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U.S. Presidents Trivia
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Who gave the longest inauguration speech?
William Henry Harrison
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Bad
The House of Representatives selects the President and the Senate selects the Vice President
2. Who is considered 'the father of our country'?
George Washington
December 7th - 1941
The Vice President
Jimmy Carter
3. What war did George Washington lead the army for?
French and Indian War
8
The fourteen points
Revolutionary War
4. What presidents (in order) died of natural causes?
Dolley
January 20th
14
William Henry Harrison - Zachary Taylor - Warren Harding - and Franklin Delano Roosevelt
5. How many Vice Presidents have moved up because the president resigned?
7; 11
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
1
Ulysses S. Grant
6. Who was the only president to be president and then supreme court chief justice?
Buffalo - New York
William Howard Taft
William Seward; $7.2 million; Alaska
November 1863
7. Who was the first African American President?
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
The Vice President
Barack Obama
The House of Representatives selects the President and the Senate selects the Vice President
8. Who's son married Nixon's daughter?
Thomas Jefferson
French and Indian War
When he jumped out of the balcony - his foot got stuck in the bunting and he fell onto stage
Dwight David Eisenhower
9. What date was John Fitzgerald Kennedy killed on?
Lee Harvey Oswald
14
November 22nd - 1963
Martha
10. What president did the Berlin airlift?
Lyndon Johnson
Harry S Truman
Thomas Jefferson
John Adams
11. Who built the Interstate Highway System?
George W. Bush
Teddy Roosevelt
Monticello - Virginia
Dwight David Eisenhower
12. what disease did Franklin Delano Roosevelt have?
James Madison
George H. W. Bush
Thomas Jefferson
Polio
13. Why did we enter WWII?
35
Since birth
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor - Hawaii
The banks were closed because everyone wanted their money at once
14. What was a talent of John Wilkes Booth?
35 said He was guilty - but he needed 36
John Wilkes Booth
Acting
They were classmates in college
15. What was the Bay of Pigs?
Cuba wanted to overthrow Castrow and our military helped train them
John Adams
Teddy Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt
John Hinkley Jr.
16. What did the Interstate Highway System also do besides provide a road for driving?
Providing a backup place for military plane landing
Richard Nixon
Harry S Truman
You can collect money if you become disabled before retirement
17. Who were Woodward and Bernstein?
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18. Who was president for the Iran Hostage crisis?
Harry S Truman
Jimmy Carter
November
The federal government guarentees your money at a bank
19. Who was the first African American President?
Thomas Jefferson
Woodrow Wilson
Barack Obama
Richard Nixon
20. How many terms is a president alowed to serve?
2
William Henry Harrison
Thomas Jefferson
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
21. Who is thought to have assassinated John Fitzgerald Kennedy?
The Confederate States of America
Lee Harvey Oswald
Monticello - Virginia
Speeches given for hope
22. Who had the first death in office?
William Henry Harrison
1
The president
John Tyler
23. How many presidents died of natural causes in office?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Pearl Harbor bombing
4
Alien and sedition acts
Writters for Washington Post who figured out Richard Nixon's case
24. Which president was obnoxious and disliked?
Alien and sedition acts
John Adams
Harry S Truman
November
25. Who was the oldest elected president (age 73 at 2nd term)?
Civil War
USA
Ronald Reagan
Georgia
26. How tall was Abraham Lincoln?
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27. 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)
Maine and Nebraska
4
George Washington
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson; July 4th - 1826
28. What war was George Washington in the military for?
Woodrow Wilson
He gets shot
French and Indian War
Providing a backup place for military plane landing
29. Who was the only president to be president and then supreme court chief justice?
Europe
Bad
William Howard Taft
Richard Nixon
30. How many years younger was John Tyler's wife than him?
30
4
William McKinley
538
31. What month and year was the Gettysburg Address said?
November 1863
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor - Hawaii
Lyndon Johnson
Honor people who died - make sure the country survies
32. Which president was former ambassador to China?
Maryland
John Quincy Adams - Rutherford B. Hayes - Benjamin Harrison - and George W. Bush
George H. W. Bush
Teddy Roosevelt - Woodrow Wilson - Jimmy Carter - and Barack Obama
33. What were the sides for the Korean war and the Vietnam war?
We thought there were weapons of mass destruction - but there weren't
The north were comunists and the south were not
Since birth
William Jefferson Clinton
34. What war never officially ended but just doesn't fight any more?
Mom
The Korean War
September 1st - 1939
Gerald Ford
35. Where did Abraham Lincoln's assasination take place?
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36. Who was president for the persian gulf war?
A 2nd home for the president
George H. W. Bush
Dwight David Eisenhower
Crime to print false or meliscious or scandalist stuff about the U.S. gov.
37. Alien Acts
OK to send home foregienors if they looked dangerous; also if we were in war with their country
World War I
Polio
25
38. Who was a Great General in war of 1812?
November 1863
George Washington
You can collect money if you become disabled before retirement
Andrew Jackson
39. What are disability benefits?
Teddy Roosevelt - Woodrow Wilson - Jimmy Carter - and Barack Obama
You can collect money if you become disabled before retirement
Thomas Jefferson
He wanted a date Jodie Foster
40. How many states broke away during the civil war AT FIRST? how many total ending up breaking away?
We thought there were weapons of mass destruction - but there weren't
7; 11
Providing a backup place for military plane landing
George H. W. Bush
41. Do we vote directly for the president?
The Vice President
No
60; unconstitutional
Club with all countries where problems were discussed peacefully
42. How did John Wilkes Booth break his leg?
When he jumped out of the balcony - his foot got stuck in the bunting and he fell onto stage
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
30
A gun
43. Franklin Delano Roosevelt got his middle name because his _____'s favorite relative was de la Noye
Germany was attacking ships
Mom
George Washington - John Adams - Thomas Jefferson - James Madison - James Monroe - and John Quincy Adams
Free the slaves in the south
44. Franklin Delano Roosevelt died a short time into his ____ term.
Buffalo - New York
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
4th
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
45. What is the Electoral College?
Germany invaded Poland
Monroe
George W. Bush
A group of representatives chosen by the voters to elect the President
46. how many years is a score?
Lee Harvey Oswald
20
Thus always to tyrants
The House of Representatives selects the President and the Senate selects the Vice President
47. What were fireside chats?
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
World War I
Speeches given for hope
Writters for Washington Post who figured out Richard Nixon's case
48. Who went to the Supreme court and tried to increase it to fifteen judges - but was told no?
100
Dwight David Eisenhower
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
He was shot on his way to a college reunion
49. What was the Emancipation proclamation meant to do?
Free the slaves in the south
Getting out of the Great depression by hiring people - which would start a chain reaction
Crime to print false or meliscious or scandalist stuff about the U.S. gov.
November 1863
50. Who moved up when John Fitzgerald Kennedy died because He was his VP?
Woodrow Wilson
Richard Nixon
Lyndon Johnson
A 2nd home for the president