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U.S. Presidents Trivia
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Why did the league of nations fail (what country wouldn't join)?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Richard Nixon
USA
Jimmy Carter
2. Who is the current speaker of the House?
Free the slaves in the south
John Boehner
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Providing a backup place for military plane landing
3. What is the command of army act?
James Madison
Forced the president to issue all military orders through general of the army who could not be removed without senate approval
Joe Biden
1814
4. Which president made the panama canal?
1914-1918
Civil War
Teddy Roosevelt
April 12th - 1861
5. What did the Interstate Highway System also do besides provide a road for driving?
January 1st - 1863
Ronald Reagan
The north and the south were split up
Providing a backup place for military plane landing
6. Who was president during the War of 1812 against England?
George H.W. Bush and George Bush
James Madison
Dwight David Eisenhower
William Jefferson Clinton
7. Who was the only president to get all the electoral votes?
George Washington
A gun
7; 11
Ronald Reagan
8. Who balanced the budget?
William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison
Conspiracy
Club with all countries where problems were discussed peacefully
William Jefferson Clinton
9. Who was the first president not to win the popular vote and to become president?
England; sailors; products
Club with all countries where problems were discussed peacefully
John Quicy Adams
USA
10. Who burnt down the White House during a war?
George W. Bush
Iraq invaded Kuwait - and a coalition of naions push Iraq out of Kuwait
The Civil War
England
11. Why did we invade Iraq?
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12. How many terms is a president alowed to serve?
James Madison
Period after the Civil War and how we reunited
A gun
2
13. Where was George Washington born?
John Adams and John Quincy Adams
Mount Vernon - Virginia
$400000
South Carolina said it could nullify any law it wants - but Jackson said they would send troops and so South Carolina decided that they can't nullify and law it wants.
14. Who was the only man to be president Who was not elected to either vp spot or the presidency?
Conspiracy
Teddy Roosevelt
John Hinkley Jr.
Gerald Ford
15. Who did the Banking Holiday?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Mom
William Jefferson Clinton
Thomas Jefferson
16. Who had the shortest presidency?
William Henry Harrison
Andrew Johnson
William Jefferson Clinton
April 12th - 1861
17. Who was president for the persian gulf war?
Joe Biden
The three day battle in July in Gettysburg about slaves
George H. W. Bush
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
18. Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant knew eachother because _________.
Barack Obama
Maine and Nebraska
They were classmates in college
100
19. What was the most terms served by a president?
Zapruder film
England - France - Russia - USA
4
John Wilkes Booth
20. What is Camp David?
270
Eleanor
A 2nd home for the president
William Henry Harrison
21. John Quicy Adams spent time In what continent?
George Washington
William Howard Taft
OK to send home foregienors if they looked dangerous; also if we were in war with their country
Europe
22. 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 ________.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The fourteen points
0
England - France - Russia - USA
23. Do we vote directly for the president?
William Henry Harrison
No
Period after the Civil War and how we reunited
A gun
24. Who was president during the Great depression?
His 5th cousin
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Maine and Nebraska
Revolutionary War
25. What is the oldest you can be to get surviver benefits?
$150000
18
George Washington - John Adams - Thomas Jefferson - James Madison - James Monroe - and John Quincy Adams
8
26. How tall was Abraham Lincoln?
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27. What was Lincoln's most famous speech?
Cuba wanted to overthrow Castrow and our military helped train them
The Gettysburg Address
Self
George Washington
28. Which president had a stroke in his bathroom?
Woodrow Wilson
Enola Gay
Dolley
Teddy Roosevelt
29. Who were the first presidents to be father and son?
Teddy Roosevelt
The north were comunists and the south were not
January 1st - 1863
John Adams and John Quincy Adams
30. When Harry S Truman was president during WWII - what two places in japan were bombed (abc order)?
1814
French and Indian War
John Adams
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
31. Who was the only man to be president Who was not elected to either vp spot or the presidency?
The three day battle in July in Gettysburg about slaves
14
George H. W. Bush
Gerald Ford
32. Which president served the most terms?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Providing a backup place for military plane landing
Democratic National Headquarters; Watergate
Mary Todd-Lincoln
33. Who was the first African American President?
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson; July 4th - 1826
Barack Obama
Harvard
The Vice President
34. Who was George Washington's wife?
A group of representatives chosen by the voters to elect the President
18
0
Martha
35. How many presidents were killed in office?
We thought there were weapons of mass destruction - but there weren't
Germany - Hungary - Turkey
4
20
36. Who was our president during the Korean war?
John Quicy Adams
35 said He was guilty - but he needed 36
Dwight David Eisenhower
November
37. Who was a Great General in war of 1812?
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Andrew Jackson
England - France - Russia - USA
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
38. 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 ________.
He wanted a date Jodie Foster
William Seward; $7.2 million; Alaska
Abraham Lincoln
When peace was made between Israel and Egypt at Camp David
39. What was a popular film of John Fitzgerald Kennedy's assassination?
Zapruder film
If he serves 2 or less years of someone else's term plus 8 years on his own
Hillary Clinton
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
40. Where did Thomas Jefferson go to college?
William and Mary College
7; 11
60; unconstitutional
New Mexico to California
41. What is the Electoral College?
Money goes to kids when a parent dies
4
Medical insurance for all americans
A group of representatives chosen by the voters to elect the President
42. Who was the youngest elected president?
Thomas Jefferson
Saving a picture of Washington during the war
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
George Washington
43. John Adams had a successful marriage with ______ (first name).
England
Providing a backup place for military plane landing
18
Abigail
44. What was the camp david accords?
When peace was made between Israel and Egypt at Camp David
Free the slaves in the south
November 1863
Crime to print false or meliscious or scandalist stuff about the U.S. gov.
45. Who was William McKinley's VP that moved up when He was killed?
Peterson House; the next morning
Teddy Roosevelt
5
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
46. Who was the first VP?
In their state's capital
George Washington
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
John Adams
47. Which president was author of the Virginia Plan?
Conspiracy
James Madison
4
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor - Hawaii
48. how many years is a score?
A person who knew the truth about Richard Nixon and told Woodward and Bernstein
William Jefferson Clinton
4
20
49. How did William McKinley die?
He was shot
Maryland
Gerald Ford
The Vice President
50. What war was Abraham Lincoln president during?
His wife
350
John Tyler
The Civil War