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U.S. Presidents Trivia
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1. How many electoral votes do you need to win the election?
If he serves 2 or less years of someone else's term plus 8 years on his own
270
Thus always to tyrants
William McKinley
2. How many kids did George Washington have?
0
Iraq invaded Kuwait - and a coalition of naions push Iraq out of Kuwait
William Henry Harrison
Civil rights
3. How many states broke away during the civil war AT FIRST? how many total ending up breaking away?
French and Indian War
William Henry Harrison
7; 11
Teddy Roosevelt
4. What month and year was the Gettysburg Address said?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Harry S Truman
November 1863
Polio
5. Who introduced surviver benefits?
They were classmates in college
538
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Enola Gay
6. What date did WWII begin?
April 12th - 1861
Robert E. Lee
September 1st - 1939
Electors
7. After Abraham Lincoln was shot - He was carried across the street to ________________ where he dies when?
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Peterson House; the next morning
Jimmy Carter
William and Mary College
8. Which president had a stroke in his bathroom?
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Electors
Woodrow Wilson
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
9. Franklin Delano Roosevelt's wife was related to him how?
The south
Richard Nixon
Writters for Washington Post who figured out Richard Nixon's case
His 5th cousin
10. what president was also president of the constitutional convention?
Money goes to kids when a parent dies
8
Worker can take three months off in a year to take care of sick relatives or him/herself and cannot be fired
George Washington
11. Andrew Johnson had a (good/bad) relation ship with congress over reconstruction
Bad
April 12th - 1861
Perjury and obstruction of justice
James Madison
12. What did the Interstate Highway System also do besides provide a road for driving?
8
England
Social Security
Providing a backup place for military plane landing
13. How many electors are in the electoral college?
538
4
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Ft. Sumter - South Carolina
14. What was a popular film of John Fitzgerald Kennedy's assassination?
Zapruder film
The White House
Medical insurance for all americans
Free the slaves in the south
15. What presidents (in order) died of natural causes?
Speeches given for hope
William Henry Harrison - Zachary Taylor - Warren Harding - and Franklin Delano Roosevelt
April 12th - 1861
Richard Nixon
16. How many presidents died in office?
Mount Vernon - Virginia
8
35 said He was guilty - but he needed 36
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
17. Which president was a 'rough rider' in the Spanish American War?
Alien and sedition acts
X-ray
Teddy Roosevelt
Woodrow Wilson
18. What is Camp David?
The north and the south were split up
Harry S Truman
No
A 2nd home for the president
19. What two states do not use 'winner-takes all' for the electoral college?
James Madison
William Henry Harrison
Since birth
Maine and Nebraska
20. Andrew Johnson had a (good/bad) relation ship with congress over reconstruction
Dwight David Eisenhower
Bad
A 2nd home for the president
William Jefferson Clinton
21. Which president was a 'rough rider' in the Spanish American War?
George H.W. Bush and George Bush
Teddy Roosevelt
60; unconstitutional
Dental; medical
22. Who is thought to have assassinated John Fitzgerald Kennedy?
September 1st - 1939
No
Worker can take three months off in a year to take care of sick relatives or him/herself and cannot be fired
Lee Harvey Oswald
23. Who went to the Supreme court and tried to increase it to fifteen judges - but was told no?
England - France - Russia - USA
The Korean War
Andrew Jackson
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
24. Who attempted to assassinate Ronald Reagan?
Bad
John Hinkley Jr.
Since birth
Richard Nixon
25. Who takes over if the President is disabled or dies?
The Vice President
Bad
George Washington
The government
26. What was the Tenure of Office Act/
Civil rights
Barack Obama
Free the slaves in the south
The president could not fire and federal official who had gotten their job with Senate approval
27. What state was John Adams from?
Harry S Truman
Money goes to kids when a parent dies
Daniel Inouye
Massachusetts
28. What year was the Louisiana Territory bought?
Dwight David Eisenhower
1803
Teddy Roosevelt
Ronald Reagan
29. Who was the only president to be president and then supreme court chief justice?
He resigned before the impeachment trial
William Howard Taft
James Madison
Teddy Roosevelt
30. Who said 'A date that will live in infamy'? What were they talking about (separate with semicolon)?
John Wilkes Booth
Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Pearl Harbor bombing
Andrew Johnson
William Howard Taft
31. Why did we enter WWII?
Hillary Clinton
January 1st - 1863
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor - Hawaii
Getting out of the Great depression by hiring people - which would start a chain reaction
32. What were the sides for the Korean war and the Vietnam war?
Universal health care
Harry S Truman
The north were comunists and the south were not
Teddy Roosevelt - Woodrow Wilson - Jimmy Carter - and Barack Obama
33. Which president created Yellowstone National Park and Yosemite?
John Hinkley Jr.
Teddy Roosevelt
Yes
William Howard Taft
34. When did we get involved and stop being involved with WWI? (month and year)
James Madison
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
George H. W. Bush
April 1917- November 1918
35. Why was Andrew Johnson impeached?
He fired the Secretary of War Staton
Zapruder film
18
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
36. How many rooms in the white house?
Saving a picture of Washington during the war
444
4
132
37. What is the inauguration date?
January 20th
132
Mom
Abraham Lincoln
38. How many Vice Presidents have moved up because the president died?
60; unconstitutional
8
England - France - Russia - USA
Ulysses S. Grant
39. Andrew Johnson was _________'s VP
27
Jefferson Davis
Abraham Lincoln
He was shot on his way to a college reunion
40. What is the Truman Doctrine?
Writters for Washington Post who figured out Richard Nixon's case
Dolley
He wanted a date Jodie Foster
The US was prepared to send money and military support to countries that want to resist communism
41. What is the oldest you can be to get surviver benefits?
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson; July 4th - 1826
4th
Dolley
18
42. Who was the first VP?
Jimmy Carter
Ft. Sumter - South Carolina
John Adams
18
43. Where was William McKinley killed?
Buffalo - New York
Polio
Free the slaves in the south
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
44. Who won a nobel peace prize because of the camp david accords?
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Jimmy Carter
The first Tuesday of Novermber that follows a monday in November
November
45. What two states do not use 'winner-takes all' for the electoral college?
Maine and Nebraska
The Gettysburg Address
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson; July 4th - 1826
60; unconstitutional
46. Who won the Civil war for Lincoln and later on became a president?
Richard Nixon
The White House
Guam - Midway Islands - Philippines - and Puerto Rico
Ulysses S. Grant
47. How much was the Louisiana Territory when it was purchased?
November 22nd - 1963
15 million
December 7th - 1941
Abigail
48. There was a _________ - or a group of people - who helped John Wilkes Booth kill Lincoln and also planned to kill the VP and Secretary.
The Korean War
Conspiracy
November 1863
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
49. Who went to the Supreme court and tried to increase it to fifteen judges - but was told no?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
538
Hillary Clinton
Self
50. Who was our president when we kille Osama bin Laden?
John Quincy Adams - Rutherford B. Hayes - Benjamin Harrison - and George W. Bush
England
100
Barack Obama