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U.S. Presidents Trivia

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1. Can the amount of money a president earns be increased/decreased during someone's term of office?
No
Teddy Roosevelt
Martha
John Boehner

2. Why didn't the Emancipation proclamation work?
The north and the south were split up
Harry S Truman
Lyndon Johnson
William McKinley

3. Which president was former ambassador to China?
George H. W. Bush
Honor people who died - make sure the country survies
A 2nd home for the president
John Fitzgerald Kennedy

4. In most states - what percent of the state's electoral votes does a candidate get if they win the popular vote?
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
5
100
8

5. Which president adopted independence - was loyal - smart - and a lawyer?
George Washington - John Adams - Thomas Jefferson - James Madison - James Monroe - and John Quincy Adams
Gerald Ford
John Adams
William Jefferson Clinton

6. Who was president for the persian gulf war?
In their state's capital
George H. W. Bush
Dwight David Eisenhower
Getting out of the Great depression by hiring people - which would start a chain reaction

7. ______ years later - the Tenure of Office act was gotten rid of by the Supreme court because it was ________.
Cuba wanted to overthrow Castrow and our military helped train them
Lyndon Johnson
60; unconstitutional
East of Africa

8. What is universal health care?
Medical insurance for all americans
Cuba wanted to overthrow Castrow and our military helped train them
December 7th - 1941
A group of representatives chosen by the voters to elect the President

9. Who pays for all personal entertainment and dinners not related to teh government business in the White House?
The Vice President
7; 11
Crime to print false or meliscious or scandalist stuff about the U.S. gov.
The president

10. What does NATO stand for?
Mary Todd-Lincoln
Guam - Midway Islands - Philippines - and Puerto Rico
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
444

11. James Monroe created the ________ Doctrine
A gun
The north were comunists and the south were not
Barack Obama
Monroe

12. What was the name of the airplane that bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Jimmy Carter
Enola Gay
Barack Obama
The Vice President

13. What presidents (in order) died of natural causes?
William Henry Harrison - Zachary Taylor - Warren Harding - and Franklin Delano Roosevelt
James Madison
Jefferson still survives
14

14. Why did we invade Iraq?

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15. What month and day do we vote for the president?
Teddy Roosevelt
The government
4th
The first Tuesday of Novermber that follows a monday in November

16. What happens if no candidate gets the majorit y of electoral votes?
December 7th - 1941
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The House of Representatives selects the President and the Senate selects the Vice President
New Mexico to California

17. What is the family Medical Leave Act?
Ronald Reagan
Civil War
Worker can take three months off in a year to take care of sick relatives or him/herself and cannot be fired
Acting

18. Who was on the good side for WWI (abc order)?
England - France - Russia - USA
William Jefferson Clinton
No
The number of people in Congress plus 3 for DC

19. Which president presented the bill of rights at the first Congress?
James Madison
John Adams and John Quincy Adams
When we dropped food and supplies to people in West Berlin
The south

20. How tall was Abraham Lincoln?

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21. The person who killed John Fitzgerald Kennedy is thought to have killed him in a _______ - or not alone.
Conspiracy
No
8
5

22. How many Vice Presidents have moved up because the president resigned?
Peterson House; the next morning
Sexual harrassment
1
Air Force One - Marine One - and limousines

23. How many days was the Iran Hostage crisis?
John Adams
444
George H. W. Bush
Electors

24. How long do you have to be a citizen for to be president?
Woodrow Wilson
Since birth
William Jefferson Clinton
Conspiracy

25. What was the Emancipation proclamation meant to do?
Free the slaves in the south
Joe Biden
Forced the president to issue all military orders through general of the army who could not be removed without senate approval
William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison

26. Why was Andrew Johnson impeached?
He fired the Secretary of War Staton
5
William Jefferson Clinton
Martha

27. What president made the emancipation proclamtion?
England - France - Russia - USA
Crime to print false or meliscious or scandalist stuff about the U.S. gov.
Abraham Lincoln
Yes

28. Who built the Interstate Highway System?
8
Jefferson still survives
Dwight David Eisenhower
Speeches given for hope

29. How much was the Louisiana Territory when it was purchased?
1914-1918
15 million
Georgia
Woodrow Wilson

30. What is the family Medical Leave Act?
Dwight David Eisenhower
The north and the south were split up
Worker can take three months off in a year to take care of sick relatives or him/herself and cannot be fired
Writters for Washington Post who figured out Richard Nixon's case

31. Who went to the Supreme court and tried to increase it to fifteen judges - but was told no?
Lyndon Johnson
Thomas Jefferson
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
George H. W. Bush

32. Which president created Yellowstone National Park and Yosemite?
5
Abraham Lincoln
Teddy Roosevelt
Enola Gay

33. Which president was obnoxious and disliked?
132
Dolley
John Adams
No

34. Who was president for the Bay of Pigs?
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
350
Alien and sedition acts
Mount Vernon - Virginia

35. The president get ____ care and _____ care for free.
Dental; medical
The Korean War
Eleanor
John Fitzgerald Kennedy

36. Which president helped create the Library of Congress when he sells and donates 6000 books?
1 million
South; north
Thomas Jefferson
The president

37. Where do electors vote?

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38. What is the oldest you can be to get surviver benefits?
18
35
Self
14

39. Where does the number of electors in the electoral college come from?
OK to send home foregienors if they looked dangerous; also if we were in war with their country
The number of people in Congress plus 3 for DC
Woodrow Wilson
James Madison

40. Can the amount of money a president earns be increased/decreased during someone's term of office?
A gun
No
Dental; medical
35

41. Why did the person who tried to assassinate Ronald Reagan do it?
Harvard
He wanted a date Jodie Foster
Air Force One - Marine One - and limousines
William Henry Harrison

42. Sewards Folly was when ________ (secretary of state) bought land for $______ - which was thought to be as a joke then - but now that land is known as ________.
100
Enola Gay
William Seward; $7.2 million; Alaska
He resigned before the impeachment trial

43. Who were the second presidents to be father and son?
William Seward; $7.2 million; Alaska
George H.W. Bush and George Bush
William McKinley
Sexual harrassment

44. Franklin Delano Roosevelt got his middle name because his _____'s favorite relative was de la Noye
$150000
Mom
Germany was attacking ships
William Seward; $7.2 million; Alaska

45. who pays for the costs of operating the white house?
The US was prepared to send money and military support to countries that want to resist communism
John Adams
The government
George Washington

46. Who introduced surviver benefits?
Monroe
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
November
Perjury and obstruction of justice

47. Who was on the bad side for WWI (abc order)?
Germany - Hungary - Turkey
John Adams and John Quincy Adams
Ronald Reagan
Acting

48. What happens if no candidate gets the majorit y of electoral votes?
The Civil War
The House of Representatives selects the President and the Senate selects the Vice President
The north were comunists and the south were not
A person who knew the truth about Richard Nixon and told Woodward and Bernstein

49. What was the camp david accords?
Civil rights
When peace was made between Israel and Egypt at Camp David
Dwight David Eisenhower
England; sailors; products

50. Jimmy Carter was the former governor of ____.
Georgia
25
The Confederate States of America
Thomas Jefferson

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