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U.S. Presidents Trivia
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1. Do we vote directly for the president?
No
35
Gerald Ford
A 2nd home for the president
2. Who was president for the persian gulf war?
25
England
The Korean War
George H. W. Bush
3. Who was our president during the Korean war?
England; sailors; products
The president could not fire and federal official who had gotten their job with Senate approval
Dwight David Eisenhower
George W. Bush
4. How many electoral votes does Florida have?
Massachusetts
27
George Washington
Teddy Roosevelt
5. After what event was the Fourteen Points presented?
Lyndon Johnson
Revolutionary War
World War I
Gerald Ford
6. Franklin Delano Roosevelt's wife was related to him how?
Hillary Clinton
Democratic National Headquarters; Watergate
French and Indian War
His 5th cousin
7. During the Great Depression - ____% were unemployed.
November 22nd - 1963
The Korean War
John Wilkes Booth
25
8. Who was the only president to be president and then supreme court chief justice?
Revolutionary War
Woodrow Wilson
William Howard Taft
15
9. 'Speak softley and carry a big stick' was a quote of who?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
His wife
Teddy Roosevelt
November 22nd - 1963
10. Franklin Delano Roosevelt died a short time into his ____ term.
4th
Teddy Roosevelt
John Adams
Mary Todd-Lincoln
11. Why did we invade Iraq?
12. Which president was a great general - a leader - honest - and trustworth?
He resigned before the impeachment trial
Joe Biden
George Washington
$400000
13. Who had an affair with Monica Lewinsky - a young intern at the White House?
Iraq invaded Kuwait - and a coalition of naions push Iraq out of Kuwait
William Jefferson Clinton
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Robert E. Lee
14. What war was Abraham Lincoln president during?
The Civil War
Abraham Lincoln
Germany invaded Poland
Honor people who died - make sure the country survies
15. Who is the current President Pro-Tempore of the Senate?
Dallas - Texas
Daniel Inouye
Dwight David Eisenhower
No
16. How many electoral votes does Florida have?
Woodrow Wilson
27
7; 11
William Henry Harrison
17. Who acts as an advisor to the president?
14
Cuba wanted to overthrow Castrow and our military helped train them
The north were comunists and the south were not
The Vice President
18. Who won the Nobel peace prize because he told Russia and Japan not to fight - but to love?
Ulysses S. Grant
Teddy Roosevelt
Getting out of the Great depression by hiring people - which would start a chain reaction
Dwight David Eisenhower
19. Why was Andrew Johnson impeached?
Dwight David Eisenhower
Civil rights
James Polk
He fired the Secretary of War Staton
20. Why did WWI happen?
Democratic National Headquarters; Watergate
His wife
George Washington
Germany was attacking ships
21. What was the nullification crisis?
22. What does NATO stand for?
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Georgia
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson; July 4th - 1826
The three day battle in July in Gettysburg about slaves
23. Which president recognized Israel and traded with them and gave money and embassadors to them?
20
Harry S Truman
Andrew Jackson
Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Pearl Harbor bombing
24. What was the nullification crisis?
25. How much of a retirement income per year does the president make (for life)?
The fourteen points
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
$150000
USA
26. Where did Thomas Jefferson go to college?
William Jefferson Clinton
John Adams
1 million
William and Mary College
27. Who ran the country when Woodrow Wilson couldn't?
Mary Todd-Lincoln
Teddy Roosevelt
His wife
The Korean War
28. What is the oldest you can be to get surviver benefits?
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor - Hawaii
The banks were closed because everyone wanted their money at once
18
350
29. Who was president for the Bay of Pigs?
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
He was shot on his way to a college reunion
John Wilkes Booth
Eleanor
30. What war never officially ended but just doesn't fight any more?
Civil War
Daniel Inouye
Alien and sedition acts
The Korean War
31. What president made the emancipation proclamtion?
18
Abraham Lincoln
Eleanor
35 said He was guilty - but he needed 36
32. Who had a 12 year affair with Gennifer Flowers?
William Henry Harrison
Martha
14
William Jefferson Clinton
33. What month is the election in?
November
Polio
England; sailors; products
The government
34. How many former vice presidents have become president?
He fired the Secretary of War Staton
14
8
Teddy Roosevelt - Woodrow Wilson - Jimmy Carter - and Barack Obama
35. Where does the president live for free?
The White House
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Bad
South; north
36. Which president was the youngest to serve?
4
Ford's Theater
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Teddy Roosevelt
37. Who was a peanut farmer?
George Washington
James Madison
Jimmy Carter
Honor people who died - make sure the country survies
38. What was the name of the airplane that bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Mary Todd-Lincoln
John Hinkley Jr.
Enola Gay
No
39. After Abraham Lincoln was shot - He was carried across the street to ________________ where he dies when?
Peterson House; the next morning
4
15
Thomas Jefferson
40. Which presidents were cousins?
Speeches given for hope
World War I
Social Security
Teddy Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt
41. What college did George Washington go to?
None
A gun
William Jefferson Clinton
Abraham Lincoln
42. Who became president when Richard Nixon resigend because they were his VP?
January 20th
Gerald Ford
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
43. What was the Tenure of Office Act/
7; 11
Mary Todd-Lincoln
James Madison
The president could not fire and federal official who had gotten their job with Senate approval
44. Who was Deep Throat?
The Confederate States of America
A person who knew the truth about Richard Nixon and told Woodward and Bernstein
35
Saving a picture of Washington during the war
45. Which president recognized Israel and traded with them and gave money and embassadors to them?
The first Tuesday of Novermber that follows a monday in November
Harry S Truman
The idea to own all the land from the pacific to the atlantic ocean; 1.2 million
Dwight David Eisenhower
46. Which president helped create the Library of Congress when he sells and donates 6000 books?
John Adams
Thomas Jefferson
X-ray
270
47. Who passed Universal health care?
100
Andrew Johnson
George Washington
Barack Obama
48. How many kids did John Tyler have?
15
Yes
John Wilkes Booth
Free the slaves in the south
49. Where did Abraham Lincoln's assasination take place?
50. Who did fireside chats?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Perjury and obstruction of justice
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
Universal health care