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U.S. Presidents Trivia
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Why did the league of nations fail (what country wouldn't join)?
Forced the president to issue all military orders through general of the army who could not be removed without senate approval
USA
William McKinley
He fired the Secretary of War Staton
2. Who was president for the Iran Hostage crisis?
Kentucky; Log cabin
60; unconstitutional
Mary Todd-Lincoln
Jimmy Carter
3. What presidents (in order) died of natural causes?
Dental; medical
England; sailors; products
Robert E. Lee
William Henry Harrison - Zachary Taylor - Warren Harding - and Franklin Delano Roosevelt
4. What law that Barack Obama passed might be unconstitutional and is being looked at by the supreme court now?
Woodrow Wilson
The idea to own all the land from the pacific to the atlantic ocean; 1.2 million
Acting
Universal health care
5. Who were Woodward and Bernstein?
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6. What did the monroe doctrine say?
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7. Andrew Johnson had a (good/bad) relation ship with congress over reconstruction
Bad
Zapruder film
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
8. Which president was a lawyer - very smart - an architect - a musician - and an inventor?
He fired the Secretary of War Staton
He was shot on his way to a college reunion
Thomas Jefferson
Mary Todd-Lincoln
9. Who is the current President Pro-Tempore of the Senate?
September 1st - 1939
Robert E. Lee
Daniel Inouye
The three day battle in July in Gettysburg about slaves
10. How many pounds was William Howard Taft?
Lee Harvey Oswald
Crime to print false or meliscious or scandalist stuff about the U.S. gov.
Getting out of the Great depression by hiring people - which would start a chain reaction
350
11. Who built the Interstate Highway System?
Dwight David Eisenhower
Barack Obama
Gerald Ford
Abigail
12. What was the camp david accords?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Pearl Harbor bombing
4
Club with all countries where problems were discussed peacefully
When peace was made between Israel and Egypt at Camp David
13. Which president was obnoxious and disliked?
Honor people who died - make sure the country survies
The government
Teddy Roosevelt
John Adams
14. What war was George Washington in the military for?
French and Indian War
Joe Biden
1803
He resigned before the impeachment trial
15. What happens if no candidate gets the majorit y of electoral votes?
The House of Representatives selects the President and the Senate selects the Vice President
Conspiracy
The banks were closed because everyone wanted their money at once
Thomas Jefferson
16. What happens to John Wilkes Booth?
The president could not fire and federal official who had gotten their job with Senate approval
The US was prepared to send money and military support to countries that want to resist communism
He gets shot
Cuba wanted to overthrow Castrow and our military helped train them
17. What are disability benefits?
You can collect money if you become disabled before retirement
Teddy Roosevelt
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
18. How much was the Louisiana Territory when it was purchased?
350
The Vice President
Money goes to kids when a parent dies
15 million
19. Who was president for the Bay of Pigs?
The first Tuesday of Novermber that follows a monday in November
April 12th - 1861
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
William Jefferson Clinton
20. Who said 'The buck stops here'?
Electors
If he serves 2 or less years of someone else's term plus 8 years on his own
Harry S Truman
Dwight David Eisenhower
21. 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
Universal health care
George H. W. Bush
Bad
22. What was the league of nations?
4
The president could not fire and federal official who had gotten their job with Senate approval
1803
Club with all countries where problems were discussed peacefully
23. Why did the league of nations fail (what country wouldn't join)?
Lee Harvey Oswald
Ford's Theater
4
USA
24. Who's son married Nixon's daughter?
Barack Obama
Dwight David Eisenhower
If he serves 2 or less years of someone else's term plus 8 years on his own
James Madison
25. What was a popular film of John Fitzgerald Kennedy's assassination?
Zapruder film
In their state's capital
Mary Todd-Lincoln
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
26. What was the Banking Holiday?
April 1917- November 1918
The banks were closed because everyone wanted their money at once
Woodrow Wilson
A group of representatives chosen by the voters to elect the President
27. Where did the civil war begin?
0
Revolutionary War
Ft. Sumter - South Carolina
Ulysses S. Grant
28. What president had the watergate scandal?
Richard Nixon
Dwight David Eisenhower
If he serves 2 or less years of someone else's term plus 8 years on his own
Barack Obama
29. Who was president when the United Nations was formed?
Teddy Roosevelt
Sic Semper Tyrannis - the south is avenged
England
Harry S Truman
30. Who killed Abraham Lincoln?
Maryland
James Polk
John Wilkes Booth
Lyndon Johnson
31. Who was the first VP?
January 1st - 1863
Woodrow Wilson
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
John Adams
32. Who had a 12 year affair with Gennifer Flowers?
Daniel Inouye
William Jefferson Clinton
The Vice President
The president could not fire and federal official who had gotten their job with Senate approval
33. What war did George Washington lead the army for?
30
Revolutionary War
George H. W. Bush
James Madison
34. What was reconstruction?
William Howard Taft
Hillary Clinton
The US was prepared to send money and military support to countries that want to resist communism
Period after the Civil War and how we reunited
35. How can a president serve up to ten years?
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36. James Monroe created the ________ Doctrine
100
Germany was attacking ships
Monroe
Speeches given for hope
37. Why did WWI happen?
January 1st - 1863
Andrew Johnson
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Germany was attacking ships
38. Who takes over if the President is disabled or dies?
Yes
A gun
The Vice President
Teddy Roosevelt
39. Where was George Washington born?
James Madison
December 7th - 1941
100
Mount Vernon - Virginia
40. Where does the right to navigate teh seas without interference not apply?
Social Security
East of Africa
4
Harry S Truman
41. Who was the first president not to win the popular vote and to become president?
Civil War
They were classmates in college
John Quincy Adams - Rutherford B. Hayes - Benjamin Harrison - and George W. Bush
John Quicy Adams
42. Who was the youngest elected president?
Barack Obama
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
James Madison
When we dropped food and supplies to people in West Berlin
43. What was a talent of John Wilkes Booth?
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
Acting
William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison
44. ______ years later - the Tenure of Office act was gotten rid of by the Supreme court because it was ________.
538
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
60; unconstitutional
7; 11
45. What was the nullification crisis?
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46. Which president was the 'father of the constitution'?
The Vice President
Dwight David Eisenhower
James Madison
Electors
47. Who introduced disability benefits?
George Washington
Germany - Hungary - Turkey
George H. W. Bush
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
48. Who was Franklin Delano Roosevelt married to?
Eleanor
John Boehner
Guam - Midway Islands - Philippines - and Puerto Rico
2
49. What presidents (in order) died of natural causes?
35 said He was guilty - but he needed 36
William Henry Harrison - Zachary Taylor - Warren Harding - and Franklin Delano Roosevelt
January 1st - 1863
Martha
50. Who was the first VP to move up on death of a president?
Woodrow Wilson
The first Tuesday of Novermber that follows a monday in November
John Tyler
Jimmy Carter