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U.S. Presidents Trivia
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1. What was the Emancipation proclamation meant to do?
William Jefferson Clinton
Free the slaves in the south
Providing a backup place for military plane landing
He was shot on his way to a college reunion
2. How many electors are in the electoral college?
Money goes to kids when a parent dies
444
4
538
3. What is the oldest you can be to get surviver benefits?
15 million
Getting out of the Great depression by hiring people - which would start a chain reaction
18
Andrew Jackson
4. Why did WWII begin?
Germany invaded Poland
Lyndon Johnson
The south
Yes
5. Who was president when the United Nations was formed?
Gerald Ford
George Washington
Harry S Truman
Saving a picture of Washington during the war
6. Who presented the Fourteen Points?
Woodrow Wilson
The president
The north and the south were split up
Lyndon Johnson
7. How many rooms in the white house?
Zapruder film
22 - 24
30
132
8. Which president made the panama canal?
Teddy Roosevelt
Jimmy Carter
2
The idea to own all the land from the pacific to the atlantic ocean; 1.2 million
9. James Madison's wife was ________ Madison.
The north and the south were split up
Electors
Dolley
He fired the Secretary of War Staton
10. Who attempted to assassinate Ronald Reagan?
John Hinkley Jr.
22 - 24
Germany was attacking ships
Kentucky; Log cabin
11. What is the inauguration date?
January 20th
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
George Washington
William McKinley
12. Who was president when the United Nations was formed?
Harry S Truman
George H. W. Bush
Civil rights
The federal government guarentees your money at a bank
13. Why wasn't Andrew Johnson removed from office when He was impeached?
Lyndon Johnson
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor - Hawaii
35 said He was guilty - but he needed 36
George W. Bush
14. John Adams had a successful marriage with ______ (first name).
4
Abigail
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
He was shot on his way to a college reunion
15. who pays for the costs of operating the white house?
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson; July 4th - 1826
The government
William Jefferson Clinton
Bad
16. Which president was obnoxious and disliked?
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
John Adams
George Washington
George H. W. Bush
17. The president get ____ care and _____ care for free.
Thomas Jefferson
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
William Jefferson Clinton
Dental; medical
18. Who burnt down the White House during a war?
New Mexico to California
Woodrow Wilson
England
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
19. Which president started the two term tradition?
The House of Representatives selects the President and the Senate selects the Vice President
George Washington
2
Dwight David Eisenhower
20. Which president was obnoxious and disliked?
Worker can take three months off in a year to take care of sick relatives or him/herself and cannot be fired
George H. W. Bush
We thought there were weapons of mass destruction - but there weren't
John Adams
21. Who was our president when we kille Osama bin Laden?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Period after the Civil War and how we reunited
Harry S Truman
Barack Obama
22. Who was FDR's VP Who was president for WWII?
Harry S Truman
Electors
John Adams
X-ray
23. How many years is a presidential term?
Richard Nixon
George Washington
4
Harry S Truman
24. How much was the Louisiana Territory when it was purchased?
Mary Todd-Lincoln
15 million
George H. W. Bush
James Madison
25. Who won a Nobel Peace Prize for what they were going to do?
Barack Obama
Sexual harrassment
Abraham Lincoln
The Civil War
26. Who was our president when we kille Osama bin Laden?
The White House
No
Barack Obama
1
27. Do we vote directly for the president?
Forced the president to issue all military orders through general of the army who could not be removed without senate approval
Teddy Roosevelt
No
1803
28. Franklin Delano Roosevelt got his middle name because his _____'s favorite relative was de la Noye
Mom
William Seward; $7.2 million; Alaska
England - France - Russia - USA
The Vice President
29. Who was the only president to resign?
The Gettysburg Address
Georgia
Medical insurance for all americans
Richard Nixon
30. What is manifest destiny? how many square miles was it?
The idea to own all the land from the pacific to the atlantic ocean; 1.2 million
4
January 1st - 1863
4
31. Who was William McKinley's VP that moved up when He was killed?
The north were comunists and the south were not
Georgia
Teddy Roosevelt
George H. W. Bush
32. What to laws did Adams TRY to pass?
Alien and sedition acts
Speeches given for hope
England - France - Russia - USA
14
33. Who was Deep Throat?
Kentucky; Log cabin
A person who knew the truth about Richard Nixon and told Woodward and Bernstein
Period after the Civil War and how we reunited
Enola Gay
34. what president was also president of the constitutional convention?
The government
Maryland
George Washington
December 7th - 1941
35. What war did George Washington lead the army for?
The fourteen points
Revolutionary War
Cuba wanted to overthrow Castrow and our military helped train them
1914-1918
36. Where do electors vote?
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37. Manifest Destiny was to have all the land from __________ to ___________ (east to west)
1
Writters for Washington Post who figured out Richard Nixon's case
New Mexico to California
4
38. How many electoral votes do you need to win the election?
270
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The south
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
39. Who became president when Richard Nixon resigend because they were his VP?
Dwight David Eisenhower
Writters for Washington Post who figured out Richard Nixon's case
Teddy Roosevelt - Woodrow Wilson - Jimmy Carter - and Barack Obama
Gerald Ford
40. Who attempted to assassinate Ronald Reagan?
Monroe
A 2nd home for the president
George W. Bush
John Hinkley Jr.
41. What presidents (in order) died of natural causes?
1
William Henry Harrison - Zachary Taylor - Warren Harding - and Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
England
42. What was reconstruction?
Buffalo - New York
Period after the Civil War and how we reunited
Ulysses S. Grant
Robert E. Lee
43. What date was John Fitzgerald Kennedy killed on?
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
England - France - Russia - USA
November 22nd - 1963
Dwight David Eisenhower
44. Who was the commander in charge of Europe afor the Allies in WWII?
1
Dwight David Eisenhower
18
No
45. Where was Abraham Lincoln born? What kind of house did he live in?
Teddy Roosevelt
Kentucky; Log cabin
Peterson House; the next morning
George W. Bush
46. Who did the Banking Holiday?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Self
1 million
When he jumped out of the balcony - his foot got stuck in the bunting and he fell onto stage
47. What was the Tenure of Office Act/
New Mexico to California
1 million
The president could not fire and federal official who had gotten their job with Senate approval
He fired the Secretary of War Staton
48. What law that Barack Obama passed might be unconstitutional and is being looked at by the supreme court now?
Harry S Truman
Harry S Truman
Andrew Jackson
Universal health care
49. The person who killed John Fitzgerald Kennedy is thought to have killed him in a _______ - or not alone.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Ronald Reagan
Conspiracy
Richard Nixon
50. Who was president for the nullification crisis?
Thomas Jefferson
Andrew Jackson
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
His 5th cousin