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U.S. Presidents Trivia
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1. Which president recognized Israel and traded with them and gave money and embassadors to them?
Free the slaves in the south
Harry S Truman
1803
England; sailors; products
2. Who supported manifest destiny?
Barack Obama
James Polk
270
The Korean War
3. Who went to the Supreme court and tried to increase it to fifteen judges - but was told no?
Alien and sedition acts
Mom
James Madison
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
4. Who was FDR's VP Who was president for WWII?
Harry S Truman
8
The Gettysburg Address
Jimmy Carter
5. Which president was a great general - a leader - honest - and trustworth?
$400000
George Washington
Conspiracy
Crime to print false or meliscious or scandalist stuff about the U.S. gov.
6. Which president made the panama canal?
Germany was attacking ships
The north and the south were split up
Dental; medical
Teddy Roosevelt
7. Who said 'A date that will live in infamy'? What were they talking about (separate with semicolon)?
Harvard
Barack Obama
William Howard Taft
Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Pearl Harbor bombing
8. Who was our president when we kille Osama bin Laden?
New Mexico to California
Barack Obama
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
John Adams and John Quincy Adams
9. Who won a nobel peace prize because of the camp david accords?
Jimmy Carter
0
Perjury and obstruction of justice
James Polk
10. What weapon was used to kill Lincoln?
A gun
538
England
John Tyler
11. ______ years later - the Tenure of Office act was gotten rid of by the Supreme court because it was ________.
Thomas Jefferson
60; unconstitutional
Robert E. Lee
John Adams
12. Which president started the two term tradition?
5
The Vice President
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.
George Washington
13. How many presidents died in office?
Sexual harrassment
His 5th cousin
8
England
14. Who was the oldest elected president (age 73 at 2nd term)?
1 million
Ronald Reagan
Civil rights
The Gettysburg Address
15. Who moved up when John Fitzgerald Kennedy died because He was his VP?
Harry S Truman
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Lyndon Johnson
George Washington - John Adams - Thomas Jefferson - James Madison - James Monroe - and John Quincy Adams
16. what disease did Franklin Delano Roosevelt have?
Polio
Kentucky; Log cabin
The first Tuesday of Novermber that follows a monday in November
World War I
17. Who acts as an advisor to the president?
Conspiracy
John Adams
Worker can take three months off in a year to take care of sick relatives or him/herself and cannot be fired
The Vice President
18. How many electors are in the electoral college?
April 1917- November 1918
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
538
Universal health care
19. What two states do not use 'winner-takes all' for the electoral college?
15 million
444
Maine and Nebraska
Monticello - Virginia
20. Where was Abraham Lincoln born? What kind of house did he live in?
Kentucky; Log cabin
Polio
Barack Obama
His wife
21. The president get ____ care and _____ care for free.
Dental; medical
The banks were closed because everyone wanted their money at once
Conspiracy
John Wilkes Booth
22. When Harry S Truman was president during WWII - what two places in japan were bombed (abc order)?
Harry S Truman
Jefferson Davis
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
George Washington
23. Which president was former ambassador to China?
Eleanor
He was shot
George H. W. Bush
Germany invaded Poland
24. During the civil war - the south's general was ____________.
Robert E. Lee
Speeches given for hope
The north and the south were split up
Cuba wanted to overthrow Castrow and our military helped train them
25. Which president was a 'rough rider' in the Spanish American War?
December 7th - 1941
The Vice President
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Teddy Roosevelt
26. How much of a retirement income per year does the president make (for life)?
England - France - Russia - USA
Guam - Midway Islands - Philippines - and Puerto Rico
$150000
Dwight David Eisenhower
27. Which president was obnoxious and disliked?
John Adams
Guam - Midway Islands - Philippines - and Puerto Rico
Sic Semper Tyrannis - the south is avenged
French and Indian War
28. What is the Truman Doctrine?
Civil rights
Forced the president to issue all military orders through general of the army who could not be removed without senate approval
The US was prepared to send money and military support to countries that want to resist communism
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
29. Who did we help in the Vietnam war and the korean war?
444
Sexual harrassment
The south
Honor people who died - make sure the country survies
30. Who had the shortest presidency?
William Henry Harrison
Andrew Jackson
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Hillary Clinton
31. Who had the shortest presidency?
Worker can take three months off in a year to take care of sick relatives or him/herself and cannot be fired
OK to send home foregienors if they looked dangerous; also if we were in war with their country
Dwight David Eisenhower
William Henry Harrison
32. What is the Electoral College?
2
A group of representatives chosen by the voters to elect the President
He was shot
John Hinkley Jr.
33. Who was embarrassed when they received the Nobel Peace Prize?
Dallas - Texas
Barack Obama
30
James Madison
34. How can a president serve up to ten years?
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35. Who was the only catholic president?
When he jumped out of the balcony - his foot got stuck in the bunting and he fell onto stage
Daniel Inouye
Harry S Truman
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
36. Who was FDR's VP Who was president for WWII?
Dallas - Texas
4th
Harry S Truman
Dolley
37. What to laws did Adams TRY to pass?
Alien and sedition acts
USA
William Jefferson Clinton
Maine and Nebraska
38. What state was John Adams from?
Massachusetts
George H. W. Bush
The fourteen points
Speeches given for hope
39. Who was William McKinley's VP that moved up when He was killed?
William Jefferson Clinton
Zapruder film
Teddy Roosevelt
Crime to print false or meliscious or scandalist stuff about the U.S. gov.
40. This president helped write the federalist papers.
James Madison
George Washington
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Monroe
41. Who was George Washington's wife?
South; north
The US was prepared to send money and military support to countries that want to resist communism
Martha
Teddy Roosevelt
42. What was a popular film of John Fitzgerald Kennedy's assassination?
Zapruder film
Harry S Truman
John Adams
George W. Bush
43. Which president was a lawyer - very smart - an architect - a musician - and an inventor?
Andrew Jackson
The banks were closed because everyone wanted their money at once
Thomas Jefferson
Teddy Roosevelt
44. Who introduced surviver benefits?
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson; July 4th - 1826
George H. W. Bush
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Dwight David Eisenhower
45. What does NATO stand for?
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
A person who knew the truth about Richard Nixon and told Woodward and Bernstein
England; sailors; products
They were classmates in college
46. Who created the Family Medical Leave Act?
Barack Obama
Mount Vernon - Virginia
William Jefferson Clinton
England; sailors; products
47. In the War of 1812 - ________ (country) kept stealing our ________ (people) and _______ (items) in the middle of the ocean (separate with semicolon).
4
England; sailors; products
Barack Obama
John Quincy Adams - Rutherford B. Hayes - Benjamin Harrison - and George W. Bush
48. What month and day do we vote for the president?
Kentucky; Log cabin
John Quincy Adams - Rutherford B. Hayes - Benjamin Harrison - and George W. Bush
George H. W. Bush
The first Tuesday of Novermber that follows a monday in November
49. Who was the youngest elected president?
He fired the Secretary of War Staton
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Andrew Jackson
Lyndon Johnson
50. Who is the current Vice President?
William Jefferson Clinton
Joe Biden
Thomas Jefferson
The number of people in Congress plus 3 for DC