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U.S. Presidents Trivia
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1. Why did we enter WWII?
No
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor - Hawaii
444
Massachusetts
2. Where did the name 'gettysburg' come from?
Germany - Hungary - Turkey
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The three day battle in July in Gettysburg about slaves
None
3. Why didn't the Emancipation proclamation work?
George Washington - John Adams - Thomas Jefferson - James Madison - James Monroe - and John Quincy Adams
George Washington
George W. Bush
The north and the south were split up
4. what disease did Franklin Delano Roosevelt have?
Dallas - Texas
John Boehner
Polio
Since birth
5. Who ran the country when Woodrow Wilson couldn't?
His wife
Daniel Inouye
OK to send home foregienors if they looked dangerous; also if we were in war with their country
Air Force One - Marine One - and limousines
6. How many electors are in the electoral college?
Barack Obama
George Washington
538
George Washington
7. How many years younger was John Tyler's wife than him?
The north were comunists and the south were not
30
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
8. What was a popular film of John Fitzgerald Kennedy's assassination?
Zapruder film
No
Harvard
New Mexico to California
9. Who burnt down the White House during a war?
England
He was shot
Club with all countries where problems were discussed peacefully
Sexual harrassment
10. Who had a 12 year affair with Gennifer Flowers?
George W. Bush
He gets shot
1 million
William Jefferson Clinton
11. Who were the first presidents to be father and son?
Alien and sedition acts
John Adams and John Quincy Adams
Harry S Truman
Period after the Civil War and how we reunited
12. Why wasn't Andrew Johnson removed from office when He was impeached?
He gets shot
Monticello - Virginia
George H. W. Bush
35 said He was guilty - but he needed 36
13. Who had many affairs during their presidency but claimed not to?
William Jefferson Clinton
Jimmy Carter
The Korean War
He was shot on his way to a college reunion
14. What happens if no candidate gets the majorit y of electoral votes?
Revolutionary War
Teddy Roosevelt
He gets shot
The House of Representatives selects the President and the Senate selects the Vice President
15. Did we win the Spanish American War?
Yes
Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Pearl Harbor bombing
John Adams and John Quincy Adams
November
16. Grover Cleveland was the ____ and ____ president (numbers)
William Henry Harrison
X-ray
22 - 24
John Quicy Adams
17. Who was the first President during WWII?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
George Washington
The north were comunists and the south were not
William Henry Harrison
18. Who was President during the Spanish American War?
George Washington
Saving a picture of Washington during the war
When peace was made between Israel and Egypt at Camp David
William McKinley
19. How tall was Abraham Lincoln?
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20. Who was our president during the Korean war?
Ulysses S. Grant
Dwight David Eisenhower
1
Perjury and obstruction of justice
21. Who was the only president to get all the electoral votes?
Gerald Ford
1803
Thus always to tyrants
George Washington
22. Who was president for the persian gulf war?
George H. W. Bush
The federal government guarentees your money at a bank
Teddy Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
23. How tall was Abraham Lincoln?
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24. Jimmy Carter was the former governor of ____.
Cuba wanted to overthrow Castrow and our military helped train them
Georgia
60; unconstitutional
Teddy Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt
25. What happens if no candidate gets the majorit y of electoral votes?
14
The House of Representatives selects the President and the Senate selects the Vice President
Richard Nixon
Cuba wanted to overthrow Castrow and our military helped train them
26. Who attempted to assassinate Ronald Reagan?
The Vice President
John Hinkley Jr.
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Forced the president to issue all military orders through general of the army who could not be removed without senate approval
27. What did John Wilkes Booth say after he shot Lincoln?
4
Sic Semper Tyrannis - the south is avenged
When peace was made between Israel and Egypt at Camp David
Jefferson Davis
28. What college did George Washington go to?
Eleanor
4
Teddy Roosevelt - Woodrow Wilson - Jimmy Carter - and Barack Obama
None
29. What are disability benefits?
Thomas Jefferson
Mom
You can collect money if you become disabled before retirement
April 1917- November 1918
30. How many presidents died in office?
Democratic National Headquarters; Watergate
The north and the south were split up
8
William Jefferson Clinton
31. Who invaded Iraq?
Barack Obama
James Madison
Teddy Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt
George W. Bush
32. Who's son married Nixon's daughter?
Dwight David Eisenhower
Sexual harrassment
Barack Obama
538
33. Who was the only catholic president?
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Worker can take three months off in a year to take care of sick relatives or him/herself and cannot be fired
Dwight David Eisenhower
Harry S Truman
34. Who takes over if the President is disabled or dies?
538
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
The Vice President
35. What are surviver benefits?
Harry S Truman
Sic Semper Tyrannis - the south is avenged
John Quicy Adams
Money goes to kids when a parent dies
36. What was the point of the Gettysburg Address (two things)?
Honor people who died - make sure the country survies
John Adams
George Washington
Dwight David Eisenhower
37. What was the persian gulf war/desert storm?
Iraq invaded Kuwait - and a coalition of naions push Iraq out of Kuwait
William Jefferson Clinton
John Boehner
$400000
38. Who presented the Fourteen Points?
Woodrow Wilson
Richard Nixon
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
William Jefferson Clinton
39. How many electoral votes does Florida have?
Free the slaves in the south
Teddy Roosevelt
Thomas Jefferson
27
40. How did William McKinley die?
6'4'
George W. Bush
The banks were closed because everyone wanted their money at once
He was shot
41. Who is considered 'the father of our country'?
Polio
John Tyler
George Washington
Jefferson still survives
42. what ended a couple of days before Abraham Lincoln's Assasination?
Joe Biden
When we dropped food and supplies to people in West Berlin
Germany invaded Poland
Civil War
43. What was the nullification crisis?
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44. What date did WWII begin?
Democratic National Headquarters; Watergate
September 1st - 1939
George H.W. Bush and George Bush
Harry S Truman
45. Why did we invade Iraq?
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46. How many years younger was John Tyler's wife than him?
7; 11
Sic Semper Tyrannis - the south is avenged
Jimmy Carter
30
47. Which president was obnoxious and disliked?
John Adams
When he jumped out of the balcony - his foot got stuck in the bunting and he fell onto stage
Richard Nixon
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
48. When was the Emancipation proclamation?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
January 1st - 1863
0
Germany - Hungary - Turkey
49. What are surviver benefits?
Money goes to kids when a parent dies
William Seward; $7.2 million; Alaska
Germany - Hungary - Turkey
Robert E. Lee
50. Why did WWI happen?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Germany was attacking ships
November
The south
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