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U.S. Presidents Trivia
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1. Who was the oldest elected president (age 73 at 2nd term)?
Ronald Reagan
The House of Representatives selects the President and the Senate selects the Vice President
When peace was made between Israel and Egypt at Camp David
Richard Nixon
2. Who was president when the United Nations was formed?
William McKinley
Harry S Truman
South; north
Hillary Clinton
3. What law that Barack Obama passed might be unconstitutional and is being looked at by the supreme court now?
Dental; medical
The Civil War
Universal health care
Joe Biden
4. Which president was a great general - a leader - honest - and trustworth?
132
George Washington
Self
The president could not fire and federal official who had gotten their job with Senate approval
5. How many Vice Presidents have moved up because the president resigned?
World War I
1
The Gettysburg Address
4th
6. Who was on the good side for WWI (abc order)?
35 said He was guilty - but he needed 36
Ronald Reagan
England - France - Russia - USA
$400000
7. What was the camp david accords?
When peace was made between Israel and Egypt at Camp David
Getting out of the Great depression by hiring people - which would start a chain reaction
Georgia
They were classmates in college
8. James Madison's wife was ________ Madison.
Ford's Theater
Dolley
Thomas Jefferson
Conspiracy
9. What are surviver benefits?
Money goes to kids when a parent dies
Acting
Free the slaves in the south
The south
10. What are the people in the electoral college called?
George Washington - John Adams - Thomas Jefferson - James Madison - James Monroe - and John Quincy Adams
Electors
A group of representatives chosen by the voters to elect the President
14
11. How much money does the president earn per year?
270
George H.W. Bush and George Bush
$400000
William Jefferson Clinton
12. John Adams had a successful marriage with ______ (first name).
Abigail
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Dwight David Eisenhower
Jimmy Carter
13. James Monroe created the ________ Doctrine
Monroe
Lyndon Johnson
William Henry Harrison - Zachary Taylor - Warren Harding - and Franklin Delano Roosevelt
If he serves 2 or less years of someone else's term plus 8 years on his own
14. Who was president for the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Monroe
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
444
Teddy Roosevelt
15. How many rooms in the white house?
132
William McKinley
Ulysses S. Grant
1814
16. Who won a nobel peace prize because of the camp david accords?
Monticello - Virginia
Jimmy Carter
William Henry Harrison
Thomas Jefferson
17. ______ years later - the Tenure of Office act was gotten rid of by the Supreme court because it was ________.
60; unconstitutional
Dallas - Texas
John Quicy Adams
January 1st - 1863
18. What was the most terms served by a president?
Dwight David Eisenhower
4
John Tyler
Andrew Jackson
19. Lyndon Johnson got lots of bills passed involving ______.
Germany was attacking ships
The US was prepared to send money and military support to countries that want to resist communism
Civil rights
The three day battle in July in Gettysburg about slaves
20. What did the Interstate Highway System also do besides provide a road for driving?
George H. W. Bush
Providing a backup place for military plane landing
South; north
1914-1918
21. What war never officially ended but just doesn't fight any more?
Providing a backup place for military plane landing
Jimmy Carter
The Korean War
Perjury and obstruction of justice
22. What was William Jefferson Clinton impeached for?
Perjury and obstruction of justice
The House of Representatives selects the President and the Senate selects the Vice President
Barack Obama
Jefferson still survives
23. What presidents lost the popular vote but won the electoral vote? (in order)
Jimmy Carter
John Quincy Adams - Rutherford B. Hayes - Benjamin Harrison - and George W. Bush
Harry S Truman
The south
24. Where did the name 'gettysburg' come from?
The three day battle in July in Gettysburg about slaves
William McKinley
The fourteen points
4th
25. Which president was author of the Virginia Plan?
East of Africa
27
James Madison
John Boehner
26. What president made the emancipation proclamtion?
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Robert E. Lee
Abraham Lincoln
William Jefferson Clinton
27. Which president was a lawyer - very smart - an architect - a musician - and an inventor?
Germany invaded Poland
November 22nd - 1963
William Henry Harrison
Thomas Jefferson
28. 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)
Mary Todd-Lincoln
Democratic National Headquarters; Watergate
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson; July 4th - 1826
Medical insurance for all americans
29. Who burnt down the White House during a war?
England
In their state's capital
A gun
Teddy Roosevelt
30. How many presidents were killed in office?
4
Peterson House; the next morning
Andrew Jackson
World War I
31. This president helped write the federalist papers.
When he jumped out of the balcony - his foot got stuck in the bunting and he fell onto stage
William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison
Iraq invaded Kuwait - and a coalition of naions push Iraq out of Kuwait
James Madison
32. What was reconstruction?
William Jefferson Clinton
5
Period after the Civil War and how we reunited
William Henry Harrison - Zachary Taylor - Warren Harding - and Franklin Delano Roosevelt
33. Where was John Fitzgerald Kennedy assassinated?
Barack Obama
Dallas - Texas
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
8
34. Who was the first VP?
Barack Obama
The Vice President
John Adams
William Seward; $7.2 million; Alaska
35. Lyndon Johnson got lots of bills passed involving ______.
Europe
0
Civil rights
The north and the south were split up
36. How many years do you have to live in the U.S. for to be president?
18
Worker can take three months off in a year to take care of sick relatives or him/herself and cannot be fired
14
Jefferson still survives
37. What does NATO stand for?
5
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
350
Alien and sedition acts
38. Who killed Abraham Lincoln?
Universal health care
The banks were closed because everyone wanted their money at once
John Wilkes Booth
15 million
39. Who introduced disability benefits?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
22 - 24
No
Democratic National Headquarters; Watergate
40. Where does the right to navigate teh seas without interference not apply?
East of Africa
Ft. Sumter - South Carolina
The three day battle in July in Gettysburg about slaves
Dwight David Eisenhower
41. The president get ____ care and _____ care for free.
Cuba wanted to overthrow Castrow and our military helped train them
Speeches given for hope
The US was prepared to send money and military support to countries that want to resist communism
Dental; medical
42. How many Vice Presidents have moved up because the president died?
April 1917- November 1918
8
The US was prepared to send money and military support to countries that want to resist communism
The Gettysburg Address
43. What was the Berlin Airlift?
Lyndon Johnson
George H. W. Bush
Teddy Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt
When we dropped food and supplies to people in West Berlin
44. When was the Emancipation proclamation?
Abigail
January 1st - 1863
Buffalo - New York
$400000
45. Which president was the youngest to serve?
James Madison
Teddy Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Woodrow Wilson
Teddy Roosevelt
46. Who was the only catholic president?
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Hillary Clinton
The Civil War
Woodrow Wilson
47. Do we vote directly for the president?
444
No
England - France - Russia - USA
A 2nd home for the president
48. Who was the first African American President?
The fourteen points
Mom
Barack Obama
1 million
49. Where was Thomas Jefferson born?
Barack Obama
Monticello - Virginia
He was shot
George Washington
50. What date was John Fitzgerald Kennedy killed on?
Barack Obama
November 22nd - 1963
We thought there were weapons of mass destruction - but there weren't
When peace was made between Israel and Egypt at Camp David