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U.S. Presidents Trivia
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1. Alien Acts
Electors
James Madison
OK to send home foregienors if they looked dangerous; also if we were in war with their country
The Korean War
2. What was reconstruction?
His wife
Period after the Civil War and how we reunited
George H. W. Bush
Hillary Clinton
3. how many years is a score?
John Tyler
20
Teddy Roosevelt - Woodrow Wilson - Jimmy Carter - and Barack Obama
William Jefferson Clinton
4. After Abraham Lincoln was shot - He was carried across the street to ________________ where he dies when?
Maryland
James Madison
Peterson House; the next morning
Barack Obama
5. What was Lincoln's most famous speech?
The Gettysburg Address
The north were comunists and the south were not
27
November 1863
6. Who went to the Supreme court and tried to increase it to fifteen judges - but was told no?
35 said He was guilty - but he needed 36
If he serves 2 or less years of someone else's term plus 8 years on his own
A gun
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
7. What month is the election in?
Civil rights
England; sailors; products
November
John Adams and John Quincy Adams
8. Who created the Family Medical Leave Act?
You can collect money if you become disabled before retirement
James Polk
William Jefferson Clinton
William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison
9. Franklin Delano Roosevelt died a short time into his ____ term.
Yes
December 7th - 1941
Jefferson still survives
4th
10. This president helped write the federalist papers.
Lee Harvey Oswald
Maryland
James Madison
William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison
11. How many electors are in the electoral college?
14
538
Universal health care
Alien and sedition acts
12. Where was Abraham Lincoln born? What kind of house did he live in?
John Hinkley Jr.
Dental; medical
Kentucky; Log cabin
Cuba wanted to overthrow Castrow and our military helped train them
13. Who was a peanut farmer?
Barack Obama
Jimmy Carter
350
He wanted a date Jodie Foster
14. Congress passed 2 laws designed to limit __________'s (a president) power .
100
William Henry Harrison
George H. W. Bush
Andrew Johnson
15. Who was president for the Bay of Pigs?
14
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
16. What is the oldest you can be to get surviver benefits?
Georgia
18
East of Africa
Kentucky; Log cabin
17. Which president was the youngest to serve?
Andrew Johnson
John Quicy Adams
Teddy Roosevelt
George W. Bush
18. Why did WWII begin?
1 million
George Washington
Germany invaded Poland
15 million
19. What year was the Louisiana Territory bought?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
When he jumped out of the balcony - his foot got stuck in the bunting and he fell onto stage
1803
20. Who did we help in the Vietnam war and the korean war?
35 said He was guilty - but he needed 36
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
The south
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
21. Who is the current President Pro-Tempore of the Senate?
Abraham Lincoln
Teddy Roosevelt - Woodrow Wilson - Jimmy Carter - and Barack Obama
20
Daniel Inouye
22. How many pounds was William Howard Taft?
350
Teddy Roosevelt
New Mexico to California
September 1st - 1939
23. What is universal health care?
William Henry Harrison - Zachary Taylor - Warren Harding - and Franklin Delano Roosevelt
$400000
The idea to own all the land from the pacific to the atlantic ocean; 1.2 million
Medical insurance for all americans
24. Why did we invade Iraq?
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25. How many former vice presidents have become president?
14
John Adams
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Iraq invaded Kuwait - and a coalition of naions push Iraq out of Kuwait
26. Who pays for all personal entertainment and dinners not related to teh government business in the White House?
Lee Harvey Oswald
No
The president
27
27. James Madison's wife is famous for...
Saving a picture of Washington during the war
Monticello - Virginia
USA
4
28. What was the name of the airplane that bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki
14
Bad
Enola Gay
Forced the president to issue all military orders through general of the army who could not be removed without senate approval
29. ______ years later - the Tenure of Office act was gotten rid of by the Supreme court because it was ________.
April 12th - 1861
Barack Obama
60; unconstitutional
Jefferson still survives
30. When Harry S Truman was president during WWII - what two places in japan were bombed (abc order)?
Massachusetts
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Woodrow Wilson
4
31. Where does the president live for free?
The White House
538
The Vice President
Civil rights
32. How many rooms in the white house?
September 1st - 1939
132
The banks were closed because everyone wanted their money at once
William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison
33. Who was sent to a mental institution after Abraham Lincoln's death?
A support group of countries
Mary Todd-Lincoln
Monroe
The Confederate States of America
34. What does 'Sic Semper Tyrranis' mean?
Thus always to tyrants
James Madison
Club with all countries where problems were discussed peacefully
Maine and Nebraska
35. What month and day do we vote for the president?
The Vice President
John Wilkes Booth
In their state's capital
The first Tuesday of Novermber that follows a monday in November
36. What to laws did Adams TRY to pass?
Alien and sedition acts
The north and the south were split up
When he jumped out of the balcony - his foot got stuck in the bunting and he fell onto stage
The federal government guarentees your money at a bank
37. What is the command of army act?
His wife
Getting out of the Great depression by hiring people - which would start a chain reaction
Forced the president to issue all military orders through general of the army who could not be removed without senate approval
John Adams
38. How did William McKinley die?
Jimmy Carter
Civil rights
4
He was shot
39. Who's son married Nixon's daughter?
Medical insurance for all americans
Dallas - Texas
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Dwight David Eisenhower
40. Which president was a great general - a leader - honest - and trustworth?
Perjury and obstruction of justice
George Washington
The number of people in Congress plus 3 for DC
Writters for Washington Post who figured out Richard Nixon's case
41. Who was the first VP?
Enola Gay
John Adams
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
1803
42. Which presient send Lewis and Clark on their journey?
Thomas Jefferson
Mary Todd-Lincoln
Barack Obama
George H. W. Bush
43. Where does the right to navigate teh seas without interference not apply?
Richard Nixon
The north were comunists and the south were not
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
East of Africa
44. Who went to the Supreme court and tried to increase it to fifteen judges - but was told no?
You can collect money if you become disabled before retirement
Bad
4
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
45. Who were Woodward and Bernstein?
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46. Who built the Interstate Highway System?
Thus always to tyrants
Ronald Reagan
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Dwight David Eisenhower
47. Woodrow Wilson's ideas on not to have a war - the league of nations - and the freedom to navigate the seas without interference are known as ________.
The fourteen points
Teddy Roosevelt
Dental; medical
Maine and Nebraska
48. Which president created Yellowstone National Park and Yosemite?
Lyndon Johnson
Barack Obama
Writters for Washington Post who figured out Richard Nixon's case
Teddy Roosevelt
49. Who balanced the budget?
Harry S Truman
William Jefferson Clinton
20
Sic Semper Tyrannis - the south is avenged
50. Who was a Great General in war of 1812?
George Washington
John Quincy Adams - Rutherford B. Hayes - Benjamin Harrison - and George W. Bush
Worker can take three months off in a year to take care of sick relatives or him/herself and cannot be fired
Andrew Jackson