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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 did WWII begin?
Dental; medical
September 1st - 1939
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Andrew Jackson
2. Why did we enter WWII?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
14
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor - Hawaii
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
3. Who is the current Vice President?
Joe Biden
6'4'
Peterson House; the next morning
1 million
4. Who created the Family Medical Leave Act?
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Woodrow Wilson
Democratic National Headquarters; Watergate
William Jefferson Clinton
5. When did we get involved and stop being involved with WWI? (month and year)
Dwight David Eisenhower
Harry S Truman
Electors
April 1917- November 1918
6. What law that Barack Obama passed might be unconstitutional and is being looked at by the supreme court now?
Guam - Midway Islands - Philippines - and Puerto Rico
William Jefferson Clinton
Universal health care
No
7. What was the Banking Holiday?
The banks were closed because everyone wanted their money at once
Teddy Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt
OK to send home foregienors if they looked dangerous; also if we were in war with their country
Cuba wanted to overthrow Castrow and our military helped train them
8. Where did Thomas Jefferson go to college?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Mary Todd-Lincoln
William and Mary College
60; unconstitutional
9. Who was president when the United Nations was formed?
Social Security
Harry S Truman
The Vice President
350
10. Where does the number of electors in the electoral college come from?
The number of people in Congress plus 3 for DC
444
We thought there were weapons of mass destruction - but there weren't
A 2nd home for the president
11. What is the Electoral College?
Writters for Washington Post who figured out Richard Nixon's case
A group of representatives chosen by the voters to elect the President
Robert E. Lee
Cuba wanted to overthrow Castrow and our military helped train them
12. Gerald Ford pardons _____________ for all crimes committed.
Richard Nixon
The House of Representatives selects the President and the Senate selects the Vice President
Harry S Truman
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson; July 4th - 1826
13. What college did George Washington go to?
Civil War
Barack Obama
None
William Jefferson Clinton
14. Who was Abraham Lincoln married to?
George W. Bush
Mary Todd-Lincoln
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
John Boehner
15. Who's son is Camp David named after?
132
Yes
November 22nd - 1963
Dwight David Eisenhower
16. What transportation does the president get?
Air Force One - Marine One - and limousines
4
George Washington
The Confederate States of America
17. Manifest Destiny was to have all the land from __________ to ___________ (east to west)
Dwight David Eisenhower
1814
New Mexico to California
Teddy Roosevelt
18. 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
7; 11
20
Woodrow Wilson
19. When did we get involved and stop being involved with WWI? (month and year)
April 1917- November 1918
Dwight David Eisenhower
William and Mary College
Worker can take three months off in a year to take care of sick relatives or him/herself and cannot be fired
20. Which president made the panama canal?
$150000
Cuba wanted to overthrow Castrow and our military helped train them
Teddy Roosevelt
Monticello - Virginia
21. This president helped write the federalist papers.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Pearl Harbor bombing
Money goes to kids when a parent dies
James Madison
Yes
22. How many Vice Presidents ran again for president and became president?
35 said He was guilty - but he needed 36
John Quicy Adams
5
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson; July 4th - 1826
23. Who is considered 'the father of our country'?
444
George Washington
The government
Maine and Nebraska
24. Who supported manifest destiny?
They were classmates in college
James Polk
Barack Obama
Dolley
25. Who's son is Camp David named after?
John Quincy Adams - Rutherford B. Hayes - Benjamin Harrison - and George W. Bush
George W. Bush
Dwight David Eisenhower
His 5th cousin
26. Who was the only president to be president and then supreme court chief justice?
George Washington
Free the slaves in the south
William Howard Taft
William Jefferson Clinton
27. Where was Abraham Lincoln born? What kind of house did he live in?
0
You can collect money if you become disabled before retirement
Kentucky; Log cabin
Lyndon Johnson
28. During the civil war - the ________ wanted slaves and the ________ did not.
George W. Bush
South; north
September 1st - 1939
William Henry Harrison
29. Who was the youngest elected president?
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
William Seward; $7.2 million; Alaska
60; unconstitutional
Dental; medical
30. Do we vote directly for the president?
USA
No
Yes
His 5th cousin
31. After Abraham Lincoln was shot - He was carried across the street to ________________ where he dies when?
Saving a picture of Washington during the war
Peterson House; the next morning
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
George Washington - John Adams - Thomas Jefferson - James Madison - James Monroe - and John Quincy Adams
32. Who were the second presidents to be father and son?
George H.W. Bush and George Bush
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
4
Ulysses S. Grant
33. Who pays for all personal entertainment and dinners not related to teh government business in the White House?
Harry S Truman
15 million
The president
New Mexico to California
34. What is the oldest you can be to get surviver benefits?
Worker can take three months off in a year to take care of sick relatives or him/herself and cannot be fired
Period after the Civil War and how we reunited
Germany invaded Poland
18
35. What was the name of the airplane that bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Polio
25
Enola Gay
The Civil War
36. Where does the right to navigate teh seas without interference not apply?
4
Mom
Forced the president to issue all military orders through general of the army who could not be removed without senate approval
East of Africa
37. What is the address of the white house?
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
William Jefferson Clinton
French and Indian War
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
38. Who balanced the budget?
William Jefferson Clinton
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
Polio
November 22nd - 1963
39. Where did the name 'gettysburg' come from?
Mom
The Korean War
15
The three day battle in July in Gettysburg about slaves
40. Who was president for the nullification crisis?
Richard Nixon
James Madison
Andrew Jackson
If he serves 2 or less years of someone else's term plus 8 years on his own
41. Who was the first African American President?
Thomas Jefferson
September 1st - 1939
Dolley
Barack Obama
42. Who was president for the persian gulf war?
Teddy Roosevelt
If he serves 2 or less years of someone else's term plus 8 years on his own
William McKinley
George H. W. Bush
43. Who did we help in the Vietnam war and the korean war?
Woodrow Wilson
England; sailors; products
The south
The Gettysburg Address
44. Who was the only president to resign?
Richard Nixon
January 20th
Buffalo - New York
The government
45. Who acts as an advisor to the president?
Money goes to kids when a parent dies
Crime to print false or meliscious or scandalist stuff about the U.S. gov.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The Vice President
46. Who killed Abraham Lincoln?
Bad
A support group of countries
In their state's capital
John Wilkes Booth
47. What war was George Washington in the military for?
He wanted a date Jodie Foster
The president
The Korean War
French and Indian War
48. Franklin Delano Roosevelt got his middle name because his _____'s favorite relative was de la Noye
14
4th
Mom
Kentucky; Log cabin
49. Who was the first VP to move up on death of a president?
$150000
William Jefferson Clinton
George W. Bush
John Tyler
50. Who was on the good side for WWI (abc order)?
England - France - Russia - USA
OK to send home foregienors if they looked dangerous; also if we were in war with their country
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
Jimmy Carter