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U.S. Presidents Trivia
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1. How many terms is a president alowed to serve?
2
William Seward; $7.2 million; Alaska
Robert E. Lee
Teddy Roosevelt
2. What presidents lost the popular vote but won the electoral vote? (in order)
George Washington
A support group of countries
John Quincy Adams - Rutherford B. Hayes - Benjamin Harrison - and George W. Bush
0
3. Who went to the Supreme court and tried to increase it to fifteen judges - but was told no?
The Vice President
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The government
Providing a backup place for military plane landing
4. Who had the first death in office?
14
Mary Todd-Lincoln
Andrew Jackson
William Henry Harrison
5. Who was the youngest elected president?
The idea to own all the land from the pacific to the atlantic ocean; 1.2 million
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
England
December 7th - 1941
6. What did John Wilkes Booth say after he shot Lincoln?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
John Tyler
Sic Semper Tyrannis - the south is avenged
7; 11
7. 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)
OK to send home foregienors if they looked dangerous; also if we were in war with their country
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson; July 4th - 1826
Conspiracy
Conspiracy
8. What happens to John Wilkes Booth?
He gets shot
His 5th cousin
John Hinkley Jr.
England - France - Russia - USA
9. What is the family Medical Leave Act?
William Howard Taft
Worker can take three months off in a year to take care of sick relatives or him/herself and cannot be fired
William Henry Harrison
The Gettysburg Address
10. Who was the only catholic president?
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Period after the Civil War and how we reunited
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
William Jefferson Clinton
11. John Quicy Adams spent time In what continent?
November
Thus always to tyrants
Europe
Monroe
12. What does NATO stand for?
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
444
September 1st - 1939
A person who knew the truth about Richard Nixon and told Woodward and Bernstein
13. What date did the civil war begin?
Social Security
Ulysses S. Grant
April 12th - 1861
Robert E. Lee
14. Where did the name 'gettysburg' come from?
Dallas - Texas
The three day battle in July in Gettysburg about slaves
William Jefferson Clinton
John Wilkes Booth
15. Who said 'The only thing we have to fear is fear itself' at their 1st inaugural?
The president
Harry S Truman
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
England; sailors; products
16. How much money does the president earn per year?
Period after the Civil War and how we reunited
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
East of Africa
$400000
17. What date was John Fitzgerald Kennedy killed on?
November 22nd - 1963
Teddy Roosevelt
Sexual harrassment
Civil War
18. Who ran the country when Woodrow Wilson couldn't?
His wife
The Civil War
The Vice President
Democratic National Headquarters; Watergate
19. Why did we enter WWII?
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor - Hawaii
Writters for Washington Post who figured out Richard Nixon's case
60; unconstitutional
35 said He was guilty - but he needed 36
20. Andrew Johnson had a (good/bad) relation ship with congress over reconstruction
Bad
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
You can collect money if you become disabled before retirement
21. Who was the only president to be president and then supreme court chief justice?
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Electors
William Howard Taft
John Tyler
22. How old do you have to be to be president?
John Tyler
Jimmy Carter
35
Acting
23. Who was the only president to get all the electoral votes?
George Washington
William Jefferson Clinton
When he jumped out of the balcony - his foot got stuck in the bunting and he fell onto stage
Teddy Roosevelt - Woodrow Wilson - Jimmy Carter - and Barack Obama
24. Who won the Nobel peace prize because he told Russia and Japan not to fight - but to love?
Teddy Roosevelt
The fourteen points
Thus always to tyrants
Daniel Inouye
25. What is the command of army act?
Forced the president to issue all military orders through general of the army who could not be removed without senate approval
James Madison
4th
Woodrow Wilson
26. Why did the person who tried to assassinate Ronald Reagan do it?
Barack Obama
Georgia
The government
He wanted a date Jodie Foster
27. Which president got Alzheimers and forgot being president?
Hillary Clinton
Ronald Reagan
Abraham Lincoln
USA
28. Who was Deep Throat?
Getting out of the Great depression by hiring people - which would start a chain reaction
Barack Obama
George Washington
A person who knew the truth about Richard Nixon and told Woodward and Bernstein
29. Why was Andrew Johnson impeached?
He fired the Secretary of War Staton
15
14
Crime to print false or meliscious or scandalist stuff about the U.S. gov.
30. When Harry S Truman was president during WWII - what two places in japan were bombed (abc order)?
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor - Hawaii
The first Tuesday of Novermber that follows a monday in November
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
He wanted a date Jodie Foster
31. how many years is a score?
George Washington
Barack Obama
John Quincy Adams - Rutherford B. Hayes - Benjamin Harrison - and George W. Bush
20
32. Who was George Washington's wife?
John Quincy Adams - Rutherford B. Hayes - Benjamin Harrison - and George W. Bush
A group of representatives chosen by the voters to elect the President
Dallas - Texas
Martha
33. Do we vote directly for the president?
A support group of countries
No
The White House
John Quincy Adams - Rutherford B. Hayes - Benjamin Harrison - and George W. Bush
34. Who won a Nobel Peace Prize for what they were going to do?
Barack Obama
35
George W. Bush
Perjury and obstruction of justice
35. What state is Camp David in?
Monroe
Maryland
Polio
John Boehner
36. How many presidents were killed in office?
Teddy Roosevelt
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Dwight David Eisenhower
4
37. How many kids did George Washington have?
0
You can collect money if you become disabled before retirement
Electors
$150000
38. How many days was the Iran Hostage crisis?
A gun
Universal health care
444
The south
39. Andrew Johnson was _________'s VP
The US was prepared to send money and military support to countries that want to resist communism
14
Abraham Lincoln
He was shot
40. Who became president when Richard Nixon resigend because they were his VP?
Teddy Roosevelt
Gerald Ford
We thought there were weapons of mass destruction - but there weren't
4
41. How can a president serve up to ten years?
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42. How many rooms in the white house?
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Thomas Jefferson
Barack Obama
132
43. What president did the Berlin airlift?
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Harry S Truman
8
James Madison
44. Who said 'A date that will live in infamy'? What were they talking about (separate with semicolon)?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Pearl Harbor bombing
Jimmy Carter
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Worker can take three months off in a year to take care of sick relatives or him/herself and cannot be fired
45. Who won the Civil war for Lincoln and later on became a president?
Ulysses S. Grant
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor - Hawaii
Germany invaded Poland
In their state's capital
46. Which president was a lawyer - very smart - an architect - a musician - and an inventor?
November
Thomas Jefferson
8
7; 11
47. Who was the commander in charge of Europe afor the Allies in WWII?
Perjury and obstruction of justice
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.
Eleanor
Dwight David Eisenhower
48. 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)
Teddy Roosevelt
The first Tuesday of Novermber that follows a monday in November
USA
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson; July 4th - 1826
49. What was the Berlin Airlift?
William Jefferson Clinton
When we dropped food and supplies to people in West Berlin
0
1
50. Who is thought to have assassinated John Fitzgerald Kennedy?
Lee Harvey Oswald
15 million
James Madison
Teddy Roosevelt