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U.S. Presidents Trivia
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Who won a nobel peace prize because of the camp david accords?
John Adams
Jimmy Carter
England
X-ray
2. Who is the current secretary of state?
Dwight David Eisenhower
The Vice President
No
Hillary Clinton
3. Who became president when Richard Nixon resigend because they were his VP?
George Washington
Barack Obama
Gerald Ford
Jimmy Carter
4. Where was George Washington born?
None
Mount Vernon - Virginia
George H. W. Bush
Acting
5. Name the two presidents (ABC order by last name - write first and last name) who died on the same day - and the date they died (separate with semi colon)
William Seward; $7.2 million; Alaska
George Washington
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson; July 4th - 1826
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
6. Who was president for the Bay of Pigs?
Thomas Jefferson
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
John Adams
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor - Hawaii
7. What is the address of the white house?
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
The Vice President
Barack Obama
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
8. How long do you have to be a citizen for to be president?
When peace was made between Israel and Egypt at Camp David
Medical insurance for all americans
William Henry Harrison - Zachary Taylor - Warren Harding - and Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Since birth
9. Who was Abraham Lincoln married to?
William Henry Harrison - Zachary Taylor - Warren Harding - and Franklin Delano Roosevelt
15
Andrew Johnson
Mary Todd-Lincoln
10. Who was president for the Cuban Missile Crisis?
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
April 1917- November 1918
Harry S Truman
The president
11. What was the point of the Gettysburg Address (two things)?
Dolley
The Vice President
Honor people who died - make sure the country survies
The House of Representatives selects the President and the Senate selects the Vice President
12. When did we get involved and stop being involved with WWI? (month and year)
Civil War
April 1917- November 1918
Mary Todd-Lincoln
December 7th - 1941
13. Why did WWII begin?
Mount Vernon - Virginia
His 5th cousin
Germany invaded Poland
Ulysses S. Grant
14. Who won a nobel peace prize because of the camp david accords?
Richard Nixon
John Quicy Adams
Abigail
Jimmy Carter
15. How many presidents died in office?
8
Teddy Roosevelt
John Adams
Dental; medical
16. Grover Cleveland was the ____ and ____ president (numbers)
Daniel Inouye
8
22 - 24
Cuba wanted to overthrow Castrow and our military helped train them
17. Who was the first African American President?
A group of representatives chosen by the voters to elect the President
Maine and Nebraska
Barack Obama
Abigail
18. Who was sent to a mental institution after Abraham Lincoln's death?
April 12th - 1861
Eleanor
Mary Todd-Lincoln
Massachusetts
19. Where was Thomas Jefferson born?
35
Thomas Jefferson
November 22nd - 1963
Monticello - Virginia
20. Which president recognized Israel and traded with them and gave money and embassadors to them?
Andrew Jackson
Perjury and obstruction of justice
Harry S Truman
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
21. How tall was Abraham Lincoln?
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22. Who takes over if the President is disabled or dies?
The idea to own all the land from the pacific to the atlantic ocean; 1.2 million
The Vice President
When peace was made between Israel and Egypt at Camp David
The Korean War
23. Who did we help in the Vietnam war and the korean war?
35
The south
He was shot on his way to a college reunion
Dallas - Texas
24. Do we vote directly for the president?
April 1917- November 1918
5
Social Security
No
25. What was the Bay of Pigs?
Teddy Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson; July 4th - 1826
Cuba wanted to overthrow Castrow and our military helped train them
26. What war did George Washington lead the army for?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
4th
George H. W. Bush
Revolutionary War
27. Who did the Banking Holiday?
John Quincy Adams - Rutherford B. Hayes - Benjamin Harrison - and George W. Bush
Jefferson Davis
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Mary Todd-Lincoln
28. Lyndon Johnson got lots of bills passed involving ______.
Civil rights
William McKinley
Honor people who died - make sure the country survies
The White House
29. What year was the White House burnt down?
He resigned before the impeachment trial
Lyndon Johnson
George Washington
1814
30. Which president was former ambassador to China?
The number of people in Congress plus 3 for DC
The north were comunists and the south were not
A 2nd home for the president
George H. W. Bush
31. Who passed Universal health care?
Germany invaded Poland
William Jefferson Clinton
Barack Obama
2
32. Abraham Lincoln was ______ educated
Self
April 1917- November 1918
Jimmy Carter
X-ray
33. How old do you have to be to be president?
William Jefferson Clinton
Ford's Theater
Andrew Jackson
35
34. The ______ was invented when William McKinley was killed - and it could have saved him.
X-ray
Club with all countries where problems were discussed peacefully
A 2nd home for the president
The Confederate States of America
35. What is FDIC (explaIn what it means - not what it stands for)?
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
April 1917- November 1918
Perjury and obstruction of justice
The federal government guarentees your money at a bank
36. What president did the Berlin airlift?
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Harry S Truman
April 1917- November 1918
John Adams
37. Who attempted to assassinate Ronald Reagan?
Barack Obama
Teddy Roosevelt
Jimmy Carter
John Hinkley Jr.
38. During the Great Depression - ____% were unemployed.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
25
The south
Mary Todd-Lincoln
39. Who acts as an advisor to the president?
George Washington
French and Indian War
The Vice President
Providing a backup place for military plane landing
40. Who was the first president not to win the popular vote and to become president?
George H. W. Bush
John Tyler
John Quicy Adams
William Henry Harrison
41. What are the people in the electoral college called?
30
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Electors
George Washington
42. Who was president for the 9/11 attacks?
OK to send home foregienors if they looked dangerous; also if we were in war with their country
Barack Obama
George W. Bush
Woodrow Wilson
43. Who was on the good side for WWI (abc order)?
England - France - Russia - USA
4
Zapruder film
USA
44. Who was the first president not to win the popular vote and to become president?
John Quicy Adams
Richard Nixon
John Tyler
Dwight David Eisenhower
45. What to laws did Adams TRY to pass?
Alien and sedition acts
He wanted a date Jodie Foster
350
When we dropped food and supplies to people in West Berlin
46. The person who killed John Fitzgerald Kennedy is thought to have killed him in a _______ - or not alone.
1803
Dwight David Eisenhower
Conspiracy
A 2nd home for the president
47. Who introduced social security?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Pearl Harbor bombing
A person who knew the truth about Richard Nixon and told Woodward and Bernstein
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Harry S Truman
48. 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 ________.
William Seward; $7.2 million; Alaska
Ft. Sumter - South Carolina
Robert E. Lee
Monticello - Virginia
49. Who is the current President Pro-Tempore of the Senate?
The south
4th
Daniel Inouye
England - France - Russia - USA
50. What president did the Berlin airlift?
William Jefferson Clinton
Harry S Truman
Medical insurance for all americans
A gun