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U.S. Presidents Trivia
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Andrew Johnson was _________'s VP
Teddy Roosevelt
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
Mom
Abraham Lincoln
2. How many terms is a president alowed to serve?
The Vice President
2
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Enola Gay
3. Who acts as an advisor to the president?
George W. Bush
Barack Obama
The Vice President
April 12th - 1861
4. Why did WWI happen?
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 was attacking ships
George Washington
Conspiracy
5. Who was our president during the Vietnam War?
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
Joe Biden
Lyndon Johnson
James Madison
6. Can the amount of money a president earns be increased/decreased during someone's term of office?
1 million
His 5th cousin
No
John Adams
7. What are the people in the electoral college called?
Thomas Jefferson
Harry S Truman
January 1st - 1863
Electors
8. Where was Abraham Lincoln born? What kind of house did he live in?
William Jefferson Clinton
No
Harry S Truman
Kentucky; Log cabin
9. Who won the Nobel peace prize because he told Russia and Japan not to fight - but to love?
The White House
1914-1918
Teddy Roosevelt
November 22nd - 1963
10. Who was the only catholic president?
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
No
Honor people who died - make sure the country survies
Dwight David Eisenhower
11. Which president was author of the Virginia Plan?
James Madison
35 said He was guilty - but he needed 36
4th
His 5th cousin
12. Franklin Delano Roosevelt's wife was related to him how?
Thomas Jefferson
His 5th cousin
John Adams
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
13. Which president recognized Israel and traded with them and gave money and embassadors to them?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Harry S Truman
The number of people in Congress plus 3 for DC
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
14. Which president created the University of Virgina?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
35
Thomas Jefferson
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
15. What did the Interstate Highway System also do besides provide a road for driving?
The Vice President
George H.W. Bush and George Bush
Providing a backup place for military plane landing
Speeches given for hope
16. What to laws did Adams TRY to pass?
2
Saving a picture of Washington during the war
Alien and sedition acts
No
17. What were the sides for the Korean war and the Vietnam war?
The south
Gerald Ford
The north were comunists and the south were not
Georgia
18. How many kids did John Tyler have?
15
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor - Hawaii
Gerald Ford
USA
19. Who introduced social security?
Barack Obama
Dallas - Texas
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Andrew Jackson
20. Who was president for the Bay of Pigs?
Money goes to kids when a parent dies
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Yes
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
21. Where did the name 'gettysburg' come from?
George Washington
The three day battle in July in Gettysburg about slaves
French and Indian War
20
22. What was the league of nations?
Club with all countries where problems were discussed peacefully
Dallas - Texas
Jimmy Carter
William McKinley
23. Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant knew eachother because _________.
They were classmates in college
Forced the president to issue all military orders through general of the army who could not be removed without senate approval
$150000
Thomas Jefferson
24. How many kids did George Washington have?
John Tyler
270
0
William Henry Harrison
25. Who had the first death in office?
Writters for Washington Post who figured out Richard Nixon's case
15 million
William Henry Harrison
Club with all countries where problems were discussed peacefully
26. How tall was Abraham Lincoln?
27. Where was Thomas Jefferson born?
George Washington
The south
Monticello - Virginia
Speeches given for hope
28. What was the name of the airplane that bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Abigail
Enola Gay
November 1863
England; sailors; products
29. What month and year was the Gettysburg Address said?
Acting
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor - Hawaii
November 1863
Gerald Ford
30. Who invaded Iraq?
The south
George W. Bush
December 7th - 1941
Daniel Inouye
31. What are disability benefits?
Ford's Theater
January 20th
You can collect money if you become disabled before retirement
The Vice President
32. How old do you have to be to be president?
The House of Representatives selects the President and the Senate selects the Vice President
35
Jimmy Carter
World War I
33. Who was a peanut farmer?
Jimmy Carter
Hillary Clinton
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
OK to send home foregienors if they looked dangerous; also if we were in war with their country
34. Who was the first VP to move up on death of a president?
John Tyler
X-ray
William Henry Harrison
Writters for Washington Post who figured out Richard Nixon's case
35. What are disability benefits?
Andrew Johnson
You can collect money if you become disabled before retirement
Dolley
John Tyler
36. Who was the first VP to move up on death of a president?
They were classmates in college
December 7th - 1941
John Tyler
Eleanor
37. Sewards Folly was when ________ (secretary of state) bought land for $______ - which was thought to be as a joke then - but now that land is known as ________.
November
William Seward; $7.2 million; Alaska
Jimmy Carter
132
38. What presidents lost the popular vote but won the electoral vote? (in order)
John Quincy Adams - Rutherford B. Hayes - Benjamin Harrison - and George W. Bush
French and Indian War
Maine and Nebraska
4
39. Where did Abraham Lincoln's assasination take place?
40. Congress passed 2 laws designed to limit __________'s (a president) power .
William Howard Taft
Andrew Johnson
Mary Todd-Lincoln
The US was prepared to send money and military support to countries that want to resist communism
41. Which president helped create the Library of Congress when he sells and donates 6000 books?
Barack Obama
Richard Nixon
Thomas Jefferson
The three day battle in July in Gettysburg about slaves
42. Who attempted to assassinate Ronald Reagan?
14
John Hinkley Jr.
William Henry Harrison
Cuba wanted to overthrow Castrow and our military helped train them
43. Andrew Johnson had a (good/bad) relation ship with congress over reconstruction
He was shot
Civil War
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Bad
44. Franklin Delano Roosevelt got his middle name because his _____'s favorite relative was de la Noye
Air Force One - Marine One - and limousines
Woodrow Wilson
John Tyler
Mom
45. what ended a couple of days before Abraham Lincoln's Assasination?
Civil War
Germany was attacking ships
Andrew Jackson
Lyndon Johnson
46. Who was FDR's VP Who was president for WWII?
The Civil War
Germany was attacking ships
Forced the president to issue all military orders through general of the army who could not be removed without senate approval
Harry S Truman
47. How many Vice Presidents have moved up because the president resigned?
He was shot on his way to a college reunion
The north and the south were split up
George Washington
1
48. 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 ________.
The fourteen points
Teddy Roosevelt
George Washington
No
49. Who were the first presidents to be father and son?
Writters for Washington Post who figured out Richard Nixon's case
Teddy Roosevelt
John Adams and John Quincy Adams
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
50. What did the Interstate Highway System also do besides provide a road for driving?
4
Providing a backup place for military plane landing
Maine and Nebraska
The House of Representatives selects the President and the Senate selects the Vice President