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U.S. Presidents Trivia
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1. How many Vice Presidents have moved up because the president died?
8
25
Barack Obama
1
2. What was the New Deal?
Getting out of the Great depression by hiring people - which would start a chain reaction
He resigned before the impeachment trial
Conspiracy
The president
3. Where does the president live for free?
Dallas - Texas
The idea to own all the land from the pacific to the atlantic ocean; 1.2 million
Robert E. Lee
The White House
4. Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant knew eachother because _________.
Period after the Civil War and how we reunited
Enola Gay
Ulysses S. Grant
They were classmates in college
5. Why did we invade Iraq?
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6. Who did we help in the Vietnam war and the korean war?
England; sailors; products
The south
November 1863
4
7. What presidents lost the popular vote but won the electoral vote? (in order)
Jefferson Davis
John Quicy Adams
Thomas Jefferson
John Quincy Adams - Rutherford B. Hayes - Benjamin Harrison - and George W. Bush
8. Who was the first President during WWII?
The north were comunists and the south were not
Barack Obama
George W. Bush
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
9. Who was the first African American President?
Harry S Truman
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Barack Obama
Peterson House; the next morning
10. Who said 'The buck stops here'?
Harry S Truman
He was shot
Dolley
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
11. What law that Barack Obama passed might be unconstitutional and is being looked at by the supreme court now?
The federal government guarentees your money at a bank
Maryland
Universal health care
Peterson House; the next morning
12. What is manifest destiny? how many square miles was it?
The idea to own all the land from the pacific to the atlantic ocean; 1.2 million
William and Mary College
If he serves 2 or less years of someone else's term plus 8 years on his own
Barack Obama
13. Which president served the most terms?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The Vice President
January 20th
Revolutionary War
14. What were the territories we gained in the Spanish American War? (ABC order with commas inbetween)
Guam - Midway Islands - Philippines - and Puerto Rico
Maryland
Speeches given for hope
Teddy Roosevelt
15. What date did the civil war begin?
Teddy Roosevelt
April 12th - 1861
Dwight David Eisenhower
Thus always to tyrants
16. During the civil war - the south named itself _____.
He was shot
In their state's capital
The Confederate States of America
The president could not fire and federal official who had gotten their job with Senate approval
17. Which president helped create the Library of Congress when he sells and donates 6000 books?
Thomas Jefferson
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Jimmy Carter
Club with all countries where problems were discussed peacefully
18. Name the Founding Fathers plus the son in order...
4
George Washington - John Adams - Thomas Jefferson - James Madison - James Monroe - and John Quincy Adams
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Lyndon Johnson
19. In most states - what percent of the state's electoral votes does a candidate get if they win the popular vote?
Speeches given for hope
If he serves 2 or less years of someone else's term plus 8 years on his own
100
April 12th - 1861
20. Who was the youngest elected president?
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Pearl Harbor bombing
Revolutionary War
James Madison
21. When did we enter WWII?
December 7th - 1941
$150000
Iraq invaded Kuwait - and a coalition of naions push Iraq out of Kuwait
Dolley
22. Who attempted to assassinate Ronald Reagan?
William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison
Sic Semper Tyrannis - the south is avenged
Massachusetts
John Hinkley Jr.
23. The committee of the watergate scandal illegally entered the __________ (building) and spied on Nixon's opponent Who was in the _______ complex.
Woodrow Wilson
Worker can take three months off in a year to take care of sick relatives or him/herself and cannot be fired
Air Force One - Marine One - and limousines
Democratic National Headquarters; Watergate
24. Who had the first death in office?
William Seward; $7.2 million; Alaska
William Henry Harrison
East of Africa
USA
25. Who created the Family Medical Leave Act?
Jefferson still survives
The north were comunists and the south were not
William Jefferson Clinton
Jefferson Davis
26. Who passed Universal health care?
The south
Writters for Washington Post who figured out Richard Nixon's case
Barack Obama
When we dropped food and supplies to people in West Berlin
27. What month and year was the Gettysburg Address said?
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
If he serves 2 or less years of someone else's term plus 8 years on his own
Massachusetts
November 1863
28. who pays for the costs of operating the white house?
Richard Nixon
No
Monticello - Virginia
The government
29. Who's son is Camp David named after?
The number of people in Congress plus 3 for DC
Dwight David Eisenhower
Teddy Roosevelt
He gets shot
30. Who introduced social security?
Thomas Jefferson
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
William Jefferson Clinton
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor - Hawaii
31. After Abraham Lincoln was shot - He was carried across the street to ________________ where he dies when?
USA
Thomas Jefferson
William Henry Harrison
Peterson House; the next morning
32. What president had the watergate scandal?
Richard Nixon
Lyndon Johnson
James Polk
Jimmy Carter
33. When Harry S Truman was president during WWII - what two places in japan were bombed (abc order)?
John Quincy Adams - Rutherford B. Hayes - Benjamin Harrison - and George W. Bush
Ronald Reagan
September 1st - 1939
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
34. What to laws did Adams TRY to pass?
7; 11
Alien and sedition acts
Woodrow Wilson
The federal government guarentees your money at a bank
35. which president was former head of CIA?
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson; July 4th - 1826
Barack Obama
1803
George H. W. Bush
36. How many Vice Presidents have moved up because the president resigned?
He resigned before the impeachment trial
Ulysses S. Grant
1
George Washington
37. Who takes over if the President is disabled or dies?
The Vice President
Teddy Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Sexual harrassment
April 12th - 1861
38. Who pays for all personal entertainment and dinners not related to teh government business in the White House?
Abigail
The president
Ford's Theater
John Boehner
39. Where do electors vote?
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40. Gerald Ford pardons _____________ for all crimes committed.
William Seward; $7.2 million; Alaska
1803
Monticello - Virginia
Richard Nixon
41. Franklin Delano Roosevelt died a short time into his ____ term.
George H. W. Bush
2
The fourteen points
4th
42. Where did Thomas Jefferson go to college?
Robert E. Lee
4th
100
William and Mary College
43. Which president was author of the Virginia Plan?
Teddy Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Civil War
Honor people who died - make sure the country survies
James Madison
44. What was the Tenure of Office Act/
The president could not fire and federal official who had gotten their job with Senate approval
0
Air Force One - Marine One - and limousines
The south
45. Who invaded Iraq?
Iraq invaded Kuwait - and a coalition of naions push Iraq out of Kuwait
George W. Bush
X-ray
September 1st - 1939
46. which president was former head of CIA?
Jimmy Carter
In their state's capital
The White House
George H. W. Bush
47. how many years is a score?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
27
20
Harry S Truman
48. Who was our president during the Korean war?
Woodrow Wilson
Dwight David Eisenhower
Ronald Reagan
20
49. Which president created the University of Virgina?
They were classmates in college
Harry S Truman
100
Thomas Jefferson
50. Who was Deep Throat?
The federal government guarentees your money at a bank
A person who knew the truth about Richard Nixon and told Woodward and Bernstein
14
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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