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U.S. Presidents Trivia
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Which president was a great general - a leader - honest - and trustworth?
Dwight David Eisenhower
George Washington
Perjury and obstruction of justice
Harvard
2. What were the territories we gained in the Spanish American War? (ABC order with commas inbetween)
Money goes to kids when a parent dies
Guam - Midway Islands - Philippines - and Puerto Rico
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
William Jefferson Clinton
3. During the civil war - the north's general was ___________.
Bad
George Washington - John Adams - Thomas Jefferson - James Madison - James Monroe - and John Quincy Adams
Ulysses S. Grant
60; unconstitutional
4. What month and year was the Gettysburg Address said?
Period after the Civil War and how we reunited
4
November 1863
Civil War
5. Who had the first death in office?
4
Since birth
Conspiracy
William Henry Harrison
6. What war never officially ended but just doesn't fight any more?
A person who knew the truth about Richard Nixon and told Woodward and Bernstein
George Washington - John Adams - Thomas Jefferson - James Madison - James Monroe - and John Quincy Adams
35 said He was guilty - but he needed 36
The Korean War
7. Where did the name 'gettysburg' come from?
Andrew Johnson
Teddy Roosevelt
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor - Hawaii
The three day battle in July in Gettysburg about slaves
8. Where was William McKinley killed?
30
Buffalo - New York
Cuba wanted to overthrow Castrow and our military helped train them
Maryland
9. The committee of the watergate scandal illegally entered the __________ (building) and spied on Nixon's opponent Who was in the _______ complex.
We thought there were weapons of mass destruction - but there weren't
South; north
Democratic National Headquarters; Watergate
The north were comunists and the south were not
10. Who invaded Iraq?
Mary Todd-Lincoln
William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison
$150000
George W. Bush
11. Who pays for all personal entertainment and dinners not related to teh government business in the White House?
Conspiracy
USA
The president
Kentucky; Log cabin
12. What was the Emancipation proclamation meant to do?
Electors
Free the slaves in the south
Teddy Roosevelt
James Polk
13. How long do you have to be a citizen for to be president?
John Adams
Since birth
Dwight David Eisenhower
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
14. Who were the second presidents to be father and son?
Bad
Harry S Truman
William Henry Harrison
George H.W. Bush and George Bush
15. What is the mandatory retirement plan run by the government?
Medical insurance for all americans
Harry S Truman
Acting
Social Security
16. Who won the Nobel peace prize because he told Russia and Japan not to fight - but to love?
Jefferson still survives
Jimmy Carter
Thomas Jefferson
Teddy Roosevelt
17. What to laws did Adams TRY to pass?
Dwight David Eisenhower
Alien and sedition acts
Teddy Roosevelt - Woodrow Wilson - Jimmy Carter - and Barack Obama
Conspiracy
18. What are the people in the electoral college called?
Worker can take three months off in a year to take care of sick relatives or him/herself and cannot be fired
Electors
Self
132
19. Franklin Delano Roosevelt's wife was related to him how?
His 5th cousin
Dwight David Eisenhower
John Quincy Adams - Rutherford B. Hayes - Benjamin Harrison - and George W. Bush
USA
20. Who was on the bad side for WWI (abc order)?
Money goes to kids when a parent dies
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Germany - Hungary - Turkey
21. Who was our president when we kille Osama bin Laden?
Barack Obama
Mom
Writters for Washington Post who figured out Richard Nixon's case
George Washington
22. Who introduced social security?
Abraham Lincoln
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
A group of representatives chosen by the voters to elect the President
Conspiracy
23. Where do electors vote?
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24. Who won a Nobel Peace Prize for what they were going to do?
Barack Obama
The federal government guarentees your money at a bank
Buffalo - New York
100
25. Why did WWI happen?
John Quincy Adams - Rutherford B. Hayes - Benjamin Harrison - and George W. Bush
Alien and sedition acts
Germany was attacking ships
Gerald Ford
26. How was James Garfield killed?
Martha
No
He was shot on his way to a college reunion
When he jumped out of the balcony - his foot got stuck in the bunting and he fell onto stage
27. What year was the Louisiana Territory bought?
1803
Ronald Reagan
4
He was shot on his way to a college reunion
28. Who is the current Vice President?
350
Jimmy Carter
7; 11
Joe Biden
29. How many pounds was William Howard Taft?
Abigail
350
100
Teddy Roosevelt - Woodrow Wilson - Jimmy Carter - and Barack Obama
30. When was the Emancipation proclamation?
January 1st - 1863
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
You can collect money if you become disabled before retirement
Kentucky; Log cabin
31. What is manifest destiny? how many square miles was it?
14
Maine and Nebraska
The idea to own all the land from the pacific to the atlantic ocean; 1.2 million
You can collect money if you become disabled before retirement
32. Who said 'The buck stops here'?
Polio
Harry S Truman
Germany invaded Poland
100
33. John Adams went to what college?
Harvard
James Madison
When we dropped food and supplies to people in West Berlin
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
34. Gerald Ford pardons _____________ for all crimes committed.
Peterson House; the next morning
If he serves 2 or less years of someone else's term plus 8 years on his own
Richard Nixon
Harvard
35. John Quicy Adams spent time In what continent?
Dwight David Eisenhower
He was shot on his way to a college reunion
Europe
Ulysses S. Grant
36. Where was John Fitzgerald Kennedy assassinated?
December 7th - 1941
538
Barack Obama
Dallas - Texas
37. How many pounds was William Howard Taft?
14
Jefferson still survives
350
Richard Nixon
38. How much was the Louisiana Territory when it was purchased?
15 million
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
November 22nd - 1963
Maryland
39. What was the Tenure of Office Act/
Free the slaves in the south
George W. Bush
The president could not fire and federal official who had gotten their job with Senate approval
Daniel Inouye
40. Who supported manifest destiny?
James Polk
John Quicy Adams
Sexual harrassment
East of Africa
41. Sewards Folly was when ________ (secretary of state) bought land for $______ - which was thought to be as a joke then - but now that land is known as ________.
Richard Nixon
John Adams
Conspiracy
William Seward; $7.2 million; Alaska
42. Who was a Great General in war of 1812?
Andrew Jackson
Germany was attacking ships
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
George H. W. Bush
43. In most states - what percent of the state's electoral votes does a candidate get if they win the popular vote?
Jefferson still survives
100
4
September 1st - 1939
44. Who was the oldest elected president (age 73 at 2nd term)?
No
Bad
James Madison
Ronald Reagan
45. Which president was a great general - a leader - honest - and trustworth?
Monroe
George Washington
7; 11
8
46. Congress passed 2 laws designed to limit __________'s (a president) power .
Dwight David Eisenhower
Daniel Inouye
Hillary Clinton
Andrew Johnson
47. The ______ was invented when William McKinley was killed - and it could have saved him.
Dolley
Georgia
X-ray
The Vice President
48. Why did WWII begin?
Medical insurance for all americans
John Quicy Adams
Germany invaded Poland
Dallas - Texas
49. What did the monroe doctrine say?
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50. Who introduced social security?
William Henry Harrison
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
1814
8