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U.S. Presidents Trivia
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1. Which president created Yellowstone National Park and Yosemite?
Teddy Roosevelt
South; north
Mount Vernon - Virginia
The president could not fire and federal official who had gotten their job with Senate approval
2. Who did fireside chats?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The three day battle in July in Gettysburg about slaves
30
George H. W. Bush
3. Who is the current Vice President?
Joe Biden
18
5
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
4. What was the name of the airplane that bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Enola Gay
Buffalo - New York
Harry S Truman
John Quicy Adams
5. What was the Berlin Airlift?
The White House
Democratic National Headquarters; Watergate
When we dropped food and supplies to people in West Berlin
Andrew Johnson
6. Who is the current speaker of the House?
New Mexico to California
John Tyler
A person who knew the truth about Richard Nixon and told Woodward and Bernstein
John Boehner
7. Who was Deep Throat?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
John Adams
A person who knew the truth about Richard Nixon and told Woodward and Bernstein
Martha
8. Grover Cleveland was the ____ and ____ president (numbers)
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
1 million
22 - 24
Ronald Reagan
9. Manifest Destiny was to have all the land from __________ to ___________ (east to west)
William Jefferson Clinton
New Mexico to California
No
Martha
10. The ______ was invented when William McKinley was killed - and it could have saved him.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
X-ray
Jefferson still survives
James Madison
11. Who was embarrassed when they received the Nobel Peace Prize?
Teddy Roosevelt
George Washington
Barack Obama
Harry S Truman
12. What to laws did Adams TRY to pass?
William Henry Harrison
John Wilkes Booth
Alien and sedition acts
Teddy Roosevelt
13. Who became president when Richard Nixon resigend because they were his VP?
Teddy Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt
8
Gerald Ford
Providing a backup place for military plane landing
14. This president helped write the federalist papers.
He wanted a date Jodie Foster
James Madison
35 said He was guilty - but he needed 36
Writters for Washington Post who figured out Richard Nixon's case
15. What was the Banking Holiday?
The banks were closed because everyone wanted their money at once
Abigail
Forced the president to issue all military orders through general of the army who could not be removed without senate approval
100
16. Who did the Banking Holiday?
He wanted a date Jodie Foster
Peterson House; the next morning
He was shot on his way to a college reunion
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
17. Who was president for the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Teddy Roosevelt
4
A support group of countries
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
18. Who said 'The only thing we have to fear is fear itself' at their 1st inaugural?
8
Honor people who died - make sure the country survies
Forced the president to issue all military orders through general of the army who could not be removed without senate approval
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
19. What law that Barack Obama passed might be unconstitutional and is being looked at by the supreme court now?
Universal health care
Dwight David Eisenhower
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.
Hillary Clinton
20. Where does the number of electors in the electoral college come from?
Jefferson Davis
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.
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
The number of people in Congress plus 3 for DC
21. Alien Acts
22 - 24
November
The House of Representatives selects the President and the Senate selects the Vice President
OK to send home foregienors if they looked dangerous; also if we were in war with their country
22. How many pounds was William Howard Taft?
350
James Polk
William Henry Harrison
Jefferson still survives
23. What is the Electoral College?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
James Polk
A person who knew the truth about Richard Nixon and told Woodward and Bernstein
A group of representatives chosen by the voters to elect the President
24. Who introduced social security?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Germany was attacking ships
John Boehner
William Howard Taft
25. Franklin Delano Roosevelt's wife was related to him how?
Dwight David Eisenhower
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Medical insurance for all americans
His 5th cousin
26. What did John Wilkes Booth say after he shot Lincoln?
George H. W. Bush
They were classmates in college
Sic Semper Tyrannis - the south is avenged
When we dropped food and supplies to people in West Berlin
27. Who was on the good side for WWI (abc order)?
Ronald Reagan
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
The White House
England - France - Russia - USA
28. What did the Interstate Highway System also do besides provide a road for driving?
Providing a backup place for military plane landing
The first Tuesday of Novermber that follows a monday in November
15 million
Social Security
29. Who won the Nobel peace prize because he told Russia and Japan not to fight - but to love?
James Madison
Teddy Roosevelt
The US was prepared to send money and military support to countries that want to resist communism
September 1st - 1939
30. Why was Andrew Johnson impeached?
Barack Obama
He fired the Secretary of War Staton
Revolutionary War
The north were comunists and the south were not
31. What two states do not use 'winner-takes all' for the electoral college?
Maine and Nebraska
Civil War
The banks were closed because everyone wanted their money at once
OK to send home foregienors if they looked dangerous; also if we were in war with their country
32. Why wasn't Richard Nixon thrown out of office?
He resigned before the impeachment trial
George Washington
Teddy Roosevelt
The fourteen points
33. 'Speak softley and carry a big stick' was a quote of who?
30
Teddy Roosevelt
Guam - Midway Islands - Philippines - and Puerto Rico
The federal government guarentees your money at a bank
34. What war was George Washington in the military for?
Sic Semper Tyrannis - the south is avenged
Peterson House; the next morning
French and Indian War
George H. W. Bush
35. John Adams went to what college?
60; unconstitutional
Harvard
George Washington
$400000
36. What is FDIC (explaIn what it means - not what it stands for)?
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson; July 4th - 1826
The federal government guarentees your money at a bank
Maine and Nebraska
William and Mary College
37. There was a _________ - or a group of people - who helped John Wilkes Booth kill Lincoln and also planned to kill the VP and Secretary.
John Quicy Adams
William Henry Harrison
Enola Gay
Conspiracy
38. How many pounds was William Howard Taft?
William Howard Taft
Teddy Roosevelt
350
Civil War
39. Who went to the Supreme court and tried to increase it to fifteen judges - but was told no?
5
The president could not fire and federal official who had gotten their job with Senate approval
Robert E. Lee
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
40. What is the Truman Doctrine?
A group of representatives chosen by the voters to elect the President
The US was prepared to send money and military support to countries that want to resist communism
Kentucky; Log cabin
A 2nd home for the president
41. What month and day do we vote for the president?
Electors
The first Tuesday of Novermber that follows a monday in November
South; north
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
42. Where did the civil war begin?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Pearl Harbor bombing
John Adams
Ft. Sumter - South Carolina
60; unconstitutional
43. How can a president serve up to ten years?
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44. Which president was a lawyer - very smart - an architect - a musician - and an inventor?
His 5th cousin
Thomas Jefferson
George Washington - John Adams - Thomas Jefferson - James Madison - James Monroe - and John Quincy Adams
George H. W. Bush
45. How many presidents died of natural causes in office?
November 22nd - 1963
The government
Revolutionary War
4
46. What war never officially ended but just doesn't fight any more?
The Korean War
Gerald Ford
Barack Obama
William Jefferson Clinton
47. What is the family Medical Leave Act?
George H. W. Bush
Dwight David Eisenhower
Revolutionary War
Worker can take three months off in a year to take care of sick relatives or him/herself and cannot be fired
48. Which president created Yellowstone National Park and Yosemite?
The Gettysburg Address
Teddy Roosevelt
Teddy Roosevelt - Woodrow Wilson - Jimmy Carter - and Barack Obama
Dwight David Eisenhower
49. How many states broke away during the civil war AT FIRST? how many total ending up breaking away?
Georgia
When we dropped food and supplies to people in West Berlin
7; 11
November 22nd - 1963
50. How many Vice Presidents have moved up because the president died?
100
444
January 1st - 1863
8