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U.S. Presidents Trivia
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What does 'Sic Semper Tyrranis' mean?
Thus always to tyrants
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
2
Massachusetts
2. How many presidents were killed in office?
Ford's Theater
Medical insurance for all americans
Lyndon Johnson
4
3. During the civil war - the ________ wanted slaves and the ________ did not.
Harry S Truman
Forced the president to issue all military orders through general of the army who could not be removed without senate approval
South; north
William and Mary College
4. What is the mandatory retirement plan run by the government?
Social Security
December 7th - 1941
George Washington - John Adams - Thomas Jefferson - James Madison - James Monroe - and John Quincy Adams
4
5. Manifest Destiny was to have all the land from __________ to ___________ (east to west)
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Harry S Truman
The Confederate States of America
New Mexico to California
6. Why wasn't Richard Nixon thrown out of office?
Woodrow Wilson
The Korean War
He resigned before the impeachment trial
Europe
7. Which president had a stroke in his bathroom?
Getting out of the Great depression by hiring people - which would start a chain reaction
270
Woodrow Wilson
Since birth
8. Congress passed 2 laws designed to limit __________'s (a president) power .
Ulysses S. Grant
Andrew Johnson
Harry S Truman
7; 11
9. Who was George Washington's wife?
1814
When we dropped food and supplies to people in West Berlin
Martha
He gets shot
10. Did we win the Spanish American War?
Yes
Guam - Midway Islands - Philippines - and Puerto Rico
John Quicy Adams
The president could not fire and federal official who had gotten their job with Senate approval
11. Who gave the longest inauguration speech?
444
Teddy Roosevelt
William Henry Harrison
George Washington
12. Who said 'The buck stops here'?
Conspiracy
Harry S Truman
Air Force One - Marine One - and limousines
Dental; medical
13. Who balanced the budget?
William Jefferson Clinton
Andrew Johnson
The federal government guarentees your money at a bank
100
14. Who's son married Nixon's daughter?
Dwight David Eisenhower
A support group of countries
Mom
Teddy Roosevelt
15. Which president was former ambassador to China?
William Henry Harrison
George H. W. Bush
Dwight David Eisenhower
Self
16. After what event was the Fourteen Points presented?
World War I
James Polk
The Vice President
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
17. Who presented the Fourteen Points?
Writters for Washington Post who figured out Richard Nixon's case
Teddy Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Woodrow Wilson
Jimmy Carter
18. What date did WWII begin?
Barack Obama
100
His 5th cousin
September 1st - 1939
19. Who had an affair with Monica Lewinsky - a young intern at the White House?
William Jefferson Clinton
The US was prepared to send money and military support to countries that want to resist communism
4
4th
20. Who was a Great General in war of 1812?
22 - 24
William and Mary College
Andrew Jackson
The north were comunists and the south were not
21. What was the most terms served by a president?
4
Jimmy Carter
William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
22. What is universal health care?
Jimmy Carter
Barack Obama
Bad
Medical insurance for all americans
23. How many rooms in the white house?
15
Richard Nixon
132
Monroe
24. Which presient send Lewis and Clark on their journey?
William and Mary College
Conspiracy
2
Thomas Jefferson
25. How tall was Abraham Lincoln?
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26. What two states do not use 'winner-takes all' for the electoral college?
John Adams
The Vice President
Maine and Nebraska
Woodrow Wilson
27. What law that Barack Obama passed might be unconstitutional and is being looked at by the supreme court now?
1814
No
Universal health care
Teddy Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt
28. Grover Cleveland was the ____ and ____ president (numbers)
Lee Harvey Oswald
England - France - Russia - USA
Germany invaded Poland
22 - 24
29. What was reconstruction?
John Adams
George W. Bush
Period after the Civil War and how we reunited
Harry S Truman
30. Andrew Johnson had a (good/bad) relation ship with congress over reconstruction
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Bad
French and Indian War
A 2nd home for the president
31. Where did Abraham Lincoln's assasination take place?
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32. Who supported manifest destiny?
East of Africa
Zapruder film
James Polk
The Korean War
33. Which president created Yellowstone National Park and Yosemite?
November 1863
Teddy Roosevelt
Andrew Jackson
The US was prepared to send money and military support to countries that want to resist communism
34. What weapon was used to kill Lincoln?
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor - Hawaii
A gun
A support group of countries
You can collect money if you become disabled before retirement
35. What did the monroe doctrine say?
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36. Which president was a great general - a leader - honest - and trustworth?
When he jumped out of the balcony - his foot got stuck in the bunting and he fell onto stage
Woodrow Wilson
George Washington - John Adams - Thomas Jefferson - James Madison - James Monroe - and John Quincy Adams
George Washington
37. Gerald Ford pardons _____________ for all crimes committed.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Richard Nixon
None
Gerald Ford
38. What president did the Berlin airlift?
In their state's capital
Harry S Truman
Honor people who died - make sure the country survies
Conspiracy
39. Why did the league of nations fail (what country wouldn't join)?
USA
X-ray
Monroe
A 2nd home for the president
40. Who was George Washington's wife?
Martha
William Jefferson Clinton
20
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
41. What month is the election in?
Period after the Civil War and how we reunited
Electors
November
The number of people in Congress plus 3 for DC
42. James Madison's wife was ________ Madison.
John Adams
Abigail
132
Dolley
43. Who introduced disability benefits?
4
Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Pearl Harbor bombing
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
0
44. Which president helped create the Library of Congress when he sells and donates 6000 books?
35 said He was guilty - but he needed 36
Harry S Truman
Thomas Jefferson
Martha
45. Which president was the 'father of the constitution'?
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson; July 4th - 1826
William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison
William McKinley
James Madison
46. Which president presented the bill of rights at the first Congress?
James Madison
Jimmy Carter
Speeches given for hope
Ford's Theater
47. Who became president when Richard Nixon resigend because they were his VP?
Jimmy Carter
Barack Obama
Gerald Ford
The idea to own all the land from the pacific to the atlantic ocean; 1.2 million
48. Who was president when the United Nations was formed?
Harry S Truman
OK to send home foregienors if they looked dangerous; also if we were in war with their country
William Seward; $7.2 million; Alaska
Dental; medical
49. Which presient send Lewis and Clark on their journey?
Richard Nixon
The president could not fire and federal official who had gotten their job with Senate approval
Thomas Jefferson
The government
50. What was the persian gulf war/desert storm?
Teddy Roosevelt
Peterson House; the next morning
Iraq invaded Kuwait - and a coalition of naions push Iraq out of Kuwait
Thomas Jefferson