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U.S. Presidents Trivia
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1. Why did we invade Iraq?
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2. ______ years later - the Tenure of Office act was gotten rid of by the Supreme court because it was ________.
60; unconstitutional
Mary Todd-Lincoln
1
The first Tuesday of Novermber that follows a monday in November
3. What to laws did Adams TRY to pass?
538
Harry S Truman
Abraham Lincoln
Alien and sedition acts
4. Grover Cleveland was the ____ and ____ president (numbers)
John Tyler
Georgia
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
22 - 24
5. Why didn't the Emancipation proclamation work?
Writters for Washington Post who figured out Richard Nixon's case
The north and the south were split up
Ulysses S. Grant
30
6. What is universal health care?
His 5th cousin
November 1863
Medical insurance for all americans
Thomas Jefferson
7. Who won the Civil war for Lincoln and later on became a president?
15 million
1803
Thomas Jefferson
Ulysses S. Grant
8. Who's son is Camp David named after?
John Quicy Adams
January 1st - 1863
William Jefferson Clinton
Dwight David Eisenhower
9. Who was a peanut farmer?
The Vice President
Jimmy Carter
Enola Gay
Woodrow Wilson
10. Who had many affairs during their presidency but claimed not to?
William Jefferson Clinton
Barack Obama
George Washington
He resigned before the impeachment trial
11. How many rooms in the white house?
OK to send home foregienors if they looked dangerous; also if we were in war with their country
Germany - Hungary - Turkey
132
Teddy Roosevelt
12. What transportation does the president get?
Air Force One - Marine One - and limousines
Teddy Roosevelt
538
Barack Obama
13. Who was president for the persian gulf war?
270
April 12th - 1861
George H. W. Bush
The idea to own all the land from the pacific to the atlantic ocean; 1.2 million
14. Who's son married Nixon's daughter?
Dwight David Eisenhower
Dallas - Texas
No
Harry S Truman
15. During the civil war - the south's general was ____________.
Robert E. Lee
Jefferson Davis
1 million
November 22nd - 1963
16. Who takes over if the President is disabled or dies?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The Vice President
George W. Bush
5
17. Who was Deep Throat?
January 1st - 1863
Club with all countries where problems were discussed peacefully
Monticello - Virginia
A person who knew the truth about Richard Nixon and told Woodward and Bernstein
18. How did John Wilkes Booth break his leg?
John Hinkley Jr.
Massachusetts
Abigail
When he jumped out of the balcony - his foot got stuck in the bunting and he fell onto stage
19. Who was sent to a mental institution after Abraham Lincoln's death?
The north and the south were split up
Mary Todd-Lincoln
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Harvard
20. Who were the first presidents to be father and son?
John Adams and John Quincy Adams
A group of representatives chosen by the voters to elect the President
15 million
Dental; medical
21. Which president got Alzheimers and forgot being president?
Enola Gay
Ronald Reagan
William Henry Harrison
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.
22. Congress passed 2 laws designed to limit __________'s (a president) power .
1 million
Andrew Johnson
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The north and the south were split up
23. Who had an affair with Monica Lewinsky - a young intern at the White House?
15
Peterson House; the next morning
A person who knew the truth about Richard Nixon and told Woodward and Bernstein
William Jefferson Clinton
24. How did William McKinley die?
He was shot
Lee Harvey Oswald
The north were comunists and the south were not
John Quincy Adams - Rutherford B. Hayes - Benjamin Harrison - and George W. Bush
25. Which president helped create the Library of Congress when he sells and donates 6000 books?
Harvard
John Wilkes Booth
George H. W. Bush
Thomas Jefferson
26. Who was William McKinley's VP that moved up when He was killed?
George Washington
No
William Henry Harrison
Teddy Roosevelt
27. Who's son is Camp David named after?
Dwight David Eisenhower
John Quicy Adams
60; unconstitutional
18
28. What college did George Washington go to?
22 - 24
None
He fired the Secretary of War Staton
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
29. James Monroe created the ________ Doctrine
September 1st - 1939
New Mexico to California
132
Monroe
30. Who said 'The only thing we have to fear is fear itself' at their 1st inaugural?
Teddy Roosevelt
Thomas Jefferson
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
January 20th
31. Which president served the most terms?
He resigned before the impeachment trial
Saving a picture of Washington during the war
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Providing a backup place for military plane landing
32. How much money does the president earn per year?
$400000
George H. W. Bush
The government
Andrew Jackson
33. Who did the Banking Holiday?
James Madison
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Since birth
Thomas Jefferson
34. Who acts as an advisor to the president?
Conspiracy
350
The Vice President
100
35. Who was our president when we kille Osama bin Laden?
Social Security
Barack Obama
December 7th - 1941
30
36. Why did WWI happen?
Honor people who died - make sure the country survies
Club with all countries where problems were discussed peacefully
Germany was attacking ships
William Jefferson Clinton
37. Andrew Johnson had a (good/bad) relation ship with congress over reconstruction
Richard Nixon
Free the slaves in the south
Bad
4
38. What is Camp David?
Joe Biden
William Henry Harrison
The first Tuesday of Novermber that follows a monday in November
A 2nd home for the president
39. Which president was a great general - a leader - honest - and trustworth?
Dallas - Texas
The White House
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
George Washington
40. Who introduced disability benefits?
Universal health care
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The first Tuesday of Novermber that follows a monday in November
100
41. William Jefferson Clinton paid Paula Jones $____.
Mary Todd-Lincoln
William McKinley
0
1 million
42. How many days was the Iran Hostage crisis?
No
John Adams
Dolley
444
43. Who gave the longest inauguration speech?
Dwight David Eisenhower
George W. Bush
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
William Henry Harrison
44. What war was George Washington in the military for?
1803
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
35
French and Indian War
45. What was the New Deal?
April 12th - 1861
Teddy Roosevelt
He was shot on his way to a college reunion
Getting out of the Great depression by hiring people - which would start a chain reaction
46. In the War of 1812 - ________ (country) kept stealing our ________ (people) and _______ (items) in the middle of the ocean (separate with semicolon).
Abraham Lincoln
England; sailors; products
Dwight David Eisenhower
Lyndon Johnson
47. Who did fireside chats?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
538
4
George H.W. Bush and George Bush
48. who pays for the costs of operating the white house?
Dwight David Eisenhower
The government
35
Gerald Ford
49. Franklin Delano Roosevelt's wife was related to him how?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
His 5th cousin
8
William Henry Harrison
50. Where did the civil war begin?
Ft. Sumter - South Carolina
350
Thomas Jefferson
Teddy Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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