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U.S. Presidents Trivia
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Which president was a 'rough rider' in the Spanish American War?
Abigail
Woodrow Wilson
Teddy Roosevelt
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
2. How much of a retirement income per year does the president make (for life)?
Air Force One - Marine One - and limousines
$150000
The federal government guarentees your money at a bank
Alien and sedition acts
3. Who balanced the budget?
Woodrow Wilson
April 1917- November 1918
William Jefferson Clinton
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson; July 4th - 1826
4. Which president was obnoxious and disliked?
Cuba wanted to overthrow Castrow and our military helped train them
Maine and Nebraska
John Adams
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
5. Who was the only president to resign?
John Adams
30
Richard Nixon
132
6. How much was the Louisiana Territory when it was purchased?
He was shot on his way to a college reunion
15 million
Abraham Lincoln
The idea to own all the land from the pacific to the atlantic ocean; 1.2 million
7. Who had many affairs during their presidency but claimed not to?
James Polk
The House of Representatives selects the President and the Senate selects the Vice President
Barack Obama
William Jefferson Clinton
8. What is universal health care?
His 5th cousin
Medical insurance for all americans
Alien and sedition acts
George Washington - John Adams - Thomas Jefferson - James Madison - James Monroe - and John Quincy Adams
9. This president helped write the federalist papers.
The banks were closed because everyone wanted their money at once
William Jefferson Clinton
Yes
James Madison
10. Who was a peanut farmer?
8
Saving a picture of Washington during the war
Jimmy Carter
They were classmates in college
11. What was William Jefferson Clinton impeached for?
Universal health care
4th
Perjury and obstruction of justice
April 12th - 1861
12. Where do electors vote?
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13. What war did George Washington lead the army for?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Teddy Roosevelt
December 7th - 1941
Revolutionary War
14. what ended a couple of days before Abraham Lincoln's Assasination?
Ft. Sumter - South Carolina
Writters for Washington Post who figured out Richard Nixon's case
England
Civil War
15. What war did George Washington lead the army for?
Yes
Eleanor
George H.W. Bush and George Bush
Revolutionary War
16. What was the nullification crisis?
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17. Who invaded Iraq?
Jefferson still survives
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Mary Todd-Lincoln
George W. Bush
18. The president get ____ care and _____ care for free.
Dental; medical
Dolley
Gerald Ford
He wanted a date Jodie Foster
19. Who was the commander in charge of Europe afor the Allies in WWII?
Dwight David Eisenhower
William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor - Hawaii
The south
20. What weapon was used to kill Lincoln?
The north and the south were split up
A gun
The north and the south were split up
Dwight David Eisenhower
21. Who was the first VP?
John Adams
George Washington
Mary Todd-Lincoln
30
22. Where does the right to navigate teh seas without interference not apply?
Mom
East of Africa
None
England - France - Russia - USA
23. What was the Bay of Pigs?
Conspiracy
George W. Bush
Germany was attacking ships
Cuba wanted to overthrow Castrow and our military helped train them
24. How much of a retirement income per year does the president make (for life)?
November
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Maine and Nebraska
$150000
25. Which presidents were cousins?
The US was prepared to send money and military support to countries that want to resist communism
100
He fired the Secretary of War Staton
Teddy Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt
26. Who was our president during the Vietnam War?
Dolley
Lyndon Johnson
Yes
None
27. What did the monroe doctrine say?
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28. How many kids did John Tyler have?
James Madison
15
French and Indian War
4
29. Who is the current Vice President?
30
The first Tuesday of Novermber that follows a monday in November
Joe Biden
December 7th - 1941
30. Jimmy Carter was the former governor of ____.
William Jefferson Clinton
His 5th cousin
The White House
Georgia
31. How long do you have to be a citizen for to be president?
Since birth
Barack Obama
Eleanor
Money goes to kids when a parent dies
32. What month is the election in?
Cuba wanted to overthrow Castrow and our military helped train them
November
Alien and sedition acts
His wife
33. What were the years of WWI?
4
East of Africa
1914-1918
Maryland
34. Who passed Universal health care?
Dwight David Eisenhower
Sexual harrassment
Barack Obama
John Hinkley Jr.
35. What does 'Sic Semper Tyrranis' mean?
Harry S Truman
Daniel Inouye
A group of representatives chosen by the voters to elect the President
Thus always to tyrants
36. Who was President during the Spanish American War?
Dwight David Eisenhower
4
270
William McKinley
37. What are the people in the electoral college called?
Electors
William Howard Taft
Teddy Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt
William Henry Harrison - Zachary Taylor - Warren Harding - and Franklin Delano Roosevelt
38. What date did the civil war begin?
The banks were closed because everyone wanted their money at once
April 12th - 1861
Guam - Midway Islands - Philippines - and Puerto Rico
The US was prepared to send money and military support to countries that want to resist communism
39. What war never officially ended but just doesn't fight any more?
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
The Korean War
Crime to print false or meliscious or scandalist stuff about the U.S. gov.
Barack Obama
40. Alien Acts
Kentucky; Log cabin
$150000
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
OK to send home foregienors if they looked dangerous; also if we were in war with their country
41. Who won a nobel peace prize because of the camp david accords?
Jimmy Carter
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Eleanor
Teddy Roosevelt
42. James Madison's wife was ________ Madison.
The Civil War
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Dolley
Lyndon Johnson
43. Who was the only president to get all the electoral votes?
Ronald Reagan
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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
George Washington
44. Who was a peanut farmer?
Jimmy Carter
The president
Jefferson Davis
X-ray
45. What war was Abraham Lincoln president during?
1814
John Adams
The Civil War
He wanted a date Jodie Foster
46. John Quicy Adams spent time In what continent?
Self
30
Europe
England - France - Russia - USA
47. How many states broke away during the civil war AT FIRST? how many total ending up breaking away?
John Adams
George Washington
Eleanor
7; 11
48. John Quicy Adams spent time In what continent?
Europe
William Seward; $7.2 million; Alaska
He resigned before the impeachment trial
Richard Nixon
49. Jimmy Carter was the former governor of ____.
Alien and sedition acts
Georgia
James Madison
The idea to own all the land from the pacific to the atlantic ocean; 1.2 million
50. 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 ________.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The fourteen points
Joe Biden
Teddy Roosevelt