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U.S. Presidents Trivia
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What is the family Medical Leave Act?
Dwight David Eisenhower
Worker can take three months off in a year to take care of sick relatives or him/herself and cannot be fired
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
1814
2. Who killed Abraham Lincoln?
Ford's Theater
The president
John Wilkes Booth
William Jefferson Clinton
3. Who was Deep Throat?
Providing a backup place for military plane landing
Mary Todd-Lincoln
350
A person who knew the truth about Richard Nixon and told Woodward and Bernstein
4. Which president was a lawyer - very smart - an architect - a musician - and an inventor?
Mary Todd-Lincoln
Peterson House; the next morning
Lee Harvey Oswald
Thomas Jefferson
5. Who was president for the 9/11 attacks?
Mary Todd-Lincoln
James Polk
Teddy Roosevelt
George W. Bush
6. Which president was author of the Virginia Plan?
Germany invaded Poland
James Madison
Mary Todd-Lincoln
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
7. Which president was the youngest to serve?
Germany was attacking ships
When we dropped food and supplies to people in West Berlin
Teddy Roosevelt
Dwight David Eisenhower
8. When was the Emancipation proclamation?
Civil rights
Cuba wanted to overthrow Castrow and our military helped train them
Enola Gay
January 1st - 1863
9. What date was John Fitzgerald Kennedy killed on?
Joe Biden
Andrew Johnson
November 22nd - 1963
World War I
10. Where was John Fitzgerald Kennedy assassinated?
Guam - Midway Islands - Philippines - and Puerto Rico
James Madison
Dallas - Texas
William Jefferson Clinton
11. What presidents (in order) died of natural causes?
Teddy Roosevelt
Thomas Jefferson
Polio
William Henry Harrison - Zachary Taylor - Warren Harding - and Franklin Delano Roosevelt
12. Who pays for all personal entertainment and dinners not related to teh government business in the White House?
The president
60; unconstitutional
Iraq invaded Kuwait - and a coalition of naions push Iraq out of Kuwait
William Seward; $7.2 million; Alaska
13. Who were the first presidents to be father and son?
John Adams and John Quincy Adams
Lyndon Johnson
The Vice President
Zapruder film
14. What was the camp david accords?
Thomas Jefferson
Bad
When peace was made between Israel and Egypt at Camp David
April 12th - 1861
15. What was the Banking Holiday?
Medical insurance for all americans
The Confederate States of America
John Quincy Adams - Rutherford B. Hayes - Benjamin Harrison - and George W. Bush
The banks were closed because everyone wanted their money at once
16. What was the persian gulf war/desert storm?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Iraq invaded Kuwait - and a coalition of naions push Iraq out of Kuwait
George H. W. Bush
William Jefferson Clinton
17. Congress passed 2 laws designed to limit __________'s (a president) power .
Andrew Johnson
Joe Biden
1 million
Dolley
18. Who won a nobel peace prize because of the camp david accords?
Dolley
April 12th - 1861
George Washington - John Adams - Thomas Jefferson - James Madison - James Monroe - and John Quincy Adams
Jimmy Carter
19. Who was sent to a mental institution after Abraham Lincoln's death?
Mary Todd-Lincoln
Teddy Roosevelt
270
Harry S Truman
20. What was Lincoln's most famous speech?
The Gettysburg Address
Conspiracy
Ronald Reagan
Germany invaded Poland
21. Who invaded Iraq?
George W. Bush
November
Germany invaded Poland
None
22. Where did the civil war begin?
1 million
Ft. Sumter - South Carolina
Democratic National Headquarters; Watergate
Ford's Theater
23. How many states broke away during the civil war AT FIRST? how many total ending up breaking away?
Lee Harvey Oswald
Free the slaves in the south
Democratic National Headquarters; Watergate
7; 11
24. Where was Abraham Lincoln born? What kind of house did he live in?
Kentucky; Log cabin
John Wilkes Booth
Thomas Jefferson
Martha
25. How much was the Louisiana Territory when it was purchased?
William Henry Harrison - Zachary Taylor - Warren Harding - and Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Jimmy Carter
15 million
538
26. Who is the current Vice President?
Daniel Inouye
He gets shot
Joe Biden
Sic Semper Tyrannis - the south is avenged
27. Name the Founding Fathers plus the son in order...
The north were comunists and the south were not
World War I
George Washington - John Adams - Thomas Jefferson - James Madison - James Monroe - and John Quincy Adams
We thought there were weapons of mass destruction - but there weren't
28. Why wasn't Richard Nixon thrown out of office?
James Madison
Electors
William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison
He resigned before the impeachment trial
29. How many years is a presidential term?
1914-1918
Eleanor
Dwight David Eisenhower
4
30. Can the amount of money a president earns be increased/decreased during someone's term of office?
Massachusetts
No
Jefferson Davis
A person who knew the truth about Richard Nixon and told Woodward and Bernstein
31. What month is the election in?
The number of people in Congress plus 3 for DC
James Polk
November
35
32. what ended a couple of days before Abraham Lincoln's Assasination?
Barack Obama
George Washington
Civil War
The Civil War
33. How many Vice Presidents have moved up because the president died?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
35 said He was guilty - but he needed 36
No
8
34. What year was the White House burnt down?
John Hinkley Jr.
No
1814
April 1917- November 1918
35. Who introduced social security?
1
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Money goes to kids when a parent dies
Dwight David Eisenhower
36. What does 'Sic Semper Tyrranis' mean?
Thus always to tyrants
Thomas Jefferson
Lyndon Johnson
The fourteen points
37. Who's son married Nixon's daughter?
Dwight David Eisenhower
John Adams
7; 11
Woodrow Wilson
38. Which president was author of the Virginia Plan?
William Henry Harrison
James Madison
England
Dallas - Texas
39. Which president created the University of Virgina?
William and Mary College
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.
Thomas Jefferson
William Seward; $7.2 million; Alaska
40. Who was a peanut farmer?
Jimmy Carter
They were classmates in college
Eleanor
Civil War
41. Who supported manifest destiny?
The fourteen points
England
James Polk
Woodrow Wilson
42. Who was our president during the Korean war?
The three day battle in July in Gettysburg about slaves
Dwight David Eisenhower
James Madison
Richard Nixon
43. After Abraham Lincoln was shot - He was carried across the street to ________________ where he dies when?
The north were comunists and the south were not
14
6'4'
Peterson House; the next morning
44. Sewards Folly was when ________ (secretary of state) bought land for $______ - which was thought to be as a joke then - but now that land is known as ________.
The first Tuesday of Novermber that follows a monday in November
Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Pearl Harbor bombing
William Seward; $7.2 million; Alaska
270
45. Who was George Washington's wife?
Martha
0
100
George Washington
46. What year was the White House burnt down?
1814
The north were comunists and the south were not
0
New Mexico to California
47. Where did the name 'gettysburg' come from?
November
Abraham Lincoln
John Boehner
The three day battle in July in Gettysburg about slaves
48. Who burnt down the White House during a war?
The three day battle in July in Gettysburg about slaves
John Adams
England
John Adams and John Quincy Adams
49. What was the Berlin Airlift?
X-ray
Barack Obama
The federal government guarentees your money at a bank
When we dropped food and supplies to people in West Berlin
50. When did we get involved and stop being involved with WWI? (month and year)
The US was prepared to send money and military support to countries that want to resist communism
April 1917- November 1918
John Adams
Yes