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U.S. Presidents Trivia
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Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Where did Thomas Jefferson go to college?
His 5th cousin
George H.W. Bush and George Bush
George Washington
William and Mary College
2. Who said 'The buck stops here'?
George Washington
Harry S Truman
Jimmy Carter
270
3. Who became president when Richard Nixon resigend because they were his VP?
Gerald Ford
Speeches given for hope
When we dropped food and supplies to people in West Berlin
September 1st - 1939
4. Who was our president when we kille Osama bin Laden?
John Adams and John Quincy Adams
A person who knew the truth about Richard Nixon and told Woodward and Bernstein
Germany was attacking ships
Barack Obama
5. who pays for the costs of operating the white house?
Civil rights
Joe Biden
The government
When we dropped food and supplies to people in West Berlin
6. Who was the only president to get all the electoral votes?
Civil War
Teddy Roosevelt
George Washington
George H. W. Bush
7. Who was the first President during WWII?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Cuba wanted to overthrow Castrow and our military helped train them
Eleanor
William Jefferson Clinton
8. James Madison's wife was ________ Madison.
444
Dolley
James Madison
John Quincy Adams - Rutherford B. Hayes - Benjamin Harrison - and George W. Bush
9. Where does the right to navigate teh seas without interference not apply?
Speeches given for hope
The Vice President
East of Africa
No
10. Who won the Nobel peace prize because he told Russia and Japan not to fight - but to love?
Germany invaded Poland
Teddy Roosevelt
Bad
Barack Obama
11. How many states broke away during the civil war AT FIRST? how many total ending up breaking away?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
John Boehner
He was shot on his way to a college reunion
7; 11
12. John Adams had a successful marriage with ______ (first name).
Guam - Midway Islands - Philippines - and Puerto Rico
Barack Obama
Abigail
James Madison
13. Where do electors vote?
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14. Which president started the two term tradition?
James Madison
George Washington
Conspiracy
Germany invaded Poland
15. Who was the commander in charge of Europe afor the Allies in WWII?
4th
George Washington
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Dwight David Eisenhower
16. What month and day do we vote for the president?
Providing a backup place for military plane landing
Universal health care
Providing a backup place for military plane landing
The first Tuesday of Novermber that follows a monday in November
17. Who won a nobel peace prize because of the camp david accords?
OK to send home foregienors if they looked dangerous; also if we were in war with their country
November 1863
Jimmy Carter
Iraq invaded Kuwait - and a coalition of naions push Iraq out of Kuwait
18. Which president had a stroke in his bathroom?
4
Abigail
Period after the Civil War and how we reunited
Woodrow Wilson
19. Who was the only president to resign?
Lyndon Johnson
He wanted a date Jodie Foster
Richard Nixon
X-ray
20. The ______ was invented when William McKinley was killed - and it could have saved him.
Barack Obama
X-ray
The federal government guarentees your money at a bank
World War I
21. What is the oldest you can be to get surviver benefits?
November
Teddy Roosevelt
Abigail
18
22. What does NATO stand for?
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
He gets shot
Enola Gay
Abraham Lincoln
23. How many presidents were killed in office?
Teddy Roosevelt
Mount Vernon - Virginia
4
The north were comunists and the south were not
24. Andrew Johnson had a (good/bad) relation ship with congress over reconstruction
4th
Bad
Teddy Roosevelt
Ronald Reagan
25. Who is the current President Pro-Tempore of the Senate?
Money goes to kids when a parent dies
A gun
Daniel Inouye
Barack Obama
26. Who were Woodward and Bernstein?
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27. Andrew Johnson was _________'s VP
Abraham Lincoln
Thomas Jefferson
1814
John Quincy Adams - Rutherford B. Hayes - Benjamin Harrison - and George W. Bush
28. Woodrow Wilson's ideas on not to have a war - the league of nations - and the freedom to navigate the seas without interference are known as ________.
John Boehner
7; 11
Crime to print false or meliscious or scandalist stuff about the U.S. gov.
The fourteen points
29. Who takes over if the President is disabled or dies?
Barack Obama
His 5th cousin
Honor people who died - make sure the country survies
The Vice President
30. Who was sent to a mental institution after Abraham Lincoln's death?
Mary Todd-Lincoln
Gerald Ford
April 1917- November 1918
New Mexico to California
31. Manifest Destiny was to have all the land from __________ to ___________ (east to west)
1 million
New Mexico to California
Teddy Roosevelt
7; 11
32. which president was former head of CIA?
George H. W. Bush
30
John Quicy Adams
Sic Semper Tyrannis - the south is avenged
33. Where did the civil war begin?
William and Mary College
No
14
Ft. Sumter - South Carolina
34. What was a popular film of John Fitzgerald Kennedy's assassination?
Richard Nixon
Zapruder film
8
Conspiracy
35. Who gave the longest inauguration speech?
William Henry Harrison
William McKinley
Gerald Ford
The Vice President
36. What is FDIC (explaIn what it means - not what it stands for)?
The federal government guarentees your money at a bank
Providing a backup place for military plane landing
James Madison
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson; July 4th - 1826
37. Who did fireside chats?
We thought there were weapons of mass destruction - but there weren't
Dwight David Eisenhower
Harry S Truman
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
38. Alien Acts
538
OK to send home foregienors if they looked dangerous; also if we were in war with their country
Jimmy Carter
The idea to own all the land from the pacific to the atlantic ocean; 1.2 million
39. Who was president for the persian gulf war?
No
George H. W. Bush
$400000
George H.W. Bush and George Bush
40. This president swam naked in the Potomac River
John Quicy Adams
Lyndon Johnson
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The Vice President
41. What law that Barack Obama passed might be unconstitutional and is being looked at by the supreme court now?
Universal health care
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
September 1st - 1939
Harry S Truman
42. Who was the oldest elected president (age 73 at 2nd term)?
OK to send home foregienors if they looked dangerous; also if we were in war with their country
The Civil War
Civil War
Ronald Reagan
43. How much of a retirement income per year does the president make (for life)?
January 1st - 1863
$150000
William McKinley
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor - Hawaii
44. Who did fireside chats?
100
Lyndon Johnson
When we dropped food and supplies to people in West Berlin
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
45. Who was president for the Bay of Pigs?
Worker can take three months off in a year to take care of sick relatives or him/herself and cannot be fired
January 20th
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
England; sailors; products
46. John Quicy Adams spent time In what continent?
William Jefferson Clinton
Honor people who died - make sure the country survies
The north were comunists and the south were not
Europe
47. How many electoral votes does Florida have?
Bad
Buffalo - New York
27
World War I
48. How much of a retirement income per year does the president make (for life)?
Ft. Sumter - South Carolina
$150000
14
25
49. Where did the name 'gettysburg' come from?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The three day battle in July in Gettysburg about slaves
Ford's Theater
Harry S Truman
50. What presidents (in order) died of natural causes?
27
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
William Henry Harrison - Zachary Taylor - Warren Harding - and Franklin Delano Roosevelt
$150000