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U.S. Presidents Trivia
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Who were the first presidents to be father and son?
The north were comunists and the south were not
John Adams and John Quincy Adams
William Howard Taft
Europe
2. Name the two presidents (ABC order by last name - write first and last name) who died on the same day - and the date they died (separate with semi colon)
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson; July 4th - 1826
James Polk
A gun
East of Africa
3. Who was FDR's VP Who was president for WWII?
He fired the Secretary of War Staton
Guam - Midway Islands - Philippines - and Puerto Rico
Harry S Truman
Teddy Roosevelt
4. Who acts as an advisor to the president?
The Vice President
$150000
The president could not fire and federal official who had gotten their job with Senate approval
Teddy Roosevelt
5. What was the Emancipation proclamation meant to do?
John Tyler
Free the slaves in the south
The US was prepared to send money and military support to countries that want to resist communism
Woodrow Wilson
6. How much of a retirement income per year does the president make (for life)?
Mom
The federal government guarentees your money at a bank
Electors
$150000
7. Who attempted to assassinate Ronald Reagan?
John Hinkley Jr.
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
The White House
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
8. Who is the current Vice President?
Joe Biden
$150000
The government
Sic Semper Tyrannis - the south is avenged
9. What is NATO (not what it stands for - what it is)?
A support group of countries
Ford's Theater
A group of representatives chosen by the voters to elect the President
15
10. Which president created the University of Virgina?
Thomas Jefferson
Mary Todd-Lincoln
Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Pearl Harbor bombing
Conspiracy
11. Who attempted to assassinate Ronald Reagan?
Germany was attacking ships
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
John Hinkley Jr.
Teddy Roosevelt
12. How tall was Abraham Lincoln?
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13. Who was Deep Throat?
X-ray
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Monticello - Virginia
A person who knew the truth about Richard Nixon and told Woodward and Bernstein
14. What war was Abraham Lincoln president during?
William Jefferson Clinton
Abraham Lincoln
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
The Civil War
15. Who was the only man to be president Who was not elected to either vp spot or the presidency?
4
John Boehner
Jimmy Carter
Gerald Ford
16. Who attends diplomatic functions in place of the president?
James Polk
South; north
The Vice President
Cuba wanted to overthrow Castrow and our military helped train them
17. Which president made the panama canal?
Teddy Roosevelt
Polio
George H.W. Bush and George Bush
John Adams
18. John Adams went to what college?
Harvard
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.
He was shot on his way to a college reunion
1814
19. Which presidents were cousins?
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Teddy Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Dolley
John Wilkes Booth
20. This president helped write the federalist papers.
Maine and Nebraska
Dwight David Eisenhower
William Jefferson Clinton
James Madison
21. How many kids did George Washington have?
Mary Todd-Lincoln
27
0
4
22. Lyndon Johnson got lots of bills passed involving ______.
French and Indian War
Daniel Inouye
Civil rights
Lyndon Johnson
23. Who is the current speaker of the House?
John Hinkley Jr.
6'4'
John Boehner
Mount Vernon - Virginia
24. Who had an affair with Monica Lewinsky - a young intern at the White House?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Gerald Ford
William Jefferson Clinton
Ronald Reagan
25. Who was president during the War of 1812 against England?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Lyndon Johnson
James Madison
26. What was the New Deal?
Getting out of the Great depression by hiring people - which would start a chain reaction
Maryland
John Tyler
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
27. How did William McKinley die?
Joe Biden
25
He was shot
George Washington
28. What was the Berlin Airlift?
Civil rights
When we dropped food and supplies to people in West Berlin
Hillary Clinton
Ford's Theater
29. Which president was a great general - a leader - honest - and trustworth?
George H. W. Bush
George Washington
John Quicy Adams
He wanted a date Jodie Foster
30. How many pounds was William Howard Taft?
William Jefferson Clinton
Germany - Hungary - Turkey
350
You can collect money if you become disabled before retirement
31. What was the persian gulf war/desert storm?
Iraq invaded Kuwait - and a coalition of naions push Iraq out of Kuwait
January 20th
Kentucky; Log cabin
100
32. Who said 'The only thing we have to fear is fear itself' at their 1st inaugural?
Money goes to kids when a parent dies
OK to send home foregienors if they looked dangerous; also if we were in war with their country
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
60; unconstitutional
33. Who is considered 'the father of our country'?
Barack Obama
George Washington
Andrew Jackson
They were classmates in college
34. During the civil war - the ________ wanted slaves and the ________ did not.
South; north
The first Tuesday of Novermber that follows a monday in November
Woodrow Wilson
Electors
35. Who went to the Supreme court and tried to increase it to fifteen judges - but was told no?
Conspiracy
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
6'4'
Europe
36. James Monroe created the ________ Doctrine
Monroe
Electors
Iraq invaded Kuwait - and a coalition of naions push Iraq out of Kuwait
Barack Obama
37. Who was the fpresident during WWI?
14
$150000
Universal health care
Woodrow Wilson
38. Who balanced the budget?
William Henry Harrison - Zachary Taylor - Warren Harding - and Franklin Delano Roosevelt
William Jefferson Clinton
The House of Representatives selects the President and the Senate selects the Vice President
35
39. Do we vote directly for the president?
No
England; sailors; products
Self
William Henry Harrison
40. Who did the Banking Holiday?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Abigail
18
Barack Obama
41. Who was the commander in charge of Europe afor the Allies in WWII?
A 2nd home for the president
Abraham Lincoln
Dwight David Eisenhower
January 1st - 1863
42. Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant knew eachother because _________.
The White House
They were classmates in college
Lyndon Johnson
Buffalo - New York
43. What is the oldest you can be to get surviver benefits?
John Adams
Crime to print false or meliscious or scandalist stuff about the U.S. gov.
18
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
44. There was a _________ - or a group of people - who helped John Wilkes Booth kill Lincoln and also planned to kill the VP and Secretary.
John Adams
22 - 24
Social Security
Conspiracy
45. What is the address of the white house?
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Massachusetts
Woodrow Wilson
January 20th
46. What are disability benefits?
William Seward; $7.2 million; Alaska
William Henry Harrison
You can collect money if you become disabled before retirement
The north and the south were split up
47. 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 ________.
George W. Bush
The fourteen points
Perjury and obstruction of justice
Acting
48. Who were the second presidents to be father and son?
George H.W. Bush and George Bush
Enola Gay
Europe
Monroe
49. Who was president for the nullification crisis?
Ulysses S. Grant
Andrew Jackson
James Madison
No
50. What month and year was the Gettysburg Address said?
November 1863
Dolley
The president could not fire and federal official who had gotten their job with Senate approval
Jimmy Carter