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U.S. Presidents Trivia
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1. What month and day do we vote for the president?
The first Tuesday of Novermber that follows a monday in November
George H. W. Bush
The Civil War
1
2. What is the command of army act?
18
When peace was made between Israel and Egypt at Camp David
Forced the president to issue all military orders through general of the army who could not be removed without senate approval
Conspiracy
3. What to laws did Adams TRY to pass?
Worker can take three months off in a year to take care of sick relatives or him/herself and cannot be fired
Alien and sedition acts
Mount Vernon - Virginia
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
4. How much of a retirement income per year does the president make (for life)?
Woodrow Wilson
We thought there were weapons of mass destruction - but there weren't
Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Pearl Harbor bombing
$150000
5. Who is the current President Pro-Tempore of the Senate?
Barack Obama
Jefferson Davis
Dallas - Texas
Daniel Inouye
6. Which president was the youngest to serve?
The first Tuesday of Novermber that follows a monday in November
January 20th
USA
Teddy Roosevelt
7. James Madison's wife is famous for...
1 million
15
Monroe
Saving a picture of Washington during the war
8. How many presidents died in office?
John Quicy Adams
$150000
Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Pearl Harbor bombing
8
9. Who became president when Richard Nixon resigend because they were his VP?
South; north
Air Force One - Marine One - and limousines
Gerald Ford
John Boehner
10. What were the sides for the Korean war and the Vietnam war?
The Gettysburg Address
Jefferson Davis
The north were comunists and the south were not
The US was prepared to send money and military support to countries that want to resist communism
11. What does NATO stand for?
French and Indian War
Joe Biden
444
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
12. What are the people in the electoral college called?
Thomas Jefferson
Electors
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
No
13. Which president got Alzheimers and forgot being president?
Ronald Reagan
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
William Jefferson Clinton
Ulysses S. Grant
14. Who was on the bad side for WWI (abc order)?
Mary Todd-Lincoln
William Jefferson Clinton
George Washington
Germany - Hungary - Turkey
15. Where does the president live for free?
The US was prepared to send money and military support to countries that want to resist communism
Teddy Roosevelt
The White House
John Boehner
16. Who was the youngest elected president?
George W. Bush
OK to send home foregienors if they looked dangerous; also if we were in war with their country
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Robert E. Lee
17. When was the Emancipation proclamation?
January 1st - 1863
December 7th - 1941
John Adams
He gets shot
18. Who said 'The only thing we have to fear is fear itself' at their 1st inaugural?
Jefferson Davis
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The federal government guarentees your money at a bank
Civil War
19. What are surviver benefits?
Ford's Theater
George Washington
Money goes to kids when a parent dies
The White House
20. Who was the first president not to win the popular vote and to become president?
John Quicy Adams
He wanted a date Jodie Foster
15 million
Ulysses S. Grant
21. What are disability benefits?
Teddy Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
You can collect money if you become disabled before retirement
100
22. Where does the right to navigate teh seas without interference not apply?
X-ray
East of Africa
November
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson; July 4th - 1826
23. Where was Thomas Jefferson born?
George H. W. Bush
The government
Monticello - Virginia
1
24. Which president helped create the Library of Congress when he sells and donates 6000 books?
Thomas Jefferson
Guam - Midway Islands - Philippines - and Puerto Rico
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.
Woodrow Wilson
25. Who was president during the Great depression?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Teddy Roosevelt
He wanted a date Jodie Foster
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor - Hawaii
26. Where did the civil war begin?
December 7th - 1941
350
Ft. Sumter - South Carolina
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
27. What is manifest destiny? how many square miles was it?
The idea to own all the land from the pacific to the atlantic ocean; 1.2 million
Dallas - Texas
Electors
Universal health care
28. What was the camp david accords?
4
When peace was made between Israel and Egypt at Camp David
In their state's capital
Massachusetts
29. Which president got Alzheimers and forgot being president?
Ronald Reagan
$400000
X-ray
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
30. What month and day do we vote for the president?
Thomas Jefferson
OK to send home foregienors if they looked dangerous; also if we were in war with their country
0
The first Tuesday of Novermber that follows a monday in November
31. What state is Camp David in?
444
Maryland
He was shot
Ft. Sumter - South Carolina
32. Who had many affairs during their presidency but claimed not to?
The idea to own all the land from the pacific to the atlantic ocean; 1.2 million
The president
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
William Jefferson Clinton
33. Who was the first President during WWII?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
350
A support group of countries
Hillary Clinton
34. Who was the first VP to move up on death of a president?
John Tyler
Air Force One - Marine One - and limousines
Alien and sedition acts
Mary Todd-Lincoln
35. ______ years later - the Tenure of Office act was gotten rid of by the Supreme court because it was ________.
A gun
60; unconstitutional
If he serves 2 or less years of someone else's term plus 8 years on his own
When he jumped out of the balcony - his foot got stuck in the bunting and he fell onto stage
36. What was the Tenure of Office Act/
Maine and Nebraska
The president could not fire and federal official who had gotten their job with Senate approval
8
November 22nd - 1963
37. Who did the Banking Holiday?
The Civil War
William Jefferson Clinton
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Money goes to kids when a parent dies
38. Who was the only president to get all the electoral votes?
William Henry Harrison
George Washington
Teddy Roosevelt - Woodrow Wilson - Jimmy Carter - and Barack Obama
William Henry Harrison
39. What was the persian gulf war/desert storm?
Iraq invaded Kuwait - and a coalition of naions push Iraq out of Kuwait
William Jefferson Clinton
4
We thought there were weapons of mass destruction - but there weren't
40. Where did the civil war begin?
Democratic National Headquarters; Watergate
Ft. Sumter - South Carolina
Cuba wanted to overthrow Castrow and our military helped train them
Sic Semper Tyrannis - the south is avenged
41. Who was sent to a mental institution after Abraham Lincoln's death?
Thomas Jefferson
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Mary Todd-Lincoln
Woodrow Wilson
42. The person who killed John Fitzgerald Kennedy is thought to have killed him in a _______ - or not alone.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
15 million
Conspiracy
Honor people who died - make sure the country survies
43. Who built the Interstate Highway System?
John Tyler
You can collect money if you become disabled before retirement
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Dwight David Eisenhower
44. Who was president for the nullification crisis?
Woodrow Wilson
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor - Hawaii
Andrew Jackson
He was shot on his way to a college reunion
45. Why did the league of nations fail (what country wouldn't join)?
April 1917- November 1918
USA
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
46. What was the most terms served by a president?
Civil War
Mary Todd-Lincoln
Jimmy Carter
4
47. How much was the Louisiana Territory when it was purchased?
15 million
Getting out of the Great depression by hiring people - which would start a chain reaction
1914-1918
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
48. Which president was former ambassador to China?
George H. W. Bush
270
Kentucky; Log cabin
Europe
49. Who was our president during the Korean war?
Bad
Guam - Midway Islands - Philippines - and Puerto Rico
6'4'
Dwight David Eisenhower
50. What is the command of army act?
England - France - Russia - USA
Forced the president to issue all military orders through general of the army who could not be removed without senate approval
Georgia
Monroe