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U.S. Presidents Trivia
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What did the Interstate Highway System also do besides provide a road for driving?
270
4
Barack Obama
Providing a backup place for military plane landing
2. Which president presented the bill of rights at the first Congress?
Harry S Truman
He resigned before the impeachment trial
James Madison
William Jefferson Clinton
3. Who is considered 'the father of our country'?
Dwight David Eisenhower
George Washington
Conspiracy
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
4. John Adams had a successful marriage with ______ (first name).
Abraham Lincoln
15
Richard Nixon
Abigail
5. Who was the first African American President?
Barack Obama
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Eleanor
He resigned before the impeachment trial
6. which president was former head of CIA?
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.
John Hinkley Jr.
George H. W. Bush
Buffalo - New York
7. Sedition acts
Crime to print false or meliscious or scandalist stuff about the U.S. gov.
John Boehner
Civil War
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
8. This president swam naked in the Potomac River
April 1917- November 1918
The president
Period after the Civil War and how we reunited
John Quicy Adams
9. When was the Emancipation proclamation?
$150000
South; north
Harry S Truman
January 1st - 1863
10. What year was the White House burnt down?
1814
Harvard
4
8
11. Which president created Yellowstone National Park and Yosemite?
Andrew Jackson
538
Teddy Roosevelt
The government
12. How many former vice presidents have become president?
No
14
The Gettysburg Address
Teddy Roosevelt - Woodrow Wilson - Jimmy Carter - and Barack Obama
13. Who was on the bad side for WWI (abc order)?
15
Germany - Hungary - Turkey
Crime to print false or meliscious or scandalist stuff about the U.S. gov.
Thomas Jefferson
14. William Jefferson Clinton paid Paula Jones $____.
Germany invaded Poland
Georgia
Andrew Johnson
1 million
15. What is FDIC (explaIn what it means - not what it stands for)?
The US was prepared to send money and military support to countries that want to resist communism
The federal government guarentees your money at a bank
Monticello - Virginia
444
16. How did William McKinley die?
Self
5
He was shot
1803
17. Which president had a stroke in his bathroom?
Woodrow Wilson
OK to send home foregienors if they looked dangerous; also if we were in war with their country
538
Worker can take three months off in a year to take care of sick relatives or him/herself and cannot be fired
18. The president get ____ care and _____ care for free.
George Washington
January 20th
Andrew Jackson
Dental; medical
19. What law that Barack Obama passed might be unconstitutional and is being looked at by the supreme court now?
18
Universal health care
East of Africa
George W. Bush
20. Where was William McKinley killed?
Dwight David Eisenhower
William Jefferson Clinton
November 1863
Buffalo - New York
21. Where was John Fitzgerald Kennedy assassinated?
George Washington
Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Pearl Harbor bombing
Dallas - Texas
Harry S Truman
22. How did William McKinley die?
Providing a backup place for military plane landing
Andrew Jackson
He was shot
The federal government guarentees your money at a bank
23. Who invaded Iraq?
132
Teddy Roosevelt - Woodrow Wilson - Jimmy Carter - and Barack Obama
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
George W. Bush
24. What president had the watergate scandal?
Richard Nixon
England - France - Russia - USA
Jimmy Carter
100
25. What was the most terms served by a president?
4
George H. W. Bush
William Jefferson Clinton
Ulysses S. Grant
26. What are disability benefits?
You can collect money if you become disabled before retirement
132
Mary Todd-Lincoln
Universal health care
27. Who was the first president not to win the popular vote and to become president?
When we dropped food and supplies to people in West Berlin
George Washington - John Adams - Thomas Jefferson - James Madison - James Monroe - and John Quincy Adams
John Quicy Adams
Harry S Truman
28. Who is the current speaker of the House?
Air Force One - Marine One - and limousines
John Boehner
OK to send home foregienors if they looked dangerous; also if we were in war with their country
William Henry Harrison
29. What was the name of the airplane that bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki
20
January 20th
Enola Gay
George H. W. Bush
30. Who was president during the Great depression?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
4
14
The north and the south were split up
31. John Adams had a successful marriage with ______ (first name).
Mary Todd-Lincoln
14
Dwight David Eisenhower
Abigail
32. Which president served the most terms?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Abraham Lincoln
James Madison
John Hinkley Jr.
33. During the civil war - the south's general was ____________.
John Quincy Adams - Rutherford B. Hayes - Benjamin Harrison - and George W. Bush
Richard Nixon
Robert E. Lee
100
34. Who was the only president to get all the electoral votes?
George Washington
1803
January 1st - 1863
Worker can take three months off in a year to take care of sick relatives or him/herself and cannot be fired
35. Where was Abraham Lincoln born? What kind of house did he live in?
Woodrow Wilson
Kentucky; Log cabin
27
Lyndon Johnson
36. The ______ was invented when William McKinley was killed - and it could have saved him.
The Civil War
Mount Vernon - Virginia
270
X-ray
37. Who created the Family Medical Leave Act?
Dwight David Eisenhower
Zapruder film
William Jefferson Clinton
John Boehner
38. Who did fireside chats?
John Quincy Adams - Rutherford B. Hayes - Benjamin Harrison - and George W. Bush
444
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The Confederate States of America
39. Who did fireside chats?
Buffalo - New York
Speeches given for hope
Barack Obama
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
40. Who attends diplomatic functions in place of the president?
The Vice President
George Washington
Writters for Washington Post who figured out Richard Nixon's case
Social Security
41. During the civil war - the ________ wanted slaves and the ________ did not.
Crime to print false or meliscious or scandalist stuff about the U.S. gov.
William Henry Harrison
South; north
Since birth
42. How much of a retirement income per year does the president make (for life)?
$150000
Ronald Reagan
Monticello - Virginia
Universal health care
43. Who was our president when we kille Osama bin Laden?
Woodrow Wilson
Barack Obama
They were classmates in college
X-ray
44. Which presidents won the nobel peace prize (in order)?
George W. Bush
Dallas - Texas
6'4'
Teddy Roosevelt - Woodrow Wilson - Jimmy Carter - and Barack Obama
45. What is the address of the white house?
The north were comunists and the south were not
George Washington
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Woodrow Wilson
46. Who was our president during the Vietnam War?
Lyndon Johnson
30
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
December 7th - 1941
47. Where do electors vote?
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48. What presidents lost the popular vote but won the electoral vote? (in order)
Richard Nixon
John Quincy Adams - Rutherford B. Hayes - Benjamin Harrison - and George W. Bush
Providing a backup place for military plane landing
January 20th
49. Which president was obnoxious and disliked?
John Adams
The first Tuesday of Novermber that follows a monday in November
Acting
25
50. What presidents (in order) died of natural causes?
Buffalo - New York
Gerald Ford
William Henry Harrison - Zachary Taylor - Warren Harding - and Franklin Delano Roosevelt
When we dropped food and supplies to people in West Berlin