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U.S. Presidents Trivia
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1. Who was president for the Bay of Pigs?
Teddy Roosevelt
Harry S Truman
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
George Washington
2. Who's son is Camp David named after?
Dwight David Eisenhower
$400000
Georgia
James Madison
3. How many electors are in the electoral college?
John Adams
Enola Gay
538
Harry S Truman
4. What law that Barack Obama passed might be unconstitutional and is being looked at by the supreme court now?
Ft. Sumter - South Carolina
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Universal health care
5. Who attempted to assassinate Ronald Reagan?
William Jefferson Clinton
Andrew Johnson
Conspiracy
John Hinkley Jr.
6. Who killed Abraham Lincoln?
William McKinley
The federal government guarentees your money at a bank
Woodrow Wilson
John Wilkes Booth
7. Who was Franklin Delano Roosevelt married to?
William Howard Taft
Air Force One - Marine One - and limousines
Eleanor
14
8. Who was president during the War of 1812 against England?
George Washington
X-ray
James Madison
Saving a picture of Washington during the war
9. What was the nullification crisis?
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10. Which presidents were cousins?
Andrew Johnson
Teddy Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The banks were closed because everyone wanted their money at once
Germany - Hungary - Turkey
11. When was the Emancipation proclamation?
22 - 24
Saving a picture of Washington during the war
George Washington
January 1st - 1863
12. During the civil war - the north's general was ___________.
Richard Nixon
John Adams
Ulysses S. Grant
The Korean War
13. In most states - what percent of the state's electoral votes does a candidate get if they win the popular vote?
No
George Washington
100
Ford's Theater
14. Who was a Great General in war of 1812?
Jimmy Carter
Andrew Jackson
538
1
15. How many presidents died of natural causes in office?
Mount Vernon - Virginia
James Madison
Dwight David Eisenhower
4
16. Who did fireside chats?
January 20th
Air Force One - Marine One - and limousines
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
April 12th - 1861
17. What was the New Deal?
John Boehner
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
He was shot on his way to a college reunion
Getting out of the Great depression by hiring people - which would start a chain reaction
18. During the civil war - the north's general was ___________.
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson; July 4th - 1826
Ulysses S. Grant
Perjury and obstruction of justice
Andrew Jackson
19. What did the monroe doctrine say?
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20. Andrew Johnson had a (good/bad) relation ship with congress over reconstruction
Abigail
Iraq invaded Kuwait - and a coalition of naions push Iraq out of Kuwait
Bad
South; north
21. Franklin Delano Roosevelt died a short time into his ____ term.
Jimmy Carter
Cuba wanted to overthrow Castrow and our military helped train them
4th
Conspiracy
22. Who is the current speaker of the House?
John Boehner
A support group of countries
Lee Harvey Oswald
England
23. During the Great Depression - ____% were unemployed.
Civil rights
Dental; medical
Jefferson still survives
25
24. Why did the league of nations fail (what country wouldn't join)?
Dwight David Eisenhower
None
USA
Kentucky; Log cabin
25. Who killed Abraham Lincoln?
Woodrow Wilson
He fired the Secretary of War Staton
Mount Vernon - Virginia
John Wilkes Booth
26. Where was Abraham Lincoln born? What kind of house did he live in?
He was shot on his way to a college reunion
Barack Obama
Kentucky; Log cabin
Abraham Lincoln
27. What is manifest destiny? how many square miles was it?
Teddy Roosevelt
Social Security
The Civil War
The idea to own all the land from the pacific to the atlantic ocean; 1.2 million
28. Which president had a stroke in his bathroom?
Woodrow Wilson
He resigned before the impeachment trial
John Adams
2
29. what ended a couple of days before Abraham Lincoln's Assasination?
$400000
Civil War
Germany - Hungary - Turkey
The president
30. What was a popular film of John Fitzgerald Kennedy's assassination?
Lyndon Johnson
The Korean War
John Quicy Adams
Zapruder film
31. What were the sides for the Korean war and the Vietnam war?
Club with all countries where problems were discussed peacefully
Money goes to kids when a parent dies
The north were comunists and the south were not
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
32. Which president was former ambassador to China?
January 20th
Maryland
George H. W. Bush
James Madison
33. Who won the Civil war for Lincoln and later on became a president?
His wife
The federal government guarentees your money at a bank
Ulysses S. Grant
His wife
34. John Adams had a successful marriage with ______ (first name).
John Wilkes Booth
George H. W. Bush
Abigail
Abraham Lincoln
35. What is FDIC (explaIn what it means - not what it stands for)?
Social Security
15
The federal government guarentees your money at a bank
Ft. Sumter - South Carolina
36. Who was the first president not to win the popular vote and to become president?
John Quicy Adams
Enola Gay
His wife
Since birth
37. Where does the right to navigate teh seas without interference not apply?
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 Adams
East of Africa
$150000
38. Which presient send Lewis and Clark on their journey?
Thomas Jefferson
French and Indian War
The fourteen points
John Quicy Adams
39. During the civil war - the south's president was _____________.
5
He was shot
Jefferson Davis
25
40. Where did Thomas Jefferson go to college?
X-ray
William and Mary College
Maine and Nebraska
27
41. Who won a nobel peace prize because of the camp david accords?
George H. W. Bush
He was shot on his way to a college reunion
Jimmy Carter
James Madison
42. What happens to John Wilkes Booth?
He gets shot
September 1st - 1939
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Barack Obama
43. Where did Abraham Lincoln's assasination take place?
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44. Where was George Washington born?
Buffalo - New York
Mount Vernon - Virginia
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Lyndon Johnson
45. Why didn't the Emancipation proclamation work?
Robert E. Lee
World War I
The north and the south were split up
Says to Europe to stay out of the western memosphere and don't colonize; the U.S. will consider colonization a threat to our secruity; we will stay out of European affairs unless they affect us
46. James Madison's wife is famous for...
Saving a picture of Washington during the war
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
George W. Bush
Dwight David Eisenhower
47. Why wasn't Andrew Johnson removed from office when He was impeached?
35
Abraham Lincoln
Free the slaves in the south
35 said He was guilty - but he needed 36
48. How many kids did George Washington have?
Thus always to tyrants
Self
1803
0
49. Who was FDR's VP Who was president for WWII?
Andrew Jackson
Teddy Roosevelt
Medical insurance for all americans
Harry S Truman
50. Who introduced disability benefits?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The north and the south were split up
The federal government guarentees your money at a bank
Andrew Jackson
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