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U.S. Presidents Trivia
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Who said 'The only thing we have to fear is fear itself' at their 1st inaugural?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Buffalo - New York
Harry S Truman
George H. W. Bush
2. What is Camp David?
A 2nd home for the president
Kentucky; Log cabin
John Adams
England - France - Russia - USA
3. Who was the first VP to move up on death of a president?
Ft. Sumter - South Carolina
William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison
John Tyler
Jefferson Davis
4. How many kids did George Washington have?
0
538
James Madison
William McKinley
5. Who was Deep Throat?
Lee Harvey Oswald
Monroe
2
A person who knew the truth about Richard Nixon and told Woodward and Bernstein
6. What did the monroe doctrine say?
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7. What are disability benefits?
World War I
You can collect money if you become disabled before retirement
A support group of countries
Monticello - Virginia
8. What is FDIC (explaIn what it means - not what it stands for)?
None
The number of people in Congress plus 3 for DC
The federal government guarentees your money at a bank
Acting
9. Who attends diplomatic functions in place of the president?
George Washington
The three day battle in July in Gettysburg about slaves
John Adams and John Quincy Adams
The Vice President
10. 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 ________.
Electors
William Seward; $7.2 million; Alaska
Dolley
8
11. Which presidents won the nobel peace prize (in order)?
Universal health care
The north were comunists and the south were not
OK to send home foregienors if they looked dangerous; also if we were in war with their country
Teddy Roosevelt - Woodrow Wilson - Jimmy Carter - and Barack Obama
12. What was the nullification crisis?
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13. What was a popular film of John Fitzgerald Kennedy's assassination?
Andrew Jackson
Alien and sedition acts
Harry S Truman
Zapruder film
14. Who ran the country when Woodrow Wilson couldn't?
22 - 24
George Washington
His wife
Worker can take three months off in a year to take care of sick relatives or him/herself and cannot be fired
15. What to laws did Adams TRY to pass?
Alien and sedition acts
Georgia
No
Zapruder film
16. Which presidents were great grandfather and grandson?
John Tyler
Europe
William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison
James Madison
17. Which presient send Lewis and Clark on their journey?
Cuba wanted to overthrow Castrow and our military helped train them
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
January 1st - 1863
Thomas Jefferson
18. What did John Wilkes Booth say after he shot Lincoln?
Conspiracy
Sic Semper Tyrannis - the south is avenged
18
100
19. Who became president when Richard Nixon resigend because they were his VP?
If he serves 2 or less years of someone else's term plus 8 years on his own
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
Gerald Ford
Thus always to tyrants
20. Who burnt down the White House during a war?
Teddy Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt
England
The south
Teddy Roosevelt
21. What is the Electoral College?
George H.W. Bush and George Bush
Bad
Andrew Johnson
A group of representatives chosen by the voters to elect the President
22. What does 'Sic Semper Tyrranis' mean?
Buffalo - New York
They were classmates in college
Thus always to tyrants
Jimmy Carter
23. Who was president for the Bay of Pigs?
Teddy Roosevelt
Monroe
He wanted a date Jodie Foster
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
24. John Quicy Adams spent time In what continent?
John Hinkley Jr.
James Madison
Germany invaded Poland
Europe
25. Sedition acts
Crime to print false or meliscious or scandalist stuff about the U.S. gov.
The Vice President
The Confederate States of America
The Confederate States of America
26. Who was embarrassed when they received the Nobel Peace Prize?
He fired the Secretary of War Staton
$150000
Universal health care
Barack Obama
27. How long do you have to be a citizen for to be president?
Since birth
The three day battle in July in Gettysburg about slaves
World War I
George Washington
28. How many states broke away during the civil war AT FIRST? how many total ending up breaking away?
The president
7; 11
5
The House of Representatives selects the President and the Senate selects the Vice President
29. During the civil war - the south's general was ____________.
Ulysses S. Grant
French and Indian War
Robert E. Lee
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
30. Which president was a lawyer - very smart - an architect - a musician - and an inventor?
Jimmy Carter
The three day battle in July in Gettysburg about slaves
Thomas Jefferson
John Quincy Adams - Rutherford B. Hayes - Benjamin Harrison - and George W. Bush
31. John Quicy Adams spent time In what continent?
14
Europe
Jefferson Davis
John Adams
32. Where did the civil war begin?
The Gettysburg Address
He fired the Secretary of War Staton
Ft. Sumter - South Carolina
John Adams
33. Who was Abraham Lincoln married to?
Mary Todd-Lincoln
1
8
William Jefferson Clinton
34. What war did George Washington lead the army for?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Revolutionary War
444
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
35. James Madison's wife was ________ Madison.
The three day battle in July in Gettysburg about slaves
George Washington
Medical insurance for all americans
Dolley
36. What was the point of the Gettysburg Address (two things)?
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Honor people who died - make sure the country survies
Dwight David Eisenhower
William Seward; $7.2 million; Alaska
37. What are the people in the electoral college called?
Revolutionary War
The three day battle in July in Gettysburg about slaves
60; unconstitutional
Electors
38. Who was a Great General in war of 1812?
William and Mary College
Andrew Jackson
George W. Bush
Air Force One - Marine One - and limousines
39. what ended a couple of days before Abraham Lincoln's Assasination?
Lyndon Johnson
The Gettysburg Address
Civil War
5
40. Who was the only president to resign?
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
Gerald Ford
Richard Nixon
Thus always to tyrants
41. Who had an affair with Monica Lewinsky - a young intern at the White House?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Dwight David Eisenhower
Teddy Roosevelt
William Jefferson Clinton
42. Which president was obnoxious and disliked?
John Adams
Gerald Ford
OK to send home foregienors if they looked dangerous; also if we were in war with their country
Dental; medical
43. Where was George Washington born?
Alien and sedition acts
Mount Vernon - Virginia
Maine and Nebraska
Teddy Roosevelt
44. Who was president for the nullification crisis?
The Gettysburg Address
East of Africa
A person who knew the truth about Richard Nixon and told Woodward and Bernstein
Andrew Jackson
45. When did we enter WWII?
William Jefferson Clinton
Harry S Truman
December 7th - 1941
Dwight David Eisenhower
46. What president made the emancipation proclamtion?
September 1st - 1939
Abraham Lincoln
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Sexual harrassment
47. Who were Woodward and Bernstein?
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48. What state is Camp David in?
Maryland
Since birth
Teddy Roosevelt - Woodrow Wilson - Jimmy Carter - and Barack Obama
His wife
49. Who pays for all personal entertainment and dinners not related to teh government business in the White House?
The president
When peace was made between Israel and Egypt at Camp David
No
The banks were closed because everyone wanted their money at once
50. What was the nullification crisis?
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