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U.S. Presidents Trivia
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Who had a 12 year affair with Gennifer Flowers?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
William Jefferson Clinton
Jimmy Carter
Universal health care
2. Who balanced the budget?
William Jefferson Clinton
Massachusetts
Civil War
When peace was made between Israel and Egypt at Camp David
3. Who pays for all personal entertainment and dinners not related to teh government business in the White House?
Democratic National Headquarters; Watergate
The banks were closed because everyone wanted their money at once
The president
November
4. Who won a nobel peace prize because of the camp david accords?
Barack Obama
Jimmy Carter
Yes
William Jefferson Clinton
5. Franklin Delano Roosevelt died a short time into his ____ term.
Monticello - Virginia
4th
William Jefferson Clinton
4
6. Which president created the University of Virgina?
You can collect money if you become disabled before retirement
Thomas Jefferson
Lee Harvey Oswald
William and Mary College
7. What was William Jefferson Clinton impeached for?
132
35
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Perjury and obstruction of justice
8. Which president started the two term tradition?
George Washington
John Adams
Iraq invaded Kuwait - and a coalition of naions push Iraq out of Kuwait
Richard Nixon
9. Why did the league of nations fail (what country wouldn't join)?
His 5th cousin
Bad
USA
Ronald Reagan
10. What was the Emancipation proclamation meant to do?
The three day battle in July in Gettysburg about slaves
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Ulysses S. Grant
Free the slaves in the south
11. What war did George Washington lead the army for?
Revolutionary War
Yes
5
He gets shot
12. When did we get involved and stop being involved with WWI? (month and year)
Dwight David Eisenhower
Gerald Ford
The Vice President
April 1917- November 1918
13. What college did George Washington go to?
None
Dwight David Eisenhower
Harry S Truman
Dwight David Eisenhower
14. What presidents (in order) died of natural causes?
Air Force One - Marine One - and limousines
The federal government guarentees your money at a bank
William Henry Harrison - Zachary Taylor - Warren Harding - and Franklin Delano Roosevelt
8
15. Why did we invade Iraq?
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16. Who supported manifest destiny?
Since birth
Ulysses S. Grant
Martha
James Polk
17. Jimmy Carter was the former governor of ____.
USA
George H. W. Bush
Georgia
Daniel Inouye
18. What was reconstruction?
Period after the Civil War and how we reunited
Thomas Jefferson
His 5th cousin
The north were comunists and the south were not
19. William Jefferson Clinton paid Paula Jones $____.
1 million
Since birth
He wanted a date Jodie Foster
Writters for Washington Post who figured out Richard Nixon's case
20. Which president was author of the Virginia Plan?
James Madison
James Polk
Teddy Roosevelt
John Wilkes Booth
21. What was a talent of John Wilkes Booth?
Acting
Getting out of the Great depression by hiring people - which would start a chain reaction
Worker can take three months off in a year to take care of sick relatives or him/herself and cannot be fired
A gun
22. The committee of the watergate scandal illegally entered the __________ (building) and spied on Nixon's opponent Who was in the _______ complex.
A gun
Conspiracy
Democratic National Headquarters; Watergate
444
23. What date was John Fitzgerald Kennedy killed on?
538
Sexual harrassment
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson; July 4th - 1826
November 22nd - 1963
24. How many Vice Presidents have moved up because the president resigned?
George Washington
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson; July 4th - 1826
1
Barack Obama
25. Who was president during the Great depression?
Jimmy Carter
1 million
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Conspiracy
26. In most states - what percent of the state's electoral votes does a candidate get if they win the popular vote?
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Monticello - Virginia
A group of representatives chosen by the voters to elect the President
100
27. What happens to John Wilkes Booth?
He gets shot
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
George H. W. Bush
OK to send home foregienors if they looked dangerous; also if we were in war with their country
28. How many states broke away during the civil war AT FIRST? how many total ending up breaking away?
8
4
Thus always to tyrants
7; 11
29. Who had the first death in office?
William Henry Harrison
The federal government guarentees your money at a bank
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Germany invaded Poland
30. Name the Founding Fathers plus the son in order...
Saving a picture of Washington during the war
The number of people in Congress plus 3 for DC
Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Pearl Harbor bombing
George Washington - John Adams - Thomas Jefferson - James Madison - James Monroe - and John Quincy Adams
31. Alien Acts
Abigail
OK to send home foregienors if they looked dangerous; also if we were in war with their country
Dwight David Eisenhower
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
32. Who was our president during the Korean war?
Teddy Roosevelt
Europe
Teddy Roosevelt
Dwight David Eisenhower
33. Which president was a 'rough rider' in the Spanish American War?
Teddy Roosevelt
Richard Nixon
Dolley
Alien and sedition acts
34. Who became president when Richard Nixon resigend because they were his VP?
When he jumped out of the balcony - his foot got stuck in the bunting and he fell onto stage
Gerald Ford
Ulysses S. Grant
15
35. Who takes over if the President is disabled or dies?
Forced the president to issue all military orders through general of the army who could not be removed without senate approval
Revolutionary War
The Vice President
William Jefferson Clinton
36. Where does the right to navigate teh seas without interference not apply?
East of Africa
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
270
37. How much of a retirement income per year does the president make (for life)?
John Adams
$150000
Universal health care
November 1863
38. Who was sent to a mental institution after Abraham Lincoln's death?
The president
Sic Semper Tyrannis - the south is avenged
Mary Todd-Lincoln
Barack Obama
39. What were the territories we gained in the Spanish American War? (ABC order with commas inbetween)
William Jefferson Clinton
The idea to own all the land from the pacific to the atlantic ocean; 1.2 million
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Guam - Midway Islands - Philippines - and Puerto Rico
40. What is the inauguration date?
Joe Biden
William Henry Harrison - Zachary Taylor - Warren Harding - and Franklin Delano Roosevelt
January 20th
Abigail
41. When did we enter WWII?
December 7th - 1941
The Gettysburg Address
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
1 million
42. What month is the election in?
November
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
Buffalo - New York
William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison
43. Who was the first VP?
Democratic National Headquarters; Watergate
5
John Adams
Germany - Hungary - Turkey
44. What were fireside chats?
The first Tuesday of Novermber that follows a monday in November
William Henry Harrison
William and Mary College
Speeches given for hope
45. who pays for the costs of operating the white house?
Teddy Roosevelt
The government
Yes
Abraham Lincoln
46. What was the persian gulf war/desert storm?
Iraq invaded Kuwait - and a coalition of naions push Iraq out of Kuwait
The north were comunists and the south were not
John Adams and John Quincy Adams
1814
47. Who is the current President Pro-Tempore of the Senate?
Daniel Inouye
South; north
If he serves 2 or less years of someone else's term plus 8 years on his own
Eleanor
48. What year was the White House burnt down?
1814
East of Africa
William McKinley
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
49. Who is the current secretary of state?
Hillary Clinton
Yes
Mount Vernon - Virginia
The idea to own all the land from the pacific to the atlantic ocean; 1.2 million
50. How many rooms in the white house?
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor - Hawaii
Acting
Thomas Jefferson
132