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U.S. Presidents Trivia
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Who did we help in the Vietnam war and the korean war?
Free the slaves in the south
The south
Harvard
Ulysses S. Grant
2. What were John Adams's last words?
Jefferson still survives
0
350
George Washington
3. Who is considered 'the father of our country'?
Barack Obama
Teddy Roosevelt
The north and the south were split up
George Washington
4. Who was George Washington's wife?
Martha
35
Maine and Nebraska
Europe
5. Which president was a great general - a leader - honest - and trustworth?
George Washington
Peterson House; the next morning
35 said He was guilty - but he needed 36
444
6. Why did the person who tried to assassinate Ronald Reagan do it?
The Gettysburg Address
Harry S Truman
He wanted a date Jodie Foster
Richard Nixon
7. Where does the right to navigate teh seas without interference not apply?
East of Africa
John Adams
Acting
Barack Obama
8. What did the monroe doctrine say?
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9. What was the most terms served by a president?
William Henry Harrison
James Madison
January 1st - 1863
4
10. How can a president serve up to ten years?
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11. Who were Woodward and Bernstein?
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12. Grover Cleveland was the ____ and ____ president (numbers)
November
22 - 24
Since birth
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
13. What did the Interstate Highway System also do besides provide a road for driving?
He resigned before the impeachment trial
Hillary Clinton
The idea to own all the land from the pacific to the atlantic ocean; 1.2 million
Providing a backup place for military plane landing
14. Who was Franklin Delano Roosevelt married to?
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson; July 4th - 1826
William Howard Taft
Woodrow Wilson
Eleanor
15. What were the territories we gained in the Spanish American War? (ABC order with commas inbetween)
4
We thought there were weapons of mass destruction - but there weren't
Guam - Midway Islands - Philippines - and Puerto Rico
George Washington
16. What did John Wilkes Booth say after he shot Lincoln?
Sic Semper Tyrannis - the south is avenged
Air Force One - Marine One - and limousines
The south
Martha
17. Which president was obnoxious and disliked?
Writters for Washington Post who figured out Richard Nixon's case
Writters for Washington Post who figured out Richard Nixon's case
James Polk
John Adams
18. Who said 'A date that will live in infamy'? What were they talking about (separate with semicolon)?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Pearl Harbor bombing
You can collect money if you become disabled before retirement
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
East of Africa
19. When did we get involved and stop being involved with WWI? (month and year)
Mary Todd-Lincoln
Dwight David Eisenhower
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
April 1917- November 1918
20. What was reconstruction?
Period after the Civil War and how we reunited
18
Woodrow Wilson
Dolley
21. What was the camp david accords?
When peace was made between Israel and Egypt at Camp David
Eleanor
The Confederate States of America
$400000
22. Who did the Banking Holiday?
Harry S Truman
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison
Joe Biden
23. What college did George Washington go to?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Teddy Roosevelt
Free the slaves in the south
None
24. James Madison's wife was ________ Madison.
Dolley
Dental; medical
South; north
England
25. What month and year was the Gettysburg Address said?
Jimmy Carter
Alien and sedition acts
John Tyler
November 1863
26. What are disability benefits?
You can collect money if you become disabled before retirement
Massachusetts
Conspiracy
John Adams and John Quincy Adams
27. Who won the Civil war for Lincoln and later on became a president?
4
1803
Ulysses S. Grant
5
28. Who was the first VP?
George W. Bush
The Korean War
John Adams
Club with all countries where problems were discussed peacefully
29. Why did WWI happen?
Sic Semper Tyrannis - the south is avenged
Germany was attacking ships
Universal health care
Robert E. Lee
30. Which president presented the bill of rights at the first Congress?
132
James Madison
None
Mary Todd-Lincoln
31. Who was the only president to resign?
Jefferson still survives
Richard Nixon
Acting
Dallas - Texas
32. Who had the first death in office?
Teddy Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
William Henry Harrison
April 12th - 1861
33. James Monroe created the ________ Doctrine
William Seward; $7.2 million; Alaska
Maine and Nebraska
Monroe
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
34. How many former vice presidents have become president?
350
14
270
Teddy Roosevelt
35. Who was on the good side for WWI (abc order)?
8
John Adams
England - France - Russia - USA
Democratic National Headquarters; Watergate
36. Which president was the youngest to serve?
Mount Vernon - Virginia
George Washington
Democratic National Headquarters; Watergate
Teddy Roosevelt
37. Who introduced disability benefits?
Jefferson Davis
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Saving a picture of Washington during the war
38. Which presidents were great grandfather and grandson?
George Washington
William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison
2
William Seward; $7.2 million; Alaska
39. Who's son is Camp David named after?
Andrew Jackson
Dwight David Eisenhower
27
2
40. What is manifest destiny? how many square miles was it?
The idea to own all the land from the pacific to the atlantic ocean; 1.2 million
Mary Todd-Lincoln
William Jefferson Clinton
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
41. What was the Banking Holiday?
18
Harry S Truman
The federal government guarentees your money at a bank
The banks were closed because everyone wanted their money at once
42. what ended a couple of days before Abraham Lincoln's Assasination?
William Henry Harrison
Sexual harrassment
Yes
Civil War
43. What was the name of the airplane that bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki
William Jefferson Clinton
0
Enola Gay
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
44. What was the Emancipation proclamation meant to do?
The government
Harry S Truman
Free the slaves in the south
Massachusetts
45. Who passed Universal health care?
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson; July 4th - 1826
William and Mary College
Barack Obama
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
46. How many days was the Iran Hostage crisis?
Honor people who died - make sure the country survies
Germany was attacking ships
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
444
47. What is the family Medical Leave Act?
George Washington - John Adams - Thomas Jefferson - James Madison - James Monroe - and John Quincy Adams
Worker can take three months off in a year to take care of sick relatives or him/herself and cannot be fired
Honor people who died - make sure the country survies
A 2nd home for the president
48. Where did the civil war begin?
The US was prepared to send money and military support to countries that want to resist communism
Ft. Sumter - South Carolina
$400000
Abraham Lincoln
49. Who is the current President Pro-Tempore of the Senate?
Daniel Inouye
The president could not fire and federal official who had gotten their job with Senate approval
1 million
Teddy Roosevelt
50. Who was the first President during WWII?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Mount Vernon - Virginia
25
The White House