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U.S. Presidents Trivia
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1. Who had the shortest presidency?
Ronald Reagan
William Henry Harrison
Civil rights
Harvard
2. Who was our president during the Korean war?
Mount Vernon - Virginia
22 - 24
Writters for Washington Post who figured out Richard Nixon's case
Dwight David Eisenhower
3. How much was the Louisiana Territory when it was purchased?
Conspiracy
The Civil War
He wanted a date Jodie Foster
15 million
4. Who was Franklin Delano Roosevelt married to?
Eleanor
A support group of countries
He fired the Secretary of War Staton
Maryland
5. How many years younger was John Tyler's wife than him?
30
The president
20
No
6. Who was the first African American President?
The Civil War
November 22nd - 1963
The president
Barack Obama
7. Which president was obnoxious and disliked?
William Jefferson Clinton
John Adams
27
John Quincy Adams - Rutherford B. Hayes - Benjamin Harrison - and George W. Bush
8. Who was the only president to resign?
Richard Nixon
Crime to print false or meliscious or scandalist stuff about the U.S. gov.
The Vice President
Daniel Inouye
9. What month is the election in?
Teddy Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt
William Jefferson Clinton
November
William Howard Taft
10. what ended a couple of days before Abraham Lincoln's Assasination?
Abraham Lincoln
Civil War
25
Thomas Jefferson
11. John Adams had a successful marriage with ______ (first name).
William Henry Harrison - Zachary Taylor - Warren Harding - and Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Abigail
Andrew Jackson
12. How many electoral votes does Florida have?
27
60; unconstitutional
The north were comunists and the south were not
Joe Biden
13. What date did WWII begin?
Perjury and obstruction of justice
September 1st - 1939
Mount Vernon - Virginia
William Jefferson Clinton
14. What president had the watergate scandal?
William Jefferson Clinton
Richard Nixon
Monticello - Virginia
James Madison
15. What is the inauguration date?
Richard Nixon
John Adams
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
January 20th
16. When did we enter WWII?
The Gettysburg Address
December 7th - 1941
Iraq invaded Kuwait - and a coalition of naions push Iraq out of Kuwait
William Jefferson Clinton
17. After what event was the Fourteen Points presented?
Daniel Inouye
OK to send home foregienors if they looked dangerous; also if we were in war with their country
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
World War I
18. What war was Abraham Lincoln president during?
William Henry Harrison
Richard Nixon
USA
The Civil War
19. What president did the Berlin airlift?
Harry S Truman
Guam - Midway Islands - Philippines - and Puerto Rico
New Mexico to California
John Hinkley Jr.
20. Why did we enter WWII?
Guam - Midway Islands - Philippines - and Puerto Rico
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor - Hawaii
He wanted a date Jodie Foster
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
21. How many days was the Iran Hostage crisis?
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
444
Saving a picture of Washington during the war
Dwight David Eisenhower
22. What were fireside chats?
He gets shot
George H. W. Bush
Woodrow Wilson
Speeches given for hope
23. Who was Deep Throat?
A person who knew the truth about Richard Nixon and told Woodward and Bernstein
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
James Madison
24. Who introduced social security?
The government
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Sexual harrassment
Richard Nixon
25. Which presidents won the nobel peace prize (in order)?
Teddy Roosevelt - Woodrow Wilson - Jimmy Carter - and Barack Obama
Barack Obama
Club with all countries where problems were discussed peacefully
Thomas Jefferson
26. What happens if no candidate gets the majorit y of electoral votes?
England - France - Russia - USA
John Adams
Georgia
The House of Representatives selects the President and the Senate selects the Vice President
27. After what event was the Fourteen Points presented?
The president
World War I
Dwight David Eisenhower
4
28. The president get ____ care and _____ care for free.
Teddy Roosevelt
Conspiracy
Crime to print false or meliscious or scandalist stuff about the U.S. gov.
Dental; medical
29. Who was president when the United Nations was formed?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Harry S Truman
Thomas Jefferson
30. Who won a nobel peace prize because of the camp david accords?
Jimmy Carter
4
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
George H. W. Bush
31. Paula Jones sued William Jefferson Clinton for _______.
Sexual harrassment
Saving a picture of Washington during the war
Andrew Jackson
Jimmy Carter
32. During the civil war - the ________ wanted slaves and the ________ did not.
The government
USA
South; north
John Adams
33. Which president adopted independence - was loyal - smart - and a lawyer?
Polio
John Adams
Social Security
$400000
34. What are the people in the electoral college called?
John Boehner
Worker can take three months off in a year to take care of sick relatives or him/herself and cannot be fired
Gerald Ford
Electors
35. Who were the first presidents to be father and son?
1
John Adams and John Quincy Adams
John Quicy Adams
Teddy Roosevelt
36. Gerald Ford pardons _____________ for all crimes committed.
Lee Harvey Oswald
Germany was attacking ships
$150000
Richard Nixon
37. Where did Abraham Lincoln's assasination take place?
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38. How tall was Abraham Lincoln?
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39. Who is thought to have assassinated John Fitzgerald Kennedy?
Lee Harvey Oswald
2
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
A gun
40. How many states broke away during the civil war AT FIRST? how many total ending up breaking away?
7; 11
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
John Quincy Adams - Rutherford B. Hayes - Benjamin Harrison - and George W. Bush
Honor people who died - make sure the country survies
41. Who was embarrassed when they received the Nobel Peace Prize?
He was shot on his way to a college reunion
They were classmates in college
Barack Obama
George Washington - John Adams - Thomas Jefferson - James Madison - James Monroe - and John Quincy Adams
42. What college did George Washington go to?
None
Dwight David Eisenhower
If he serves 2 or less years of someone else's term plus 8 years on his own
William Jefferson Clinton
43. What was the Banking Holiday?
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
22 - 24
The banks were closed because everyone wanted their money at once
270
44. How old do you have to be to be president?
Lyndon Johnson
The federal government guarentees your money at a bank
35
When peace was made between Israel and Egypt at Camp David
45. The committee of the watergate scandal illegally entered the __________ (building) and spied on Nixon's opponent Who was in the _______ complex.
Saving a picture of Washington during the war
Democratic National Headquarters; Watergate
Andrew Jackson
Thus always to tyrants
46. Name the two presidents (ABC order by last name - write first and last name) who died on the same day - and the date they died (separate with semi colon)
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson; July 4th - 1826
Providing a backup place for military plane landing
No
Teddy Roosevelt - Woodrow Wilson - Jimmy Carter - and Barack Obama
47. Which president made the panama canal?
William Jefferson Clinton
George Washington
Joe Biden
Teddy Roosevelt
48. How many years do you have to live in the U.S. for to be president?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
James Madison
Woodrow Wilson
14
49. How was James Garfield killed?
Acting
Harvard
Richard Nixon
He was shot on his way to a college reunion
50. Who introduced surviver benefits?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
A gun
William McKinley
Dwight David Eisenhower