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U.S. Presidents Trivia
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Who acts as an advisor to the president?
The Vice President
England - France - Russia - USA
22 - 24
Medical insurance for all americans
2. Alien Acts
1803
Teddy Roosevelt
When peace was made between Israel and Egypt at Camp David
OK to send home foregienors if they looked dangerous; also if we were in war with their country
3. Who was Abraham Lincoln married to?
A gun
His wife
Eleanor
Mary Todd-Lincoln
4. What presidents (in order) died of natural causes?
James Madison
Zapruder film
William Henry Harrison - Zachary Taylor - Warren Harding - and Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Civil rights
5. Who was president for the Cuban Missile Crisis?
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Civil War
William Jefferson Clinton
John Hinkley Jr.
6. Franklin Delano Roosevelt's wife was related to him how?
His 5th cousin
A gun
England; sailors; products
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
7. What year was the Louisiana Territory bought?
Teddy Roosevelt
The Civil War
Iraq invaded Kuwait - and a coalition of naions push Iraq out of Kuwait
1803
8. Who passed Universal health care?
Barack Obama
Teddy Roosevelt
William Jefferson Clinton
132
9. When Harry S Truman was president during WWII - what two places in japan were bombed (abc order)?
Money goes to kids when a parent dies
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
April 12th - 1861
The White House
10. Who was the first VP to move up on death of a president?
John Tyler
Period after the Civil War and how we reunited
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
1814
11. How was James Garfield killed?
He was shot on his way to a college reunion
538
Ford's Theater
The number of people in Congress plus 3 for DC
12. This president helped write the federalist papers.
132
James Madison
January 1st - 1863
Europe
13. Where was George Washington born?
0
Mount Vernon - Virginia
The US was prepared to send money and military support to countries that want to resist communism
Conspiracy
14. who pays for the costs of operating the white house?
Harvard
Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Pearl Harbor bombing
2
The government
15. How long do you have to be a citizen for to be president?
John Adams and John Quincy Adams
Since birth
James Madison
Eleanor
16. Who did fireside chats?
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.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
15 million
Jefferson Davis
17. Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant knew eachother because _________.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
They were classmates in college
Abraham Lincoln
18. Which president was author of the Virginia Plan?
Since birth
James Madison
1914-1918
He was shot on his way to a college reunion
19. Congress passed 2 laws designed to limit __________'s (a president) power .
Andrew Johnson
James Madison
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
X-ray
20. Who were Woodward and Bernstein?
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21. What war was George Washington in the military for?
French and Indian War
Lee Harvey Oswald
William Howard Taft
Harry S Truman
22. Why wasn't Andrew Johnson removed from office when He was impeached?
35
Barack Obama
35 said He was guilty - but he needed 36
22 - 24
23. Why did WWI happen?
Germany was attacking ships
Teddy Roosevelt
8
When we dropped food and supplies to people in West Berlin
24. When did we enter WWII?
He fired the Secretary of War Staton
Dwight David Eisenhower
20
December 7th - 1941
25. Can the amount of money a president earns be increased/decreased during someone's term of office?
Thus always to tyrants
Ford's Theater
Club with all countries where problems were discussed peacefully
No
26. what ended a couple of days before Abraham Lincoln's Assasination?
In their state's capital
He fired the Secretary of War Staton
Civil War
14
27. What is the inauguration date?
George Washington
Mom
4
January 20th
28. How many rooms in the white house?
Mary Todd-Lincoln
132
George H.W. Bush and George Bush
Buffalo - New York
29. 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)
Harry S Truman
A person who knew the truth about Richard Nixon and told Woodward and Bernstein
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson; July 4th - 1826
Harry S Truman
30. Who introduced disability benefits?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
William and Mary College
John Adams
Dwight David Eisenhower
31. Manifest Destiny was to have all the land from __________ to ___________ (east to west)
George Washington
If he serves 2 or less years of someone else's term plus 8 years on his own
New Mexico to California
4
32. Who was the first President during WWII?
England
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Lee Harvey Oswald
Dolley
33. Which president recognized Israel and traded with them and gave money and embassadors to them?
Perjury and obstruction of justice
John Adams
Harry S Truman
World War I
34. Who is the current speaker of the House?
John Boehner
William Jefferson Clinton
England; sailors; products
Monroe
35. What are surviver benefits?
Dental; medical
Thomas Jefferson
John Adams
Money goes to kids when a parent dies
36. Who balanced the budget?
4
35
538
William Jefferson Clinton
37. Which president started the two term tradition?
George Washington
William Henry Harrison
John Quicy Adams
Hillary Clinton
38. 'Speak softley and carry a big stick' was a quote of who?
John Tyler
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Teddy Roosevelt
1914-1918
39. In most states - what percent of the state's electoral votes does a candidate get if they win the popular vote?
East of Africa
100
George Washington
14
40. Who was our president during the Vietnam War?
Germany was attacking ships
Jimmy Carter
The president
Lyndon Johnson
41. Where did the civil war begin?
Mary Todd-Lincoln
Ft. Sumter - South Carolina
His 5th cousin
The banks were closed because everyone wanted their money at once
42. Who was president for the Iran Hostage crisis?
Club with all countries where problems were discussed peacefully
A 2nd home for the president
Jefferson Davis
Jimmy Carter
43. What is Camp David?
Alien and sedition acts
Social Security
A 2nd home for the president
John Tyler
44. Name the Founding Fathers plus the son in order...
4th
William Jefferson Clinton
Ford's Theater
George Washington - John Adams - Thomas Jefferson - James Madison - James Monroe - and John Quincy Adams
45. ______ years later - the Tenure of Office act was gotten rid of by the Supreme court because it was ________.
The US was prepared to send money and military support to countries that want to resist communism
0
Civil rights
60; unconstitutional
46. Who was embarrassed when they received the Nobel Peace Prize?
22 - 24
The banks were closed because everyone wanted their money at once
Medical insurance for all americans
Barack Obama
47. Who was president for the persian gulf war?
Europe
Germany was attacking ships
Richard Nixon
George H. W. Bush
48. What law that Barack Obama passed might be unconstitutional and is being looked at by the supreme court now?
Universal health care
Teddy Roosevelt
Harvard
14
49. How tall was Abraham Lincoln?
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50. How many states broke away during the civil war AT FIRST? how many total ending up breaking away?
7; 11
Woodrow Wilson
14
James Madison