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U.S. Presidents Trivia
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What date was John Fitzgerald Kennedy killed on?
The government
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
November 22nd - 1963
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
2. What presidents (in order) died of natural causes?
William Henry Harrison - Zachary Taylor - Warren Harding - and Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Harry S Truman
Richard Nixon
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
3. Do we vote directly for the president?
No
5
Forced the president to issue all military orders through general of the army who could not be removed without senate approval
Joe Biden
4. Who was William McKinley's VP that moved up when He was killed?
Teddy Roosevelt
Electors
The idea to own all the land from the pacific to the atlantic ocean; 1.2 million
They were classmates in college
5. how many years is a score?
Robert E. Lee
Thomas Jefferson
Monroe
20
6. James Monroe created the ________ Doctrine
Monticello - Virginia
Monroe
15 million
Jimmy Carter
7. What was the Berlin Airlift?
When we dropped food and supplies to people in West Berlin
Providing a backup place for military plane landing
Dolley
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
8. Who was the youngest elected president?
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Woodrow Wilson
Thus always to tyrants
No
9. James Madison's wife was ________ Madison.
Buffalo - New York
South; north
Dolley
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
10. What were the territories we gained in the Spanish American War? (ABC order with commas inbetween)
George Washington
Dallas - Texas
No
Guam - Midway Islands - Philippines - and Puerto Rico
11. Which presidents were cousins?
Teddy Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Teddy Roosevelt - Woodrow Wilson - Jimmy Carter - and Barack Obama
Lyndon Johnson
James Madison
12. Manifest Destiny was to have all the land from __________ to ___________ (east to west)
New Mexico to California
When we dropped food and supplies to people in West Berlin
They were classmates in college
Lee Harvey Oswald
13. Who was Deep Throat?
John Adams
A person who knew the truth about Richard Nixon and told Woodward and Bernstein
John Adams
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
14. Who built the Interstate Highway System?
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
350
Dwight David Eisenhower
1 million
15. Who was the first African American President?
John Quincy Adams - Rutherford B. Hayes - Benjamin Harrison - and George W. Bush
Barack Obama
George Washington
Mary Todd-Lincoln
16. How many electors are in the electoral college?
538
November 1863
Massachusetts
20
17. What was Lincoln's most famous speech?
The Gettysburg Address
James Madison
Polio
Woodrow Wilson
18. How many kids did John Tyler have?
15
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Club with all countries where problems were discussed peacefully
Democratic National Headquarters; Watergate
19. What does NATO stand for?
Thomas Jefferson
538
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
1
20. What transportation does the president get?
William Howard Taft
He was shot
Air Force One - Marine One - and limousines
Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Pearl Harbor bombing
21. Who had a 12 year affair with Gennifer Flowers?
60; unconstitutional
Maryland
James Madison
William Jefferson Clinton
22. 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 ________.
Buffalo - New York
The north were comunists and the south were not
The fourteen points
William and Mary College
23. How many days was the Iran Hostage crisis?
A person who knew the truth about Richard Nixon and told Woodward and Bernstein
Jefferson Davis
Harvard
444
24. What were fireside chats?
South; north
Speeches given for hope
Polio
Dolley
25. The president get ____ care and _____ care for free.
Dental; medical
East of Africa
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Richard Nixon
26. What were fireside chats?
Speeches given for hope
100
When peace was made between Israel and Egypt at Camp David
Ft. Sumter - South Carolina
27. How many electoral votes does Florida have?
27
Thomas Jefferson
A support group of countries
Jimmy Carter
28. Who were Woodward and Bernstein?
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29. Why did the league of nations fail (what country wouldn't join)?
USA
Teddy Roosevelt - Woodrow Wilson - Jimmy Carter - and Barack Obama
14
James Madison
30. Who is the current President Pro-Tempore of the Senate?
Period after the Civil War and how we reunited
Dental; medical
Daniel Inouye
John Quicy Adams
31. Alien Acts
OK to send home foregienors if they looked dangerous; also if we were in war with their country
1803
14
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson; July 4th - 1826
32. How much was the Louisiana Territory when it was purchased?
John Tyler
Dwight David Eisenhower
15 million
Revolutionary War
33. Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant knew eachother because _________.
William Jefferson Clinton
They were classmates in college
The US was prepared to send money and military support to countries that want to resist communism
The north and the south were split up
34. Where did the name 'gettysburg' come from?
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
The three day battle in July in Gettysburg about slaves
Ford's Theater
November
35. Andrew Johnson had a (good/bad) relation ship with congress over reconstruction
Bad
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Period after the Civil War and how we reunited
Maryland
36. Gerald Ford pardons _____________ for all crimes committed.
Ford's Theater
Richard Nixon
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Harry S Truman
37. Where do electors vote?
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38. When Harry S Truman was president during WWII - what two places in japan were bombed (abc order)?
350
Teddy Roosevelt - Woodrow Wilson - Jimmy Carter - and Barack Obama
The White House
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
39. Which president started the two term tradition?
William Howard Taft
If he serves 2 or less years of someone else's term plus 8 years on his own
George Washington
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
40. What president did the Berlin airlift?
The Vice President
2
James Madison
Harry S Truman
41. What was the Tenure of Office Act/
September 1st - 1939
George Washington
The president could not fire and federal official who had gotten their job with Senate approval
England - France - Russia - USA
42. Who were the second presidents to be father and son?
Barack Obama
George H.W. Bush and George Bush
Richard Nixon
4th
43. What was the Emancipation proclamation meant to do?
18
Free the slaves in the south
Sexual harrassment
Yes
44. What was the most terms served by a president?
1 million
4
The US was prepared to send money and military support to countries that want to resist communism
Woodrow Wilson
45. John Adams went to what college?
John Tyler
He wanted a date Jodie Foster
Harvard
September 1st - 1939
46. Where did Thomas Jefferson go to college?
He fired the Secretary of War Staton
Richard Nixon
William and Mary College
Teddy Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt
47. Who was president for the persian gulf war?
George H. W. Bush
Alien and sedition acts
George W. Bush
No
48. How many Vice Presidents have moved up because the president resigned?
He was shot on his way to a college reunion
4
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
1
49. Who did the Banking Holiday?
No
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson; July 4th - 1826
William Jefferson Clinton
50. How many Vice Presidents ran again for president and became president?
5
Self
Dwight David Eisenhower
$400000