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U.S. Presidents Trivia
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Who was president for the 9/11 attacks?
Woodrow Wilson
Money goes to kids when a parent dies
George W. Bush
James Madison
2. Which president was obnoxious and disliked?
60; unconstitutional
John Adams
The Gettysburg Address
Polio
3. Who is thought to have assassinated John Fitzgerald Kennedy?
Universal health care
Sexual harrassment
270
Lee Harvey Oswald
4. Paula Jones sued William Jefferson Clinton for _______.
The president
Harvard
Sexual harrassment
William Jefferson Clinton
5. Which president was a 'rough rider' in the Spanish American War?
100
John Adams
Teddy Roosevelt
William Howard Taft
6. Who was the only man to be president Who was not elected to either vp spot or the presidency?
The south
November 22nd - 1963
0
Gerald Ford
7. How tall was Abraham Lincoln?
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8. Who is the current President Pro-Tempore of the Senate?
Barack Obama
George Washington
Daniel Inouye
Germany was attacking ships
9. Who pays for all personal entertainment and dinners not related to teh government business in the White House?
George W. Bush
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Ulysses S. Grant
The president
10. Who is the current speaker of the House?
John Boehner
Honor people who died - make sure the country survies
22 - 24
He wanted a date Jodie Foster
11. How was James Garfield killed?
He was shot on his way to a college reunion
Martha
George H.W. Bush and George Bush
John Quicy Adams
12. In the War of 1812 - ________ (country) kept stealing our ________ (people) and _______ (items) in the middle of the ocean (separate with semicolon).
Speeches given for hope
1803
England; sailors; products
William McKinley
13. How many presidents were killed in office?
William Henry Harrison
Social Security
He was shot
4
14. Sedition acts
Crime to print false or meliscious or scandalist stuff about the U.S. gov.
Thomas Jefferson
Daniel Inouye
Civil rights
15. What year was the White House burnt down?
1814
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
100
Maine and Nebraska
16. Name the Founding Fathers plus the son in order...
December 7th - 1941
George Washington - John Adams - Thomas Jefferson - James Madison - James Monroe - and John Quincy Adams
Monticello - Virginia
Gerald Ford
17. What month and year was the Gettysburg Address said?
Air Force One - Marine One - and limousines
Ulysses S. Grant
November 1863
He was shot on his way to a college reunion
18. Abraham Lincoln was ______ educated
Woodrow Wilson
Self
Andrew Jackson
Jimmy Carter
19. Who was the first VP to move up on death of a president?
In their state's capital
James Madison
John Tyler
Richard Nixon
20. Who was the only president to resign?
Dwight David Eisenhower
Bad
Richard Nixon
Teddy Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt
21. Who had a 12 year affair with Gennifer Flowers?
Monticello - Virginia
Acting
William Jefferson Clinton
Teddy Roosevelt
22. Who moved up when John Fitzgerald Kennedy died because He was his VP?
Lyndon Johnson
George Washington - John Adams - Thomas Jefferson - James Madison - James Monroe - and John Quincy Adams
Barack Obama
The three day battle in July in Gettysburg about slaves
23. Where did Thomas Jefferson go to college?
John Wilkes Booth
John Adams
William and Mary College
He wanted a date Jodie Foster
24. Who was President during the Spanish American War?
William McKinley
Hillary Clinton
7; 11
William Jefferson Clinton
25. Who attempted to assassinate Ronald Reagan?
Maine and Nebraska
Bad
John Hinkley Jr.
Teddy Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt
26. Who's son is Camp David named after?
He was shot on his way to a college reunion
Dwight David Eisenhower
Teddy Roosevelt
George H. W. Bush
27. During the Great Depression - ____% were unemployed.
25
Teddy Roosevelt
William Henry Harrison
November
28. What year was the Louisiana Territory bought?
Teddy Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Jefferson still survives
1803
29. Who did the Banking Holiday?
1814
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Pearl Harbor bombing
Daniel Inouye
30. Which president was the 'father of the constitution'?
The number of people in Congress plus 3 for DC
James Madison
Universal health care
The US was prepared to send money and military support to countries that want to resist communism
31. John Adams had a successful marriage with ______ (first name).
Abigail
Since birth
William Jefferson Clinton
Perjury and obstruction of justice
32. Who became president when Richard Nixon resigend because they were his VP?
The government
Gerald Ford
Barack Obama
If he serves 2 or less years of someone else's term plus 8 years on his own
33. Where did the civil war begin?
The US was prepared to send money and military support to countries that want to resist communism
Ft. Sumter - South Carolina
James Madison
Acting
34. Franklin Delano Roosevelt's wife was related to him how?
His 5th cousin
New Mexico to California
Perjury and obstruction of justice
Abraham Lincoln
35. What was the most terms served by a president?
Germany invaded Poland
4
His 5th cousin
The Korean War
36. What were John Adams's last words?
Providing a backup place for military plane landing
His wife
Jefferson still survives
Lee Harvey Oswald
37. Where was Thomas Jefferson born?
Forced the president to issue all military orders through general of the army who could not be removed without senate approval
Polio
Monticello - Virginia
William Henry Harrison
38. In the War of 1812 - ________ (country) kept stealing our ________ (people) and _______ (items) in the middle of the ocean (separate with semicolon).
15
England; sailors; products
A group of representatives chosen by the voters to elect the President
Teddy Roosevelt
39. James Madison's wife was ________ Madison.
35
Yes
The Vice President
Dolley
40. What happens if no candidate gets the majorit y of electoral votes?
Barack Obama
John Quicy Adams
4
The House of Representatives selects the President and the Senate selects the Vice President
41. What was the name of the airplane that bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki
25
William Jefferson Clinton
The number of people in Congress plus 3 for DC
Enola Gay
42. Which president presented the bill of rights at the first Congress?
Lee Harvey Oswald
James Madison
20
John Adams
43. How many electoral votes do you need to win the election?
Teddy Roosevelt - Woodrow Wilson - Jimmy Carter - and Barack Obama
270
Mary Todd-Lincoln
Maine and Nebraska
44. What happens to John Wilkes Booth?
Teddy Roosevelt
He gets shot
Teddy Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Honor people who died - make sure the country survies
45. Who had the first death in office?
4
Alien and sedition acts
William Henry Harrison
Ulysses S. Grant
46. How many rooms in the white house?
132
Club with all countries where problems were discussed peacefully
Harry S Truman
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
47. Who was our president when we kille Osama bin Laden?
John Quicy Adams
Barack Obama
The Gettysburg Address
Enola Gay
48. Who did we help in the Vietnam war and the korean war?
The south
January 1st - 1863
Germany invaded Poland
William Howard Taft
49. What president did the Berlin airlift?
Club with all countries where problems were discussed peacefully
Harry S Truman
Dwight David Eisenhower
His wife
50. what president was also president of the constitutional convention?
George Washington
Crime to print false or meliscious or scandalist stuff about the U.S. gov.
His wife
Conspiracy