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U.S. Presidents Trivia
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1. Which president was author of the Virginia Plan?
100
Andrew Jackson
James Madison
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
2. Who were the second presidents to be father and son?
270
14
George H.W. Bush and George Bush
Germany was attacking ships
3. Which president was former ambassador to China?
Europe
George H. W. Bush
November 1863
His wife
4. When did we get involved and stop being involved with WWI? (month and year)
Monticello - Virginia
April 1917- November 1918
USA
George Washington - John Adams - Thomas Jefferson - James Madison - James Monroe - and John Quincy Adams
5. What was the Bay of Pigs?
Mary Todd-Lincoln
The Vice President
Mount Vernon - Virginia
Cuba wanted to overthrow Castrow and our military helped train them
6. Who was our president during the Korean war?
Woodrow Wilson
William Jefferson Clinton
Club with all countries where problems were discussed peacefully
Dwight David Eisenhower
7. During the civil war - the south named itself _____.
The Confederate States of America
A support group of countries
Saving a picture of Washington during the war
John Quincy Adams - Rutherford B. Hayes - Benjamin Harrison - and George W. Bush
8. Who was president during the Great depression?
England; sailors; products
Social Security
Richard Nixon
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
9. Do we vote directly for the president?
4
No
27
The banks were closed because everyone wanted their money at once
10. How tall was Abraham Lincoln?
11. Who became president when Richard Nixon resigend because they were his VP?
Gerald Ford
538
Lee Harvey Oswald
When peace was made between Israel and Egypt at Camp David
12. What month and day do we vote for the president?
The first Tuesday of Novermber that follows a monday in November
Joe Biden
John Adams
Martha
13. Who was the only president to get all the electoral votes?
Mount Vernon - Virginia
George Washington
Providing a backup place for military plane landing
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
14. Which presient send Lewis and Clark on their journey?
4
Europe
Thomas Jefferson
8
15. How many presidents were killed in office?
4
The Vice President
Self
Dwight David Eisenhower
16. Which president was former ambassador to China?
15
John Quicy Adams
Dwight David Eisenhower
George H. W. Bush
17. When did we enter WWII?
The fourteen points
December 7th - 1941
Abigail
A person who knew the truth about Richard Nixon and told Woodward and Bernstein
18. Who said 'The buck stops here'?
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Germany - Hungary - Turkey
14
Harry S Truman
19. What transportation does the president get?
Teddy Roosevelt
7; 11
Universal health care
Air Force One - Marine One - and limousines
20. During the civil war - the ________ wanted slaves and the ________ did not.
November 1863
Thomas Jefferson
Ronald Reagan
South; north
21. Who was FDR's VP Who was president for WWII?
If he serves 2 or less years of someone else's term plus 8 years on his own
Teddy Roosevelt
Barack Obama
Harry S Truman
22. Which president created Yellowstone National Park and Yosemite?
New Mexico to California
Harry S Truman
John Quincy Adams - Rutherford B. Hayes - Benjamin Harrison - and George W. Bush
Teddy Roosevelt
23. How much of a retirement income per year does the president make (for life)?
Germany invaded Poland
Ulysses S. Grant
Europe
$150000
24. What was the Tenure of Office Act/
Harry S Truman
35
William Jefferson Clinton
The president could not fire and federal official who had gotten their job with Senate approval
25. Where did the civil war begin?
Massachusetts
French and Indian War
Ft. Sumter - South Carolina
John Adams and John Quincy Adams
26. When was the Emancipation proclamation?
William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison
Teddy Roosevelt
January 1st - 1863
Barack Obama
27. Sedition acts
Jefferson still survives
Crime to print false or meliscious or scandalist stuff about the U.S. gov.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
60; unconstitutional
28. Which president started the two term tradition?
Jimmy Carter
South; north
George Washington
Abigail
29. Which president was a 'rough rider' in the Spanish American War?
Social Security
Ulysses S. Grant
January 1st - 1863
Teddy Roosevelt
30. What month and year was the Gettysburg Address said?
November 1863
$400000
The president could not fire and federal official who had gotten their job with Senate approval
1 million
31. Who did we help in the Vietnam war and the korean war?
Germany was attacking ships
Germany was attacking ships
Richard Nixon
The south
32. How many kids did John Tyler have?
George W. Bush
1914-1918
15
Dwight David Eisenhower
33. How can a president serve up to ten years?
34. What is the family Medical Leave Act?
Georgia
Worker can take three months off in a year to take care of sick relatives or him/herself and cannot be fired
60; unconstitutional
William Jefferson Clinton
35. How many states broke away during the civil war AT FIRST? how many total ending up breaking away?
Mom
Acting
The north and the south were split up
7; 11
36. What war never officially ended but just doesn't fight any more?
The Korean War
6'4'
Medical insurance for all americans
Woodrow Wilson
37. How many Vice Presidents ran again for president and became president?
Revolutionary War
5
1 million
Dental; medical
38. Who burnt down the White House during a war?
If he serves 2 or less years of someone else's term plus 8 years on his own
George Washington
England
Money goes to kids when a parent dies
39. Where does the president live for free?
George H.W. Bush and George Bush
The White House
0
4
40. The ______ was invented when William McKinley was killed - and it could have saved him.
1814
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
X-ray
George Washington
41. Who takes over if the President is disabled or dies?
USA
The Vice President
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The federal government guarentees your money at a bank
42. Who was president during the War of 1812 against England?
You can collect money if you become disabled before retirement
James Madison
Dental; medical
Free the slaves in the south
43. What happens to John Wilkes Booth?
Richard Nixon
Jimmy Carter
18
He gets shot
44. What was the camp david accords?
When peace was made between Israel and Egypt at Camp David
Worker can take three months off in a year to take care of sick relatives or him/herself and cannot be fired
William Jefferson Clinton
John Boehner
45. What state is Camp David in?
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Jefferson Davis
The north were comunists and the south were not
Maryland
46. Who had a 12 year affair with Gennifer Flowers?
Social Security
William Jefferson Clinton
Providing a backup place for military plane landing
Free the slaves in the south
47. Who's son married Nixon's daughter?
Dwight David Eisenhower
Perjury and obstruction of justice
Zapruder film
538
48. Who attends diplomatic functions in place of the president?
The Vice President
The banks were closed because everyone wanted their money at once
George Washington
George H. W. Bush
49. Who killed Abraham Lincoln?
Abraham Lincoln
His wife
John Wilkes Booth
Alien and sedition acts
50. Why did WWI happen?
Germany was attacking ships
Thus always to tyrants
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
A group of representatives chosen by the voters to elect the President