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U.S. Presidents Trivia
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. how many years is a score?
Teddy Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Providing a backup place for military plane landing
20
2. Why did the person who tried to assassinate Ronald Reagan do it?
Lee Harvey Oswald
He wanted a date Jodie Foster
4
They were classmates in college
3. How many former vice presidents have become president?
Hillary Clinton
Abraham Lincoln
14
William Jefferson Clinton
4. What did the Interstate Highway System also do besides provide a road for driving?
Forced the president to issue all military orders through general of the army who could not be removed without senate approval
Andrew Johnson
James Madison
Providing a backup place for military plane landing
5. What president did the Berlin airlift?
James Madison
Air Force One - Marine One - and limousines
Harry S Truman
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor - Hawaii
6. What is FDIC (explaIn what it means - not what it stands for)?
William Jefferson Clinton
The Civil War
The Confederate States of America
The federal government guarentees your money at a bank
7. The ______ was invented when William McKinley was killed - and it could have saved him.
Jefferson Davis
Money goes to kids when a parent dies
X-ray
Saving a picture of Washington during the war
8. Do we vote directly for the president?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
1
No
Buffalo - New York
9. Where does the right to navigate teh seas without interference not apply?
Bad
George Washington - John Adams - Thomas Jefferson - James Madison - James Monroe - and John Quincy Adams
East of Africa
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor - Hawaii
10. Who is the current speaker of the House?
Woodrow Wilson
Barack Obama
John Boehner
George W. Bush
11. Who was sent to a mental institution after Abraham Lincoln's death?
Dallas - Texas
Teddy Roosevelt
England
Mary Todd-Lincoln
12. Can the amount of money a president earns be increased/decreased during someone's term of office?
Richard Nixon
USA
No
132
13. Lyndon Johnson got lots of bills passed involving ______.
Civil rights
South; north
Richard Nixon
Ulysses S. Grant
14. The person who killed John Fitzgerald Kennedy is thought to have killed him in a _______ - or not alone.
Worker can take three months off in a year to take care of sick relatives or him/herself and cannot be fired
Conspiracy
Jimmy Carter
Lyndon Johnson
15. Where was William McKinley killed?
Thus always to tyrants
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Buffalo - New York
Ford's Theater
16. John Adams had a successful marriage with ______ (first name).
444
Abigail
Universal health care
Jimmy Carter
17. John Quicy Adams spent time In what continent?
Europe
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
The idea to own all the land from the pacific to the atlantic ocean; 1.2 million
Worker can take three months off in a year to take care of sick relatives or him/herself and cannot be fired
18. How was James Garfield killed?
He was shot on his way to a college reunion
George H. W. Bush
Ronald Reagan
January 1st - 1863
19. Who was president for the nullification crisis?
$150000
Andrew Jackson
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
270
20. What date did the civil war begin?
April 12th - 1861
The Confederate States of America
Club with all countries where problems were discussed peacefully
Thomas Jefferson
21. What is manifest destiny? how many square miles was it?
George Washington
The idea to own all the land from the pacific to the atlantic ocean; 1.2 million
Democratic National Headquarters; Watergate
Teddy Roosevelt
22. What was the Bay of Pigs?
Cuba wanted to overthrow Castrow and our military helped train them
Acting
Teddy Roosevelt
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.
23. What is the family Medical Leave Act?
They were classmates in college
Dwight David Eisenhower
Worker can take three months off in a year to take care of sick relatives or him/herself and cannot be fired
He fired the Secretary of War Staton
24. Who introduced disability benefits?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
15
George H.W. Bush and George Bush
Barack Obama
25. Jimmy Carter was the former governor of ____.
Georgia
William Jefferson Clinton
Barack Obama
He was shot on his way to a college reunion
26. Who created the Family Medical Leave Act?
Electors
William Henry Harrison
William Jefferson Clinton
South; north
27. How many pounds was William Howard Taft?
27
Monroe
350
Teddy Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt
28. What was Lincoln's most famous speech?
The Gettysburg Address
The government
Lee Harvey Oswald
John Quicy Adams
29. Who was FDR's VP Who was president for WWII?
When we dropped food and supplies to people in West Berlin
April 12th - 1861
Richard Nixon
Harry S Truman
30. How many terms is a president alowed to serve?
22 - 24
2
The north were comunists and the south were not
John Wilkes Booth
31. Who is the current secretary of state?
Hillary Clinton
George Washington
John Quicy Adams
USA
32. Where does the number of electors in the electoral college come from?
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
Forced the president to issue all military orders through general of the army who could not be removed without senate approval
The number of people in Congress plus 3 for DC
You can collect money if you become disabled before retirement
33. What was a talent of John Wilkes Booth?
7; 11
George Washington
Acting
January 1st - 1863
34. What month and day do we vote for the president?
Harvard
The first Tuesday of Novermber that follows a monday in November
Providing a backup place for military plane landing
Dental; medical
35. Where did the civil war begin?
Ft. Sumter - South Carolina
Monticello - Virginia
Yes
Ronald Reagan
36. Who balanced the budget?
William Jefferson Clinton
Gerald Ford
Robert E. Lee
Andrew Jackson
37. What was the camp david accords?
When peace was made between Israel and Egypt at Camp David
Richard Nixon
French and Indian War
1
38. What is the address of the white house?
OK to send home foregienors if they looked dangerous; also if we were in war with their country
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Dallas - Texas
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
39. Why did we invade Iraq?
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40. Who had a 12 year affair with Gennifer Flowers?
William Jefferson Clinton
Since birth
South; north
East of Africa
41. Who was president during the Great depression?
Abraham Lincoln
Martha
OK to send home foregienors if they looked dangerous; also if we were in war with their country
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
42. Which presidents were great grandfather and grandson?
$150000
James Madison
William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison
The idea to own all the land from the pacific to the atlantic ocean; 1.2 million
43. What transportation does the president get?
Air Force One - Marine One - and limousines
4
1 million
None
44. which president was former head of CIA?
William and Mary College
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor - Hawaii
Dwight David Eisenhower
George H. W. Bush
45. Franklin Delano Roosevelt got his middle name because his _____'s favorite relative was de la Noye
Free the slaves in the south
Mom
Mount Vernon - Virginia
When peace was made between Israel and Egypt at Camp David
46. Who was the first VP to move up on death of a president?
Daniel Inouye
John Tyler
8
The Civil War
47. How many years is a presidential term?
George W. Bush
4
Club with all countries where problems were discussed peacefully
The federal government guarentees your money at a bank
48. What is NATO (not what it stands for - what it is)?
A support group of countries
Gerald Ford
World War I
Woodrow Wilson
49. Who had many affairs during their presidency but claimed not to?
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson; July 4th - 1826
William Jefferson Clinton
French and Indian War
The Vice President
50. Who became president when Richard Nixon resigend because they were his VP?
1 million
444
Gerald Ford
Franklin Delano Roosevelt