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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?
Buffalo - New York
$400000
Gerald Ford
6'4'
2. Who was president when the United Nations was formed?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Harry S Truman
Writters for Washington Post who figured out Richard Nixon's case
Electors
3. Who said 'A date that will live in infamy'? What were they talking about (separate with semicolon)?
Since birth
Kentucky; Log cabin
Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Pearl Harbor bombing
Jimmy Carter
4. How many electors are in the electoral college?
Gerald Ford
The south
January 20th
538
5. Where did Thomas Jefferson go to college?
William and Mary College
Teddy Roosevelt
Teddy Roosevelt - Woodrow Wilson - Jimmy Carter - and Barack Obama
Maine and Nebraska
6. Where was William McKinley killed?
Ronald Reagan
Providing a backup place for military plane landing
Buffalo - New York
Ulysses S. Grant
7. Why did WWI happen?
Providing a backup place for military plane landing
Germany was attacking ships
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Ronald Reagan
8. What was the camp david accords?
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
When peace was made between Israel and Egypt at Camp David
The Civil War
9. How many former vice presidents have become president?
William Henry Harrison - Zachary Taylor - Warren Harding - and Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Ronald Reagan
Lyndon Johnson
14
10. What was the name of the airplane that bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki
His 5th cousin
OK to send home foregienors if they looked dangerous; also if we were in war with their country
Enola Gay
Guam - Midway Islands - Philippines - and Puerto Rico
11. Which president recognized Israel and traded with them and gave money and embassadors to them?
William Jefferson Clinton
Harry S Truman
Gerald Ford
Saving a picture of Washington during the war
12. Where does the number of electors in the electoral college come from?
1814
William and Mary College
Barack Obama
The number of people in Congress plus 3 for DC
13. Who was the commander in charge of Europe afor the Allies in WWII?
Dwight David Eisenhower
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
18
Money goes to kids when a parent dies
14. Which president presented the bill of rights at the first Congress?
Thomas Jefferson
James Madison
Thomas Jefferson
Forced the president to issue all military orders through general of the army who could not be removed without senate approval
15. What are the people in the electoral college called?
William McKinley
Electors
None
35
16. William Jefferson Clinton paid Paula Jones $____.
1 million
Dental; medical
Lee Harvey Oswald
Barack Obama
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.
Conspiracy
Dwight David Eisenhower
Jimmy Carter
Enola Gay
18. Who was William McKinley's VP that moved up when He was killed?
The Vice President
George Washington
Teddy Roosevelt
Mary Todd-Lincoln
19. Gerald Ford pardons _____________ for all crimes committed.
Cuba wanted to overthrow Castrow and our military helped train them
Richard Nixon
Kentucky; Log cabin
If he serves 2 or less years of someone else's term plus 8 years on his own
20. Where do electors vote?
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21. what president was also president of the constitutional convention?
George Washington
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson; July 4th - 1826
In their state's capital
Andrew Jackson
22. What was the New Deal?
Teddy Roosevelt
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Getting out of the Great depression by hiring people - which would start a chain reaction
The north and the south were split up
23. What does 'Sic Semper Tyrranis' mean?
Acting
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
1 million
Thus always to tyrants
24. Do we vote directly for the president?
Monroe
No
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
30
25. Who balanced the budget?
The fourteen points
William Jefferson Clinton
Dwight David Eisenhower
He wanted a date Jodie Foster
26. Who created the Family Medical Leave Act?
William Jefferson Clinton
Forced the president to issue all military orders through general of the army who could not be removed without senate approval
The federal government guarentees your money at a bank
He wanted a date Jodie Foster
27. Who was our president during the Vietnam War?
Lyndon Johnson
Harry S Truman
A 2nd home for the president
He was shot
28. Which presidents won the nobel peace prize (in order)?
He was shot on his way to a college reunion
Teddy Roosevelt - Woodrow Wilson - Jimmy Carter - and Barack Obama
Crime to print false or meliscious or scandalist stuff about the U.S. gov.
April 1917- November 1918
29. Which presidents were great grandfather and grandson?
William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison
Gerald Ford
Guam - Midway Islands - Philippines - and Puerto Rico
4th
30. Who's son is Camp David named after?
Dwight David Eisenhower
270
George H. W. Bush
Andrew Jackson
31. What happens to John Wilkes Booth?
Ulysses S. Grant
East of Africa
He gets shot
350
32. What is the address of the white house?
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Dwight David Eisenhower
Mount Vernon - Virginia
132
33. What was the New Deal?
Getting out of the Great depression by hiring people - which would start a chain reaction
60; unconstitutional
Richard Nixon
Barack Obama
34. How much money does the president earn per year?
$400000
Saving a picture of Washington during the war
Abraham Lincoln
Acting
35. Who attends diplomatic functions in place of the president?
Richard Nixon
Perjury and obstruction of justice
Worker can take three months off in a year to take care of sick relatives or him/herself and cannot be fired
The Vice President
36. Which president was author of the Virginia Plan?
Crime to print false or meliscious or scandalist stuff about the U.S. gov.
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
James Madison
20
37. The committee of the watergate scandal illegally entered the __________ (building) and spied on Nixon's opponent Who was in the _______ complex.
He wanted a date Jodie Foster
Monticello - Virginia
Democratic National Headquarters; Watergate
Barack Obama
38. Which presient send Lewis and Clark on their journey?
1803
John Adams
Barack Obama
Thomas Jefferson
39. Who did we help in the Vietnam war and the korean war?
William Henry Harrison
The south
Ulysses S. Grant
A group of representatives chosen by the voters to elect the President
40. What is NATO (not what it stands for - what it is)?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
A support group of countries
2
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
41. Which president was author of the Virginia Plan?
James Madison
William Jefferson Clinton
He resigned before the impeachment trial
Andrew Jackson
42. How many years is a presidential term?
4
The three day battle in July in Gettysburg about slaves
He wanted a date Jodie Foster
When we dropped food and supplies to people in West Berlin
43. Who built the Interstate Highway System?
Zapruder film
Dwight David Eisenhower
Acting
Andrew Johnson
44. Who were the first presidents to be father and son?
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
John Adams and John Quincy Adams
Alien and sedition acts
John Hinkley Jr.
45. Why wasn't Richard Nixon thrown out of office?
132
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
He resigned before the impeachment trial
Jefferson Davis
46. How old do you have to be to be president?
35
William Jefferson Clinton
4
Jimmy Carter
47. After Abraham Lincoln was shot - He was carried across the street to ________________ where he dies when?
Electors
OK to send home foregienors if they looked dangerous; also if we were in war with their country
Peterson House; the next morning
His wife
48. Who did the Banking Holiday?
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
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Ford's Theater
Perjury and obstruction of justice
49. Andrew Johnson had a (good/bad) relation ship with congress over reconstruction
Jefferson still survives
The number of people in Congress plus 3 for DC
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Bad
50. Which president created Yellowstone National Park and Yosemite?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
We thought there were weapons of mass destruction - but there weren't
Teddy Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Pearl Harbor bombing
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