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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 the family Medical Leave Act?
George H. W. Bush
Worker can take three months off in a year to take care of sick relatives or him/herself and cannot be fired
England; sailors; products
60; unconstitutional
2. Who introduced disability benefits?
Teddy Roosevelt
Harry S Truman
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Lyndon Johnson
3. Who was the first VP?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
John Adams
South; north
Dolley
4. What is the mandatory retirement plan run by the government?
They were classmates in college
Maryland
George Washington
Social Security
5. How was James Garfield killed?
A group of representatives chosen by the voters to elect the President
He was shot on his way to a college reunion
William Jefferson Clinton
Woodrow Wilson
6. Who won a nobel peace prize because of the camp david accords?
Ronald Reagan
John Boehner
Jimmy Carter
April 1917- November 1918
7. Who was embarrassed when they received the Nobel Peace Prize?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Barack Obama
The Vice President
Dwight David Eisenhower
8. What are surviver benefits?
Money goes to kids when a parent dies
Civil War
27
George Washington - John Adams - Thomas Jefferson - James Madison - James Monroe - and John Quincy Adams
9. Gerald Ford pardons _____________ for all crimes committed.
1
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
A person who knew the truth about Richard Nixon and told Woodward and Bernstein
Richard Nixon
10. Lyndon Johnson got lots of bills passed involving ______.
Alien and sedition acts
Dwight David Eisenhower
Civil rights
The president could not fire and federal official who had gotten their job with Senate approval
11. John Quicy Adams spent time In what continent?
William and Mary College
Europe
350
538
12. How many Vice Presidents ran again for president and became president?
5
William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison
1803
Thomas Jefferson
13. Who did we help in the Vietnam war and the korean war?
John Wilkes Booth
The south
Thomas Jefferson
Ulysses S. Grant
14. Who was the first African American President?
George Washington
Barack Obama
November 22nd - 1963
Teddy Roosevelt
15. Who is the current speaker of the House?
John Boehner
100
Kentucky; Log cabin
Lee Harvey Oswald
16. Sedition acts
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
1803
Crime to print false or meliscious or scandalist stuff about the U.S. gov.
Saving a picture of Washington during the war
17. What presidents lost the popular vote but won the electoral vote? (in order)
January 20th
Harry S Truman
John Quincy Adams - Rutherford B. Hayes - Benjamin Harrison - and George W. Bush
George Washington
18. What was a talent of John Wilkes Booth?
William and Mary College
Teddy Roosevelt
George Washington
Acting
19. Where did the name 'gettysburg' come from?
The three day battle in July in Gettysburg about slaves
John Adams
William Henry Harrison
George H. W. Bush
20. There was a _________ - or a group of people - who helped John Wilkes Booth kill Lincoln and also planned to kill the VP and Secretary.
270
Conspiracy
He was shot
Universal health care
21. Which president was author of the Virginia Plan?
James Madison
In their state's capital
Mary Todd-Lincoln
Thomas Jefferson
22. Which president recognized Israel and traded with them and gave money and embassadors to them?
Harry S Truman
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
William and Mary College
William McKinley
23. Which president was obnoxious and disliked?
James Madison
Forced the president to issue all military orders through general of the army who could not be removed without senate approval
John Adams
A group of representatives chosen by the voters to elect the President
24. How can a president serve up to ten years?
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25. Who was president for the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Bad
They were classmates in college
Abigail
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
26. Who burnt down the White House during a war?
Revolutionary War
350
England
September 1st - 1939
27. What is the mandatory retirement plan run by the government?
Woodrow Wilson
15 million
Social Security
William Jefferson Clinton
28. James Madison's wife was ________ Madison.
Dolley
The Vice President
35
8
29. What was the Tenure of Office Act/
William McKinley
1803
You can collect money if you become disabled before retirement
The president could not fire and federal official who had gotten their job with Senate approval
30. Grover Cleveland was the ____ and ____ president (numbers)
1
22 - 24
Germany invaded Poland
John Boehner
31. How many kids did John Tyler have?
15
4
Maine and Nebraska
He resigned before the impeachment trial
32. What was the camp david accords?
The Vice President
When peace was made between Israel and Egypt at Camp David
In their state's capital
Ronald Reagan
33. Which president was a 'rough rider' in the Spanish American War?
Teddy Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Pearl Harbor bombing
The president
Richard Nixon
34. What weapon was used to kill Lincoln?
January 1st - 1863
A gun
Ford's Theater
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
35. Who was president for the nullification crisis?
George H. W. Bush
George Washington
Andrew Jackson
Richard Nixon
36. Where was William McKinley killed?
Buffalo - New York
The south
Self
Woodrow Wilson
37. Who is thought to have assassinated John Fitzgerald Kennedy?
Bad
27
4
Lee Harvey Oswald
38. How many presidents died in office?
8
$150000
Teddy Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt
35
39. Which president created the University of Virgina?
James Polk
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor - Hawaii
Thomas Jefferson
Ronald Reagan
40. Who introduced social security?
15
James Madison
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Teddy Roosevelt
41. Which president started the two term tradition?
George Washington
The Vice President
Barack Obama
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
42. Where does the right to navigate teh seas without interference not apply?
January 1st - 1863
No
Dental; medical
East of Africa
43. Who had a 12 year affair with Gennifer Flowers?
Eleanor
Gerald Ford
Dallas - Texas
William Jefferson Clinton
44. Who attempted to assassinate Ronald Reagan?
When he jumped out of the balcony - his foot got stuck in the bunting and he fell onto stage
Zapruder film
Andrew Jackson
John Hinkley Jr.
45. When was the Emancipation proclamation?
January 1st - 1863
Maryland
Medical insurance for all americans
The White House
46. Which president presented the bill of rights at the first Congress?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
James Madison
The US was prepared to send money and military support to countries that want to resist communism
1814
47. What month is the election in?
November
1803
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
The Confederate States of America
48. What is the Electoral College?
A group of representatives chosen by the voters to elect the President
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Hillary Clinton
James Polk
49. Do we vote directly for the president?
No
Medical insurance for all americans
The fourteen points
Andrew Jackson
50. Who was a Great General in war of 1812?
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.
Jimmy Carter
Andrew Jackson
Kentucky; Log cabin