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U.S. Presidents Trivia
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Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What state is Camp David in?
Zapruder film
World War I
Maryland
Barack Obama
2. What year was the Louisiana Territory bought?
If he serves 2 or less years of someone else's term plus 8 years on his own
1803
The government
Harry S Truman
3. Who had a 12 year affair with Gennifer Flowers?
The House of Representatives selects the President and the Senate selects the Vice President
Worker can take three months off in a year to take care of sick relatives or him/herself and cannot be fired
William Jefferson Clinton
4
4. Which president adopted independence - was loyal - smart - and a lawyer?
John Adams
14
Teddy Roosevelt
Electors
5. Who is thought to have assassinated John Fitzgerald Kennedy?
When he jumped out of the balcony - his foot got stuck in the bunting and he fell onto stage
Lee Harvey Oswald
35
25
6. Why did we enter WWII?
Gerald Ford
Zapruder film
18
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor - Hawaii
7. Who was Deep Throat?
The south
A person who knew the truth about Richard Nixon and told Woodward and Bernstein
Harry S Truman
35
8. Who attends diplomatic functions in place of the president?
Andrew Johnson
The Vice President
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
Sexual harrassment
9. What month and year was the Gettysburg Address said?
Conspiracy
Dwight David Eisenhower
November 1863
Mary Todd-Lincoln
10. What date did WWII begin?
4
The federal government guarentees your money at a bank
September 1st - 1939
Jefferson still survives
11. What was a talent of John Wilkes Booth?
James Madison
Acting
When he jumped out of the balcony - his foot got stuck in the bunting and he fell onto stage
November
12. Who was a peanut farmer?
Period after the Civil War and how we reunited
Jimmy Carter
James Madison
England; sailors; products
13. When did we enter WWII?
John Quicy Adams
Maine and Nebraska
John Quicy Adams
December 7th - 1941
14. What was the most terms served by a president?
A gun
4
England; sailors; products
John Quicy Adams
15. Who was the only president to be president and then supreme court chief justice?
1914-1918
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Lee Harvey Oswald
William Howard Taft
16. What were John Adams's last words?
Jefferson still survives
8
Dolley
John Adams
17. What president made the emancipation proclamtion?
Abraham Lincoln
William Henry Harrison
4th
James Madison
18. Why did we invade Iraq?
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19. Who were Woodward and Bernstein?
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20. Who is the current speaker of the House?
Richard Nixon
John Boehner
14
William Howard Taft
21. How many years younger was John Tyler's wife than him?
30
William Jefferson Clinton
Teddy Roosevelt - Woodrow Wilson - Jimmy Carter - and Barack Obama
OK to send home foregienors if they looked dangerous; also if we were in war with their country
22. What state is Camp David in?
The Vice President
Maryland
He gets shot
Richard Nixon
23. What did the monroe doctrine say?
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24. How much was the Louisiana Territory when it was purchased?
Teddy Roosevelt
15 million
25
Woodrow Wilson
25. Who ran the country when Woodrow Wilson couldn't?
His wife
Cuba wanted to overthrow Castrow and our military helped train them
Dwight David Eisenhower
Hillary Clinton
26. Which president served the most terms?
England - France - Russia - USA
James Polk
A 2nd home for the president
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
27. How much of a retirement income per year does the president make (for life)?
His 5th cousin
$150000
Thomas Jefferson
$400000
28. Why wasn't Richard Nixon thrown out of office?
Barack Obama
He resigned before the impeachment trial
Joe Biden
A gun
29. Who was president for the persian gulf war?
Enola Gay
Social Security
Teddy Roosevelt
George H. W. Bush
30. How many electors are in the electoral college?
John Wilkes Booth
William McKinley
538
35 said He was guilty - but he needed 36
31. Where was John Fitzgerald Kennedy assassinated?
If he serves 2 or less years of someone else's term plus 8 years on his own
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.
John Adams
Dallas - Texas
32. Who was our president during the Vietnam War?
20
Robert E. Lee
Harry S Truman
Lyndon Johnson
33. This president swam naked in the Potomac River
In their state's capital
John Quicy Adams
The House of Representatives selects the President and the Senate selects the Vice President
Martha
34. Which president helped create the Library of Congress when he sells and donates 6000 books?
Maryland
He wanted a date Jodie Foster
Alien and sedition acts
Thomas Jefferson
35. Lyndon Johnson got lots of bills passed involving ______.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Sic Semper Tyrannis - the south is avenged
Civil rights
John Quicy Adams
36. How many electoral votes do you need to win the election?
East of Africa
270
Hillary Clinton
Dental; medical
37. 'Speak softley and carry a big stick' was a quote of who?
Barack Obama
Harry S Truman
Teddy Roosevelt
Jefferson still survives
38. Who were the first presidents to be father and son?
Air Force One - Marine One - and limousines
John Adams and John Quincy Adams
November 1863
James Madison
39. Who built the Interstate Highway System?
Germany - Hungary - Turkey
Thomas Jefferson
Dwight David Eisenhower
Teddy Roosevelt
40. Who attends diplomatic functions in place of the president?
Medical insurance for all americans
Barack Obama
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The Vice President
41. How many kids did John Tyler have?
Money goes to kids when a parent dies
15
John Quincy Adams - Rutherford B. Hayes - Benjamin Harrison - and George W. Bush
George Washington
42. Jimmy Carter was the former governor of ____.
The number of people in Congress plus 3 for DC
Georgia
5
The White House
43. ______ years later - the Tenure of Office act was gotten rid of by the Supreme court because it was ________.
John Adams
60; unconstitutional
New Mexico to California
Robert E. Lee
44. James Madison's wife is famous for...
Saving a picture of Washington during the war
4th
The first Tuesday of Novermber that follows a monday in November
England
45. What college did George Washington go to?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Mom
None
In their state's capital
46. Who was a peanut farmer?
William Henry Harrison
Jimmy Carter
Alien and sedition acts
George H. W. Bush
47. When did we get involved and stop being involved with WWI? (month and year)
November 22nd - 1963
Medical insurance for all americans
William Jefferson Clinton
April 1917- November 1918
48. Why did WWII begin?
Dwight David Eisenhower
Germany invaded Poland
Andrew Jackson
Teddy Roosevelt - Woodrow Wilson - Jimmy Carter - and Barack Obama
49. Do we vote directly for the president?
Martha
January 1st - 1863
No
Andrew Jackson
50. There was a _________ - or a group of people - who helped John Wilkes Booth kill Lincoln and also planned to kill the VP and Secretary.
They were classmates in college
1803
USA
Conspiracy