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U.S. Presidents Trivia
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1. What was the name of the airplane that bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Enola Gay
0
November 22nd - 1963
Self
2. James Madison's wife was ________ Madison.
George Washington
Woodrow Wilson
Dolley
Acting
3. Which president adopted independence - was loyal - smart - and a lawyer?
John Adams
Getting out of the Great depression by hiring people - which would start a chain reaction
The Vice President
Barack Obama
4. Who was the first VP to move up on death of a president?
Civil rights
Teddy Roosevelt
Maryland
John Tyler
5. Which president helped create the Library of Congress when he sells and donates 6000 books?
East of Africa
Sexual harrassment
Teddy Roosevelt - Woodrow Wilson - Jimmy Carter - and Barack Obama
Thomas Jefferson
6. Who was president for the 9/11 attacks?
Teddy Roosevelt
New Mexico to California
George W. Bush
132
7. What month and year was the Gettysburg Address said?
1
Free the slaves in the south
November 1863
The north were comunists and the south were not
8. 'Speak softley and carry a big stick' was a quote of who?
Teddy Roosevelt
Conspiracy
538
Kentucky; Log cabin
9. Where does the number of electors in the electoral college come from?
The number of people in Congress plus 3 for DC
Harvard
Peterson House; the next morning
The south
10. Who went to the Supreme court and tried to increase it to fifteen judges - but was told no?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Enola Gay
Crime to print false or meliscious or scandalist stuff about the U.S. gov.
Lyndon Johnson
11. Why did the person who tried to assassinate Ronald Reagan do it?
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.
Dwight David Eisenhower
He wanted a date Jodie Foster
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor - Hawaii
12. Why wasn't Richard Nixon thrown out of office?
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
100
Providing a backup place for military plane landing
He resigned before the impeachment trial
13. Who passed Universal health care?
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
Barack Obama
Harry S Truman
0
14. Who were the first presidents to be father and son?
John Adams and John Quincy Adams
Club with all countries where problems were discussed peacefully
No
The Confederate States of America
15. Who was Franklin Delano Roosevelt married to?
The Vice President
None
0
Eleanor
16. What were fireside chats?
Thomas Jefferson
George Washington
George Washington
Speeches given for hope
17. Who built the Interstate Highway System?
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.
Dwight David Eisenhower
William Jefferson Clinton
350
18. Which president served the most terms?
Barack Obama
Civil rights
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
5
19. How many rooms in the white house?
Free the slaves in the south
Woodrow Wilson
132
Polio
20. What is manifest destiny? how many square miles was it?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The idea to own all the land from the pacific to the atlantic ocean; 1.2 million
Conspiracy
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
21. What presidents lost the popular vote but won the electoral vote? (in order)
Daniel Inouye
John Quincy Adams - Rutherford B. Hayes - Benjamin Harrison - and George W. Bush
Richard Nixon
Woodrow Wilson
22. What does 'Sic Semper Tyrranis' mean?
Monroe
Thus always to tyrants
Buffalo - New York
6'4'
23. Alien Acts
Lyndon Johnson
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
OK to send home foregienors if they looked dangerous; also if we were in war with their country
November
24. Who killed Abraham Lincoln?
18
John Wilkes Booth
Mary Todd-Lincoln
The Civil War
25. What to laws did Adams TRY to pass?
James Madison
Dallas - Texas
15 million
Alien and sedition acts
26. What war did George Washington lead the army for?
538
French and Indian War
Thus always to tyrants
Revolutionary War
27. Who was embarrassed when they received the Nobel Peace Prize?
Thomas Jefferson
The president could not fire and federal official who had gotten their job with Senate approval
Barack Obama
The Vice President
28. Why wasn't Andrew Johnson removed from office when He was impeached?
35 said He was guilty - but he needed 36
14
Maine and Nebraska
William Jefferson Clinton
29. Who was president during the Great depression?
The idea to own all the land from the pacific to the atlantic ocean; 1.2 million
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Monroe
No
30. Where did the name 'gettysburg' come from?
Abraham Lincoln
30
John Adams
The three day battle in July in Gettysburg about slaves
31. Who said 'A date that will live in infamy'? What were they talking about (separate with semicolon)?
Buffalo - New York
If he serves 2 or less years of someone else's term plus 8 years on his own
The Vice President
Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Pearl Harbor bombing
32. Who acts as an advisor to the president?
The Vice President
Teddy Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt
George Washington
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor - Hawaii
33. What was the persian gulf war/desert storm?
Ulysses S. Grant
Iraq invaded Kuwait - and a coalition of naions push Iraq out of Kuwait
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
8
34. This president swam naked in the Potomac River
Sic Semper Tyrannis - the south is avenged
Robert E. Lee
30
John Quicy Adams
35. Who was sent to a mental institution after Abraham Lincoln's death?
Mary Todd-Lincoln
The Vice President
Ulysses S. Grant
Guam - Midway Islands - Philippines - and Puerto Rico
36. Who were the second presidents to be father and son?
Dwight David Eisenhower
Teddy Roosevelt
Money goes to kids when a parent dies
George H.W. Bush and George Bush
37. What was the New Deal?
Daniel Inouye
Since birth
Getting out of the Great depression by hiring people - which would start a chain reaction
Joe Biden
38. Can the amount of money a president earns be increased/decreased during someone's term of office?
No
William Jefferson Clinton
Free the slaves in the south
January 20th
39. Sedition acts
Dwight David Eisenhower
Crime to print false or meliscious or scandalist stuff about the U.S. gov.
Dallas - Texas
Social Security
40. How many rooms in the white house?
2
George Washington
132
He was shot on his way to a college reunion
41. 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 first Tuesday of Novermber that follows a monday in November
Mount Vernon - Virginia
New Mexico to California
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson; July 4th - 1826
42. Who was Deep Throat?
A person who knew the truth about Richard Nixon and told Woodward and Bernstein
Barack Obama
James Madison
Barack Obama
43. ______ years later - the Tenure of Office act was gotten rid of by the Supreme court because it was ________.
January 1st - 1863
Civil rights
Jimmy Carter
60; unconstitutional
44. What was the Berlin Airlift?
When we dropped food and supplies to people in West Berlin
Self
Perjury and obstruction of justice
The House of Representatives selects the President and the Senate selects the Vice President
45. Lyndon Johnson got lots of bills passed involving ______.
15
John Adams
27
Civil rights
46. Who did fireside chats?
4th
Harry S Truman
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Robert E. Lee
47. Who created the Family Medical Leave Act?
William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison
January 1st - 1863
William Jefferson Clinton
Jimmy Carter
48. Who attempted to assassinate Ronald Reagan?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Speeches given for hope
John Hinkley Jr.
Ronald Reagan
49. Who had many affairs during their presidency but claimed not to?
Barack Obama
The government
William Jefferson Clinton
Teddy Roosevelt
50. How much of a retirement income per year does the president make (for life)?
Lyndon Johnson
William Henry Harrison
Democratic National Headquarters; Watergate
$150000
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