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U.S. Presidents Trivia
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1. Who introduced disability benefits?
Acting
If he serves 2 or less years of someone else's term plus 8 years on his own
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Mount Vernon - Virginia
2. Who is thought to have assassinated John Fitzgerald Kennedy?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
William Jefferson Clinton
Lee Harvey Oswald
8
3. After what event was the Fourteen Points presented?
William Seward; $7.2 million; Alaska
Honor people who died - make sure the country survies
George W. Bush
World War I
4. Which president was obnoxious and disliked?
John Adams
The Confederate States of America
George H. W. Bush
We thought there were weapons of mass destruction - but there weren't
5. Who was president when the United Nations was formed?
William Henry Harrison
The Vice President
Harry S Truman
Abraham Lincoln
6. In the War of 1812 - ________ (country) kept stealing our ________ (people) and _______ (items) in the middle of the ocean (separate with semicolon).
20
1803
England; sailors; products
Gerald Ford
7. Which president got Alzheimers and forgot being president?
Daniel Inouye
22 - 24
Monroe
Ronald Reagan
8. Where was Abraham Lincoln born? What kind of house did he live in?
The three day battle in July in Gettysburg about slaves
1
Self
Kentucky; Log cabin
9. What were John Adams's last words?
Jefferson still survives
Barack Obama
Harry S Truman
Thomas Jefferson
10. Who did we help in the Vietnam war and the korean war?
The south
A 2nd home for the president
January 1st - 1863
Andrew Jackson
11. Why did the person who tried to assassinate Ronald Reagan do it?
He was shot on his way to a college reunion
He wanted a date Jodie Foster
Buffalo - New York
Barack Obama
12. What was a talent of John Wilkes Booth?
The Confederate States of America
Saving a picture of Washington during the war
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Acting
13. Who were the second presidents to be father and son?
George H.W. Bush and George Bush
USA
Teddy Roosevelt
Lee Harvey Oswald
14. What are disability benefits?
He gets shot
The fourteen points
You can collect money if you become disabled before retirement
East of Africa
15. Who won a nobel peace prize because of the camp david accords?
$150000
Jimmy Carter
35
Alien and sedition acts
16. Which presidents won the nobel peace prize (in order)?
George Washington
Teddy Roosevelt - Woodrow Wilson - Jimmy Carter - and Barack Obama
5
The fourteen points
17. What is FDIC (explaIn what it means - not what it stands for)?
Crime to print false or meliscious or scandalist stuff about the U.S. gov.
Woodrow Wilson
Acting
The federal government guarentees your money at a bank
18. What was the most terms served by a president?
4
Teddy Roosevelt
They were classmates in college
Teddy Roosevelt
19. What president had the watergate scandal?
Guam - Midway Islands - Philippines - and Puerto Rico
Richard Nixon
George H. W. Bush
September 1st - 1939
20. Who was the youngest elected president?
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
William Jefferson Clinton
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
21. Who was sent to a mental institution after Abraham Lincoln's death?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Peterson House; the next morning
Mary Todd-Lincoln
April 1917- November 1918
22. Can the amount of money a president earns be increased/decreased during someone's term of office?
No
7; 11
Dolley
15
23. What was the most terms served by a president?
4
Free the slaves in the south
Massachusetts
William Henry Harrison - Zachary Taylor - Warren Harding - and Franklin Delano Roosevelt
24. How many presidents died in office?
4th
Ulysses S. Grant
England; sailors; products
8
25. What is the address of the white house?
William Jefferson Clinton
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
George Washington
Jimmy Carter
26. What does NATO stand for?
The Vice President
Georgia
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
350
27. How much of a retirement income per year does the president make (for life)?
30
$150000
Harry S Truman
Teddy Roosevelt
28. Which president was a 'rough rider' in the Spanish American War?
John Tyler
The president
East of Africa
Teddy Roosevelt
29. What was the point of the Gettysburg Address (two things)?
Massachusetts
Honor people who died - make sure the country survies
George W. Bush
John Quicy Adams
30. Where did Thomas Jefferson go to college?
William and Mary College
Sic Semper Tyrannis - the south is avenged
World War I
Martha
31. Who had many affairs during their presidency but claimed not to?
William Jefferson Clinton
James Madison
Acting
Woodrow Wilson
32. Franklin Delano Roosevelt got his middle name because his _____'s favorite relative was de la Noye
William Seward; $7.2 million; Alaska
Mom
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
4
33. Which president recognized Israel and traded with them and gave money and embassadors to them?
Harry S Truman
William Henry Harrison
When we dropped food and supplies to people in West Berlin
Teddy Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt
34. Which presidents were cousins?
Teddy Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Alien and sedition acts
Ronald Reagan
John Boehner
35. what president was also president of the constitutional convention?
The president
William Jefferson Clinton
George Washington
The federal government guarentees your money at a bank
36. How long do you have to be a citizen for to be president?
The federal government guarentees your money at a bank
Since birth
1 million
His 5th cousin
37. What year was the White House burnt down?
1814
270
6'4'
Worker can take three months off in a year to take care of sick relatives or him/herself and cannot be fired
38. What was a popular film of John Fitzgerald Kennedy's assassination?
15 million
5
Alien and sedition acts
Zapruder film
39. What date was John Fitzgerald Kennedy killed on?
George W. Bush
November 22nd - 1963
Zapruder film
Massachusetts
40. Who was Deep Throat?
William Henry Harrison
Germany was attacking ships
In their state's capital
A person who knew the truth about Richard Nixon and told Woodward and Bernstein
41. How many electors are in the electoral college?
1814
His wife
538
John Adams
42. The president get ____ care and _____ care for free.
8
Dental; medical
Dwight David Eisenhower
Lyndon Johnson
43. Who was our president during the Korean war?
Dolley
William Jefferson Clinton
Dwight David Eisenhower
Gerald Ford
44. Where does the president live for free?
Lyndon Johnson
The White House
Andrew Jackson
Harvard
45. Where was William McKinley killed?
4
William Howard Taft
When peace was made between Israel and Egypt at Camp David
Buffalo - New York
46. Who was the first VP?
Civil War
William McKinley
William Jefferson Clinton
John Adams
47. Grover Cleveland was the ____ and ____ president (numbers)
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Germany invaded Poland
22 - 24
Dwight David Eisenhower
48. What is the mandatory retirement plan run by the government?
Dwight David Eisenhower
Social Security
November 22nd - 1963
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
49. Manifest Destiny was to have all the land from __________ to ___________ (east to west)
35 said He was guilty - but he needed 36
The president could not fire and federal official who had gotten their job with Senate approval
New Mexico to California
The three day battle in July in Gettysburg about slaves
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.
538
Conspiracy
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
George Washington