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U.S. Presidents Trivia
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What state is Camp David in?
The government
His 5th cousin
January 20th
Maryland
2. What war never officially ended but just doesn't fight any more?
The Korean War
April 12th - 1861
William Seward; $7.2 million; Alaska
5
3. Who was the only president to resign?
Jimmy Carter
Richard Nixon
John Boehner
100
4. Do we vote directly for the president?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Ulysses S. Grant
No
November
5. Who was the first VP to move up on death of a president?
John Tyler
William Jefferson Clinton
27
You can collect money if you become disabled before retirement
6. What was the Berlin Airlift?
Zapruder film
Free the slaves in the south
Conspiracy
When we dropped food and supplies to people in West Berlin
7. How many years younger was John Tyler's wife than him?
Civil rights
30
Dwight David Eisenhower
Jefferson still survives
8. Jimmy Carter was the former governor of ____.
Barack Obama
French and Indian War
30
Georgia
9. Who was our president when we kille Osama bin Laden?
Since birth
Barack Obama
Germany was attacking ships
Richard Nixon
10. Why did the league of nations fail (what country wouldn't join)?
He fired the Secretary of War Staton
Polio
Harry S Truman
USA
11. Who was president for the 9/11 attacks?
14
James Polk
George W. Bush
Lyndon Johnson
12. Who was the first VP?
Thomas Jefferson
Teddy Roosevelt
Dwight David Eisenhower
John Adams
13. Which presient send Lewis and Clark on their journey?
Teddy Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Richard Nixon
4th
Thomas Jefferson
14. Which president served the most terms?
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson; July 4th - 1826
Lee Harvey Oswald
Zapruder film
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
15. Who supported manifest destiny?
James Polk
The White House
Civil War
George Washington
16. The person who killed John Fitzgerald Kennedy is thought to have killed him in a _______ - or not alone.
George H. W. Bush
Revolutionary War
Alien and sedition acts
Conspiracy
17. How many Vice Presidents have moved up because the president resigned?
1
James Madison
The north were comunists and the south were not
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
18. Who was president for the Cuban Missile Crisis?
James Polk
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Teddy Roosevelt
The Korean War
19. Why didn't the Emancipation proclamation work?
1814
November 22nd - 1963
Germany invaded Poland
The north and the south were split up
20. When was the Emancipation proclamation?
William Henry Harrison
OK to send home foregienors if they looked dangerous; also if we were in war with their country
January 1st - 1863
Teddy Roosevelt
21. Where does the president live for free?
The White House
Jimmy Carter
New Mexico to California
Money goes to kids when a parent dies
22. What is the command of army act?
Forced the president to issue all military orders through general of the army who could not be removed without senate approval
William Henry Harrison
No
None
23. Who pays for all personal entertainment and dinners not related to teh government business in the White House?
Social Security
Jimmy Carter
30
The president
24. Who takes over if the President is disabled or dies?
Ft. Sumter - South Carolina
Germany was attacking ships
The Vice President
Harry S Truman
25. What year was the Louisiana Territory bought?
14
Social Security
1803
The number of people in Congress plus 3 for DC
26. During the civil war - the ________ wanted slaves and the ________ did not.
8
Gerald Ford
The Vice President
South; north
27. How long do you have to be a citizen for to be president?
Monroe
35
Since birth
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
28. what president was also president of the constitutional convention?
132
Dwight David Eisenhower
The three day battle in July in Gettysburg about slaves
George Washington
29. In most states - what percent of the state's electoral votes does a candidate get if they win the popular vote?
100
He wanted a date Jodie Foster
April 12th - 1861
James Madison
30. How long do you have to be a citizen for to be president?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
South; north
John Quicy Adams
Since birth
31. What two states do not use 'winner-takes all' for the electoral college?
Maine and Nebraska
Abraham Lincoln
Woodrow Wilson
Dwight David Eisenhower
32. Who introduced social security?
Richard Nixon
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Barack Obama
33. Who's son married Nixon's daughter?
60; unconstitutional
Dwight David Eisenhower
The Civil War
A gun
34. What president did the Berlin airlift?
Harry S Truman
$150000
George Washington
1 million
35. How many Vice Presidents have moved up because the president resigned?
Teddy Roosevelt
William Jefferson Clinton
1
Jefferson Davis
36. How many electors are in the electoral college?
4
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
538
Jefferson Davis
37. What date was John Fitzgerald Kennedy killed on?
The north and the south were split up
November 22nd - 1963
Barack Obama
The south
38. Who ran the country when Woodrow Wilson couldn't?
The south
Hillary Clinton
A 2nd home for the president
His wife
39. Who were Woodward and Bernstein?
40. Who won a Nobel Peace Prize for what they were going to do?
Civil War
Barack Obama
Perjury and obstruction of justice
OK to send home foregienors if they looked dangerous; also if we were in war with their country
41. Who presented the Fourteen Points?
Woodrow Wilson
Monticello - Virginia
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson; July 4th - 1826
42. Where do electors vote?
43. Jimmy Carter was the former governor of ____.
Barack Obama
Georgia
Mary Todd-Lincoln
Germany - Hungary - Turkey
44. Who was president when the United Nations was formed?
If he serves 2 or less years of someone else's term plus 8 years on his own
Barack Obama
Harry S Truman
The US was prepared to send money and military support to countries that want to resist communism
45. What were the territories we gained in the Spanish American War? (ABC order with commas inbetween)
The three day battle in July in Gettysburg about slaves
Guam - Midway Islands - Philippines - and Puerto Rico
William Jefferson Clinton
Harry S Truman
46. Who attempted to assassinate Ronald Reagan?
John Quincy Adams - Rutherford B. Hayes - Benjamin Harrison - and George W. Bush
Maine and Nebraska
John Hinkley Jr.
William Jefferson Clinton
47. What transportation does the president get?
George W. Bush
Maine and Nebraska
Air Force One - Marine One - and limousines
Sexual harrassment
48. How many days was the Iran Hostage crisis?
William Jefferson Clinton
Worker can take three months off in a year to take care of sick relatives or him/herself and cannot be fired
444
The three day battle in July in Gettysburg about slaves
49. Who was the only man to be president Who was not elected to either vp spot or the presidency?
Gerald Ford
15
Thomas Jefferson
25
50. Who was the only president to get all the electoral votes?
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor - Hawaii
January 1st - 1863
George Washington
Joe Biden