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U.S. Presidents Trivia

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1. Who became president when Richard Nixon resigend because they were his VP?






2. Who was president when the United Nations was formed?






3. Who said 'A date that will live in infamy'? What were they talking about (separate with semicolon)?






4. How many electors are in the electoral college?






5. Where did Thomas Jefferson go to college?






6. Where was William McKinley killed?






7. Why did WWI happen?






8. What was the camp david accords?






9. How many former vice presidents have become president?






10. What was the name of the airplane that bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki






11. Which president recognized Israel and traded with them and gave money and embassadors to them?






12. Where does the number of electors in the electoral college come from?






13. Who was the commander in charge of Europe afor the Allies in WWII?






14. Which president presented the bill of rights at the first Congress?






15. What are the people in the electoral college called?






16. William Jefferson Clinton paid Paula Jones $____.






17. There was a _________ - or a group of people - who helped John Wilkes Booth kill Lincoln and also planned to kill the VP and Secretary.






18. Who was William McKinley's VP that moved up when He was killed?






19. Gerald Ford pardons _____________ for all crimes committed.






20. Where do electors vote?

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21. what president was also president of the constitutional convention?






22. What was the New Deal?






23. What does 'Sic Semper Tyrranis' mean?






24. Do we vote directly for the president?






25. Who balanced the budget?






26. Who created the Family Medical Leave Act?






27. Who was our president during the Vietnam War?






28. Which presidents won the nobel peace prize (in order)?






29. Which presidents were great grandfather and grandson?






30. Who's son is Camp David named after?






31. What happens to John Wilkes Booth?






32. What is the address of the white house?






33. What was the New Deal?






34. How much money does the president earn per year?






35. Who attends diplomatic functions in place of the president?






36. Which president was author of the Virginia Plan?






37. The committee of the watergate scandal illegally entered the __________ (building) and spied on Nixon's opponent Who was in the _______ complex.






38. Which presient send Lewis and Clark on their journey?






39. Who did we help in the Vietnam war and the korean war?






40. What is NATO (not what it stands for - what it is)?






41. Which president was author of the Virginia Plan?






42. How many years is a presidential term?






43. Who built the Interstate Highway System?






44. Who were the first presidents to be father and son?






45. Why wasn't Richard Nixon thrown out of office?






46. How old do you have to be to be president?






47. After Abraham Lincoln was shot - He was carried across the street to ________________ where he dies when?






48. Who did the Banking Holiday?






49. Andrew Johnson had a (good/bad) relation ship with congress over reconstruction






50. Which president created Yellowstone National Park and Yosemite?






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