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U.S. Presidents Trivia
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Name the Founding Fathers plus the son in order...
Sic Semper Tyrannis - the south is avenged
Teddy Roosevelt - Woodrow Wilson - Jimmy Carter - and Barack Obama
George Washington - John Adams - Thomas Jefferson - James Madison - James Monroe - and John Quincy Adams
Richard Nixon
2. Which president was a great general - a leader - honest - and trustworth?
We thought there were weapons of mass destruction - but there weren't
Eleanor
Dwight David Eisenhower
George Washington
3. Who was president during the Great depression?
Harry S Truman
We thought there were weapons of mass destruction - but there weren't
Teddy Roosevelt - Woodrow Wilson - Jimmy Carter - and Barack Obama
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
4. Who was the only president to get all the electoral votes?
He was shot
Free the slaves in the south
George Washington
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
5. What were the sides for the Korean war and the Vietnam war?
The number of people in Congress plus 3 for DC
The federal government guarentees your money at a bank
The north were comunists and the south were not
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
6. Who was president for the persian gulf war?
Buffalo - New York
OK to send home foregienors if they looked dangerous; also if we were in war with their country
George H. W. Bush
Iraq invaded Kuwait - and a coalition of naions push Iraq out of Kuwait
7. How many electoral votes do you need to win the election?
The US was prepared to send money and military support to countries that want to resist communism
Teddy Roosevelt
He fired the Secretary of War Staton
270
8. Who burnt down the White House during a war?
The Korean War
England
8
Richard Nixon
9. Which president had a stroke in his bathroom?
Barack Obama
Woodrow Wilson
Conspiracy
7; 11
10. Which president recognized Israel and traded with them and gave money and embassadors to them?
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Harry S Truman
1 million
1814
11. Which presidents won the nobel peace prize (in order)?
Alien and sedition acts
The US was prepared to send money and military support to countries that want to resist communism
The Vice President
Teddy Roosevelt - Woodrow Wilson - Jimmy Carter - and Barack Obama
12. 'Speak softley and carry a big stick' was a quote of who?
Dallas - Texas
Teddy Roosevelt
November 1863
$400000
13. Who was FDR's VP Who was president for WWII?
Harry S Truman
Money goes to kids when a parent dies
Cuba wanted to overthrow Castrow and our military helped train them
Social Security
14. Who had many affairs during their presidency but claimed not to?
William Jefferson Clinton
Hillary Clinton
Jefferson Davis
4
15. Which president adopted independence - was loyal - smart - and a lawyer?
John Adams
None
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
January 20th
16. Sedition acts
Crime to print false or meliscious or scandalist stuff about the U.S. gov.
Eleanor
George W. Bush
Andrew Johnson
17. What is FDIC (explaIn what it means - not what it stands for)?
The federal government guarentees your money at a bank
New Mexico to California
A group of representatives chosen by the voters to elect the President
John Quincy Adams - Rutherford B. Hayes - Benjamin Harrison - and George W. Bush
18. Who became president when Richard Nixon resigend because they were his VP?
Gerald Ford
270
Jefferson still survives
South; north
19. Why did we enter WWII?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Pearl Harbor bombing
Abraham Lincoln
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor - Hawaii
William and Mary College
20. how many years is a score?
20
$150000
George W. Bush
Providing a backup place for military plane landing
21. How many days was the Iran Hostage crisis?
James Madison
He wanted a date Jodie Foster
James Madison
444
22. Which president created Yellowstone National Park and Yosemite?
Teddy Roosevelt
William Henry Harrison
1914-1918
William Seward; $7.2 million; Alaska
23. What were John Adams's last words?
Jefferson still survives
Dallas - Texas
Speeches given for hope
1
24. Where did the name 'gettysburg' come from?
444
The three day battle in July in Gettysburg about slaves
18
Teddy Roosevelt
25. How many presidents were killed in office?
4
8
The US was prepared to send money and military support to countries that want to resist communism
14
26. After what event was the Fourteen Points presented?
Free the slaves in the south
14
World War I
Joe Biden
27. Abraham Lincoln was ______ educated
Self
Universal health care
James Madison
Crime to print false or meliscious or scandalist stuff about the U.S. gov.
28. What was the point of the Gettysburg Address (two things)?
6'4'
Ulysses S. Grant
Massachusetts
Honor people who died - make sure the country survies
29. Where do electors vote?
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30. What was the Bay of Pigs?
Cuba wanted to overthrow Castrow and our military helped train them
Harvard
Dental; medical
When he jumped out of the balcony - his foot got stuck in the bunting and he fell onto stage
31. What are surviver benefits?
4
Money goes to kids when a parent dies
Barack Obama
William Seward; $7.2 million; Alaska
32. What year was the White House burnt down?
1 million
John Wilkes Booth
1814
John Quicy Adams
33. Why wasn't Andrew Johnson removed from office when He was impeached?
14
100
John Hinkley Jr.
35 said He was guilty - but he needed 36
34. Who did fireside chats?
April 1917- November 1918
William Henry Harrison
OK to send home foregienors if they looked dangerous; also if we were in war with their country
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
35. How many kids did John Tyler have?
1914-1918
William and Mary College
15
1 million
36. Sedition acts
Jefferson Davis
Crime to print false or meliscious or scandalist stuff about the U.S. gov.
1
Medical insurance for all americans
37. How many years is a presidential term?
Mary Todd-Lincoln
Guam - Midway Islands - Philippines - and Puerto Rico
4
Maryland
38. This president swam naked in the Potomac River
60; unconstitutional
John Quicy Adams
Teddy Roosevelt
Self
39. What happens to John Wilkes Booth?
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
4th
He gets shot
Daniel Inouye
40. Andrew Johnson had a (good/bad) relation ship with congress over reconstruction
OK to send home foregienors if they looked dangerous; also if we were in war with their country
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Bad
The president
41. What president made the emancipation proclamtion?
Abraham Lincoln
Self
Saving a picture of Washington during the war
Barack Obama
42. How tall was Abraham Lincoln?
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43. How many presidents died in office?
England
8
A person who knew the truth about Richard Nixon and told Woodward and Bernstein
William and Mary College
44. Who was our president during the Vietnam War?
Saving a picture of Washington during the war
He was shot
270
Lyndon Johnson
45. How much money does the president earn per year?
James Madison
$400000
Money goes to kids when a parent dies
444
46. Which president got Alzheimers and forgot being president?
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
In their state's capital
60; unconstitutional
Ronald Reagan
47. What date did the civil war begin?
Andrew Johnson
Ronald Reagan
April 12th - 1861
Harry S Truman
48. How old do you have to be to be president?
Speeches given for hope
4
35
The Vice President
49. Who takes over if the President is disabled or dies?
Dwight David Eisenhower
The Vice President
The Gettysburg Address
Thomas Jefferson
50. What was the Berlin Airlift?
1
James Polk
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
When we dropped food and supplies to people in West Berlin