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U.S. Presidents Trivia
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What was the Tenure of Office Act/
The president could not fire and federal official who had gotten their job with Senate approval
X-ray
Free the slaves in the south
Ford's Theater
2. What two states do not use 'winner-takes all' for the electoral college?
Self
Maine and Nebraska
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
60; unconstitutional
3. What month is the election in?
Money goes to kids when a parent dies
George Washington
November
James Madison
4. What date was John Fitzgerald Kennedy killed on?
November 22nd - 1963
14
Enola Gay
Abraham Lincoln
5. What month and day do we vote for the president?
Thus always to tyrants
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
4
The first Tuesday of Novermber that follows a monday in November
6. What were the sides for the Korean war and the Vietnam war?
Lyndon Johnson
Air Force One - Marine One - and limousines
Teddy Roosevelt
The north were comunists and the south were not
7. What were the territories we gained in the Spanish American War? (ABC order with commas inbetween)
Guam - Midway Islands - Philippines - and Puerto Rico
Abraham Lincoln
Free the slaves in the south
$150000
8. Who said 'The only thing we have to fear is fear itself' at their 1st inaugural?
Barack Obama
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson; July 4th - 1826
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Thomas Jefferson
9. How long do you have to be a citizen for to be president?
The Confederate States of America
November 22nd - 1963
September 1st - 1939
Since birth
10. During the civil war - the south's president was _____________.
Sexual harrassment
William Jefferson Clinton
X-ray
Jefferson Davis
11. Which president recognized Israel and traded with them and gave money and embassadors to them?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Pearl Harbor bombing
Harry S Truman
Cuba wanted to overthrow Castrow and our military helped train them
12. Who was our president during the Vietnam War?
Lyndon Johnson
Kentucky; Log cabin
William Jefferson Clinton
A support group of countries
13. Who is the current speaker of the House?
John Boehner
8
Dwight David Eisenhower
Thomas Jefferson
14. What was the Tenure of Office Act/
William Jefferson Clinton
25
The president could not fire and federal official who had gotten their job with Senate approval
You can collect money if you become disabled before retirement
15. What to laws did Adams TRY to pass?
Alien and sedition acts
Jefferson Davis
Joe Biden
Club with all countries where problems were discussed peacefully
16. During the civil war - the south's general was ____________.
John Boehner
The north and the south were split up
Jefferson still survives
Robert E. Lee
17. Who was president for the 9/11 attacks?
18
Andrew Jackson
George W. Bush
He was shot on his way to a college reunion
18. How many electoral votes do you need to win the election?
270
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
William Jefferson Clinton
The number of people in Congress plus 3 for DC
19. What college did George Washington go to?
None
4
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
November
20. How many former vice presidents have become president?
14
4th
Bad
Social Security
21. Who introduced social security?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Lyndon Johnson
Zapruder film
14
22. How many Vice Presidents have moved up because the president died?
Barack Obama
We thought there were weapons of mass destruction - but there weren't
George Washington - John Adams - Thomas Jefferson - James Madison - James Monroe - and John Quincy Adams
8
23. How much money does the president earn per year?
5
He gets shot
$400000
Woodrow Wilson
24. What was a popular film of John Fitzgerald Kennedy's assassination?
The banks were closed because everyone wanted their money at once
Ulysses S. Grant
Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Pearl Harbor bombing
Zapruder film
25. Jimmy Carter was the former governor of ____.
Since birth
George Washington
Honor people who died - make sure the country survies
Georgia
26. Who attempted to assassinate Ronald Reagan?
OK to send home foregienors if they looked dangerous; also if we were in war with their country
John Hinkley Jr.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
27. Who was the only president to be president and then supreme court chief justice?
Jimmy Carter
Iraq invaded Kuwait - and a coalition of naions push Iraq out of Kuwait
The Confederate States of America
William Howard Taft
28. Who were the first presidents to be father and son?
Since birth
John Adams and John Quincy Adams
22 - 24
Peterson House; the next morning
29. How long do you have to be a citizen for to be president?
350
Since birth
January 1st - 1863
No
30. The person who killed John Fitzgerald Kennedy is thought to have killed him in a _______ - or not alone.
350
Barack Obama
Conspiracy
4
31. Who went to the Supreme court and tried to increase it to fifteen judges - but was told no?
He fired the Secretary of War Staton
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
If he serves 2 or less years of someone else's term plus 8 years on his own
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
32. Franklin Delano Roosevelt's wife was related to him how?
Jimmy Carter
Dallas - Texas
Gerald Ford
His 5th cousin
33. Who introduced disability benefits?
The federal government guarentees your money at a bank
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Maryland
Civil War
34. Who presented the Fourteen Points?
James Madison
George H. W. Bush
Woodrow Wilson
Teddy Roosevelt
35. Which president was former ambassador to China?
George H. W. Bush
Sexual harrassment
Providing a backup place for military plane landing
4
36. Which president helped create the Library of Congress when he sells and donates 6000 books?
$150000
Thomas Jefferson
He resigned before the impeachment trial
The Vice President
37. What was the Bay of Pigs?
Cuba wanted to overthrow Castrow and our military helped train them
Jefferson Davis
Harry S Truman
William Jefferson Clinton
38. Which president got Alzheimers and forgot being president?
1803
20
Harry S Truman
Ronald Reagan
39. Which president had a stroke in his bathroom?
Woodrow Wilson
James Madison
The Vice President
When he jumped out of the balcony - his foot got stuck in the bunting and he fell onto stage
40. Who was William McKinley's VP that moved up when He was killed?
If he serves 2 or less years of someone else's term plus 8 years on his own
15 million
Teddy Roosevelt
William McKinley
41. Why was Andrew Johnson impeached?
Harry S Truman
He fired the Secretary of War Staton
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
You can collect money if you become disabled before retirement
42. How many kids did John Tyler have?
0
Civil War
William Jefferson Clinton
15
43. Who had the shortest presidency?
William Henry Harrison
George H. W. Bush
William Jefferson Clinton
Peterson House; the next morning
44. 'Speak softley and carry a big stick' was a quote of who?
Writters for Washington Post who figured out Richard Nixon's case
Iraq invaded Kuwait - and a coalition of naions push Iraq out of Kuwait
Teddy Roosevelt
USA
45. Who was president for the persian gulf war?
4
Social Security
Jimmy Carter
George H. W. Bush
46. In most states - what percent of the state's electoral votes does a candidate get if they win the popular vote?
George Washington
Money goes to kids when a parent dies
100
John Quicy Adams
47. What war was Abraham Lincoln president during?
The Civil War
Germany invaded Poland
Jimmy Carter
Since birth
48. During the civil war - the north's general was ___________.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Mary Todd-Lincoln
Ulysses S. Grant
35
49. Which president recognized Israel and traded with them and gave money and embassadors to them?
Harry S Truman
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
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Buffalo - New York
50. Who was president for the Cuban Missile Crisis?
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Guam - Midway Islands - Philippines - and Puerto Rico
444
Franklin Delano Roosevelt