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U.S. Presidents Trivia
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1. When was the Emancipation proclamation?
January 1st - 1863
Monticello - Virginia
Buffalo - New York
Jimmy Carter
2. The person who killed John Fitzgerald Kennedy is thought to have killed him in a _______ - or not alone.
When peace was made between Israel and Egypt at Camp David
Free the slaves in the south
Dallas - Texas
Conspiracy
3. 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 ________.
The number of people in Congress plus 3 for DC
England
A group of representatives chosen by the voters to elect the President
The fourteen points
4. Who were Woodward and Bernstein?
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5. What was a popular film of John Fitzgerald Kennedy's assassination?
Zapruder film
Enola Gay
OK to send home foregienors if they looked dangerous; also if we were in war with their country
William Seward; $7.2 million; Alaska
6. What was a talent of John Wilkes Booth?
Acting
Lee Harvey Oswald
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
William and Mary College
7. Who said 'The buck stops here'?
Richard Nixon
George H. W. Bush
Teddy Roosevelt
Harry S Truman
8. How did William McKinley die?
He was shot
Thomas Jefferson
A person who knew the truth about Richard Nixon and told Woodward and Bernstein
1914-1918
9. How many terms is a president alowed to serve?
2
Teddy Roosevelt
The fourteen points
A gun
10. What is the command of army act?
Guam - Midway Islands - Philippines - and Puerto Rico
132
1803
Forced the president to issue all military orders through general of the army who could not be removed without senate approval
11. what disease did Franklin Delano Roosevelt have?
Social Security
Maine and Nebraska
Polio
Harry S Truman
12. Why did we enter WWII?
Jimmy Carter
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor - Hawaii
Gerald Ford
Teddy Roosevelt
13. How many electoral votes do you need to win the election?
East of Africa
His 5th cousin
Teddy Roosevelt
270
14. During the civil war - the south named itself _____.
Iraq invaded Kuwait - and a coalition of naions push Iraq out of Kuwait
The Confederate States of America
John Boehner
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
15. Who did the Banking Holiday?
25
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Richard Nixon
A gun
16. What does NATO stand for?
27
270
Conspiracy
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
17. What are the people in the electoral college called?
4
Dwight David Eisenhower
Electors
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
18. Which president was former ambassador to China?
Air Force One - Marine One - and limousines
September 1st - 1939
George H. W. Bush
Barack Obama
19. What is the family Medical Leave Act?
Worker can take three months off in a year to take care of sick relatives or him/herself and cannot be fired
Eleanor
$400000
The Civil War
20. Why didn't the Emancipation proclamation work?
The president could not fire and federal official who had gotten their job with Senate approval
The north and the south were split up
In their state's capital
The first Tuesday of Novermber that follows a monday in November
21. Who moved up when John Fitzgerald Kennedy died because He was his VP?
No
Lyndon Johnson
1914-1918
December 7th - 1941
22. Grover Cleveland was the ____ and ____ president (numbers)
Teddy Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt
4
Monroe
22 - 24
23. What was the point of the Gettysburg Address (two things)?
The north and the south were split up
Teddy Roosevelt
Martha
Honor people who died - make sure the country survies
24. What were John Adams's last words?
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
William Henry Harrison - Zachary Taylor - Warren Harding - and Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Ford's Theater
Jefferson still survives
25. Who was FDR's VP Who was president for WWII?
Yes
Universal health care
15
Harry S Truman
26. Which presidents won the nobel peace prize (in order)?
Jefferson Davis
Teddy Roosevelt - Woodrow Wilson - Jimmy Carter - and Barack Obama
Mom
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
27. Who created the Family Medical Leave Act?
Ronald Reagan
2
60; unconstitutional
William Jefferson Clinton
28. What was the point of the Gettysburg Address (two things)?
Honor people who died - make sure the country survies
Teddy Roosevelt
Andrew Johnson
Woodrow Wilson
29. The ______ was invented when William McKinley was killed - and it could have saved him.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
6'4'
X-ray
William Henry Harrison - Zachary Taylor - Warren Harding - and Franklin Delano Roosevelt
30. Who won a Nobel Peace Prize for what they were going to do?
Polio
8
5
Barack Obama
31. Who acts as an advisor to the president?
The Vice President
Dwight David Eisenhower
William Jefferson Clinton
Ford's Theater
32. How many electors are in the electoral college?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
New Mexico to California
Dwight David Eisenhower
538
33. During the civil war - the north's general was ___________.
No
1
Ulysses S. Grant
William Jefferson Clinton
34. When did we enter WWII?
December 7th - 1941
Polio
Ulysses S. Grant
James Madison
35. Who was the youngest elected president?
William Jefferson Clinton
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor - Hawaii
Jefferson Davis
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
36. What were fireside chats?
Money goes to kids when a parent dies
Jimmy Carter
Speeches given for hope
Richard Nixon
37. Which president created Yellowstone National Park and Yosemite?
The House of Representatives selects the President and the Senate selects the Vice President
Teddy Roosevelt
George Washington - John Adams - Thomas Jefferson - James Madison - James Monroe - and John Quincy Adams
George Washington
38. who pays for the costs of operating the white house?
Jimmy Carter
William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison
Conspiracy
The government
39. what president was also president of the constitutional convention?
George Washington
Monroe
The Vice President
Dwight David Eisenhower
40. How much of a retirement income per year does the president make (for life)?
Providing a backup place for military plane landing
$150000
Eleanor
Thomas Jefferson
41. How much money does the president earn per year?
Abigail
His 5th cousin
35 said He was guilty - but he needed 36
$400000
42. Who's son is Camp David named after?
Jefferson Davis
Dwight David Eisenhower
Conspiracy
William Henry Harrison
43. Who is considered 'the father of our country'?
William Jefferson Clinton
George Washington
8
A gun
44. Which president created the University of Virgina?
Monticello - Virginia
John Hinkley Jr.
Ulysses S. Grant
Thomas Jefferson
45. Which president had a stroke in his bathroom?
Harry S Truman
444
Woodrow Wilson
January 20th
46. After Abraham Lincoln was shot - He was carried across the street to ________________ where he dies when?
Abigail
Peterson House; the next morning
The north were comunists and the south were not
Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Pearl Harbor bombing
47. Who was the first President during WWII?
Abigail
In their state's capital
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
French and Indian War
48. What year was the Louisiana Territory bought?
Ronald Reagan
The number of people in Congress plus 3 for DC
1803
27
49. Paula Jones sued William Jefferson Clinton for _______.
Air Force One - Marine One - and limousines
Dwight David Eisenhower
Sexual harrassment
The House of Representatives selects the President and the Senate selects the Vice President
50. Which presidents were cousins?
Crime to print false or meliscious or scandalist stuff about the U.S. gov.
4th
James Madison
Teddy Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt