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U.S. Presidents Trivia
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What president did the Berlin airlift?
Lyndon Johnson
George Washington
Harry S Truman
2
2. This president swam naked in the Potomac River
Honor people who died - make sure the country survies
The first Tuesday of Novermber that follows a monday in November
John Quicy Adams
Social Security
3. Who pays for all personal entertainment and dinners not related to teh government business in the White House?
Germany was attacking ships
The president
4
Period after the Civil War and how we reunited
4. The committee of the watergate scandal illegally entered the __________ (building) and spied on Nixon's opponent Who was in the _______ complex.
Democratic National Headquarters; Watergate
Mary Todd-Lincoln
Dental; medical
Speeches given for hope
5. Who was the only president to get all the electoral votes?
George Washington
Andrew Johnson
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Medical insurance for all americans
6. Which president was author of the Virginia Plan?
Conspiracy
Since birth
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
James Madison
7. Where was Abraham Lincoln born? What kind of house did he live in?
Social Security
John Tyler
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Kentucky; Log cabin
8. Where do electors vote?
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9. How many presidents died of natural causes in office?
The south
Massachusetts
4
8
10. Who was Franklin Delano Roosevelt married to?
Eleanor
Lyndon Johnson
The south
John Quincy Adams - Rutherford B. Hayes - Benjamin Harrison - and George W. Bush
11. Who was George Washington's wife?
Dwight David Eisenhower
6'4'
George H. W. Bush
Martha
12. Who had a 12 year affair with Gennifer Flowers?
William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison
Hillary Clinton
8
William Jefferson Clinton
13. What are surviver benefits?
George Washington
Money goes to kids when a parent dies
William Jefferson Clinton
14
14. What were fireside chats?
William Henry Harrison - Zachary Taylor - Warren Harding - and Franklin Delano Roosevelt
French and Indian War
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Speeches given for hope
15. What is the mandatory retirement plan run by the government?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
John Hinkley Jr.
Social Security
Crime to print false or meliscious or scandalist stuff about the U.S. gov.
16. Who burnt down the White House during a war?
England
60; unconstitutional
$150000
Andrew Johnson
17. Who is the current speaker of the House?
Ulysses S. Grant
Yes
Lyndon Johnson
John Boehner
18. Can the amount of money a president earns be increased/decreased during someone's term of office?
The House of Representatives selects the President and the Senate selects the Vice President
100
No
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
19. Who did we help in the Vietnam war and the korean war?
The south
Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Pearl Harbor bombing
OK to send home foregienors if they looked dangerous; also if we were in war with their country
Alien and sedition acts
20. What was the league of nations?
Hillary Clinton
George Washington
Club with all countries where problems were discussed peacefully
Jefferson still survives
21. Jimmy Carter was the former governor of ____.
Georgia
Richard Nixon
Woodrow Wilson
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
22. How many pounds was William Howard Taft?
George Washington
350
The federal government guarentees your money at a bank
Abraham Lincoln
23. Which presient send Lewis and Clark on their journey?
Thomas Jefferson
8
The president
Richard Nixon
24. Who is the current Vice President?
Barack Obama
8
0
Joe Biden
25. In most states - what percent of the state's electoral votes does a candidate get if they win the popular vote?
100
Dwight David Eisenhower
Thomas Jefferson
William Jefferson Clinton
26. Why did WWI happen?
Woodrow Wilson
Germany was attacking ships
Kentucky; Log cabin
Abraham Lincoln
27. Who created the Family Medical Leave Act?
Kentucky; Log cabin
Dwight David Eisenhower
William Jefferson Clinton
Ulysses S. Grant
28. Which president had a stroke in his bathroom?
Woodrow Wilson
January 1st - 1863
William Jefferson Clinton
Electors
29. What did John Wilkes Booth say after he shot Lincoln?
A gun
Thomas Jefferson
The Korean War
Sic Semper Tyrannis - the south is avenged
30. Which president got Alzheimers and forgot being president?
Honor people who died - make sure the country survies
Civil rights
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Ronald Reagan
31. Name the two presidents (ABC order by last name - write first and last name) who died on the same day - and the date they died (separate with semi colon)
Richard Nixon
Polio
Dolley
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson; July 4th - 1826
32. Who became president when Richard Nixon resigend because they were his VP?
Gerald Ford
James Madison
Teddy Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Polio
33. How tall was Abraham Lincoln?
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34. John Adams went to what college?
The Vice President
Harvard
Jimmy Carter
The number of people in Congress plus 3 for DC
35. Which presient send Lewis and Clark on their journey?
Thomas Jefferson
Period after the Civil War and how we reunited
8
1814
36. Where did Thomas Jefferson go to college?
William and Mary College
4
4
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
37. Who supported manifest destiny?
James Polk
His 5th cousin
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
Barack Obama
38. What is Camp David?
Eleanor
Honor people who died - make sure the country survies
A 2nd home for the president
His 5th cousin
39. How many presidents died in office?
8
Enola Gay
In their state's capital
Barack Obama
40. Who's son married Nixon's daughter?
Dwight David Eisenhower
27
35
The federal government guarentees your money at a bank
41. What to laws did Adams TRY to pass?
William Henry Harrison
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Alien and sedition acts
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
42. John Adams had a successful marriage with ______ (first name).
William Seward; $7.2 million; Alaska
1
Abigail
John Quicy Adams
43. Who was the oldest elected president (age 73 at 2nd term)?
Barack Obama
He gets shot
The idea to own all the land from the pacific to the atlantic ocean; 1.2 million
Ronald Reagan
44. Who was the first President during WWII?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
USA
The three day battle in July in Gettysburg about slaves
Ronald Reagan
45. Which president made the panama canal?
Teddy Roosevelt
Teddy Roosevelt - Woodrow Wilson - Jimmy Carter - and Barack Obama
4th
William Henry Harrison
46. Which president adopted independence - was loyal - smart - and a lawyer?
15
Bad
John Adams
Dwight David Eisenhower
47. Where was William McKinley killed?
1814
The Gettysburg Address
Buffalo - New York
Acting
48. Which presidents were great grandfather and grandson?
Yes
Period after the Civil War and how we reunited
William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison
Revolutionary War
49. William Jefferson Clinton paid Paula Jones $____.
In their state's capital
1 million
444
Forced the president to issue all military orders through general of the army who could not be removed without senate approval
50. what president was also president of the constitutional convention?
James Madison
Electors
Abraham Lincoln
George Washington