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U.S. Presidents Trivia
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Who was president during the War of 1812 against England?
East of Africa
James Madison
Martha
William and Mary College
2. John Quicy Adams spent time In what continent?
14
Europe
The US was prepared to send money and military support to countries that want to resist communism
He resigned before the impeachment trial
3. What was the Tenure of Office Act/
John Tyler
The president could not fire and federal official who had gotten their job with Senate approval
538
Abraham Lincoln
4. Who moved up when John Fitzgerald Kennedy died because He was his VP?
Period after the Civil War and how we reunited
Barack Obama
2
Lyndon Johnson
5. What were the territories we gained in the Spanish American War? (ABC order with commas inbetween)
Guam - Midway Islands - Philippines - and Puerto Rico
X-ray
Germany - Hungary - Turkey
4th
6. What was the name of the airplane that bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki
George H.W. Bush and George Bush
Enola Gay
Abraham Lincoln
18
7. During the civil war - the south's general was ____________.
Acting
Teddy Roosevelt - Woodrow Wilson - Jimmy Carter - and Barack Obama
The president could not fire and federal official who had gotten their job with Senate approval
Robert E. Lee
8. What date was John Fitzgerald Kennedy killed on?
George H.W. Bush and George Bush
The number of people in Congress plus 3 for DC
Abraham Lincoln
November 22nd - 1963
9. During the civil war - the south named itself _____.
6'4'
William and Mary College
The Confederate States of America
He was shot
10. What war did George Washington lead the army for?
Mom
John Adams
Revolutionary War
8
11. Who was FDR's VP Who was president for WWII?
Dwight David Eisenhower
Harry S Truman
No
Maine and Nebraska
12. Who had an affair with Monica Lewinsky - a young intern at the White House?
Martha
Civil rights
Mary Todd-Lincoln
William Jefferson Clinton
13. Which presidents won the nobel peace prize (in order)?
The Korean War
Teddy Roosevelt - Woodrow Wilson - Jimmy Carter - and Barack Obama
George Washington
When peace was made between Israel and Egypt at Camp David
14. William Jefferson Clinton paid Paula Jones $____.
1 million
A gun
John Quicy Adams
George H.W. Bush and George Bush
15. Why didn't the Emancipation proclamation work?
25
Harry S Truman
$150000
The north and the south were split up
16. What month and year was the Gettysburg Address said?
Jimmy Carter
The north and the south were split up
Gerald Ford
November 1863
17. During the Great Depression - ____% were unemployed.
William Jefferson Clinton
William Seward; $7.2 million; Alaska
Ford's Theater
25
18. What was reconstruction?
Period after the Civil War and how we reunited
A person who knew the truth about Richard Nixon and told Woodward and Bernstein
Alien and sedition acts
Since birth
19. Who is the current President Pro-Tempore of the Senate?
Daniel Inouye
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
8
Dental; medical
20. This president helped write the federalist papers.
James Madison
French and Indian War
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The Gettysburg Address
21. Who was president for the Cuban Missile Crisis?
He gets shot
Ronald Reagan
William Howard Taft
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
22. What is the command of army act?
Ulysses S. Grant
John Tyler
Forced the president to issue all military orders through general of the army who could not be removed without senate approval
John Adams
23. What date was John Fitzgerald Kennedy killed on?
Universal health care
Maryland
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
November 22nd - 1963
24. What was a popular film of John Fitzgerald Kennedy's assassination?
Ford's Theater
November
Zapruder film
World War I
25. Who was the first president not to win the popular vote and to become president?
John Quicy Adams
100
George H. W. Bush
Massachusetts
26. Who was president for the 9/11 attacks?
Massachusetts
The Korean War
George W. Bush
Richard Nixon
27. What month and day do we vote for the president?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
South; north
The first Tuesday of Novermber that follows a monday in November
Ulysses S. Grant
28. Who gave the longest inauguration speech?
The north and the south were split up
Worker can take three months off in a year to take care of sick relatives or him/herself and cannot be fired
William Henry Harrison
The Gettysburg Address
29. Where did Thomas Jefferson go to college?
14
William and Mary College
George H. W. Bush
Ft. Sumter - South Carolina
30. Woodrow Wilson's ideas on not to have a war - the league of nations - and the freedom to navigate the seas without interference are known as ________.
Richard Nixon
35
The Civil War
The fourteen points
31. How many years younger was John Tyler's wife than him?
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Jimmy Carter
30
Acting
32. How long do you have to be a citizen for to be president?
The Civil War
The north and the south were split up
Since birth
George H. W. Bush
33. Where did the name 'gettysburg' come from?
Germany invaded Poland
The three day battle in July in Gettysburg about slaves
Thomas Jefferson
East of Africa
34. What are the people in the electoral college called?
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor - Hawaii
A person who knew the truth about Richard Nixon and told Woodward and Bernstein
Alien and sedition acts
Electors
35. How many Vice Presidents ran again for president and became president?
5
George Washington
John Boehner
Thomas Jefferson
36. Which president served the most terms?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The president
Polio
Crime to print false or meliscious or scandalist stuff about the U.S. gov.
37. When did we enter WWII?
England
A group of representatives chosen by the voters to elect the President
December 7th - 1941
Robert E. Lee
38. Gerald Ford pardons _____________ for all crimes committed.
England
Eleanor
Perjury and obstruction of justice
Richard Nixon
39. What are surviver benefits?
Money goes to kids when a parent dies
Maryland
The south
Jefferson still survives
40. What were the years of WWI?
Germany invaded Poland
1914-1918
The White House
James Polk
41. What was the camp david accords?
James Madison
When we dropped food and supplies to people in West Berlin
When peace was made between Israel and Egypt at Camp David
John Boehner
42. After Abraham Lincoln was shot - He was carried across the street to ________________ where he dies when?
Peterson House; the next morning
Teddy Roosevelt
Air Force One - Marine One - and limousines
He wanted a date Jodie Foster
43. What transportation does the president get?
Air Force One - Marine One - and limousines
January 20th
Monroe
Andrew Jackson
44. What were the territories we gained in the Spanish American War? (ABC order with commas inbetween)
The president
George H. W. Bush
4
Guam - Midway Islands - Philippines - and Puerto Rico
45. Where was John Fitzgerald Kennedy assassinated?
The US was prepared to send money and military support to countries that want to resist communism
132
$400000
Dallas - Texas
46. What was the Banking Holiday?
George W. Bush
The banks were closed because everyone wanted their money at once
Social Security
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
47. Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant knew eachother because _________.
William Jefferson Clinton
Eleanor
Dwight David Eisenhower
They were classmates in college
48. Who was President during the Spanish American War?
A 2nd home for the president
James Polk
William McKinley
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
49. Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant knew eachother because _________.
Teddy Roosevelt - Woodrow Wilson - Jimmy Carter - and Barack Obama
Maryland
Eleanor
They were classmates in college
50. What was the Tenure of Office Act/
James Madison
The president could not fire and federal official who had gotten their job with Senate approval
Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Pearl Harbor bombing
September 1st - 1939