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U.S. Presidents Trivia
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What war never officially ended but just doesn't fight any more?
Dwight David Eisenhower
Eleanor
John Wilkes Booth
The Korean War
2. Who was our president during the Vietnam War?
Zapruder film
A person who knew the truth about Richard Nixon and told Woodward and Bernstein
The Korean War
Lyndon Johnson
3. Who attends diplomatic functions in place of the president?
The Vice President
George Washington
USA
William and Mary College
4. Who was President during the Spanish American War?
444
November
William McKinley
James Madison
5. Who did we help in the Vietnam war and the korean war?
Andrew Johnson
The south
Acting
Andrew Jackson
6. What president made the emancipation proclamtion?
Abraham Lincoln
The north were comunists and the south were not
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Saving a picture of Washington during the war
7. Who was president for the 9/11 attacks?
George W. Bush
Medical insurance for all americans
The Vice President
Barack Obama
8. What war never officially ended but just doesn't fight any more?
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
George H.W. Bush and George Bush
The Korean War
25
9. What state is Camp David in?
Maryland
Barack Obama
William Henry Harrison
John Adams
10. 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 ________.
The fourteen points
Germany invaded Poland
A 2nd home for the president
Thomas Jefferson
11. Name the Founding Fathers plus the son in order...
George Washington - John Adams - Thomas Jefferson - James Madison - James Monroe - and John Quincy Adams
Barack Obama
Massachusetts
A 2nd home for the president
12. Who's son is Camp David named after?
Jimmy Carter
John Quincy Adams - Rutherford B. Hayes - Benjamin Harrison - and George W. Bush
William Seward; $7.2 million; Alaska
Dwight David Eisenhower
13. How many pounds was William Howard Taft?
James Madison
September 1st - 1939
January 1st - 1863
350
14. Jimmy Carter was the former governor of ____.
James Madison
Georgia
4
England
15. Which president was the 'father of the constitution'?
Barack Obama
November 1863
James Madison
Teddy Roosevelt
16. Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant knew eachother because _________.
Revolutionary War
They were classmates in college
April 1917- November 1918
William Henry Harrison
17. Which presidents were great grandfather and grandson?
William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison
Dwight David Eisenhower
Getting out of the Great depression by hiring people - which would start a chain reaction
George Washington
18. How many terms is a president alowed to serve?
Universal health care
2
1814
Teddy Roosevelt
19. what ended a couple of days before Abraham Lincoln's Assasination?
He resigned before the impeachment trial
His wife
Andrew Johnson
Civil War
20. What was a talent of John Wilkes Booth?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
4
Acting
His 5th cousin
21. Franklin Delano Roosevelt died a short time into his ____ term.
4th
William Henry Harrison
The federal government guarentees your money at a bank
Conspiracy
22. Who introduced surviver benefits?
He was shot on his way to a college reunion
George H.W. Bush and George Bush
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The Vice President
23. What are disability benefits?
You can collect money if you become disabled before retirement
Teddy Roosevelt
George W. Bush
January 20th
24. Who was president for the 9/11 attacks?
George Washington
George W. Bush
Teddy Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Saving a picture of Washington during the war
25. Name the Founding Fathers plus the son in order...
Providing a backup place for military plane landing
George Washington - John Adams - Thomas Jefferson - James Madison - James Monroe - and John Quincy Adams
Richard Nixon
Mary Todd-Lincoln
26. How many Vice Presidents have moved up because the president died?
8
Teddy Roosevelt
Revolutionary War
A support group of countries
27. which president was former head of CIA?
1 million
1914-1918
4
George H. W. Bush
28. What was the league of nations?
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
No
Club with all countries where problems were discussed peacefully
29. Who introduced surviver benefits?
South; north
James Madison
A gun
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
30. What is the address of the white house?
East of Africa
Dwight David Eisenhower
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
John Adams and John Quincy Adams
31. Who was the first president not to win the popular vote and to become president?
Yes
Writters for Washington Post who figured out Richard Nixon's case
John Quicy Adams
Lee Harvey Oswald
32. What was reconstruction?
The south
Period after the Civil War and how we reunited
Peterson House; the next morning
William Henry Harrison
33. Who is the current secretary of state?
Hillary Clinton
John Hinkley Jr.
15 million
Barack Obama
34. Gerald Ford pardons _____________ for all crimes committed.
4
Woodrow Wilson
35
Richard Nixon
35. Grover Cleveland was the ____ and ____ president (numbers)
22 - 24
September 1st - 1939
1
George Washington
36. What year was the White House burnt down?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
1814
Period after the Civil War and how we reunited
Mount Vernon - Virginia
37. Who had a 12 year affair with Gennifer Flowers?
Medical insurance for all americans
William Jefferson Clinton
December 7th - 1941
Civil War
38. Who's son married Nixon's daughter?
Civil War
John Boehner
William Henry Harrison - Zachary Taylor - Warren Harding - and Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Dwight David Eisenhower
39. Who were the second presidents to be father and son?
When we dropped food and supplies to people in West Berlin
Andrew Johnson
270
George H.W. Bush and George Bush
40. When did we enter WWII?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Money goes to kids when a parent dies
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor - Hawaii
December 7th - 1941
41. Who was embarrassed when they received the Nobel Peace Prize?
Barack Obama
The north and the south were split up
Eleanor
George Washington - John Adams - Thomas Jefferson - James Madison - James Monroe - and John Quincy Adams
42. What was William Jefferson Clinton impeached for?
Perjury and obstruction of justice
George W. Bush
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
4
43. How many presidents died in office?
8
Free the slaves in the south
George Washington
Abraham Lincoln
44. Who is the current Vice President?
If he serves 2 or less years of someone else's term plus 8 years on his own
Richard Nixon
John Boehner
Joe Biden
45. Which president created the University of Virgina?
Thomas Jefferson
William Jefferson Clinton
Ulysses S. Grant
William McKinley
46. Who was president for the Iran Hostage crisis?
Teddy Roosevelt
Jimmy Carter
Richard Nixon
Barack Obama
47. Who was Franklin Delano Roosevelt married to?
Eleanor
OK to send home foregienors if they looked dangerous; also if we were in war with their country
April 1917- November 1918
Harry S Truman
48. Who was the youngest elected president?
He wanted a date Jodie Foster
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
None
Dwight David Eisenhower
49. What is the oldest you can be to get surviver benefits?
18
Teddy Roosevelt
Conspiracy
The US was prepared to send money and military support to countries that want to resist communism
50. William Jefferson Clinton paid Paula Jones $____.
Zapruder film
Andrew Johnson
5
1 million