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U.S. Presidents Trivia
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What was the persian gulf war/desert storm?
Iraq invaded Kuwait - and a coalition of naions push Iraq out of Kuwait
He wanted a date Jodie Foster
Dwight David Eisenhower
George Washington - John Adams - Thomas Jefferson - James Madison - James Monroe - and John Quincy Adams
2. Who attempted to assassinate Ronald Reagan?
Lyndon Johnson
The idea to own all the land from the pacific to the atlantic ocean; 1.2 million
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
John Hinkley Jr.
3. John Adams had a successful marriage with ______ (first name).
Barack Obama
When we dropped food and supplies to people in West Berlin
35 said He was guilty - but he needed 36
Abigail
4. How can a president serve up to ten years?
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5. Who is thought to have assassinated John Fitzgerald Kennedy?
0
William Jefferson Clinton
Acting
Lee Harvey Oswald
6. Who was president for the persian gulf war?
Thomas Jefferson
They were classmates in college
George H. W. Bush
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
7. Who built the Interstate Highway System?
Hillary Clinton
Peterson House; the next morning
The Vice President
Dwight David Eisenhower
8. How many presidents died of natural causes in office?
Harry S Truman
4
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Teddy Roosevelt - Woodrow Wilson - Jimmy Carter - and Barack Obama
9. How old do you have to be to be president?
Dwight David Eisenhower
Barack Obama
35
William Jefferson Clinton
10. Who said 'The buck stops here'?
Harry S Truman
Lyndon Johnson
William Henry Harrison
James Madison
11. Where was Thomas Jefferson born?
1803
Dwight David Eisenhower
Monticello - Virginia
He gets shot
12. Which presidents were great grandfather and grandson?
Getting out of the Great depression by hiring people - which would start a chain reaction
French and Indian War
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison
13. What war never officially ended but just doesn't fight any more?
The Korean War
30
James Madison
Teddy Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt
14. what ended a couple of days before Abraham Lincoln's Assasination?
Civil War
William Henry Harrison
350
Providing a backup place for military plane landing
15. What is universal health care?
Bad
No
Gerald Ford
Medical insurance for all americans
16. Which president served the most terms?
Polio
George H.W. Bush and George Bush
Jefferson Davis
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
17. Who were Woodward and Bernstein?
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18. Who killed Abraham Lincoln?
November 22nd - 1963
He was shot
John Wilkes Booth
Ford's Theater
19. How many days was the Iran Hostage crisis?
Social Security
Saving a picture of Washington during the war
444
8
20. What year was the White House burnt down?
The south
1814
20
Maine and Nebraska
21. Franklin Delano Roosevelt got his middle name because his _____'s favorite relative was de la Noye
New Mexico to California
Mount Vernon - Virginia
Mom
January 20th
22. Who acts as an advisor to the president?
1803
The Vice President
7; 11
French and Indian War
23. How many Vice Presidents have moved up because the president died?
Barack Obama
8
Robert E. Lee
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
24. Who was president for the 9/11 attacks?
Jimmy Carter
George W. Bush
Georgia
$400000
25. How many presidents died in office?
Barack Obama
Club with all countries where problems were discussed peacefully
Monticello - Virginia
8
26. Who gave the longest inauguration speech?
When peace was made between Israel and Egypt at Camp David
15
George W. Bush
William Henry Harrison
27. Alien Acts
OK to send home foregienors if they looked dangerous; also if we were in war with their country
The government
Dental; medical
444
28. Who was the first President during WWII?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
John Wilkes Booth
Lee Harvey Oswald
He gets shot
29. Why wasn't Richard Nixon thrown out of office?
You can collect money if you become disabled before retirement
He resigned before the impeachment trial
Teddy Roosevelt
Worker can take three months off in a year to take care of sick relatives or him/herself and cannot be fired
30. Who won a nobel peace prize because of the camp david accords?
Maine and Nebraska
Barack Obama
Jimmy Carter
Honor people who died - make sure the country survies
31. What was the name of the airplane that bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Enola Gay
5
William Henry Harrison
Since birth
32. Why did WWI happen?
Harry S Truman
Germany was attacking ships
1803
His wife
33. What is FDIC (explaIn what it means - not what it stands for)?
The federal government guarentees your money at a bank
Writters for Washington Post who figured out Richard Nixon's case
Woodrow Wilson
Air Force One - Marine One - and limousines
34. Who invaded Iraq?
A gun
George W. Bush
Mom
South; north
35. What are surviver benefits?
No
Money goes to kids when a parent dies
England
The idea to own all the land from the pacific to the atlantic ocean; 1.2 million
36. What state is Camp David in?
John Quicy Adams
Hillary Clinton
If he serves 2 or less years of someone else's term plus 8 years on his own
Maryland
37. John Adams had a successful marriage with ______ (first name).
Period after the Civil War and how we reunited
Abigail
John Quicy Adams
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
38. What happens if no candidate gets the majorit y of electoral votes?
The House of Representatives selects the President and the Senate selects the Vice President
Forced the president to issue all military orders through general of the army who could not be removed without senate approval
George Washington
He was shot
39. Who attends diplomatic functions in place of the president?
4
Dwight David Eisenhower
The Vice President
John Adams
40. John Adams went to what college?
Teddy Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt
4
Harvard
William Seward; $7.2 million; Alaska
41. Who had a 12 year affair with Gennifer Flowers?
William Jefferson Clinton
No
He was shot
Andrew Jackson
42. How did John Wilkes Booth break his leg?
When he jumped out of the balcony - his foot got stuck in the bunting and he fell onto stage
444
He was shot
Conspiracy
43. Who was the only president to resign?
Speeches given for hope
Richard Nixon
Maine and Nebraska
Speeches given for hope
44. Which president was author of the Virginia Plan?
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.
When we dropped food and supplies to people in West Berlin
When he jumped out of the balcony - his foot got stuck in the bunting and he fell onto stage
James Madison
45. What are disability benefits?
You can collect money if you become disabled before retirement
George Washington
William Henry Harrison - Zachary Taylor - Warren Harding - and Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The federal government guarentees your money at a bank
46. Who were Woodward and Bernstein?
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47. Which president helped create the Library of Congress when he sells and donates 6000 books?
Civil rights
Teddy Roosevelt - Woodrow Wilson - Jimmy Carter - and Barack Obama
Thomas Jefferson
5
48. How much of a retirement income per year does the president make (for life)?
Woodrow Wilson
$150000
Cuba wanted to overthrow Castrow and our military helped train them
World War I
49. What president did the Berlin airlift?
Yes
Ronald Reagan
Harry S Truman
Andrew Jackson
50. What did the Interstate Highway System also do besides provide a road for driving?
The south
Universal health care
William Henry Harrison
Providing a backup place for military plane landing