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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 presidential term?
Woodrow Wilson
Period after the Civil War and how we reunited
The US was prepared to send money and military support to countries that want to resist communism
4
2. Who was FDR's VP Who was president for WWII?
Harry S Truman
350
John Adams
James Madison
3. Which president adopted independence - was loyal - smart - and a lawyer?
Europe
Thus always to tyrants
John Adams
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
4. How many electors are in the electoral college?
538
35 said He was guilty - but he needed 36
X-ray
Sic Semper Tyrannis - the south is avenged
5. Who did we help in the Vietnam war and the korean war?
The federal government guarentees your money at a bank
Civil rights
The south
East of Africa
6. During the civil war - the north's general was ___________.
15 million
William Jefferson Clinton
The Vice President
Ulysses S. Grant
7. What was the Emancipation proclamation meant to do?
Robert E. Lee
Free the slaves in the south
New Mexico to California
Teddy Roosevelt
8. How many electoral votes does Florida have?
27
Free the slaves in the south
The House of Representatives selects the President and the Senate selects the Vice President
4
9. Who did the Banking Holiday?
Alien and sedition acts
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
1803
15 million
10. Which president recognized Israel and traded with them and gave money and embassadors to them?
Harry S Truman
East of Africa
South; north
Barack Obama
11. What presidents lost the popular vote but won the electoral vote? (in order)
John Quincy Adams - Rutherford B. Hayes - Benjamin Harrison - and George W. Bush
The three day battle in July in Gettysburg about slaves
George W. Bush
Ronald Reagan
12. Franklin Delano Roosevelt died a short time into his ____ term.
The Civil War
30
4th
The first Tuesday of Novermber that follows a monday in November
13. Who was the first VP?
He gets shot
Mary Todd-Lincoln
John Adams
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
14. What law that Barack Obama passed might be unconstitutional and is being looked at by the supreme court now?
The Confederate States of America
England
X-ray
Universal health care
15. What was the point of the Gettysburg Address (two things)?
Ft. Sumter - South Carolina
Saving a picture of Washington during the war
Dwight David Eisenhower
Honor people who died - make sure the country survies
16. What does 'Sic Semper Tyrranis' mean?
The banks were closed because everyone wanted their money at once
Thus always to tyrants
Harry S Truman
William Henry Harrison
17. During the civil war - the south named itself _____.
Teddy Roosevelt
6'4'
George Washington - John Adams - Thomas Jefferson - James Madison - James Monroe - and John Quincy Adams
The Confederate States of America
18. Who acts as an advisor to the president?
Barack Obama
Abraham Lincoln
The Vice President
Lyndon Johnson
19. What did John Wilkes Booth say after he shot Lincoln?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
George H.W. Bush and George Bush
George H. W. Bush
Sic Semper Tyrannis - the south is avenged
20. Manifest Destiny was to have all the land from __________ to ___________ (east to west)
New Mexico to California
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
George H.W. Bush and George Bush
Maine and Nebraska
21. Who was the only president to be president and then supreme court chief justice?
18
William McKinley
Peterson House; the next morning
William Howard Taft
22. Who's son married Nixon's daughter?
Dwight David Eisenhower
Georgia
Bad
He wanted a date Jodie Foster
23. Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant knew eachother because _________.
Richard Nixon
They were classmates in college
John Adams
6'4'
24. Which president served the most terms?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Bad
Dwight David Eisenhower
Enola Gay
25. Who said 'The only thing we have to fear is fear itself' at their 1st inaugural?
John Quincy Adams - Rutherford B. Hayes - Benjamin Harrison - and George W. Bush
James Madison
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Air Force One - Marine One - and limousines
26. Andrew Johnson was _________'s VP
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Dallas - Texas
A 2nd home for the president
Abraham Lincoln
27. What weapon was used to kill Lincoln?
Abigail
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The first Tuesday of Novermber that follows a monday in November
A gun
28. Who attends diplomatic functions in place of the president?
George Washington
The Gettysburg Address
A group of representatives chosen by the voters to elect the President
The Vice President
29. Can the amount of money a president earns be increased/decreased during someone's term of office?
No
The House of Representatives selects the President and the Senate selects the Vice President
Martha
The president
30. Who was president for the 9/11 attacks?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Alien and sedition acts
George W. Bush
John Adams and John Quincy Adams
31. What were John Adams's last words?
Jefferson still survives
The Vice President
Teddy Roosevelt
Robert E. Lee
32. Why did WWII begin?
The three day battle in July in Gettysburg about slaves
Dental; medical
Germany invaded Poland
25
33. Why did we enter WWII?
September 1st - 1939
14
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor - Hawaii
Ulysses S. Grant
34. Franklin Delano Roosevelt got his middle name because his _____'s favorite relative was de la Noye
William Jefferson Clinton
Saving a picture of Washington during the war
Teddy Roosevelt
Mom
35. How many Vice Presidents have moved up because the president resigned?
4
1
Providing a backup place for military plane landing
Democratic National Headquarters; Watergate
36. What was the name of the airplane that bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki
John Quincy Adams - Rutherford B. Hayes - Benjamin Harrison - and George W. Bush
Ft. Sumter - South Carolina
Enola Gay
George Washington
37. Where was Thomas Jefferson born?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Monticello - Virginia
Hillary Clinton
Teddy Roosevelt
38. What is the inauguration date?
George H.W. Bush and George Bush
0
January 20th
Polio
39. What was the Berlin Airlift?
When we dropped food and supplies to people in West Berlin
Civil rights
1814
Guam - Midway Islands - Philippines - and Puerto Rico
40. what president was also president of the constitutional convention?
Teddy Roosevelt - Woodrow Wilson - Jimmy Carter - and Barack Obama
George Washington
John Quicy Adams
He fired the Secretary of War Staton
41. Which president was author of the Virginia Plan?
Harry S Truman
James Madison
1 million
Forced the president to issue all military orders through general of the army who could not be removed without senate approval
42. Why did the league of nations fail (what country wouldn't join)?
Teddy Roosevelt
USA
Zapruder film
Andrew Johnson
43. How many states broke away during the civil war AT FIRST? how many total ending up breaking away?
7; 11
Gerald Ford
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
Dwight David Eisenhower
44. During the civil war - the south named itself _____.
The Confederate States of America
25
Teddy Roosevelt - Woodrow Wilson - Jimmy Carter - and Barack Obama
Monroe
45. Andrew Johnson was _________'s VP
Abraham Lincoln
William Henry Harrison
Since birth
He gets shot
46. What college did George Washington go to?
Hillary Clinton
18
None
Zapruder film
47. Who was president for the persian gulf war?
George H. W. Bush
X-ray
Conspiracy
January 20th
48. Who was the first president not to win the popular vote and to become president?
He resigned before the impeachment trial
Barack Obama
The Civil War
John Quicy Adams
49. How was James Garfield killed?
The banks were closed because everyone wanted their money at once
He was shot on his way to a college reunion
He fired the Secretary of War Staton
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.
50. 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)
Dwight David Eisenhower
Harry S Truman
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson; July 4th - 1826
William McKinley