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U.S. Presidents Trivia
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1. Who was president when the United Nations was formed?
Richard Nixon
William Seward; $7.2 million; Alaska
Harry S Truman
Dwight David Eisenhower
2. Who burnt down the White House during a war?
8
England
Harry S Truman
Teddy Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt
3. Who was president for the nullification crisis?
A person who knew the truth about Richard Nixon and told Woodward and Bernstein
Teddy Roosevelt
Woodrow Wilson
Andrew Jackson
4. How many presidents died of natural causes in office?
Maryland
He gets shot
Ulysses S. Grant
4
5. What presidents (in order) died of natural causes?
William Henry Harrison - Zachary Taylor - Warren Harding - and Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Harry S Truman
The Korean War
60; unconstitutional
6. What was a talent of John Wilkes Booth?
Providing a backup place for military plane landing
Money goes to kids when a parent dies
Acting
Ft. Sumter - South Carolina
7. What is the Electoral College?
George Washington
Guam - Midway Islands - Philippines - and Puerto Rico
A group of representatives chosen by the voters to elect the President
The number of people in Congress plus 3 for DC
8. How did John Wilkes Booth break his leg?
1 million
September 1st - 1939
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
When he jumped out of the balcony - his foot got stuck in the bunting and he fell onto stage
9. Who is the current secretary of state?
Hillary Clinton
Europe
Sic Semper Tyrannis - the south is avenged
William and Mary College
10. Who was the first VP?
Mount Vernon - Virginia
John Adams
William Jefferson Clinton
George W. Bush
11. Grover Cleveland was the ____ and ____ president (numbers)
22 - 24
Teddy Roosevelt
The White House
Club with all countries where problems were discussed peacefully
12. How can a president serve up to ten years?
13. What is NATO (not what it stands for - what it is)?
England - France - Russia - USA
35
George Washington
A support group of countries
14. Where do electors vote?
15. What happens to John Wilkes Booth?
He gets shot
Andrew Jackson
Thomas Jefferson
Dwight David Eisenhower
16. Who balanced the budget?
George Washington
French and Indian War
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
William Jefferson Clinton
17. What was a popular film of John Fitzgerald Kennedy's assassination?
Maine and Nebraska
Zapruder film
Abraham Lincoln
George Washington
18. Who gave the longest inauguration speech?
William Jefferson Clinton
Jimmy Carter
William Henry Harrison
John Adams
19. Which president was a great general - a leader - honest - and trustworth?
April 1917- November 1918
William and Mary College
If he serves 2 or less years of someone else's term plus 8 years on his own
George Washington
20. What year was the Louisiana Territory bought?
Sic Semper Tyrannis - the south is avenged
A support group of countries
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
1803
21. Which president made the panama canal?
Teddy Roosevelt
Since birth
Ulysses S. Grant
Buffalo - New York
22. When Harry S Truman was president during WWII - what two places in japan were bombed (abc order)?
Barack Obama
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
William Henry Harrison - Zachary Taylor - Warren Harding - and Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
23. Who won a Nobel Peace Prize for what they were going to do?
Richard Nixon
Barack Obama
April 12th - 1861
1914-1918
24. John Adams had a successful marriage with ______ (first name).
April 12th - 1861
England
Richard Nixon
Abigail
25. What presidents (in order) died of natural causes?
The US was prepared to send money and military support to countries that want to resist communism
The president could not fire and federal official who had gotten their job with Senate approval
William Henry Harrison - Zachary Taylor - Warren Harding - and Franklin Delano Roosevelt
William Jefferson Clinton
26. What was the New Deal?
A support group of countries
Social Security
Getting out of the Great depression by hiring people - which would start a chain reaction
World War I
27. ______ years later - the Tenure of Office act was gotten rid of by the Supreme court because it was ________.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
60; unconstitutional
William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison
35
28. Who balanced the budget?
William Jefferson Clinton
Jefferson still survives
Crime to print false or meliscious or scandalist stuff about the U.S. gov.
14
29. During the civil war - the south named itself _____.
The Confederate States of America
Eleanor
Kentucky; Log cabin
Guam - Midway Islands - Philippines - and Puerto Rico
30. Which president was obnoxious and disliked?
The banks were closed because everyone wanted their money at once
John Adams
Dolley
George Washington
31. Andrew Johnson was _________'s VP
George Washington - John Adams - Thomas Jefferson - James Madison - James Monroe - and John Quincy Adams
15
Abraham Lincoln
7; 11
32. Why did the league of nations fail (what country wouldn't join)?
1
60; unconstitutional
USA
Lyndon Johnson
33. Why wasn't Richard Nixon thrown out of office?
15
Germany was attacking ships
He resigned before the impeachment trial
April 12th - 1861
34. Do we vote directly for the president?
Germany - Hungary - Turkey
Ronald Reagan
George H.W. Bush and George Bush
No
35. This president helped write the federalist papers.
John Adams
William Henry Harrison
William Henry Harrison
James Madison
36. Who was Franklin Delano Roosevelt married to?
Eleanor
Jefferson still survives
Ft. Sumter - South Carolina
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
37. Who was the oldest elected president (age 73 at 2nd term)?
The government
Ronald Reagan
Lyndon Johnson
January 20th
38. What is the command of army act?
September 1st - 1939
Dwight David Eisenhower
Forced the president to issue all military orders through general of the army who could not be removed without senate approval
Richard Nixon
39. Who is the current Vice President?
Joe Biden
$150000
England; sailors; products
Robert E. Lee
40. Who did we help in the Vietnam war and the korean war?
Writters for Washington Post who figured out Richard Nixon's case
The south
They were classmates in college
George Washington
41. What state was John Adams from?
Massachusetts
World War I
William Jefferson Clinton
Europe
42. Who was the first VP to move up on death of a president?
John Tyler
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
John Quincy Adams - Rutherford B. Hayes - Benjamin Harrison - and George W. Bush
Forced the president to issue all military orders through general of the army who could not be removed without senate approval
43. What happens if no candidate gets the majorit y of electoral votes?
None
Jimmy Carter
The House of Representatives selects the President and the Senate selects the Vice President
John Quicy Adams
44. Who was the only man to be president Who was not elected to either vp spot or the presidency?
Harry S Truman
Buffalo - New York
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Gerald Ford
45. John Quicy Adams spent time In what continent?
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson; July 4th - 1826
Teddy Roosevelt - Woodrow Wilson - Jimmy Carter - and Barack Obama
15
Europe
46. What was a talent of John Wilkes Booth?
George Washington
Dental; medical
Acting
The banks were closed because everyone wanted their money at once
47. Who was president during the War of 1812 against England?
Forced the president to issue all military orders through general of the army who could not be removed without senate approval
The Vice President
James Madison
Abigail
48. Who was president for the 9/11 attacks?
George W. Bush
A group of representatives chosen by the voters to elect the President
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson; July 4th - 1826
Europe
49. What were the sides for the Korean war and the Vietnam war?
None
The north were comunists and the south were not
Harry S Truman
James Madison
50. William Jefferson Clinton paid Paula Jones $____.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Money goes to kids when a parent dies
1 million