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U.S. Presidents Trivia
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1. What was the New Deal?
Getting out of the Great depression by hiring people - which would start a chain reaction
January 20th
100
In their state's capital
2. Which president was the 'father of the constitution'?
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
William Henry Harrison
James Madison
Buffalo - New York
3. What war never officially ended but just doesn't fight any more?
None
England; sailors; products
The Korean War
The US was prepared to send money and military support to countries that want to resist communism
4. What war did George Washington lead the army for?
Since birth
William Howard Taft
Guam - Midway Islands - Philippines - and Puerto Rico
Revolutionary War
5. What date did the civil war begin?
William Jefferson Clinton
No
Zapruder film
April 12th - 1861
6. Who was President during the Spanish American War?
Martha
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Richard Nixon
William McKinley
7. Which president created the University of Virgina?
He was shot
60; unconstitutional
Thomas Jefferson
John Boehner
8. What is FDIC (explaIn what it means - not what it stands for)?
William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison
In their state's capital
The federal government guarentees your money at a bank
George H. W. Bush
9. What is the mandatory retirement plan run by the government?
Social Security
England - France - Russia - USA
The idea to own all the land from the pacific to the atlantic ocean; 1.2 million
Thomas Jefferson
10. How long do you have to be a citizen for to be president?
Since birth
The government
1 million
James Madison
11. What was Lincoln's most famous speech?
William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison
The US was prepared to send money and military support to countries that want to resist communism
The Gettysburg Address
X-ray
12. Who is the current speaker of the House?
Mom
John Boehner
He resigned before the impeachment trial
Ulysses S. Grant
13. Who ran the country when Woodrow Wilson couldn't?
Mom
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Self
His wife
14. How tall was Abraham Lincoln?
15. Who invaded Iraq?
He was shot
Sexual harrassment
The idea to own all the land from the pacific to the atlantic ocean; 1.2 million
George W. Bush
16. Who was Franklin Delano Roosevelt married to?
Lyndon Johnson
Eleanor
In their state's capital
William Jefferson Clinton
17. Who gave the longest inauguration speech?
Barack Obama
William Henry Harrison
John Quincy Adams - Rutherford B. Hayes - Benjamin Harrison - and George W. Bush
Teddy Roosevelt
18. What was reconstruction?
Abraham Lincoln
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
1
Period after the Civil War and how we reunited
19. Where did Thomas Jefferson go to college?
The Vice President
Teddy Roosevelt
1 million
William and Mary College
20. what president was also president of the constitutional convention?
The north were comunists and the south were not
Ulysses S. Grant
George Washington
John Quicy Adams
21. how many years is a score?
Conspiracy
Thomas Jefferson
20
Crime to print false or meliscious or scandalist stuff about the U.S. gov.
22. Who was our president during the Korean war?
Daniel Inouye
James Madison
Richard Nixon
Dwight David Eisenhower
23. What war was Abraham Lincoln president during?
Barack Obama
The Civil War
Georgia
The federal government guarentees your money at a bank
24. What is Camp David?
John Adams and John Quincy Adams
Harry S Truman
A 2nd home for the president
Alien and sedition acts
25. In the War of 1812 - ________ (country) kept stealing our ________ (people) and _______ (items) in the middle of the ocean (separate with semicolon).
England; sailors; products
We thought there were weapons of mass destruction - but there weren't
The Vice President
The south
26. Who passed Universal health care?
He gets shot
If he serves 2 or less years of someone else's term plus 8 years on his own
You can collect money if you become disabled before retirement
Barack Obama
27. Which president created Yellowstone National Park and Yosemite?
Teddy Roosevelt
Getting out of the Great depression by hiring people - which would start a chain reaction
Gerald Ford
Alien and sedition acts
28. What month and year was the Gettysburg Address said?
8
A 2nd home for the president
We thought there were weapons of mass destruction - but there weren't
November 1863
29. Who won the Nobel peace prize because he told Russia and Japan not to fight - but to love?
Thomas Jefferson
Enola Gay
Teddy Roosevelt
Forced the president to issue all military orders through general of the army who could not be removed without senate approval
30. Who moved up when John Fitzgerald Kennedy died because He was his VP?
Dwight David Eisenhower
January 20th
Lyndon Johnson
Richard Nixon
31. How many presidents died in office?
8
Conspiracy
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Thus always to tyrants
32. How many electors are in the electoral college?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
538
Eleanor
33. Who was the fpresident during WWI?
Woodrow Wilson
Medical insurance for all americans
We thought there were weapons of mass destruction - but there weren't
8
34. Which presidents were cousins?
John Adams
Period after the Civil War and how we reunited
Teddy Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Dolley
35. Who presented the Fourteen Points?
$150000
The north and the south were split up
William Jefferson Clinton
Woodrow Wilson
36. Which president adopted independence - was loyal - smart - and a lawyer?
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
John Adams
He gets shot
4
37. 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)
Acting
Richard Nixon
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson; July 4th - 1826
USA
38. How much was the Louisiana Territory when it was purchased?
England
15 million
Richard Nixon
World War I
39. Who was our president when we kille Osama bin Laden?
27
Harry S Truman
Perjury and obstruction of justice
Barack Obama
40. What were fireside chats?
Speeches given for hope
April 1917- November 1918
Cuba wanted to overthrow Castrow and our military helped train them
He was shot on his way to a college reunion
41. Who attempted to assassinate Ronald Reagan?
Harry S Truman
He fired the Secretary of War Staton
The north were comunists and the south were not
John Hinkley Jr.
42. What is the family Medical Leave Act?
Worker can take three months off in a year to take care of sick relatives or him/herself and cannot be fired
William Jefferson Clinton
Andrew Jackson
Universal health care
43. How many pounds was William Howard Taft?
350
A group of representatives chosen by the voters to elect the President
Gerald Ford
Crime to print false or meliscious or scandalist stuff about the U.S. gov.
44. Name the Founding Fathers plus the son in order...
Dental; medical
Harry S Truman
In their state's capital
George Washington - John Adams - Thomas Jefferson - James Madison - James Monroe - and John Quincy Adams
45. What did the monroe doctrine say?
46. Who said 'The only thing we have to fear is fear itself' at their 1st inaugural?
Joe Biden
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
John Adams
20
47. Who was president for the persian gulf war?
60; unconstitutional
Harry S Truman
George H. W. Bush
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
48. Which president was a lawyer - very smart - an architect - a musician - and an inventor?
18
He was shot
Thomas Jefferson
Germany - Hungary - Turkey
49. Who ran the country when Woodrow Wilson couldn't?
Teddy Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt
His wife
Massachusetts
Guam - Midway Islands - Philippines - and Puerto Rico
50. James Monroe created the ________ Doctrine
Woodrow Wilson
Monroe
East of Africa
Franklin Delano Roosevelt