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U.S. Presidents Trivia
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What is universal health care?
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Jimmy Carter
William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison
Medical insurance for all americans
2. Who had many affairs during their presidency but claimed not to?
7; 11
George H. W. Bush
Teddy Roosevelt
William Jefferson Clinton
3. Which president was author of the Virginia Plan?
Medical insurance for all americans
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
James Madison
George H. W. Bush
4. What was William Jefferson Clinton impeached for?
William Jefferson Clinton
A person who knew the truth about Richard Nixon and told Woodward and Bernstein
2
Perjury and obstruction of justice
5. Who was sent to a mental institution after Abraham Lincoln's death?
Worker can take three months off in a year to take care of sick relatives or him/herself and cannot be fired
Dallas - Texas
Mary Todd-Lincoln
Lee Harvey Oswald
6. Who was President during the Spanish American War?
Jimmy Carter
John Adams
William McKinley
Abraham Lincoln
7. What was the persian gulf war/desert storm?
Iraq invaded Kuwait - and a coalition of naions push Iraq out of Kuwait
The federal government guarentees your money at a bank
The Korean War
Revolutionary War
8. The person who killed John Fitzgerald Kennedy is thought to have killed him in a _______ - or not alone.
Andrew Jackson
Conspiracy
4
World War I
9. The president get ____ care and _____ care for free.
Daniel Inouye
George H. W. Bush
Dental; medical
Abraham Lincoln
10. What is the Truman Doctrine?
Club with all countries where problems were discussed peacefully
15
South; north
The US was prepared to send money and military support to countries that want to resist communism
11. How many Vice Presidents ran again for president and became president?
Woodrow Wilson
5
Gerald Ford
Dallas - Texas
12. Sewards Folly was when ________ (secretary of state) bought land for $______ - which was thought to be as a joke then - but now that land is known as ________.
William Seward; $7.2 million; Alaska
Ford's Theater
Germany was attacking ships
Daniel Inouye
13. Alien Acts
The three day battle in July in Gettysburg about slaves
Abigail
December 7th - 1941
OK to send home foregienors if they looked dangerous; also if we were in war with their country
14. The president get ____ care and _____ care for free.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Mary Todd-Lincoln
George H.W. Bush and George Bush
Dental; medical
15. Where was William McKinley killed?
Buffalo - New York
Dental; medical
Peterson House; the next morning
Abraham Lincoln
16. What is the Truman Doctrine?
The US was prepared to send money and military support to countries that want to resist communism
350
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
England
17. Who did the Banking Holiday?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Iraq invaded Kuwait - and a coalition of naions push Iraq out of Kuwait
6'4'
A support group of countries
18. Who's son married Nixon's daughter?
Dwight David Eisenhower
William Howard Taft
The president could not fire and federal official who had gotten their job with Senate approval
George H.W. Bush and George Bush
19. Who did we help in the Vietnam war and the korean war?
He fired the Secretary of War Staton
Mount Vernon - Virginia
The south
George W. Bush
20. Who presented the Fourteen Points?
Woodrow Wilson
Writters for Washington Post who figured out Richard Nixon's case
Guam - Midway Islands - Philippines - and Puerto Rico
William Jefferson Clinton
21. Who was the first African American President?
He was shot on his way to a college reunion
8
Barack Obama
He wanted a date Jodie Foster
22. How many kids did John Tyler have?
15
The north were comunists and the south were not
The banks were closed because everyone wanted their money at once
Woodrow Wilson
23. ______ years later - the Tenure of Office act was gotten rid of by the Supreme court because it was ________.
60; unconstitutional
The idea to own all the land from the pacific to the atlantic ocean; 1.2 million
September 1st - 1939
William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison
24. When did we get involved and stop being involved with WWI? (month and year)
April 1917- November 1918
35 said He was guilty - but he needed 36
350
Jefferson still survives
25. Who were the second presidents to be father and son?
Eleanor
Dwight David Eisenhower
Monticello - Virginia
George H.W. Bush and George Bush
26. Who was president for the 9/11 attacks?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
George W. Bush
Woodrow Wilson
January 20th
27. Where did Thomas Jefferson go to college?
William and Mary College
England - France - Russia - USA
Social Security
New Mexico to California
28. Where did Abraham Lincoln's assasination take place?
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29. James Madison's wife was ________ Madison.
270
Eleanor
Dolley
William and Mary College
30. During the civil war - the south named itself _____.
The Confederate States of America
Providing a backup place for military plane landing
Maine and Nebraska
Jimmy Carter
31. Who gave the longest inauguration speech?
William Henry Harrison
Acting
Teddy Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Buffalo - New York
32. What is the mandatory retirement plan run by the government?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
1914-1918
Social Security
14
33. Franklin Delano Roosevelt died a short time into his ____ term.
Monticello - Virginia
John Hinkley Jr.
4th
Lee Harvey Oswald
34. What was the Banking Holiday?
Robert E. Lee
Thus always to tyrants
The banks were closed because everyone wanted their money at once
Martha
35. What is the oldest you can be to get surviver benefits?
X-ray
George Washington - John Adams - Thomas Jefferson - James Madison - James Monroe - and John Quincy Adams
He wanted a date Jodie Foster
18
36. What to laws did Adams TRY to pass?
George H.W. Bush and George Bush
Alien and sedition acts
Daniel Inouye
Thomas Jefferson
37. Sewards Folly was when ________ (secretary of state) bought land for $______ - which was thought to be as a joke then - but now that land is known as ________.
When we dropped food and supplies to people in West Berlin
The federal government guarentees your money at a bank
Thomas Jefferson
William Seward; $7.2 million; Alaska
38. When did we get involved and stop being involved with WWI? (month and year)
We thought there were weapons of mass destruction - but there weren't
18
April 1917- November 1918
Harry S Truman
39. What was the most terms served by a president?
He fired the Secretary of War Staton
Harry S Truman
The Confederate States of America
4
40. How many states broke away during the civil war AT FIRST? how many total ending up breaking away?
George W. Bush
15 million
7; 11
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
41. Who was president for the nullification crisis?
George Washington
Andrew Jackson
30
Massachusetts
42. Who was George Washington's wife?
Martha
OK to send home foregienors if they looked dangerous; also if we were in war with their country
Teddy Roosevelt
Conspiracy
43. Who was a Great General in war of 1812?
We thought there were weapons of mass destruction - but there weren't
Andrew Jackson
September 1st - 1939
Lyndon Johnson
44. Who was the fpresident during WWI?
Perjury and obstruction of justice
Mary Todd-Lincoln
Woodrow Wilson
William Henry Harrison
45. Andrew Johnson was _________'s VP
James Polk
Abigail
Democratic National Headquarters; Watergate
Abraham Lincoln
46. Congress passed 2 laws designed to limit __________'s (a president) power .
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor - Hawaii
14
Abraham Lincoln
Andrew Johnson
47. What date did WWII begin?
September 1st - 1939
Teddy Roosevelt
French and Indian War
Bad
48. Who won the Nobel peace prize because he told Russia and Japan not to fight - but to love?
The first Tuesday of Novermber that follows a monday in November
Perjury and obstruction of justice
Teddy Roosevelt
5
49. Who was the youngest elected president?
You can collect money if you become disabled before retirement
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
4
The banks were closed because everyone wanted their money at once
50. What college did George Washington go to?
William Henry Harrison
James Madison
None
100