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U.S. Presidents Trivia
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1. What are the people in the electoral college called?
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
18
The number of people in Congress plus 3 for DC
Electors
2. What were the years of WWI?
Daniel Inouye
John Adams and John Quincy Adams
1914-1918
The federal government guarentees your money at a bank
3. Who was the only president to resign?
The US was prepared to send money and military support to countries that want to resist communism
Richard Nixon
Jefferson still survives
The Vice President
4. What did the Interstate Highway System also do besides provide a road for driving?
James Madison
French and Indian War
England - France - Russia - USA
Providing a backup place for military plane landing
5. What was the point of the Gettysburg Address (two things)?
Teddy Roosevelt - Woodrow Wilson - Jimmy Carter - and Barack Obama
Honor people who died - make sure the country survies
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
6. Jimmy Carter was the former governor of ____.
Woodrow Wilson
Georgia
Harry S Truman
The north were comunists and the south were not
7. Why wasn't Richard Nixon thrown out of office?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
2
Thomas Jefferson
He resigned before the impeachment trial
8. Who was FDR's VP Who was president for WWII?
Harry S Truman
The north and the south were split up
Dwight David Eisenhower
William Howard Taft
9. Who was president for the persian gulf war?
John Adams
Daniel Inouye
George H. W. Bush
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
10. What war did George Washington lead the army for?
James Madison
Revolutionary War
January 1st - 1863
When he jumped out of the balcony - his foot got stuck in the bunting and he fell onto stage
11. What date did WWII begin?
25
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
September 1st - 1939
William Howard Taft
12. What was the Tenure of Office Act/
Universal health care
John Adams
The president could not fire and federal official who had gotten their job with Senate approval
A support group of countries
13. How many rooms in the white house?
Writters for Washington Post who figured out Richard Nixon's case
132
The banks were closed because everyone wanted their money at once
Yes
14. Who was President during the Spanish American War?
William McKinley
Richard Nixon
Abraham Lincoln
Germany invaded Poland
15. Which president was author of the Virginia Plan?
Free the slaves in the south
4th
James Madison
Richard Nixon
16. Where do electors vote?
17. How many presidents died of natural causes in office?
14
Mary Todd-Lincoln
4
35 said He was guilty - but he needed 36
18. Who was president when the United Nations was formed?
Harry S Truman
James Madison
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Dwight David Eisenhower
19. What law that Barack Obama passed might be unconstitutional and is being looked at by the supreme court now?
April 1917- November 1918
Conspiracy
0
Universal health care
20. What was reconstruction?
5
Daniel Inouye
John Tyler
Period after the Civil War and how we reunited
21. What was a popular film of John Fitzgerald Kennedy's assassination?
60; unconstitutional
Thomas Jefferson
Universal health care
Zapruder film
22. Who had the shortest presidency?
Harvard
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
George Washington
William Henry Harrison
23. Who acts as an advisor to the president?
Club with all countries where problems were discussed peacefully
The Vice President
Kentucky; Log cabin
William Howard Taft
24. Who was the fpresident during WWI?
Woodrow Wilson
The fourteen points
John Boehner
Andrew Jackson
25. What did John Wilkes Booth say after he shot Lincoln?
Jefferson Davis
They were classmates in college
Sic Semper Tyrannis - the south is avenged
John Quicy Adams
26. Who moved up when John Fitzgerald Kennedy died because He was his VP?
November 1863
South; north
Lyndon Johnson
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
27. John Adams had a successful marriage with ______ (first name).
Abigail
Germany invaded Poland
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
28. What is the family Medical Leave Act?
New Mexico to California
Worker can take three months off in a year to take care of sick relatives or him/herself and cannot be fired
Bad
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
29. Who were Woodward and Bernstein?
30. Who was George Washington's wife?
Martha
Teddy Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Dwight David Eisenhower
31. Which president adopted independence - was loyal - smart - and a lawyer?
Speeches given for hope
The government
John Adams
William Howard Taft
32. John Quicy Adams spent time In what continent?
Ft. Sumter - South Carolina
Money goes to kids when a parent dies
Europe
Thomas Jefferson
33. Who supported manifest destiny?
James Polk
Period after the Civil War and how we reunited
George H. W. Bush
Worker can take three months off in a year to take care of sick relatives or him/herself and cannot be fired
34. During the civil war - the north's general was ___________.
1814
Ulysses S. Grant
Ford's Theater
4
35. Why did the person who tried to assassinate Ronald Reagan do it?
The banks were closed because everyone wanted their money at once
Since birth
He wanted a date Jodie Foster
Zapruder film
36. Who went to the Supreme court and tried to increase it to fifteen judges - but was told no?
Barack Obama
We thought there were weapons of mass destruction - but there weren't
Woodrow Wilson
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
37. Who was the only president to get all the electoral votes?
The White House
Barack Obama
George Washington
William Jefferson Clinton
38. Who was our president when we kille Osama bin Laden?
The first Tuesday of Novermber that follows a monday in November
The Korean War
Barack Obama
His 5th cousin
39. Who was our president when we kille Osama bin Laden?
George Washington
New Mexico to California
James Madison
Barack Obama
40. How much was the Louisiana Territory when it was purchased?
15 million
Air Force One - Marine One - and limousines
Perjury and obstruction of justice
Alien and sedition acts
41. How many kids did John Tyler have?
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson; July 4th - 1826
Richard Nixon
15
William Jefferson Clinton
42. Who was on the bad side for WWI (abc order)?
The south
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
Germany - Hungary - Turkey
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
43. Who presented the Fourteen Points?
35 said He was guilty - but he needed 36
Woodrow Wilson
William Jefferson Clinton
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
44. Who was the only president to be president and then supreme court chief justice?
Massachusetts
35
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
William Howard Taft
45. John Adams had a successful marriage with ______ (first name).
Mary Todd-Lincoln
Hillary Clinton
Ford's Theater
Abigail
46. What college did George Washington go to?
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
John Quicy Adams
If he serves 2 or less years of someone else's term plus 8 years on his own
None
47. What is the command of army act?
Money goes to kids when a parent dies
Forced the president to issue all military orders through general of the army who could not be removed without senate approval
Jimmy Carter
1
48. Franklin Delano Roosevelt's wife was related to him how?
The government
15
His 5th cousin
Barack Obama
49. Which presidents won the nobel peace prize (in order)?
William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Teddy Roosevelt - Woodrow Wilson - Jimmy Carter - and Barack Obama
William and Mary College
50. Which president served the most terms?
1
Polio
Conspiracy
Franklin Delano Roosevelt