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U.S. Presidents Trivia
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What happens if no candidate gets the majorit y of electoral votes?
Abraham Lincoln
The president could not fire and federal official who had gotten their job with Senate approval
Georgia
The House of Representatives selects the President and the Senate selects the Vice President
2. Who was president for the 9/11 attacks?
Iraq invaded Kuwait - and a coalition of naions push Iraq out of Kuwait
8
Enola Gay
George W. Bush
3. What were John Adams's last words?
Jefferson still survives
William McKinley
15 million
John Quicy Adams
4. What was a popular film of John Fitzgerald Kennedy's assassination?
John Adams
George Washington
Zapruder film
Dwight David Eisenhower
5. Who was president during the Great depression?
The US was prepared to send money and military support to countries that want to resist communism
John Tyler
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
2
6. Who attends diplomatic functions in place of the president?
In their state's capital
The Vice President
January 1st - 1863
George H. W. Bush
7. How many presidents died in office?
Worker can take three months off in a year to take care of sick relatives or him/herself and cannot be fired
A gun
8
Buffalo - New York
8. What war was George Washington in the military for?
French and Indian War
8
Conspiracy
Barack Obama
9. What was the New Deal?
Getting out of the Great depression by hiring people - which would start a chain reaction
Robert E. Lee
132
England
10. Who attends diplomatic functions in place of the president?
Harry S Truman
George H. W. Bush
The Vice President
East of Africa
11. John Adams went to what college?
George H. W. Bush
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Richard Nixon
Harvard
12. What month and year was the Gettysburg Address said?
5
November 1863
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor - Hawaii
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
13. Which president was a 'rough rider' in the Spanish American War?
The north were comunists and the south were not
The north and the south were split up
Teddy Roosevelt
18
14. Who was the commander in charge of Europe afor the Allies in WWII?
Dwight David Eisenhower
Acting
Lee Harvey Oswald
George H. W. Bush
15. How many pounds was 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
Peterson House; the next morning
350
Joe Biden
16. What year was the Louisiana Territory bought?
1803
22 - 24
James Madison
A gun
17. Which president was a 'rough rider' in the Spanish American War?
William Jefferson Clinton
Teddy Roosevelt
Germany - Hungary - Turkey
You can collect money if you become disabled before retirement
18. Which president created the University of Virgina?
Buffalo - New York
No
20
Thomas Jefferson
19. Who gave the longest inauguration speech?
Jimmy Carter
Richard Nixon
OK to send home foregienors if they looked dangerous; also if we were in war with their country
William Henry Harrison
20. Who was the only president to resign?
35 said He was guilty - but he needed 36
Richard Nixon
William Henry Harrison
Democratic National Headquarters; Watergate
21. What state was John Adams from?
20
They were classmates in college
1803
Massachusetts
22. Where does the president live for free?
The government
When peace was made between Israel and Egypt at Camp David
The White House
Thomas Jefferson
23. Where does the number of electors in the electoral college come from?
The number of people in Congress plus 3 for DC
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
William Howard Taft
East of Africa
24. What did the Interstate Highway System also do besides provide a road for driving?
Medical insurance for all americans
Joe Biden
Barack Obama
Providing a backup place for military plane landing
25. When did we get involved and stop being involved with WWI? (month and year)
8
4
April 1917- November 1918
James Madison
26. How many pounds was William Howard Taft?
Ford's Theater
George Washington
George Washington
350
27. Who was president for the nullification crisis?
Teddy Roosevelt
Universal health care
Andrew Jackson
John Wilkes Booth
28. Who was the only president to resign?
New Mexico to California
William Jefferson Clinton
Andrew Jackson
Richard Nixon
29. Who was our president when we kille Osama bin Laden?
Barack Obama
Buffalo - New York
The Vice President
Social Security
30. which president was former head of CIA?
Period after the Civil War and how we reunited
18
Yes
George H. W. Bush
31. Which president presented the bill of rights at the first Congress?
Sexual harrassment
James Madison
We thought there were weapons of mass destruction - but there weren't
George Washington
32. How many presidents were killed in office?
The Vice President
4
X-ray
John Quicy Adams
33. Who was embarrassed when they received the Nobel Peace Prize?
Providing a backup place for military plane landing
18
Barack Obama
George Washington
34. Who was President during the Spanish American War?
Ulysses S. Grant
Kentucky; Log cabin
William McKinley
Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Pearl Harbor bombing
35. What was the Emancipation proclamation meant to do?
Free the slaves in the south
William Henry Harrison - Zachary Taylor - Warren Harding - and Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Honor people who died - make sure the country survies
Polio
36. What date did the civil war begin?
We thought there were weapons of mass destruction - but there weren't
April 12th - 1861
A group of representatives chosen by the voters to elect the President
John Wilkes Booth
37. Who was the only president to be president and then supreme court chief justice?
John Adams
Harry S Truman
Robert E. Lee
William Howard Taft
38. Who were Woodward and Bernstein?
39. William Jefferson Clinton paid Paula Jones $____.
Andrew Jackson
1 million
John Adams and John Quincy Adams
Zapruder film
40. Who is the current speaker of the House?
John Boehner
William Henry Harrison
Club with all countries where problems were discussed peacefully
Jimmy Carter
41. Abraham Lincoln was ______ educated
Self
8
Ford's Theater
Abigail
42. Where does the right to navigate teh seas without interference not apply?
East of Africa
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Maine and Nebraska
43. How many kids did George Washington have?
John Quicy Adams
Teddy Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Social Security
0
44. What is the Electoral College?
444
Monticello - Virginia
Ford's Theater
A group of representatives chosen by the voters to elect the President
45. John Adams went to what college?
George W. Bush
Harvard
1914-1918
Speeches given for hope
46. Gerald Ford pardons _____________ for all crimes committed.
Lyndon Johnson
Gerald Ford
Richard Nixon
November 22nd - 1963
47. What is the oldest you can be to get surviver benefits?
18
Germany invaded Poland
William Seward; $7.2 million; Alaska
Barack Obama
48. Which president made the panama canal?
Teddy Roosevelt
George H. W. Bush
OK to send home foregienors if they looked dangerous; also if we were in war with their country
60; unconstitutional
49. Congress passed 2 laws designed to limit __________'s (a president) power .
Barack Obama
OK to send home foregienors if they looked dangerous; also if we were in war with their country
Andrew Johnson
$400000
50. Which president presented the bill of rights at the first Congress?
Martha
Gerald Ford
James Madison
Civil War