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U.S. Presidents Trivia
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Who was on the good side for WWI (abc order)?
They were classmates in college
England - France - Russia - USA
Mary Todd-Lincoln
The Vice President
2. Paula Jones sued William Jefferson Clinton for _______.
Teddy Roosevelt - Woodrow Wilson - Jimmy Carter - and Barack Obama
Harry S Truman
Jimmy Carter
Sexual harrassment
3. What presidents (in order) died of natural causes?
William Henry Harrison - Zachary Taylor - Warren Harding - and Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The House of Representatives selects the President and the Senate selects the Vice President
The Vice President
Dwight David Eisenhower
4. Who won a nobel peace prize because of the camp david accords?
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor - Hawaii
15 million
Jimmy Carter
Ronald Reagan
5. When did we get involved and stop being involved with WWI? (month and year)
William Jefferson Clinton
The north and the south were split up
Social Security
April 1917- November 1918
6. Why did the person who tried to assassinate Ronald Reagan do it?
Andrew Jackson
George Washington
William McKinley
He wanted a date Jodie Foster
7. What is the mandatory retirement plan run by the government?
Teddy Roosevelt
Eleanor
Iraq invaded Kuwait - and a coalition of naions push Iraq out of Kuwait
Social Security
8. Who won the Nobel peace prize because he told Russia and Japan not to fight - but to love?
0
Teddy Roosevelt
Dwight David Eisenhower
Air Force One - Marine One - and limousines
9. What state is Camp David in?
Maryland
November
Peterson House; the next morning
William Howard Taft
10. John Adams had a successful marriage with ______ (first name).
25
Abigail
Massachusetts
Andrew Johnson
11. Where does the number of electors in the electoral college come from?
The number of people in Congress plus 3 for DC
Germany was attacking ships
Forced the president to issue all military orders through general of the army who could not be removed without senate approval
East of Africa
12. Jimmy Carter was the former governor of ____.
Harry S Truman
Georgia
Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Pearl Harbor bombing
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
13. Who is the current speaker of the House?
Civil rights
OK to send home foregienors if they looked dangerous; also if we were in war with their country
Sexual harrassment
John Boehner
14. How was James Garfield killed?
A person who knew the truth about Richard Nixon and told Woodward and Bernstein
Thus always to tyrants
They were classmates in college
He was shot on his way to a college reunion
15. Who was George Washington's wife?
When he jumped out of the balcony - his foot got stuck in the bunting and he fell onto stage
Mary Todd-Lincoln
Martha
Barack Obama
16. Who takes over if the President is disabled or dies?
William Henry Harrison
The Vice President
350
England; sailors; products
17. What was Lincoln's most famous speech?
George H. W. Bush
The Gettysburg Address
Lyndon Johnson
4
18. What was the Bay of Pigs?
Teddy Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Cuba wanted to overthrow Castrow and our military helped train them
4
A gun
19. Who was the oldest elected president (age 73 at 2nd term)?
The federal government guarentees your money at a bank
350
Ronald Reagan
James Madison
20. How tall was Abraham Lincoln?
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21. What war was George Washington in the military for?
Honor people who died - make sure the country survies
French and Indian War
1803
John Adams
22. Alien Acts
Mary Todd-Lincoln
OK to send home foregienors if they looked dangerous; also if we were in war with their country
4
Dolley
23. Who won the Nobel peace prize because he told Russia and Japan not to fight - but to love?
Teddy Roosevelt
Harry S Truman
George Washington - John Adams - Thomas Jefferson - James Madison - James Monroe - and John Quincy Adams
The president could not fire and federal official who had gotten their job with Senate approval
24. Who was president for the persian gulf war?
John Quicy Adams
270
30
George H. W. Bush
25. What month is the election in?
X-ray
November
2
Bad
26. During the civil war - the north's general was ___________.
James Madison
William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison
Ulysses S. Grant
The idea to own all the land from the pacific to the atlantic ocean; 1.2 million
27. Who created the Family Medical Leave Act?
When we dropped food and supplies to people in West Berlin
William Jefferson Clinton
Dental; medical
Sexual harrassment
28. Which president recognized Israel and traded with them and gave money and embassadors to them?
Crime to print false or meliscious or scandalist stuff about the U.S. gov.
Harry S Truman
1914-1918
November
29. Who was president for the Iran Hostage crisis?
Jimmy Carter
Robert E. Lee
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
When he jumped out of the balcony - his foot got stuck in the bunting and he fell onto stage
30. In most states - what percent of the state's electoral votes does a candidate get if they win the popular vote?
100
Harry S Truman
270
Social Security
31. what president was also president of the constitutional convention?
Mount Vernon - Virginia
When he jumped out of the balcony - his foot got stuck in the bunting and he fell onto stage
Richard Nixon
George Washington
32. How much money does the president earn per year?
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
$400000
William Henry Harrison - Zachary Taylor - Warren Harding - and Franklin Delano Roosevelt
South Carolina said it could nullify any law it wants - but Jackson said they would send troops and so South Carolina decided that they can't nullify and law it wants.
33. Who invaded Iraq?
Alien and sedition acts
Woodrow Wilson
If he serves 2 or less years of someone else's term plus 8 years on his own
George W. Bush
34. Who was FDR's VP Who was president for WWII?
He fired the Secretary of War Staton
The north and the south were split up
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
Harry S Truman
35. Who was the youngest elected president?
Universal health care
The north and the south were split up
Teddy Roosevelt
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
36. Who takes over if the President is disabled or dies?
The US was prepared to send money and military support to countries that want to resist communism
November
November 1863
The Vice President
37. Did we win the Spanish American War?
Yes
1 million
Civil rights
Thomas Jefferson
38. Which president was the 'father of the constitution'?
Harry S Truman
James Madison
$150000
The fourteen points
39. William Jefferson Clinton paid Paula Jones $____.
0
January 1st - 1863
1 million
1814
40. How many presidents were killed in office?
Teddy Roosevelt
Dwight David Eisenhower
November 1863
4
41. Who was the commander in charge of Europe afor the Allies in WWII?
No
Richard Nixon
14
Dwight David Eisenhower
42. In most states - what percent of the state's electoral votes does a candidate get if they win the popular vote?
Guam - Midway Islands - Philippines - and Puerto Rico
100
The Civil War
6'4'
43. Where did Abraham Lincoln's assasination take place?
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44. How many Vice Presidents ran again for president and became president?
5
Jimmy Carter
Self
X-ray
45. Why did WWI happen?
A support group of countries
8
John Adams
Germany was attacking ships
46. Who balanced the budget?
In their state's capital
England; sailors; products
Since birth
William Jefferson Clinton
47. How much of a retirement income per year does the president make (for life)?
He wanted a date Jodie Foster
$150000
The Korean War
Civil War
48. what president was also president of the constitutional convention?
George Washington
Daniel Inouye
4
The federal government guarentees your money at a bank
49. After what event was the Fourteen Points presented?
World War I
The federal government guarentees your money at a bank
James Madison
The Vice President
50. John Quicy Adams spent time In what continent?
Europe
His 5th cousin
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
John Fitzgerald Kennedy