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U.S. Presidents Trivia
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1. Woodrow Wilson's ideas on not to have a war - the league of nations - and the freedom to navigate the seas without interference are known as ________.
East of Africa
Teddy Roosevelt
Woodrow Wilson
The fourteen points
2. James Madison's wife was ________ Madison.
Maryland
$400000
Bad
Dolley
3. Who was George Washington's wife?
4
Barack Obama
Ronald Reagan
Martha
4. What is universal health care?
A 2nd home for the president
James Madison
John Quicy Adams
Medical insurance for all americans
5. What year was the Louisiana Territory bought?
1803
November
Richard Nixon
Mount Vernon - Virginia
6. What are disability benefits?
You can collect money if you become disabled before retirement
William Henry Harrison - Zachary Taylor - Warren Harding - and Franklin Delano Roosevelt
7; 11
His wife
7. Congress passed 2 laws designed to limit __________'s (a president) power .
4th
Andrew Johnson
25
A group of representatives chosen by the voters to elect the President
8. What are disability benefits?
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
When peace was made between Israel and Egypt at Camp David
You can collect money if you become disabled before retirement
The first Tuesday of Novermber that follows a monday in November
9. In the War of 1812 - ________ (country) kept stealing our ________ (people) and _______ (items) in the middle of the ocean (separate with semicolon).
35 said He was guilty - but he needed 36
6'4'
England; sailors; products
Peterson House; the next morning
10. What are surviver benefits?
Money goes to kids when a parent dies
A person who knew the truth about Richard Nixon and told Woodward and Bernstein
5
George Washington
11. What is the command of army act?
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Mary Todd-Lincoln
Forced the president to issue all military orders through general of the army who could not be removed without senate approval
Medical insurance for all americans
12. What presidents (in order) died of natural causes?
He resigned before the impeachment trial
Thus always to tyrants
William Henry Harrison - Zachary Taylor - Warren Harding - and Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Enola Gay
13. What state is Camp David in?
1914-1918
Maryland
George W. Bush
Ronald Reagan
14. Who won the Nobel peace prize because he told Russia and Japan not to fight - but to love?
Teddy Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
132
Woodrow Wilson
15. Who was the youngest elected president?
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Woodrow Wilson
132
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
16. Where does the number of electors in the electoral college come from?
Saving a picture of Washington during the war
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
John Adams
The number of people in Congress plus 3 for DC
17. Who had the shortest presidency?
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
William Henry Harrison
We thought there were weapons of mass destruction - but there weren't
18. How long do you have to be a citizen for to be president?
William Jefferson Clinton
In their state's capital
Since birth
George Washington
19. What is the address of the white house?
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Period after the Civil War and how we reunited
35
Polio
20. Who was president when the United Nations was formed?
Sexual harrassment
Harry S Truman
Free the slaves in the south
The Gettysburg Address
21. 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)
A gun
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson; July 4th - 1826
England; sailors; products
Iraq invaded Kuwait - and a coalition of naions push Iraq out of Kuwait
22. Who burnt down the White House during a war?
2
January 20th
Ft. Sumter - South Carolina
England
23. What were John Adams's last words?
Crime to print false or meliscious or scandalist stuff about the U.S. gov.
Social Security
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Jefferson still survives
24. Which president started the two term tradition?
New Mexico to California
Dental; medical
A 2nd home for the president
George Washington
25. Which presidents were cousins?
Gerald Ford
Teddy Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Thomas Jefferson
Speeches given for hope
26. Who was on the bad side for WWI (abc order)?
4
Ulysses S. Grant
OK to send home foregienors if they looked dangerous; also if we were in war with their country
Germany - Hungary - Turkey
27. Who was William McKinley's VP that moved up when He was killed?
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
A group of representatives chosen by the voters to elect the President
Teddy Roosevelt
Ulysses S. Grant
28. Which president adopted independence - was loyal - smart - and a lawyer?
Barack Obama
Harvard
John Adams
The US was prepared to send money and military support to countries that want to resist communism
29. Who is considered 'the father of our country'?
Bad
George Washington
James Madison
4
30. How many days was the Iran Hostage crisis?
444
Ronald Reagan
Maine and Nebraska
Buffalo - New York
31. In most states - what percent of the state's electoral votes does a candidate get if they win the popular vote?
South; north
100
Electors
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
32. Who invaded Iraq?
George W. Bush
New Mexico to California
The number of people in Congress plus 3 for DC
William Henry Harrison
33. What is the Truman Doctrine?
The US was prepared to send money and military support to countries that want to resist communism
Crime to print false or meliscious or scandalist stuff about the U.S. gov.
35
James Madison
34. Who was President during the Spanish American War?
John Adams
Jimmy Carter
Enola Gay
William McKinley
35. How many presidents died in office?
100
8
John Adams
Dwight David Eisenhower
36. The ______ was invented when William McKinley was killed - and it could have saved him.
William McKinley
X-ray
John Adams
December 7th - 1941
37. Who was the fpresident during WWI?
Ft. Sumter - South Carolina
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Woodrow Wilson
England; sailors; products
38. During the civil war - the south named itself _____.
Teddy Roosevelt
The Confederate States of America
Richard Nixon
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
39. Where was Thomas Jefferson born?
Monticello - Virginia
Civil War
The number of people in Congress plus 3 for DC
Enola Gay
40. Who did we help in the Vietnam war and the korean war?
Europe
William Jefferson Clinton
6'4'
The south
41. Who was the only man to be president Who was not elected to either vp spot or the presidency?
Mount Vernon - Virginia
Harvard
The Vice President
Gerald Ford
42. After what event was the Fourteen Points presented?
World War I
Universal health care
Harry S Truman
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
43. Which presient send Lewis and Clark on their journey?
England; sailors; products
January 1st - 1863
1914-1918
Thomas Jefferson
44. What happens to John Wilkes Booth?
William Henry Harrison
The federal government guarentees your money at a bank
He gets shot
15
45. How much of a retirement income per year does the president make (for life)?
$150000
Daniel Inouye
The south
Ulysses S. Grant
46. Who is thought to have assassinated John Fitzgerald Kennedy?
Germany was attacking ships
Woodrow Wilson
14
Lee Harvey Oswald
47. Who was our president when we kille Osama bin Laden?
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Barack Obama
William Jefferson Clinton
John Adams
48. Who's son is Camp David named after?
35
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.
Dwight David Eisenhower
Hillary Clinton
49. James Madison's wife is famous for...
USA
Teddy Roosevelt
Saving a picture of Washington during the war
James Polk
50. What was the Tenure of Office Act/
Harry S Truman
Kentucky; Log cabin
Massachusetts
The president could not fire and federal official who had gotten their job with Senate approval