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U.S. Presidents Trivia
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What date did WWII begin?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Conspiracy
January 1st - 1863
September 1st - 1939
2. What was William Jefferson Clinton impeached for?
Thomas Jefferson
Perjury and obstruction of justice
He was shot on his way to a college reunion
England - France - Russia - USA
3. What did John Wilkes Booth say after he shot Lincoln?
8
Daniel Inouye
Universal health care
Sic Semper Tyrannis - the south is avenged
4. What was a talent of John Wilkes Booth?
Acting
Enola Gay
Abraham Lincoln
George Washington
5. When was the Emancipation proclamation?
The president
The Vice President
Monticello - Virginia
January 1st - 1863
6. What is FDIC (explaIn what it means - not what it stands for)?
444
The federal government guarentees your money at a bank
Hillary Clinton
Gerald Ford
7. Who takes over if the President is disabled or dies?
Barack Obama
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The Vice President
No
8. Franklin Delano Roosevelt died a short time into his ____ term.
Daniel Inouye
John Wilkes Booth
4th
South; north
9. What date was John Fitzgerald Kennedy killed on?
The president could not fire and federal official who had gotten their job with Senate approval
4th
George Washington
November 22nd - 1963
10. The president get ____ care and _____ care for free.
Teddy Roosevelt
Teddy Roosevelt
The White House
Dental; medical
11. Who burnt down the White House during a war?
England
You can collect money if you become disabled before retirement
Mom
Civil War
12. Who was sent to a mental institution after Abraham Lincoln's death?
Abraham Lincoln
Ulysses S. Grant
Mary Todd-Lincoln
1914-1918
13. The ______ was invented when William McKinley was killed - and it could have saved him.
Lyndon Johnson
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
X-ray
Lee Harvey Oswald
14. Who were Woodward and Bernstein?
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15. How many kids did John Tyler have?
Ford's Theater
15
England; sailors; products
Saving a picture of Washington during the war
16. Which president recognized Israel and traded with them and gave money and embassadors to them?
Harry S Truman
Lee Harvey Oswald
The government
Ford's Theater
17. Which president was a lawyer - very smart - an architect - a musician - and an inventor?
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
270
William McKinley
Thomas Jefferson
18. Who was the fpresident during WWI?
Woodrow Wilson
X-ray
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Thus always to tyrants
19. What was the persian gulf war/desert storm?
Lyndon Johnson
Iraq invaded Kuwait - and a coalition of naions push Iraq out of Kuwait
60; unconstitutional
Woodrow Wilson
20. What was Lincoln's most famous speech?
6'4'
The Gettysburg Address
East of Africa
Abraham Lincoln
21. What are surviver benefits?
Money goes to kids when a parent dies
The Confederate States of America
Dwight David Eisenhower
30
22. Who gave the longest inauguration speech?
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
When he jumped out of the balcony - his foot got stuck in the bunting and he fell onto stage
William Henry Harrison
Teddy Roosevelt
23. Who was George Washington's wife?
14
4
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Martha
24. Grover Cleveland was the ____ and ____ president (numbers)
French and Indian War
22 - 24
Barack Obama
4th
25. Who ran the country when Woodrow Wilson couldn't?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The president
27
His wife
26. Who was president for the Bay of Pigs?
Social Security
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
5
Air Force One - Marine One - and limousines
27. Who was the first VP?
Buffalo - New York
William McKinley
Democratic National Headquarters; Watergate
John Adams
28. What is Camp David?
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
A 2nd home for the president
4
1814
29. Who was a Great General in war of 1812?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Monticello - Virginia
Dwight David Eisenhower
Andrew Jackson
30. James Monroe created the ________ Doctrine
When we dropped food and supplies to people in West Berlin
Monroe
George H.W. Bush and George Bush
Dolley
31. What was the Berlin Airlift?
When we dropped food and supplies to people in West Berlin
He fired the Secretary of War Staton
A gun
The Vice President
32. John Adams had a successful marriage with ______ (first name).
Abigail
Germany - Hungary - Turkey
Jefferson still survives
Joe Biden
33. Who did fireside chats?
November 1863
Since birth
The idea to own all the land from the pacific to the atlantic ocean; 1.2 million
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
34. What were the sides for the Korean war and the Vietnam war?
Since birth
The north were comunists and the south were not
Teddy Roosevelt
Monticello - Virginia
35. Who was the commander in charge of Europe afor the Allies in WWII?
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Dwight David Eisenhower
Teddy Roosevelt
Woodrow Wilson
36. How was James Garfield killed?
You can collect money if you become disabled before retirement
He was shot on his way to a college reunion
X-ray
Medical insurance for all americans
37. Who was president during the Great depression?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
John Hinkley Jr.
Barack Obama
Lee Harvey Oswald
38. what disease did Franklin Delano Roosevelt have?
Polio
Dwight David Eisenhower
April 1917- November 1918
John Wilkes Booth
39. Which presidents were great grandfather and grandson?
When he jumped out of the balcony - his foot got stuck in the bunting and he fell onto stage
William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison
George Washington
Buffalo - New York
40. Who was president for the Iran Hostage crisis?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Jimmy Carter
We thought there were weapons of mass destruction - but there weren't
East of Africa
41. Who created the Family Medical Leave Act?
He wanted a date Jodie Foster
William Jefferson Clinton
Writters for Washington Post who figured out Richard Nixon's case
William Howard Taft
42. Who was a peanut farmer?
A support group of countries
Jimmy Carter
Harry S Truman
Electors
43. Why wasn't Richard Nixon thrown out of office?
He resigned before the impeachment trial
Writters for Washington Post who figured out Richard Nixon's case
Providing a backup place for military plane landing
Lee Harvey Oswald
44. How old do you have to be to be president?
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
World War I
When we dropped food and supplies to people in West Berlin
35
45. How many pounds was William Howard Taft?
Mount Vernon - Virginia
350
Conspiracy
New Mexico to California
46. What does NATO stand for?
Medical insurance for all americans
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Social Security
Harry S Truman
47. What presidents (in order) died of natural causes?
William Henry Harrison - Zachary Taylor - Warren Harding - and Franklin Delano Roosevelt
January 1st - 1863
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.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
48. Who was president for the Cuban Missile Crisis?
William Henry Harrison
No
Teddy Roosevelt
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
49. Who became president when Richard Nixon resigend because they were his VP?
Gerald Ford
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Peterson House; the next morning
USA
50. What transportation does the president get?
4
Cuba wanted to overthrow Castrow and our military helped train them
Air Force One - Marine One - and limousines
A support group of countries