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U.S. Presidents Trivia
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. How many years is a presidential term?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
4
November
Jefferson still survives
2. How many electors are in the electoral college?
350
When peace was made between Israel and Egypt at Camp David
538
Dwight David Eisenhower
3. Who was our president when we kille Osama bin Laden?
6'4'
John Wilkes Booth
William McKinley
Barack Obama
4. Who was president for the Iran Hostage crisis?
The government
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson; July 4th - 1826
Ford's Theater
Jimmy Carter
5. Which president was obnoxious and disliked?
Cuba wanted to overthrow Castrow and our military helped train them
John Adams
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor - Hawaii
George H. W. Bush
6. What was the most terms served by a president?
April 12th - 1861
4
Free the slaves in the south
Abigail
7. How many Vice Presidents have moved up because the president died?
Teddy Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt
When he jumped out of the balcony - his foot got stuck in the bunting and he fell onto stage
8
Richard Nixon
8. What college did George Washington go to?
Bad
None
England - France - Russia - USA
Enola Gay
9. Who created the Family Medical Leave Act?
Alien and sedition acts
1814
We thought there were weapons of mass destruction - but there weren't
William Jefferson Clinton
10. What president made the emancipation proclamtion?
Abraham Lincoln
Air Force One - Marine One - and limousines
Lyndon Johnson
December 7th - 1941
11. Who is the current Vice President?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Joe Biden
Harry S Truman
England - France - Russia - USA
12. Where does the number of electors in the electoral college come from?
He wanted a date Jodie Foster
You can collect money if you become disabled before retirement
The number of people in Congress plus 3 for DC
The White House
13. Who is the current President Pro-Tempore of the Senate?
World War I
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson; July 4th - 1826
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Daniel Inouye
14. William Jefferson Clinton paid Paula Jones $____.
William Howard Taft
1 million
Thomas Jefferson
Abraham Lincoln
15. Which president adopted independence - was loyal - smart - and a lawyer?
Air Force One - Marine One - and limousines
John Adams
22 - 24
Thomas Jefferson
16. Which president helped create the Library of Congress when he sells and donates 6000 books?
November 1863
Barack Obama
Period after the Civil War and how we reunited
Thomas Jefferson
17. Where did Abraham Lincoln's assasination take place?
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18. Where was George Washington born?
Conspiracy
Mount Vernon - Virginia
Gerald Ford
Massachusetts
19. What state is Camp David in?
Maryland
132
Barack Obama
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
20. How many Vice Presidents ran again for president and became president?
5
January 20th
Barack Obama
8
21. How many kids did George Washington have?
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Barack Obama
0
Europe
22. Who balanced the budget?
September 1st - 1939
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
William Jefferson Clinton
7; 11
23. How many rooms in the white house?
18
132
Teddy Roosevelt
November 22nd - 1963
24. what president was also president of the constitutional convention?
George Washington
1 million
Dwight David Eisenhower
444
25. How did John Wilkes Booth break his leg?
Monroe
When he jumped out of the balcony - his foot got stuck in the bunting and he fell onto stage
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The Korean War
26. Who was president for the nullification crisis?
Richard Nixon
Ft. Sumter - South Carolina
They were classmates in college
Andrew Jackson
27. James Madison's wife was ________ Madison.
Andrew Jackson
Sic Semper Tyrannis - the south is avenged
Dolley
England
28. Who were the first presidents to be father and son?
Dental; medical
John Adams and John Quincy Adams
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Mom
29. Andrew Johnson was _________'s VP
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson; July 4th - 1826
1803
Maryland
Abraham Lincoln
30. When Harry S Truman was president during WWII - what two places in japan were bombed (abc order)?
Barack Obama
Mary Todd-Lincoln
January 1st - 1863
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
31. Who was the first VP?
They were classmates in college
John Adams
Germany - Hungary - Turkey
George H.W. Bush and George Bush
32. Gerald Ford pardons _____________ for all crimes committed.
James Madison
4
Richard Nixon
The Confederate States of America
33. Why wasn't Andrew Johnson removed from office when He was impeached?
15 million
The Gettysburg Address
35 said He was guilty - but he needed 36
James Madison
34. Who was the first African American President?
Barack Obama
April 1917- November 1918
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Maryland
35. Who was president when the United Nations was formed?
1803
Harry S Truman
George Washington
0
36. Who invaded Iraq?
35 said He was guilty - but he needed 36
John Tyler
None
George W. Bush
37. Who introduced surviver benefits?
French and Indian War
Speeches given for hope
Andrew Johnson
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
38. Which presient send Lewis and Clark on their journey?
George H. W. Bush
Thomas Jefferson
A 2nd home for the president
George Washington
39. What war did George Washington lead the army for?
The Korean War
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
William Henry Harrison - Zachary Taylor - Warren Harding - and Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Revolutionary War
40. Who was Abraham Lincoln married to?
George W. Bush
Ulysses S. Grant
Mary Todd-Lincoln
Social Security
41. Where was William McKinley killed?
1814
James Madison
Buffalo - New York
Ulysses S. Grant
42. Who won the Nobel peace prize because he told Russia and Japan not to fight - but to love?
The White House
Teddy Roosevelt
His wife
5
43. What president did the Berlin airlift?
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Harry S Truman
William Jefferson Clinton
Teddy Roosevelt
44. What is FDIC (explaIn what it means - not what it stands for)?
John Quicy Adams
Lyndon Johnson
Barack Obama
The federal government guarentees your money at a bank
45. What war was George Washington in the military for?
Dwight David Eisenhower
James Madison
Teddy Roosevelt - Woodrow Wilson - Jimmy Carter - and Barack Obama
French and Indian War
46. Who attends diplomatic functions in place of the president?
Zapruder film
The Vice President
Martha
Richard Nixon
47. Which president got Alzheimers and forgot being president?
Civil rights
Ronald Reagan
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
George W. Bush
48. How many presidents were killed in office?
4
George W. Bush
Mary Todd-Lincoln
Teddy Roosevelt
49. Who said 'A date that will live in infamy'? What were they talking about (separate with semicolon)?
The north and the south were split up
Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Pearl Harbor bombing
Ronald Reagan
Jimmy Carter
50. When did we get involved and stop being involved with WWI? (month and year)
Robert E. Lee
Honor people who died - make sure the country survies
The Confederate States of America
April 1917- November 1918