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U.S. Presidents Trivia
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1. How did John Wilkes Booth break his leg?
Peterson House; the next morning
Mary Todd-Lincoln
When he jumped out of the balcony - his foot got stuck in the bunting and he fell onto stage
2
2. What to laws did Adams TRY to pass?
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Alien and sedition acts
The fourteen points
John Quicy Adams
3. Where was William McKinley killed?
USA
Kentucky; Log cabin
January 1st - 1863
Buffalo - New York
4. What state is Camp David in?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The Korean War
Maryland
January 1st - 1863
5. What was the persian gulf war/desert storm?
Iraq invaded Kuwait - and a coalition of naions push Iraq out of Kuwait
7; 11
Lyndon Johnson
Jimmy Carter
6. What was the Tenure of Office Act/
William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison
A group of representatives chosen by the voters to elect the President
The president could not fire and federal official who had gotten their job with Senate approval
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
7. How many presidents died in office?
Kentucky; Log cabin
A 2nd home for the president
Ft. Sumter - South Carolina
8
8. Who is the current President Pro-Tempore of the Senate?
William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison
Getting out of the Great depression by hiring people - which would start a chain reaction
When he jumped out of the balcony - his foot got stuck in the bunting and he fell onto stage
Daniel Inouye
9. Who was president during the War of 1812 against England?
England
A gun
James Madison
The White House
10. What is the Truman Doctrine?
Teddy Roosevelt
The US was prepared to send money and military support to countries that want to resist communism
Teddy Roosevelt
Universal health care
11. How many electoral votes does Florida have?
Sic Semper Tyrannis - the south is avenged
Massachusetts
Thomas Jefferson
27
12. What is Camp David?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Pearl Harbor bombing
A 2nd home for the president
William Howard Taft
13. Who is thought to have assassinated John Fitzgerald Kennedy?
Lee Harvey Oswald
Gerald Ford
Monroe
The federal government guarentees your money at a bank
14. What are the people in the electoral college called?
John Quicy Adams
Electors
Medical insurance for all americans
Dental; medical
15. Where did Thomas Jefferson go to college?
Gerald Ford
John Quicy Adams
William and Mary College
Hillary Clinton
16. There was a _________ - or a group of people - who helped John Wilkes Booth kill Lincoln and also planned to kill the VP and Secretary.
Conspiracy
England - France - Russia - USA
The fourteen points
15 million
17. Who was president during the Great depression?
Mount Vernon - Virginia
Europe
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Dallas - Texas
18. Who won the Nobel peace prize because he told Russia and Japan not to fight - but to love?
Teddy Roosevelt
Harvard
Dwight David Eisenhower
Thomas Jefferson
19. What law that Barack Obama passed might be unconstitutional and is being looked at by the supreme court now?
George Washington - John Adams - Thomas Jefferson - James Madison - James Monroe - and John Quincy Adams
Abigail
John Adams
Universal health care
20. There was a _________ - or a group of people - who helped John Wilkes Booth kill Lincoln and also planned to kill the VP and Secretary.
Conspiracy
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
Jefferson Davis
Harry S Truman
21. Who presented the Fourteen Points?
100
Woodrow Wilson
French and Indian War
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
22. Why did the league of nations fail (what country wouldn't join)?
William Henry Harrison
Andrew Jackson
USA
Jimmy Carter
23. Who was our president during the Korean war?
Andrew Johnson
Dwight David Eisenhower
Ronald Reagan
Abigail
24. During the civil war - the north's general was ___________.
Ulysses S. Grant
James Madison
Since birth
Revolutionary War
25. Who ran the country when Woodrow Wilson couldn't?
14
We thought there were weapons of mass destruction - but there weren't
His wife
No
26. What is the mandatory retirement plan run by the government?
Hillary Clinton
Social Security
Teddy Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Germany invaded Poland
27. Who pays for all personal entertainment and dinners not related to teh government business in the White House?
He was shot
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Ulysses S. Grant
The president
28. How long do you have to be a citizen for to be president?
Buffalo - New York
Georgia
Since birth
Dallas - Texas
29. Who is the current secretary of state?
John Adams
Guam - Midway Islands - Philippines - and Puerto Rico
Hillary Clinton
Iraq invaded Kuwait - and a coalition of naions push Iraq out of Kuwait
30. Where do electors vote?
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31. Abraham Lincoln was ______ educated
We thought there were weapons of mass destruction - but there weren't
Saving a picture of Washington during the war
Self
Harry S Truman
32. Who moved up when John Fitzgerald Kennedy died because He was his VP?
Lyndon Johnson
Ulysses S. Grant
Dwight David Eisenhower
He resigned before the impeachment trial
33. What presidents (in order) died of natural causes?
William Henry Harrison - Zachary Taylor - Warren Harding - and Franklin Delano Roosevelt
George H. W. Bush
Georgia
William Jefferson Clinton
34. What was the New Deal?
James Madison
Woodrow Wilson
7; 11
Getting out of the Great depression by hiring people - which would start a chain reaction
35. Who went to the Supreme court and tried to increase it to fifteen judges - but was told no?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
England; sailors; products
270
Sexual harrassment
36. This president swam naked in the Potomac River
John Quicy Adams
The Gettysburg Address
Buffalo - New York
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
37. What war was George Washington in the military for?
French and Indian War
Dental; medical
John Adams
538
38. Which president got Alzheimers and forgot being president?
Barack Obama
20
The Vice President
Ronald Reagan
39. James Madison's wife was ________ Madison.
Hillary Clinton
George H. W. Bush
England
Dolley
40. Who was a peanut farmer?
Harry S Truman
No
Jimmy Carter
William Jefferson Clinton
41. Jimmy Carter was the former governor of ____.
Dental; medical
January 1st - 1863
Lyndon Johnson
Georgia
42. Which president was the youngest to serve?
Teddy Roosevelt
William and Mary College
Andrew Johnson
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
43. Who was the only president to resign?
Richard Nixon
USA
He fired the Secretary of War Staton
Mary Todd-Lincoln
44. How much money does the president earn per year?
132
The Vice President
$400000
Guam - Midway Islands - Philippines - and Puerto Rico
45. Which president was a 'rough rider' in the Spanish American War?
Teddy Roosevelt
He gets shot
January 1st - 1863
Woodrow Wilson
46. Who were the second presidents to be father and son?
1 million
George H.W. Bush and George Bush
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor - Hawaii
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor - Hawaii
47. Abraham Lincoln was ______ educated
Self
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Mount Vernon - Virginia
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
48. Which president was a great general - a leader - honest - and trustworth?
George Washington
Andrew Johnson
2
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
49. Who presented the Fourteen Points?
April 1917- November 1918
William and Mary College
The Civil War
Woodrow Wilson
50. What president did the Berlin airlift?
The first Tuesday of Novermber that follows a monday in November
132
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Harry S Truman