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U.S. Presidents Trivia
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1. What weapon was used to kill Lincoln?
Ulysses S. Grant
The Civil War
A gun
The fourteen points
2. During the Great Depression - ____% were unemployed.
Lyndon Johnson
25
The Vice President
The north were comunists and the south were not
3. Who is considered 'the father of our country'?
Saving a picture of Washington during the war
1814
Maine and Nebraska
George Washington
4. How many electoral votes does Florida have?
27
Gerald Ford
The banks were closed because everyone wanted their money at once
Air Force One - Marine One - and limousines
5. What happens if no candidate gets the majorit y of electoral votes?
James Polk
William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison
The House of Representatives selects the President and the Senate selects the Vice President
Getting out of the Great depression by hiring people - which would start a chain reaction
6. Who was the only president to get all the electoral votes?
George Washington
1914-1918
A person who knew the truth about Richard Nixon and told Woodward and Bernstein
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
7. Who was embarrassed when they received the Nobel Peace Prize?
His wife
Teddy Roosevelt
Barack Obama
60; unconstitutional
8. How many years younger was John Tyler's wife than him?
Worker can take three months off in a year to take care of sick relatives or him/herself and cannot be fired
When we dropped food and supplies to people in West Berlin
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
30
9. How much was the Louisiana Territory when it was purchased?
April 12th - 1861
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Woodrow Wilson
15 million
10. How many electors are in the electoral college?
Money goes to kids when a parent dies
William McKinley
Conspiracy
538
11. How many presidents died of natural causes in office?
4
September 1st - 1939
They were classmates in college
Saving a picture of Washington during the war
12. Who was the oldest elected president (age 73 at 2nd term)?
Andrew Jackson
Ronald Reagan
George Washington - John Adams - Thomas Jefferson - James Madison - James Monroe - and John Quincy Adams
Monticello - Virginia
13. How many years younger was John Tyler's wife than him?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
James Madison
30
Teddy Roosevelt
14. Franklin Delano Roosevelt died a short time into his ____ term.
4th
William Jefferson Clinton
1914-1918
The government
15. Which president was former ambassador to China?
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Lee Harvey Oswald
15 million
George H. W. Bush
16. Where do electors vote?
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17. How old do you have to be to be president?
Woodrow Wilson
35
Money goes to kids when a parent dies
Barack Obama
18. What date did the civil war begin?
April 12th - 1861
8
November
William Jefferson Clinton
19. The president get ____ care and _____ care for free.
The north and the south were split up
James Madison
Dental; medical
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
20. Who won a Nobel Peace Prize for what they were going to do?
Teddy Roosevelt
Since birth
Barack Obama
The US was prepared to send money and military support to countries that want to resist communism
21. Where does the right to navigate teh seas without interference not apply?
East of Africa
Jefferson still survives
Polio
George Washington
22. What was the Banking Holiday?
The federal government guarentees your money at a bank
The banks were closed because everyone wanted their money at once
The idea to own all the land from the pacific to the atlantic ocean; 1.2 million
Harry S Truman
23. John Adams had a successful marriage with ______ (first name).
New Mexico to California
27
He gets shot
Abigail
24. Who had the shortest presidency?
William Henry Harrison
1803
7; 11
Iraq invaded Kuwait - and a coalition of naions push Iraq out of Kuwait
25. What was reconstruction?
Period after the Civil War and how we reunited
Kentucky; Log cabin
He resigned before the impeachment trial
Abraham Lincoln
26. Lyndon Johnson got lots of bills passed involving ______.
Civil rights
Saving a picture of Washington during the war
William and Mary College
Electors
27. Where did Abraham Lincoln's assasination take place?
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28. The ______ was invented when William McKinley was killed - and it could have saved him.
X-ray
William Henry Harrison
27
Dallas - Texas
29. Who was the fpresident during WWI?
Abraham Lincoln
Woodrow Wilson
Teddy Roosevelt
England; sailors; products
30. Who became president when Richard Nixon resigend because they were his VP?
Gerald Ford
Civil War
William Seward; $7.2 million; Alaska
John Quicy Adams
31. How many presidents were killed in office?
Andrew Jackson
4
James Polk
John Quincy Adams - Rutherford B. Hayes - Benjamin Harrison - and George W. Bush
32. Which president was a 'rough rider' in the Spanish American War?
Ford's Theater
Ulysses S. Grant
Mom
Teddy Roosevelt
33. Where does the number of electors in the electoral college come from?
538
The number of people in Congress plus 3 for DC
George Washington
William Henry Harrison
34. Who was the only president to be president and then supreme court chief justice?
William Howard Taft
Saving a picture of Washington during the war
Dwight David Eisenhower
The fourteen points
35. What was the name of the airplane that bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Electors
Club with all countries where problems were discussed peacefully
Enola Gay
36. Who was sent to a mental institution after Abraham Lincoln's death?
Mary Todd-Lincoln
April 1917- November 1918
Massachusetts
Harry S Truman
37. How much was the Louisiana Territory when it was purchased?
French and Indian War
15 million
Richard Nixon
No
38. Alien Acts
George Washington - John Adams - Thomas Jefferson - James Madison - James Monroe - and John Quincy Adams
The first Tuesday of Novermber that follows a monday in November
OK to send home foregienors if they looked dangerous; also if we were in war with their country
Ronald Reagan
39. How many kids did George Washington have?
The Gettysburg Address
0
Thomas Jefferson
Polio
40. Who attempted to assassinate Ronald Reagan?
John Hinkley Jr.
8
Universal health care
Thomas Jefferson
41. What was the Tenure of Office Act/
A support group of countries
25
George H. W. Bush
The president could not fire and federal official who had gotten their job with Senate approval
42. What president made the emancipation proclamtion?
4th
Abraham Lincoln
1
William Jefferson Clinton
43. Why did WWI happen?
4
In their state's capital
William Jefferson Clinton
Germany was attacking ships
44. Who was president for the Cuban Missile Crisis?
His 5th cousin
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
350
John Boehner
45. John Adams went to what college?
Harry S Truman
William Henry Harrison
Harvard
He resigned before the impeachment trial
46. What are the people in the electoral college called?
Teddy Roosevelt
Electors
18
The north and the south were split up
47. How many Vice Presidents have moved up because the president resigned?
George H. W. Bush
England; sailors; products
The idea to own all the land from the pacific to the atlantic ocean; 1.2 million
1
48. John Adams had a successful marriage with ______ (first name).
Gerald Ford
Abigail
Forced the president to issue all military orders through general of the army who could not be removed without senate approval
Since birth
49. What is the oldest you can be to get surviver benefits?
He was shot on his way to a college reunion
18
6'4'
The south
50. Who was the first VP?
John Adams
William Jefferson Clinton
35
OK to send home foregienors if they looked dangerous; also if we were in war with their country
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