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U.S. Presidents Trivia
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Who killed Abraham Lincoln?
He gets shot
John Wilkes Booth
Civil War
Peterson House; the next morning
2. Which president helped create the Library of Congress when he sells and donates 6000 books?
Thomas Jefferson
Woodrow Wilson
Yes
1 million
3. Who did the Banking Holiday?
William and Mary College
Since birth
A 2nd home for the president
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
4. Congress passed 2 laws designed to limit __________'s (a president) power .
Andrew Johnson
Robert E. Lee
John Adams
New Mexico to California
5. Who was embarrassed when they received the Nobel Peace Prize?
4
Barack Obama
7; 11
The federal government guarentees your money at a bank
6. Which president was the 'father of the constitution'?
James Madison
Guam - Midway Islands - Philippines - and Puerto Rico
A 2nd home for the president
Barack Obama
7. Who were the first presidents to be father and son?
John Adams and John Quincy Adams
John Quicy Adams
270
He resigned before the impeachment trial
8. How old do you have to be to be president?
The House of Representatives selects the President and the Senate selects the Vice President
England - France - Russia - USA
35
35 said He was guilty - but he needed 36
9. Who gave the longest inauguration speech?
Joe Biden
William Henry Harrison
The fourteen points
350
10. Who acts as an advisor to the president?
The Vice President
Dwight David Eisenhower
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
John Wilkes Booth
11. The president get ____ care and _____ care for free.
Abraham Lincoln
Gerald Ford
None
Dental; medical
12. Who was the only catholic president?
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Conspiracy
Iraq invaded Kuwait - and a coalition of naions push Iraq out of Kuwait
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
13. This president swam naked in the Potomac River
1914-1918
December 7th - 1941
Germany was attacking ships
John Quicy Adams
14. During the civil war - the south's general was ____________.
George H. W. Bush
November 1863
The Vice President
Robert E. Lee
15. Who was the only president to be president and then supreme court chief justice?
He wanted a date Jodie Foster
Crime to print false or meliscious or scandalist stuff about the U.S. gov.
William Howard Taft
George Washington
16. Who ran the country when Woodrow Wilson couldn't?
His wife
132
Monroe
April 1917- November 1918
17. Who were the first presidents to be father and son?
A person who knew the truth about Richard Nixon and told Woodward and Bernstein
The three day battle in July in Gettysburg about slaves
John Adams and John Quincy Adams
Martha
18. How did William McKinley die?
William Jefferson Clinton
He was shot
Mount Vernon - Virginia
Teddy Roosevelt
19. When Harry S Truman was president during WWII - what two places in japan were bombed (abc order)?
Abraham Lincoln
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Peterson House; the next morning
Conspiracy
20. John Adams went to what college?
Mary Todd-Lincoln
Harvard
Ulysses S. Grant
Daniel Inouye
21. What is the family Medical Leave Act?
Alien and sedition acts
Ulysses S. Grant
Worker can take three months off in a year to take care of sick relatives or him/herself and cannot be fired
His 5th cousin
22. What transportation does the president get?
Thomas Jefferson
Air Force One - Marine One - and limousines
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
John Adams and John Quincy Adams
23. When did we get involved and stop being involved with WWI? (month and year)
Dwight David Eisenhower
30
April 1917- November 1918
A gun
24. What law that Barack Obama passed might be unconstitutional and is being looked at by the supreme court now?
No
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
William and Mary College
Universal health care
25. What two states do not use 'winner-takes all' for the electoral college?
6'4'
Honor people who died - make sure the country survies
William Henry Harrison - Zachary Taylor - Warren Harding - and Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Maine and Nebraska
26. Who did the Banking Holiday?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Dwight David Eisenhower
Enola Gay
538
27. 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 ________.
Enola Gay
Peterson House; the next morning
Speeches given for hope
The fourteen points
28. How many years younger was John Tyler's wife than him?
30
Revolutionary War
His 5th cousin
George H.W. Bush and George Bush
29. Who were the second presidents to be father and son?
35 said He was guilty - but he needed 36
George H.W. Bush and George Bush
Lee Harvey Oswald
Germany was attacking ships
30. Who said 'The only thing we have to fear is fear itself' at their 1st inaugural?
Germany - Hungary - Turkey
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Zapruder film
1 million
31. Where did Abraham Lincoln's assasination take place?
32. Which president was the youngest to serve?
Thomas Jefferson
John Quincy Adams - Rutherford B. Hayes - Benjamin Harrison - and George W. Bush
William McKinley
Teddy Roosevelt
33. Jimmy Carter was the former governor of ____.
The fourteen points
Georgia
William Jefferson Clinton
Enola Gay
34. What was the camp david accords?
When peace was made between Israel and Egypt at Camp David
George H. W. Bush
The federal government guarentees your money at a bank
444
35. Who did we help in the Vietnam war and the korean war?
Woodrow Wilson
The south
James Madison
Lyndon Johnson
36. Who is considered 'the father of our country'?
John Hinkley Jr.
William and Mary College
George Washington
William Henry Harrison
37. In the War of 1812 - ________ (country) kept stealing our ________ (people) and _______ (items) in the middle of the ocean (separate with semicolon).
Harry S Truman
Harvard
X-ray
England; sailors; products
38. What is the command of army act?
Forced the president to issue all military orders through general of the army who could not be removed without senate approval
The fourteen points
William Henry Harrison
444
39. Who was Deep Throat?
A person who knew the truth about Richard Nixon and told Woodward and Bernstein
444
Dolley
538
40. What month and year was the Gettysburg Address said?
Thomas Jefferson
Mary Todd-Lincoln
Sexual harrassment
November 1863
41. Sedition acts
60; unconstitutional
Crime to print false or meliscious or scandalist stuff about the U.S. gov.
William McKinley
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
42. What is the address of the white house?
Lee Harvey Oswald
1 million
George W. Bush
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
43. What state is Camp David in?
Air Force One - Marine One - and limousines
Abigail
Maryland
The Civil War
44. Who said 'The only thing we have to fear is fear itself' at their 1st inaugural?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Abigail
The federal government guarentees your money at a bank
Teddy Roosevelt
45. During the civil war - the south named itself _____.
George Washington
The Confederate States of America
John Hinkley Jr.
Teddy Roosevelt
46. What date did the civil war begin?
April 12th - 1861
The idea to own all the land from the pacific to the atlantic ocean; 1.2 million
Mount Vernon - Virginia
Teddy Roosevelt
47. What were John Adams's last words?
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
7; 11
Jimmy Carter
Jefferson still survives
48. Who was our president during the Vietnam War?
Lyndon Johnson
Harry S Truman
Jimmy Carter
Barack Obama
49. Who said 'The buck stops here'?
William Jefferson Clinton
Harry S Truman
Mom
22 - 24
50. Who was president for the 9/11 attacks?
He resigned before the impeachment trial
George W. Bush
William Henry Harrison
Social Security