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U.S. Presidents Trivia
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1. What president had the watergate scandal?
Richard Nixon
William McKinley
You can collect money if you become disabled before retirement
Buffalo - New York
2. Who created the Family Medical Leave Act?
Barack Obama
England
OK to send home foregienors if they looked dangerous; also if we were in war with their country
William Jefferson Clinton
3. What war was George Washington in the military for?
French and Indian War
Abraham Lincoln
William Seward; $7.2 million; Alaska
James Madison
4. Did we win the Spanish American War?
Yes
The first Tuesday of Novermber that follows a monday in November
Medical insurance for all americans
Monticello - Virginia
5. Who went to the Supreme court and tried to increase it to fifteen judges - but was told no?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Ulysses S. Grant
Club with all countries where problems were discussed peacefully
French and Indian War
6. Who was our president during the Vietnam War?
Jefferson Davis
January 1st - 1863
Barack Obama
Lyndon Johnson
7. Which president was a great general - a leader - honest - and trustworth?
George Washington
The south
James Madison
Universal health care
8. Who was president when the United Nations was formed?
Harry S Truman
William Jefferson Clinton
Mary Todd-Lincoln
World War I
9. What is the mandatory retirement plan run by the government?
Social Security
0
Alien and sedition acts
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
10. Where was John Fitzgerald Kennedy assassinated?
Dallas - Texas
27
Barack Obama
September 1st - 1939
11. What presidents (in order) died of natural causes?
4
X-ray
William Henry Harrison - Zachary Taylor - Warren Harding - and Franklin Delano Roosevelt
George H. W. Bush
12. what disease did Franklin Delano Roosevelt have?
Barack Obama
Polio
Teddy Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
13. What were the years of WWI?
X-ray
1914-1918
William Jefferson Clinton
Georgia
14. What month and year was the Gettysburg Address said?
60; unconstitutional
No
Guam - Midway Islands - Philippines - and Puerto Rico
November 1863
15. What month and year was the Gettysburg Address said?
Richard Nixon
You can collect money if you become disabled before retirement
November 1863
William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison
16. What was a popular film of John Fitzgerald Kennedy's assassination?
The White House
Dwight David Eisenhower
Zapruder film
The Civil War
17. Which president got Alzheimers and forgot being president?
Ronald Reagan
George Washington - John Adams - Thomas Jefferson - James Madison - James Monroe - and John Quincy Adams
Jimmy Carter
He gets shot
18. Which presidents won the nobel peace prize (in order)?
Forced the president to issue all military orders through general of the army who could not be removed without senate approval
Teddy Roosevelt - Woodrow Wilson - Jimmy Carter - and Barack Obama
Teddy Roosevelt
The federal government guarentees your money at a bank
19. Who was Deep Throat?
Barack Obama
A person who knew the truth about Richard Nixon and told Woodward and Bernstein
Joe Biden
He resigned before the impeachment trial
20. During the civil war - the ________ wanted slaves and the ________ did not.
The House of Representatives selects the President and the Senate selects the Vice President
South; north
25
Jimmy Carter
21. Who said 'A date that will live in infamy'? What were they talking about (separate with semicolon)?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Pearl Harbor bombing
Abraham Lincoln
James Madison
Andrew Johnson
22. When did we get involved and stop being involved with WWI? (month and year)
April 1917- November 1918
1914-1918
Teddy Roosevelt
Georgia
23. Who was the only president to be president and then supreme court chief justice?
William Howard Taft
Abigail
Mom
George H. W. Bush
24. How was James Garfield killed?
George W. Bush
He was shot on his way to a college reunion
John Adams
2
25. How tall was Abraham Lincoln?
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26. What president did the Berlin airlift?
Jimmy Carter
A group of representatives chosen by the voters to elect the President
Harry S Truman
Maine and Nebraska
27. Grover Cleveland was the ____ and ____ president (numbers)
Period after the Civil War and how we reunited
William Jefferson Clinton
22 - 24
4
28. What was the Emancipation proclamation meant to do?
Free the slaves in the south
Harry S Truman
Richard Nixon
November 22nd - 1963
29. Congress passed 2 laws designed to limit __________'s (a president) power .
When we dropped food and supplies to people in West Berlin
Andrew Johnson
England
John Adams
30. James Madison's wife was ________ Madison.
South; north
Daniel Inouye
Ronald Reagan
Dolley
31. Why did WWII begin?
They were classmates in college
England - France - Russia - USA
Germany invaded Poland
January 20th
32. what ended a couple of days before Abraham Lincoln's Assasination?
Civil War
Period after the Civil War and how we reunited
4
William Seward; $7.2 million; Alaska
33. Who burnt down the White House during a war?
England
Period after the Civil War and how we reunited
Alien and sedition acts
Cuba wanted to overthrow Castrow and our military helped train them
34. Who did the Banking Holiday?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Dwight David Eisenhower
George W. Bush
Georgia
35. Which president had a stroke in his bathroom?
Thomas Jefferson
Massachusetts
Jimmy Carter
Woodrow Wilson
36. Which president served the most terms?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
In their state's capital
Sic Semper Tyrannis - the south is avenged
The Korean War
37. This president helped write the federalist papers.
Civil rights
Georgia
James Madison
The Civil War
38. Why wasn't Richard Nixon thrown out of office?
4
James Madison
He resigned before the impeachment trial
William Henry Harrison - Zachary Taylor - Warren Harding - and Franklin Delano Roosevelt
39. Who is the current speaker of the House?
John Boehner
John Adams
April 12th - 1861
He wanted a date Jodie Foster
40. John Quicy Adams spent time In what continent?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
You can collect money if you become disabled before retirement
They were classmates in college
Europe
41. What did John Wilkes Booth say after he shot Lincoln?
Conspiracy
Sic Semper Tyrannis - the south is avenged
William Henry Harrison
Yes
42. How many Vice Presidents have moved up because the president died?
8
World War I
William and Mary College
Getting out of the Great depression by hiring people - which would start a chain reaction
43. Where was William McKinley killed?
Buffalo - New York
George H.W. Bush and George Bush
538
Harry S Truman
44. Why did WWII begin?
New Mexico to California
Germany invaded Poland
The number of people in Congress plus 3 for DC
Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Pearl Harbor bombing
45. Who won the Nobel peace prize because he told Russia and Japan not to fight - but to love?
Teddy Roosevelt
Gerald Ford
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
William Henry Harrison
46. Why did we enter WWII?
Iraq invaded Kuwait - and a coalition of naions push Iraq out of Kuwait
Civil War
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor - Hawaii
April 1917- November 1918
47. Who pays for all personal entertainment and dinners not related to teh government business in the White House?
Maryland
The idea to own all the land from the pacific to the atlantic ocean; 1.2 million
The federal government guarentees your money at a bank
The president
48. What was the point of the Gettysburg Address (two things)?
The banks were closed because everyone wanted their money at once
Honor people who died - make sure the country survies
His 5th cousin
Germany - Hungary - Turkey
49. Who was the first VP?
Conspiracy
John Adams
Daniel Inouye
Enola Gay
50. Who's son married Nixon's daughter?
He was shot on his way to a college reunion
Dwight David Eisenhower
John Hinkley Jr.
The Vice President
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