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U.S. Presidents Trivia
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What is the Truman Doctrine?
X-ray
The US was prepared to send money and military support to countries that want to resist communism
Perjury and obstruction of justice
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
2. Franklin Delano Roosevelt got his middle name because his _____'s favorite relative was de la Noye
September 1st - 1939
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Mom
George Washington
3. Why did WWI happen?
Yes
November 22nd - 1963
Germany was attacking ships
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
4. Who was the only man to be president Who was not elected to either vp spot or the presidency?
Ulysses S. Grant
Gerald Ford
James Madison
Barack Obama
5. During the civil war - the south's general was ____________.
Robert E. Lee
Harvard
Universal health care
William Jefferson Clinton
6. Abraham Lincoln was ______ educated
Self
Speeches given for hope
Richard Nixon
Teddy Roosevelt
7. The president get ____ care and _____ care for free.
4th
Saving a picture of Washington during the war
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Dental; medical
8. Who was FDR's VP Who was president for WWII?
Harry S Truman
Providing a backup place for military plane landing
Honor people who died - make sure the country survies
1 million
9. What date was John Fitzgerald Kennedy killed on?
George H. W. Bush
November 22nd - 1963
Teddy Roosevelt
22 - 24
10. After what event was the Fourteen Points presented?
New Mexico to California
World War I
Harvard
James Madison
11. Who is the current secretary of state?
4
If he serves 2 or less years of someone else's term plus 8 years on his own
The north and the south were split up
Hillary Clinton
12. How many presidents died in office?
35 said He was guilty - but he needed 36
8
Abigail
The House of Representatives selects the President and the Senate selects the Vice President
13. What did the Interstate Highway System also do besides provide a road for driving?
Providing a backup place for military plane landing
Civil rights
Teddy Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Lee Harvey Oswald
14. Gerald Ford pardons _____________ for all crimes committed.
Richard Nixon
He gets shot
Dwight David Eisenhower
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
15. What weapon was used to kill Lincoln?
A gun
350
Lyndon Johnson
The White House
16. What was Lincoln's most famous speech?
The Gettysburg Address
England
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
He resigned before the impeachment trial
17. What was the league of nations?
Club with all countries where problems were discussed peacefully
Ulysses S. Grant
John Quicy Adams
The number of people in Congress plus 3 for DC
18. What were the years of WWI?
James Polk
1914-1918
South; north
New Mexico to California
19. Which president was the youngest to serve?
Sexual harrassment
35
14
Teddy Roosevelt
20. What president made the emancipation proclamtion?
1914-1918
William McKinley
Abraham Lincoln
John Adams
21. What was the Tenure of Office Act/
Teddy Roosevelt
The president could not fire and federal official who had gotten their job with Senate approval
Mary Todd-Lincoln
A support group of countries
22. What is NATO (not what it stands for - what it is)?
A support group of countries
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
John Quincy Adams - Rutherford B. Hayes - Benjamin Harrison - and George W. Bush
1803
23. What state is Camp David in?
The Vice President
The government
Maryland
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.
24. Lyndon Johnson got lots of bills passed involving ______.
Teddy Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Kentucky; Log cabin
Civil rights
Jefferson Davis
25. Why did we invade Iraq?
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26. Who's son is Camp David named after?
Maryland
Dwight David Eisenhower
William Henry Harrison
OK to send home foregienors if they looked dangerous; also if we were in war with their country
27. Who was sent to a mental institution after Abraham Lincoln's death?
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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
Abigail
Mary Todd-Lincoln
28. James Madison's wife was ________ Madison.
Teddy Roosevelt
Dolley
The Vice President
The three day battle in July in Gettysburg about slaves
29. Which president created the University of Virgina?
Thomas Jefferson
A 2nd home for the president
Teddy Roosevelt
Jimmy Carter
30. Who was president for the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Harry S Truman
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
George Washington
The US was prepared to send money and military support to countries that want to resist communism
31. What did the Interstate Highway System also do besides provide a road for driving?
Providing a backup place for military plane landing
The north and the south were split up
William Jefferson Clinton
Germany invaded Poland
32. How many Vice Presidents have moved up because the president resigned?
Maine and Nebraska
He was shot on his way to a college reunion
George Washington - John Adams - Thomas Jefferson - James Madison - James Monroe - and John Quincy Adams
1
33. Who were Woodward and Bernstein?
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34. What is FDIC (explaIn what it means - not what it stands for)?
Barack Obama
George H. W. Bush
Harry S Truman
The federal government guarentees your money at a bank
35. Who went to the Supreme court and tried to increase it to fifteen judges - but was told no?
Monticello - Virginia
The idea to own all the land from the pacific to the atlantic ocean; 1.2 million
Dolley
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
36. Where did the name 'gettysburg' come from?
Monticello - Virginia
Sic Semper Tyrannis - the south is avenged
The three day battle in July in Gettysburg about slaves
Free the slaves in the south
37. Who said 'A date that will live in infamy'? What were they talking about (separate with semicolon)?
Democratic National Headquarters; Watergate
George Washington
Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Pearl Harbor bombing
A group of representatives chosen by the voters to elect the President
38. Which president got Alzheimers and forgot being president?
Ronald Reagan
Dwight David Eisenhower
Germany was attacking ships
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
39. Who was our president when we kille Osama bin Laden?
132
4
Barack Obama
Jimmy Carter
40. Who was the oldest elected president (age 73 at 2nd term)?
No
None
Ronald Reagan
The White House
41. Who was William McKinley's VP that moved up when He was killed?
William Jefferson Clinton
George H. W. Bush
Teddy Roosevelt
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson; July 4th - 1826
42. Who had a 12 year affair with Gennifer Flowers?
Saving a picture of Washington during the war
William Jefferson Clinton
4
James Madison
43. What presidents lost the popular vote but won the electoral vote? (in order)
Robert E. Lee
John Quincy Adams - Rutherford B. Hayes - Benjamin Harrison - and George W. Bush
Dwight David Eisenhower
Sexual harrassment
44. What date did WWII begin?
Air Force One - Marine One - and limousines
Since birth
September 1st - 1939
William Henry Harrison
45. Andrew Johnson had a (good/bad) relation ship with congress over reconstruction
Bad
When peace was made between Israel and Egypt at Camp David
George H. W. Bush
4th
46. Lyndon Johnson got lots of bills passed involving ______.
Civil rights
Sic Semper Tyrannis - the south is avenged
The president
Jefferson still survives
47. Who said 'The buck stops here'?
Since birth
538
Harry S Truman
His wife
48. What happens to John Wilkes Booth?
He gets shot
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Ronald Reagan
William Henry Harrison
49. Who was Deep Throat?
William Jefferson Clinton
Dolley
The US was prepared to send money and military support to countries that want to resist communism
A person who knew the truth about Richard Nixon and told Woodward and Bernstein
50. What is manifest destiny? how many square miles was it?
Teddy Roosevelt
The Confederate States of America
The idea to own all the land from the pacific to the atlantic ocean; 1.2 million
100