S. gov.
38. Who's son married Nixon's daughter?
Period after the Civil War and how we reunited
He gets shot
Dwight David Eisenhower
April 1917- November 1918
39. James Madison's wife is famous for...
Barack Obama
Harvard
Saving a picture of Washington during the war
Woodrow Wilson
40. Who killed Abraham Lincoln?
World War I
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
John Wilkes Booth
John Hinkley Jr.
41. John Quicy Adams spent time In what continent?
Daniel Inouye
Europe
George Washington - John Adams - Thomas Jefferson - James Madison - James Monroe - and John Quincy Adams
The House of Representatives selects the President and the Senate selects the Vice President
42. ______ years later - the Tenure of Office act was gotten rid of by the Supreme court because it was ________.
60; unconstitutional
Electors
A person who knew the truth about Richard Nixon and told Woodward and Bernstein
New Mexico to California
43. How did William McKinley die?
William Jefferson Clinton
Mount Vernon - Virginia
He was shot
None
44. What president had the watergate scandal?
USA
No
Harry S Truman
Richard Nixon
45. Who was the first President during WWII?
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
John Boehner
The idea to own all the land from the pacific to the atlantic ocean; 1.2 million
46. How many years is a presidential term?
4
World War I
George H. W. Bush
April 12th - 1861
47. What was a popular film of John Fitzgerald Kennedy's assassination?
Zapruder film
Daniel Inouye
Mount Vernon - Virginia
James Madison
48. The president get ____ care and _____ care for free.
8
Dental; medical
Dwight David Eisenhower
The Confederate States of America
49. How much money does the president earn per year?
Woodrow Wilson
$400000
Kentucky; Log cabin
In their state's capital
50. What transportation does the president get?
Air Force One - Marine One - and limousines
England; sailors; products
Monticello - Virginia
Dallas - Texas