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U.S. Presidents Trivia
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1. Which president started the two term tradition?
Dolley
18
George Washington
Since birth
2. Why wasn't Andrew Johnson removed from office when He was impeached?
Dolley
35 said He was guilty - but he needed 36
Thus always to tyrants
Zapruder film
3. Where does the number of electors in the electoral college come from?
John Adams
The north and the south were split up
7; 11
The number of people in Congress plus 3 for DC
4. Who invaded Iraq?
Since birth
George W. Bush
Thomas Jefferson
Abigail
5. How many presidents died in office?
8
1 million
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
6'4'
6. Who did fireside chats?
Abraham Lincoln
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Lee Harvey Oswald
Mom
7. When did we get involved and stop being involved with WWI? (month and year)
George W. Bush
April 1917- November 1918
Massachusetts
Germany - Hungary - Turkey
8. Sedition acts
George Washington
Crime to print false or meliscious or scandalist stuff about the U.S. gov.
George H. W. Bush
William Jefferson Clinton
9. How many years younger was John Tyler's wife than him?
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor - Hawaii
Germany - Hungary - Turkey
John Adams
30
10. Who was the only man to be president Who was not elected to either vp spot or the presidency?
John Tyler
Gerald Ford
George H.W. Bush and George Bush
Teddy Roosevelt
11. How tall was Abraham Lincoln?
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12. What was reconstruction?
Richard Nixon
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor - Hawaii
4th
Period after the Civil War and how we reunited
13. Who balanced the budget?
Dwight David Eisenhower
William Jefferson Clinton
1814
The Vice President
14. Who was the youngest elected president?
The Vice President
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Jimmy Carter
444
15. What are disability benefits?
James Madison
You can collect money if you become disabled before retirement
Since birth
William Henry Harrison
16. John Quicy Adams spent time In what continent?
Europe
Social Security
A group of representatives chosen by the voters to elect the President
Electors
17. Who pays for all personal entertainment and dinners not related to teh government business in the White House?
William Jefferson Clinton
The president
Ronald Reagan
USA
18. What was a popular film of John Fitzgerald Kennedy's assassination?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Free the slaves in the south
Zapruder film
George H. W. Bush
19. Who said 'The only thing we have to fear is fear itself' at their 1st inaugural?
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
The fourteen points
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Teddy Roosevelt
20. Who was president for the 9/11 attacks?
George W. Bush
Self
November 22nd - 1963
John Quicy Adams
21. Who was the only president to resign?
Teddy Roosevelt
Richard Nixon
The number of people in Congress plus 3 for DC
The president
22. Why wasn't Richard Nixon thrown out of office?
If he serves 2 or less years of someone else's term plus 8 years on his own
He resigned before the impeachment trial
William Jefferson Clinton
Teddy Roosevelt - Woodrow Wilson - Jimmy Carter - and Barack Obama
23. Who won a Nobel Peace Prize for what they were going to do?
Universal health care
Barack Obama
John Quicy Adams
Daniel Inouye
24. Who did the Banking Holiday?
You can collect money if you become disabled before retirement
X-ray
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Guam - Midway Islands - Philippines - and Puerto Rico
25. James Monroe created the ________ Doctrine
William Jefferson Clinton
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Worker can take three months off in a year to take care of sick relatives or him/herself and cannot be fired
Monroe
26. Who said 'The buck stops here'?
Teddy Roosevelt - Woodrow Wilson - Jimmy Carter - and Barack Obama
Germany was attacking ships
November
Harry S Truman
27. Where was William McKinley killed?
Sexual harrassment
Barack Obama
Harry S Truman
Buffalo - New York
28. Who had a 12 year affair with Gennifer Flowers?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
James Madison
William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison
William Jefferson Clinton
29. After what event was the Fourteen Points presented?
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
World War I
April 12th - 1861
If he serves 2 or less years of someone else's term plus 8 years on his own
30. How many presidents were killed in office?
4
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
4th
Andrew Jackson
31. Who was president when the United Nations was formed?
Buffalo - New York
Harry S Truman
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor - Hawaii
Mom
32. Why did we invade Iraq?
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33. What college did George Washington go to?
Andrew Jackson
None
1814
William Jefferson Clinton
34. What was Lincoln's most famous speech?
Dwight David Eisenhower
Thus always to tyrants
Teddy Roosevelt
The Gettysburg Address
35. What war was Abraham Lincoln president during?
The Civil War
William Henry Harrison
Air Force One - Marine One - and limousines
25
36. How did William McKinley die?
William Jefferson Clinton
James Madison
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
He was shot
37. During the civil war - the south's president was _____________.
The north were comunists and the south were not
When peace was made between Israel and Egypt at Camp David
Teddy Roosevelt
Jefferson Davis
38. What happens to John Wilkes Booth?
He gets shot
4
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The Vice President
39. Where does the number of electors in the electoral college come from?
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Writters for Washington Post who figured out Richard Nixon's case
April 12th - 1861
The number of people in Congress plus 3 for DC
40. Who was the first VP?
Harry S Truman
The north and the south were split up
John Adams
January 1st - 1863
41. Which presidents were cousins?
270
He was shot on his way to a college reunion
A 2nd home for the president
Teddy Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt
42. When did we enter WWII?
December 7th - 1941
Jefferson still survives
George Washington
John Adams
43. Which presidents were great grandfather and grandson?
1803
538
Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Pearl Harbor bombing
William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison
44. Who passed Universal health care?
Barack Obama
Richard Nixon
Peterson House; the next morning
When we dropped food and supplies to people in West Berlin
45. Who were the second presidents to be father and son?
The fourteen points
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
South; north
George H.W. Bush and George Bush
46. Which president was a great general - a leader - honest - and trustworth?
Democratic National Headquarters; Watergate
George Washington
Dwight David Eisenhower
Electors
47. What was Lincoln's most famous speech?
William McKinley
James Madison
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The Gettysburg Address
48. What was the most terms served by a president?
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
444
4
The first Tuesday of Novermber that follows a monday in November
49. Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant knew eachother because _________.
Georgia
Conspiracy
William Henry Harrison
They were classmates in college
50. Who attends diplomatic functions in place of the president?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The idea to own all the land from the pacific to the atlantic ocean; 1.2 million
The Vice President