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U.S. Presidents Trivia
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1. Who is the current Vice President?
Lee Harvey Oswald
Dwight David Eisenhower
John Wilkes Booth
Joe Biden
2. Who was the first President during WWII?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The president
Maryland
Self
3. Who attends diplomatic functions in place of the president?
The Vice President
Thus always to tyrants
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Acting
4. Where was George Washington born?
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Thomas Jefferson
The banks were closed because everyone wanted their money at once
Mount Vernon - Virginia
5. What is the inauguration date?
Peterson House; the next morning
January 20th
The Vice President
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
6. During the civil war - the north's general was ___________.
William McKinley
Ulysses S. Grant
Teddy Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt
He fired the Secretary of War Staton
7. Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant knew eachother because _________.
They were classmates in college
Joe Biden
The south
4th
8. Who was on the bad side for WWI (abc order)?
Gerald Ford
John Adams
Germany - Hungary - Turkey
Sic Semper Tyrannis - the south is avenged
9. Who acts as an advisor to the president?
Mom
Robert E. Lee
April 1917- November 1918
The Vice President
10. What is the address of the white house?
Germany invaded Poland
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Electors
Lyndon Johnson
11. Who had a 12 year affair with Gennifer Flowers?
25
William Jefferson Clinton
Cuba wanted to overthrow Castrow and our military helped train them
Providing a backup place for military plane landing
12. Which president was the youngest to serve?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
270
James Madison
Teddy Roosevelt
13. Jimmy Carter was the former governor of ____.
Georgia
Ronald Reagan
Self
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson; July 4th - 1826
14. Who introduced disability benefits?
Lyndon Johnson
Teddy Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Germany was attacking ships
15. Who said 'The buck stops here'?
When we dropped food and supplies to people in West Berlin
George Washington
Harry S Truman
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor - Hawaii
16. Gerald Ford pardons _____________ for all crimes committed.
Teddy Roosevelt
South; north
Abigail
Richard Nixon
17. During the civil war - the south's president was _____________.
Jefferson Davis
Maine and Nebraska
When we dropped food and supplies to people in West Berlin
Mount Vernon - Virginia
18. Who invaded Iraq?
Teddy Roosevelt
George W. Bush
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
William Henry Harrison
19. What was the nullification crisis?
20. Which presidents won the nobel peace prize (in order)?
Lyndon Johnson
Teddy Roosevelt - Woodrow Wilson - Jimmy Carter - and Barack Obama
Harry S Truman
Woodrow Wilson
21. 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
Democratic National Headquarters; Watergate
In their state's capital
Since birth
22. What was reconstruction?
William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison
Dolley
Massachusetts
Period after the Civil War and how we reunited
23. What does 'Sic Semper Tyrranis' mean?
Jimmy Carter
Thus always to tyrants
Civil War
Getting out of the Great depression by hiring people - which would start a chain reaction
24. Alien Acts
Europe
Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Pearl Harbor bombing
OK to send home foregienors if they looked dangerous; also if we were in war with their country
Conspiracy
25. Who is the current President Pro-Tempore of the Senate?
He resigned before the impeachment trial
2
Daniel Inouye
Cuba wanted to overthrow Castrow and our military helped train them
26. Who said 'A date that will live in infamy'? What were they talking about (separate with semicolon)?
Teddy Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt
George H. W. Bush
Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Pearl Harbor bombing
444
27. How tall was Abraham Lincoln?
28. Who was Franklin Delano Roosevelt married to?
Jefferson Davis
Eleanor
Harry S Truman
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor - Hawaii
29. Who was sent to a mental institution after Abraham Lincoln's death?
Mary Todd-Lincoln
Crime to print false or meliscious or scandalist stuff about the U.S. gov.
John Adams
Dwight David Eisenhower
30. What were John Adams's last words?
Jefferson still survives
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Teddy Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt
270
31. Who moved up when John Fitzgerald Kennedy died because He was his VP?
Revolutionary War
Lyndon Johnson
He gets shot
Money goes to kids when a parent dies
32. When was the Emancipation proclamation?
January 1st - 1863
November
George W. Bush
East of Africa
33. Where did the name 'gettysburg' come from?
14
The three day battle in July in Gettysburg about slaves
William Jefferson Clinton
New Mexico to California
34. James Monroe created the ________ Doctrine
Monroe
John Adams
Ford's Theater
The House of Representatives selects the President and the Senate selects the Vice President
35. The person who killed John Fitzgerald Kennedy is thought to have killed him in a _______ - or not alone.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Andrew Jackson
Conspiracy
Germany - Hungary - Turkey
36. Which president was former ambassador to China?
Free the slaves in the south
30
George H. W. Bush
December 7th - 1941
37. What were the years of WWI?
1914-1918
George Washington
4
The president could not fire and federal official who had gotten their job with Senate approval
38. How many years is a presidential term?
Richard Nixon
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
30
4
39. When did we get involved and stop being involved with WWI? (month and year)
Harry S Truman
April 1917- November 1918
John Tyler
William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison
40. What happens if no candidate gets the majorit y of electoral votes?
The House of Representatives selects the President and the Senate selects the Vice President
Gerald Ford
Ulysses S. Grant
Monroe
41. Why wasn't Richard Nixon thrown out of office?
Mom
Teddy Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt
South; north
He resigned before the impeachment trial
42. Where was Abraham Lincoln born? What kind of house did he live in?
Kentucky; Log cabin
No
Dental; medical
We thought there were weapons of mass destruction - but there weren't
43. Do we vote directly for the president?
Jefferson Davis
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
No
A group of representatives chosen by the voters to elect the President
44. Who had many affairs during their presidency but claimed not to?
Buffalo - New York
William Jefferson Clinton
Guam - Midway Islands - Philippines - and Puerto Rico
George Washington
45. Why did we enter WWII?
Harvard
The Confederate States of America
John Quicy Adams
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor - Hawaii
46. Why did we enter WWII?
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor - Hawaii
Universal health care
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Barack Obama
47. Where did the name 'gettysburg' come from?
Thomas Jefferson
Revolutionary War
The three day battle in July in Gettysburg about slaves
John Tyler
48. Did we win the Spanish American War?
The Civil War
William Jefferson Clinton
Gerald Ford
Yes
49. What did John Wilkes Booth say after he shot Lincoln?
Sic Semper Tyrannis - the south is avenged
Forced the president to issue all military orders through general of the army who could not be removed without senate approval
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Harry S Truman
50. 'Speak softley and carry a big stick' was a quote of who?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
He was shot
Teddy Roosevelt
4