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U.S. Presidents Trivia
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Where do electors vote?
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2. What were John Adams's last words?
East of Africa
Jefferson still survives
England; sailors; products
William Jefferson Clinton
3. Who built the Interstate Highway System?
1803
Dwight David Eisenhower
John Wilkes Booth
George Washington - John Adams - Thomas Jefferson - James Madison - James Monroe - and John Quincy Adams
4. Where did Thomas Jefferson go to college?
John Quincy Adams - Rutherford B. Hayes - Benjamin Harrison - and George W. Bush
The US was prepared to send money and military support to countries that want to resist communism
William and Mary College
Providing a backup place for military plane landing
5. Who was president for the 9/11 attacks?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The north and the south were split up
George W. Bush
A support group of countries
6. What was the league of nations?
Getting out of the Great depression by hiring people - which would start a chain reaction
Club with all countries where problems were discussed peacefully
December 7th - 1941
William Henry Harrison - Zachary Taylor - Warren Harding - and Franklin Delano Roosevelt
7. Who ran the country when Woodrow Wilson couldn't?
Lyndon Johnson
4
Money goes to kids when a parent dies
His wife
8. How much of a retirement income per year does the president make (for life)?
Abraham Lincoln
$400000
Barack Obama
$150000
9. Name the Founding Fathers plus the son in order...
William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison
George Washington
He gets shot
George Washington - John Adams - Thomas Jefferson - James Madison - James Monroe - and John Quincy Adams
10. How many former vice presidents have become president?
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
His wife
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
14
11. Who ran the country when Woodrow Wilson couldn't?
4
His wife
Martha
John Adams
12. 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
He was shot on his way to a college reunion
Abigail
George H.W. Bush and George Bush
13. 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 ________.
None
Enola Gay
5
William Seward; $7.2 million; Alaska
14. Gerald Ford pardons _____________ for all crimes committed.
Thomas Jefferson
20
Guam - Midway Islands - Philippines - and Puerto Rico
Richard Nixon
15. Which president recognized Israel and traded with them and gave money and embassadors to them?
Universal health care
Conspiracy
Harry S Truman
Lee Harvey Oswald
16. Who was president for the Iran Hostage crisis?
Martha
Richard Nixon
Monticello - Virginia
Jimmy Carter
17. Why did we invade Iraq?
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18. Which president served the most terms?
132
James Madison
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Providing a backup place for military plane landing
19. How many presidents died of natural causes in office?
4
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
The three day battle in July in Gettysburg about slaves
132
20. Which president got Alzheimers and forgot being president?
Jimmy Carter
Ronald Reagan
Dallas - Texas
Period after the Civil War and how we reunited
21. Who is the current secretary of state?
Teddy Roosevelt
April 12th - 1861
Hillary Clinton
His wife
22. How many electoral votes does Florida have?
Massachusetts
27
35 said He was guilty - but he needed 36
The government
23. When did we enter WWII?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
1 million
December 7th - 1941
Lyndon Johnson
24. Franklin Delano Roosevelt's wife was related to him how?
4
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
September 1st - 1939
His 5th cousin
25. Franklin Delano Roosevelt died a short time into his ____ term.
4th
Democratic National Headquarters; Watergate
Ronald Reagan
Air Force One - Marine One - and limousines
26. In the War of 1812 - ________ (country) kept stealing our ________ (people) and _______ (items) in the middle of the ocean (separate with semicolon).
Andrew Jackson
Social Security
When we dropped food and supplies to people in West Berlin
England; sailors; products
27. Who was the youngest elected president?
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
22 - 24
Sexual harrassment
350
28. After Abraham Lincoln was shot - He was carried across the street to ________________ where he dies when?
Harry S Truman
The Korean War
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Peterson House; the next morning
29. Who was the only man to be president Who was not elected to either vp spot or the presidency?
Gerald Ford
Mary Todd-Lincoln
James Polk
John Boehner
30. Who attends diplomatic functions in place of the president?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The Vice President
Monroe
If he serves 2 or less years of someone else's term plus 8 years on his own
31. What two states do not use 'winner-takes all' for the electoral college?
Maine and Nebraska
Since birth
He fired the Secretary of War Staton
James Madison
32. Who balanced the budget?
He gets shot
Teddy Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Enola Gay
William Jefferson Clinton
33. Who's son married Nixon's daughter?
Dwight David Eisenhower
John Quicy Adams
Barack Obama
The Vice President
34. Where did Abraham Lincoln's assasination take place?
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35. When Harry S Truman was president during WWII - what two places in japan were bombed (abc order)?
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
William Jefferson Clinton
Ulysses S. Grant
The federal government guarentees your money at a bank
36. Who was embarrassed when they received the Nobel Peace Prize?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The first Tuesday of Novermber that follows a monday in November
Barack Obama
Air Force One - Marine One - and limousines
37. John Adams went to what college?
November 22nd - 1963
Medical insurance for all americans
East of Africa
Harvard
38. What was a talent of John Wilkes Booth?
Acting
William Jefferson Clinton
Ft. Sumter - South Carolina
A group of representatives chosen by the voters to elect the President
39. Why wasn't Richard Nixon thrown out of office?
He resigned before the impeachment trial
Perjury and obstruction of justice
John Boehner
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
40. what ended a couple of days before Abraham Lincoln's Assasination?
Abigail
George H. W. Bush
Civil War
USA
41. What war was Abraham Lincoln president during?
Thomas Jefferson
The Civil War
Woodrow Wilson
Andrew Jackson
42. Who was the first VP to move up on death of a president?
John Tyler
John Quincy Adams - Rutherford B. Hayes - Benjamin Harrison - and George W. Bush
25
0
43. What year was the White House burnt down?
1814
Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Pearl Harbor bombing
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
They were classmates in college
44. What date did the civil war begin?
James Madison
April 12th - 1861
When we dropped food and supplies to people in West Berlin
Woodrow Wilson
45. During the civil war - the south named itself _____.
Mary Todd-Lincoln
They were classmates in college
The Confederate States of America
William Jefferson Clinton
46. How many years younger was John Tyler's wife than him?
30
William Jefferson Clinton
Teddy Roosevelt
Jimmy Carter
47. Who was the first African American President?
270
Harry S Truman
He was shot
Barack Obama
48. Who was George Washington's wife?
4
Martha
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson; July 4th - 1826
Buffalo - New York
49. What is the family Medical Leave Act?
The number of people in Congress plus 3 for DC
Worker can take three months off in a year to take care of sick relatives or him/herself and cannot be fired
$400000
25
50. How many pounds was William Howard Taft?
England
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson; July 4th - 1826
350
Dolley