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U.S. Presidents Trivia
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Who became president when Richard Nixon resigend because they were his VP?
Gerald Ford
444
Monroe
Teddy Roosevelt
2. Who was the first president not to win the popular vote and to become president?
He resigned before the impeachment trial
Dwight David Eisenhower
John Quicy Adams
John Adams and John Quincy Adams
3. Who moved up when John Fitzgerald Kennedy died because He was his VP?
1803
Teddy Roosevelt
Universal health care
Lyndon Johnson
4. Who was president during the Great depression?
No
The government
George Washington - John Adams - Thomas Jefferson - James Madison - James Monroe - and John Quincy Adams
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
5. Andrew Johnson was _________'s VP
Abraham Lincoln
We thought there were weapons of mass destruction - but there weren't
Jefferson Davis
England; sailors; products
6. Manifest Destiny was to have all the land from __________ to ___________ (east to west)
Teddy Roosevelt
New Mexico to California
Germany invaded Poland
George Washington
7. How many states broke away during the civil war AT FIRST? how many total ending up breaking away?
Civil War
7; 11
Air Force One - Marine One - and limousines
Acting
8. What was a popular film of John Fitzgerald Kennedy's assassination?
Richard Nixon
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Zapruder film
William Jefferson Clinton
9. Who is thought to have assassinated John Fitzgerald Kennedy?
1 million
Free the slaves in the south
Lee Harvey Oswald
Teddy Roosevelt
10. Who was William McKinley's VP that moved up when He was killed?
Polio
John Quicy Adams
Teddy Roosevelt
Lyndon Johnson
11. Who attempted to assassinate Ronald Reagan?
Harry S Truman
Abraham Lincoln
John Hinkley Jr.
World War I
12. Who was FDR's VP Who was president for WWII?
Harry S Truman
If he serves 2 or less years of someone else's term plus 8 years on his own
John Tyler
Writters for Washington Post who figured out Richard Nixon's case
13. Why did the league of nations fail (what country wouldn't join)?
USA
Teddy Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The Vice President
William Jefferson Clinton
14. What was Lincoln's most famous speech?
The Gettysburg Address
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Kentucky; Log cabin
Guam - Midway Islands - Philippines - and Puerto Rico
15. Which president recognized Israel and traded with them and gave money and embassadors to them?
He was shot
Teddy Roosevelt
Enola Gay
Harry S Truman
16. How many presidents were killed in office?
Barack Obama
4
When peace was made between Israel and Egypt at Camp David
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
17. Who was the commander in charge of Europe afor the Allies in WWII?
Dwight David Eisenhower
Saving a picture of Washington during the war
Ft. Sumter - South Carolina
The White House
18. Why wasn't Richard Nixon thrown out of office?
He resigned before the impeachment trial
132
5
22 - 24
19. Who acts as an advisor to the president?
Guam - Midway Islands - Philippines - and Puerto Rico
Germany - Hungary - Turkey
The Vice President
Teddy Roosevelt
20. What was reconstruction?
14
Period after the Civil War and how we reunited
7; 11
John Tyler
21. How many presidents died in office?
15
East of Africa
8
Mary Todd-Lincoln
22. How many Vice Presidents have moved up because the president resigned?
November 1863
1
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Sic Semper Tyrannis - the south is avenged
23. What was William Jefferson Clinton impeached for?
25
William Jefferson Clinton
Perjury and obstruction of justice
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
24. Who was on the bad side for WWI (abc order)?
James Madison
Germany - Hungary - Turkey
John Adams and John Quincy Adams
Period after the Civil War and how we reunited
25. The ______ was invented when William McKinley was killed - and it could have saved him.
Dental; medical
X-ray
James Madison
England - France - Russia - USA
26. Who was George Washington's wife?
1 million
Barack Obama
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Martha
27. William Jefferson Clinton paid Paula Jones $____.
Conspiracy
None
1 million
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
28. Congress passed 2 laws designed to limit __________'s (a president) power .
The idea to own all the land from the pacific to the atlantic ocean; 1.2 million
14
April 1917- November 1918
Andrew Johnson
29. Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant knew eachother because _________.
The Civil War
Abigail
His wife
They were classmates in college
30. Who was our president during the Korean war?
Free the slaves in the south
Dwight David Eisenhower
John Quicy Adams
Free the slaves in the south
31. How much money does the president earn per year?
The Vice President
$400000
USA
French and Indian War
32. James Madison's wife is famous for...
Saving a picture of Washington during the war
Writters for Washington Post who figured out Richard Nixon's case
Dallas - Texas
Lee Harvey Oswald
33. Who presented the Fourteen Points?
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Barack Obama
Woodrow Wilson
Sic Semper Tyrannis - the south is avenged
34. Who passed Universal health care?
Barack Obama
4
Guam - Midway Islands - Philippines - and Puerto Rico
Teddy Roosevelt - Woodrow Wilson - Jimmy Carter - and Barack Obama
35. When did we get involved and stop being involved with WWI? (month and year)
Germany - Hungary - Turkey
Gerald Ford
April 1917- November 1918
John Quicy Adams
36. What is the mandatory retirement plan run by the government?
Social Security
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
270
Lyndon Johnson
37. Which presient send Lewis and Clark on their journey?
Dwight David Eisenhower
Thomas Jefferson
Getting out of the Great depression by hiring people - which would start a chain reaction
1 million
38. Who supported manifest destiny?
Thus always to tyrants
The number of people in Congress plus 3 for DC
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
James Polk
39. Who was William McKinley's VP that moved up when He was killed?
George W. Bush
Teddy Roosevelt
Perjury and obstruction of justice
25
40. Who won a Nobel Peace Prize for what they were going to do?
In their state's capital
Teddy Roosevelt
Barack Obama
A group of representatives chosen by the voters to elect the President
41. Who was the first VP to move up on death of a president?
John Tyler
Woodrow Wilson
John Boehner
John Quicy Adams
42. What was the Bay of Pigs?
14
His wife
Abigail
Cuba wanted to overthrow Castrow and our military helped train them
43. What is universal health care?
The Gettysburg Address
Medical insurance for all americans
In their state's capital
George H. W. Bush
44. What war was George Washington in the military for?
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Free the slaves in the south
French and Indian War
Electors
45. Where did the name 'gettysburg' come from?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The three day battle in July in Gettysburg about slaves
Democratic National Headquarters; Watergate
15 million
46. Where does the president live for free?
20
George H. W. Bush
The White House
We thought there were weapons of mass destruction - but there weren't
47. What does NATO stand for?
George Washington
USA
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Dwight David Eisenhower
48. Who was a peanut farmer?
Civil rights
Daniel Inouye
William Henry Harrison
Jimmy Carter
49. Who was the first African American President?
The Confederate States of America
Barack Obama
A gun
Honor people who died - make sure the country survies
50. During the civil war - the ________ wanted slaves and the ________ did not.
William McKinley
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
South; north
Maine and Nebraska