U.S. Presidents Trivia

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• Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. How many presidents were killed in office?
35 said He was guilty - but he needed 36
4
$150000
Franklin Delano Roosevelt


2. Who won the Nobel peace prize because he told Russia and Japan not to fight - but to love?
Teddy Roosevelt
Barack Obama
4
George Washington


3. Which president helped create the Library of Congress when he sells and donates 6000 books?
27
Thomas Jefferson
George Washington - John Adams - Thomas Jefferson - James Madison - James Monroe - and John Quincy Adams
Richard Nixon


4. What was the name of the airplane that bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Enola Gay
The Vice President
Kentucky; Log cabin
Jefferson still survives


5. What happens to John Wilkes Booth?
John Adams
5
Dallas - Texas
He gets shot


6. Which president was former ambassador to China?
South; north
George H. W. Bush
1803
Civil War


7. Where do electors vote?

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8. What presidents lost the popular vote but won the electoral vote? (in order)
John Quincy Adams - Rutherford B. Hayes - Benjamin Harrison - and George W. Bush
Richard Nixon
Teddy Roosevelt
Teddy Roosevelt


9. How tall was Abraham Lincoln?

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10. What war did George Washington lead the army for?
William Jefferson Clinton
A group of representatives chosen by the voters to elect the President
Revolutionary War
Buffalo - New York


11. Which president got Alzheimers and forgot being president?
Honor people who died - make sure the country survies
Ronald Reagan
Mary Todd-Lincoln
0


12. After Abraham Lincoln was shot - He was carried across the street to ________________ where he dies when?
Germany invaded Poland
Peterson House; the next morning
35 said He was guilty - but he needed 36
William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison


13. Which president presented the bill of rights at the first Congress?
No
The number of people in Congress plus 3 for DC
William Jefferson Clinton
James Madison


14. When was the Emancipation proclamation?
5
January 1st - 1863
Monroe
Barack Obama


15. Who was the oldest elected president (age 73 at 2nd term)?
Sic Semper Tyrannis - the south is avenged
Harry S Truman
Ronald Reagan
USA


16. Where did Thomas Jefferson go to college?
Kentucky; Log cabin
Lee Harvey Oswald
William and Mary College
Revolutionary War


17. Where does the right to navigate teh seas without interference not apply?
East of Africa
Teddy Roosevelt
Iraq invaded Kuwait - and a coalition of naions push Iraq out of Kuwait
Franklin Delano Roosevelt


18. Who is the current speaker of the House?
30
His 5th cousin
John Boehner
Harry S Truman


19. Who had an affair with Monica Lewinsky - a young intern at the White House?
He gets shot
William Jefferson Clinton
George Washington
Mary Todd-Lincoln


20. Who had an affair with Monica Lewinsky - a young intern at the White House?
The Gettysburg Address
5
William Jefferson Clinton
270


21. What was reconstruction?
Period after the Civil War and how we reunited
George Washington
William Jefferson Clinton
Hiroshima and Nagasaki


22. What was the New Deal?
Getting out of the Great depression by hiring people - which would start a chain reaction
Teddy Roosevelt
Woodrow Wilson
Forced the president to issue all military orders through general of the army who could not be removed without senate approval


23. Who is thought to have assassinated John Fitzgerald Kennedy?
Lee Harvey Oswald
East of Africa
OK to send home foregienors if they looked dangerous; also if we were in war with their country
Barack Obama


24. What was a talent of John Wilkes Booth?
Electors
Acting
Peterson House; the next morning
No


25. Who were Woodward and Bernstein?

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26. Who was president during the War of 1812 against England?
James Madison
Germany was attacking ships
7; 11
444


27. John Adams had a successful marriage with ______ (first name).
Abigail
Gerald Ford
Sexual harrassment
Alien and sedition acts


28. How much was the Louisiana Territory when it was purchased?
Mary Todd-Lincoln
William Jefferson Clinton
You can collect money if you become disabled before retirement
15 million


29. Who was the only catholic president?
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
George Washington
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Club with all countries where problems were discussed peacefully


30. How many kids did George Washington have?
The north were comunists and the south were not
The House of Representatives selects the President and the Senate selects the Vice President
You can collect money if you become disabled before retirement
0


31. Who is considered 'the father of our country'?
George Washington
The fourteen points
1 million
270


32. How many rooms in the white house?
132
The three day battle in July in Gettysburg about slaves
Harry S Truman
Writters for Washington Post who figured out Richard Nixon's case


33. Which president served the most terms?
Jimmy Carter
A person who knew the truth about Richard Nixon and told Woodward and Bernstein
Teddy Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt


34. What was the Berlin Airlift?
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson; July 4th - 1826
When we dropped food and supplies to people in West Berlin
Thomas Jefferson
None


35. How many states broke away during the civil war AT FIRST? how many total ending up breaking away?
George H.W. Bush and George Bush
John Adams and John Quincy Adams
7; 11
Conspiracy


36. Why was Andrew Johnson impeached?
George Washington
George Washington
He fired the Secretary of War Staton
Since birth


37. Why did we invade Iraq?

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38. Who became president when Richard Nixon resigend because they were his VP?
Gerald Ford
When we dropped food and supplies to people in West Berlin
William Henry Harrison
Acting


39. There was a _________ - or a group of people - who helped John Wilkes Booth kill Lincoln and also planned to kill the VP and Secretary.
Abigail
A support group of countries
27
Conspiracy


40. Which president got Alzheimers and forgot being president?
Richard Nixon
Ronald Reagan
Monticello - Virginia
Europe


41. Who is the current Vice President?
Enola Gay
14
Dwight David Eisenhower
Joe Biden


42. Who was William McKinley's VP that moved up when He was killed?
5
November 1863
Teddy Roosevelt
Ft. Sumter - South Carolina


43. What war never officially ended but just doesn't fight any more?
Lyndon Johnson
They were classmates in college
The Korean War
The government


44. Where do electors vote?

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45. Who was the only president to get all the electoral votes?
Dwight David Eisenhower
270
Ronald Reagan
George Washington


46. What were John Adams's last words?
A 2nd home for the president
1
Jefferson still survives
Polio


47. Which presidents were great grandfather and grandson?
Richard Nixon
William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison
The Confederate States of America
George Washington


48. Who was our president during the Korean war?
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Abigail
A gun
Dwight David Eisenhower


49. Who balanced the budget?
Mount Vernon - Virginia
They were classmates in college
Since birth
William Jefferson Clinton


50. What does 'Sic Semper Tyrranis' mean?
25
Since birth
Thus always to tyrants
Ronald Reagan