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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 the fpresident during WWI?
A support group of countries
Woodrow Wilson
April 1917- November 1918
The number of people in Congress plus 3 for DC
2. Do we vote directly for the president?
Ft. Sumter - South Carolina
No
Teddy Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt
USA
3. Who was president for the nullification crisis?
The Gettysburg Address
Dolley
Andrew Jackson
The south
4. What is NATO (not what it stands for - what it is)?
John Adams
A support group of countries
John Tyler
Ulysses S. Grant
5. There was a _________ - or a group of people - who helped John Wilkes Booth kill Lincoln and also planned to kill the VP and Secretary.
Civil rights
X-ray
Andrew Jackson
Conspiracy
6. How many pounds was William Howard Taft?
Teddy Roosevelt - Woodrow Wilson - Jimmy Carter - and Barack Obama
Barack Obama
350
Thomas Jefferson
7. What is the inauguration date?
14
Woodrow Wilson
January 20th
William Jefferson Clinton
8. Who built the Interstate Highway System?
Georgia
Dwight David Eisenhower
Barack Obama
William McKinley
9. How many presidents died in office?
100
8
270
John Hinkley Jr.
10. What date was John Fitzgerald Kennedy killed on?
Eleanor
25
November 22nd - 1963
Woodrow Wilson
11. How much of a retirement income per year does the president make (for life)?
England
The north were comunists and the south were not
$150000
James Madison
12. How did William McKinley die?
When he jumped out of the balcony - his foot got stuck in the bunting and he fell onto stage
Monticello - Virginia
He was shot
Mary Todd-Lincoln
13. In most states - what percent of the state's electoral votes does a candidate get if they win the popular vote?
0
November 22nd - 1963
John Quicy Adams
100
14. Who was on the bad side for WWI (abc order)?
Buffalo - New York
Germany - Hungary - Turkey
Martha
Daniel Inouye
15. What was a popular film of John Fitzgerald Kennedy's assassination?
1914-1918
William Jefferson Clinton
Forced the president to issue all military orders through general of the army who could not be removed without senate approval
Zapruder film
16. Where does the president live for free?
Joe Biden
Mom
The White House
Free the slaves in the south
17. Who is the current speaker of the House?
14
Kentucky; Log cabin
James Polk
John Boehner
18. There was a _________ - or a group of people - who helped John Wilkes Booth kill Lincoln and also planned to kill the VP and Secretary.
We thought there were weapons of mass destruction - but there weren't
15 million
Conspiracy
None
19. When did we enter WWII?
December 7th - 1941
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
John Adams
4th
20. When was the Emancipation proclamation?
George H. W. Bush
January 1st - 1863
60; unconstitutional
April 1917- November 1918
21. How tall was Abraham Lincoln?
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22. Franklin Delano Roosevelt got his middle name because his _____'s favorite relative was de la Noye
A support group of countries
Mom
Daniel Inouye
Democratic National Headquarters; Watergate
23. Who was President during the Spanish American War?
William McKinley
Mount Vernon - Virginia
The fourteen points
Abraham Lincoln
24. Who built the Interstate Highway System?
South; north
15 million
Richard Nixon
Dwight David Eisenhower
25. How many states broke away during the civil war AT FIRST? how many total ending up breaking away?
Harry S Truman
7; 11
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
26. Which presient send Lewis and Clark on their journey?
Thomas Jefferson
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Teddy Roosevelt
Electors
27. Who introduced surviver benefits?
James Madison
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Club with all countries where problems were discussed peacefully
Daniel Inouye
28. Which president made the panama canal?
Maine and Nebraska
Dolley
Teddy Roosevelt
Jefferson still survives
29. Who did the Banking Holiday?
He gets shot
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
John Boehner
Thomas Jefferson
30. Who did we help in the Vietnam war and the korean war?
England; sailors; products
Club with all countries where problems were discussed peacefully
The south
Ulysses S. Grant
31. How many Vice Presidents have moved up because the president died?
Speeches given for hope
The fourteen points
8
Universal health care
32. Why wasn't Richard Nixon thrown out of office?
John Tyler
He resigned before the impeachment trial
A group of representatives chosen by the voters to elect the President
William Henry Harrison
33. Who went to the Supreme court and tried to increase it to fifteen judges - but was told no?
Ronald Reagan
The government
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
7; 11
34. What were the territories we gained in the Spanish American War? (ABC order with commas inbetween)
The president
Teddy Roosevelt
Guam - Midway Islands - Philippines - and Puerto Rico
When peace was made between Israel and Egypt at Camp David
35. How many electors are in the electoral college?
538
William Jefferson Clinton
James Madison
The Gettysburg Address
36. Who was our president during the Korean war?
27
Joe Biden
Eleanor
Dwight David Eisenhower
37. Which president created the University of Virgina?
Thomas Jefferson
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
No
538
38. How many kids did George Washington have?
Harvard
Monticello - Virginia
The Vice President
0
39. How many years do you have to live in the U.S. for to be president?
Germany was attacking ships
14
James Madison
1803
40. Woodrow Wilson's ideas on not to have a war - the league of nations - and the freedom to navigate the seas without interference are known as ________.
George W. Bush
Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Pearl Harbor bombing
Barack Obama
The fourteen points
41. Who was the only man to be president Who was not elected to either vp spot or the presidency?
Robert E. Lee
John Quicy Adams
Gerald Ford
Polio
42. Who was FDR's VP Who was president for WWII?
Europe
Harry S Truman
Universal health care
November 1863
43. What is the command of army act?
John Quincy Adams - Rutherford B. Hayes - Benjamin Harrison - and George W. Bush
Richard Nixon
Forced the president to issue all military orders through general of the army who could not be removed without senate approval
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
44. Sewards Folly was when ________ (secretary of state) bought land for $______ - which was thought to be as a joke then - but now that land is known as ________.
The Vice President
When he jumped out of the balcony - his foot got stuck in the bunting and he fell onto stage
January 20th
William Seward; $7.2 million; Alaska
45. What is the Electoral College?
35
November
Barack Obama
A group of representatives chosen by the voters to elect the President
46. Who was our president when we kille Osama bin Laden?
Zapruder film
Barack Obama
James Madison
Acting
47. What president did the Berlin airlift?
When we dropped food and supplies to people in West Berlin
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Barack Obama
Harry S Truman
48. Who ran the country when Woodrow Wilson couldn't?
Providing a backup place for military plane landing
His wife
1814
Teddy Roosevelt - Woodrow Wilson - Jimmy Carter - and Barack Obama
49. What is the Truman Doctrine?
Thomas Jefferson
A support group of countries
The US was prepared to send money and military support to countries that want to resist communism
George Washington
50. Which president was a great general - a leader - honest - and trustworth?
Daniel Inouye
The Vice President
Harry S Truman
George Washington