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U.S. Presidents Trivia
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Who was the first African American President?
Barack Obama
Sic Semper Tyrannis - the south is avenged
USA
South Carolina said it could nullify any law it wants - but Jackson said they would send troops and so South Carolina decided that they can't nullify and law it wants.
2. Who was the first VP to move up on death of a president?
Harry S Truman
England
James Polk
John Tyler
3. Who was the youngest elected president?
The House of Representatives selects the President and the Senate selects the Vice President
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
132
Germany invaded Poland
4. Who won the Civil war for Lincoln and later on became a president?
William Henry Harrison
Universal health care
Ulysses S. Grant
If he serves 2 or less years of someone else's term plus 8 years on his own
5. Who said 'The buck stops here'?
November 22nd - 1963
William Jefferson Clinton
Harry S Truman
George H. W. Bush
6. Who was the first president not to win the popular vote and to become president?
Free the slaves in the south
John Quicy Adams
A 2nd home for the president
Bad
7. What is the address of the white house?
The US was prepared to send money and military support to countries that want to resist communism
George Washington - John Adams - Thomas Jefferson - James Madison - James Monroe - and John Quincy Adams
George H.W. Bush and George Bush
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
8. Why wasn't Richard Nixon thrown out of office?
William Henry Harrison
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
He resigned before the impeachment trial
William and Mary College
9. How many former vice presidents have become president?
His wife
14
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
The Gettysburg Address
10. How was James Garfield killed?
20
Mary Todd-Lincoln
0
He was shot on his way to a college reunion
11. What president had the watergate scandal?
444
When peace was made between Israel and Egypt at Camp David
Richard Nixon
South Carolina said it could nullify any law it wants - but Jackson said they would send troops and so South Carolina decided that they can't nullify and law it wants.
12. Name the two presidents (ABC order by last name - write first and last name) who died on the same day - and the date they died (separate with semi colon)
Woodrow Wilson
Getting out of the Great depression by hiring people - which would start a chain reaction
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson; July 4th - 1826
East of Africa
13. Who had many affairs during their presidency but claimed not to?
27
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The fourteen points
William Jefferson Clinton
14. During the Great Depression - ____% were unemployed.
John Quicy Adams
25
Since birth
The idea to own all the land from the pacific to the atlantic ocean; 1.2 million
15. How many kids did John Tyler have?
7; 11
25
He fired the Secretary of War Staton
15
16. How many presidents died of natural causes in office?
4
James Madison
A gun
Maine and Nebraska
17. Who was president during the Great depression?
Teddy Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
George H. W. Bush
South Carolina said it could nullify any law it wants - but Jackson said they would send troops and so South Carolina decided that they can't nullify and law it wants.
18. Who was President during the Spanish American War?
William Howard Taft
1814
Cuba wanted to overthrow Castrow and our military helped train them
William McKinley
19. What is the Truman Doctrine?
Richard Nixon
Sexual harrassment
The US was prepared to send money and military support to countries that want to resist communism
Lyndon Johnson
20. There was a _________ - or a group of people - who helped John Wilkes Booth kill Lincoln and also planned to kill the VP and Secretary.
William Seward; $7.2 million; Alaska
When we dropped food and supplies to people in West Berlin
Revolutionary War
Conspiracy
21. Why did the league of nations fail (what country wouldn't join)?
Woodrow Wilson
The government
George H. W. Bush
USA
22. What did the monroe doctrine say?
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23. Which president was author of the Virginia Plan?
No
John Boehner
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
James Madison
24. What was the New Deal?
Getting out of the Great depression by hiring people - which would start a chain reaction
Robert E. Lee
Teddy Roosevelt
No
25. What is NATO (not what it stands for - what it is)?
Kentucky; Log cabin
William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison
A support group of countries
The Confederate States of America
26. How many Vice Presidents have moved up because the president resigned?
1
Dental; medical
England; sailors; products
Richard Nixon
27. Alien Acts
444
Harry S Truman
OK to send home foregienors if they looked dangerous; also if we were in war with their country
The Confederate States of America
28. Who was the first African American President?
538
George Washington
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Barack Obama
29. Which president helped create the Library of Congress when he sells and donates 6000 books?
Thomas Jefferson
Richard Nixon
George Washington
The south
30. What was the point of the Gettysburg Address (two things)?
John Wilkes Booth
Honor people who died - make sure the country survies
The number of people in Congress plus 3 for DC
John Quincy Adams - Rutherford B. Hayes - Benjamin Harrison - and George W. Bush
31. Why was Andrew Johnson impeached?
If he serves 2 or less years of someone else's term plus 8 years on his own
He fired the Secretary of War Staton
Dwight David Eisenhower
Dental; medical
32. Which president was obnoxious and disliked?
Ford's Theater
George H. W. Bush
John Adams
Woodrow Wilson
33. William Jefferson Clinton paid Paula Jones $____.
The north were comunists and the south were not
Ulysses S. Grant
1 million
Getting out of the Great depression by hiring people - which would start a chain reaction
34. Who did the Banking Holiday?
In their state's capital
They were classmates in college
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Revolutionary War
35. Woodrow Wilson's ideas on not to have a war - the league of nations - and the freedom to navigate the seas without interference are known as ________.
The fourteen points
Woodrow Wilson
George W. Bush
The Confederate States of America
36. Grover Cleveland was the ____ and ____ president (numbers)
Joe Biden
22 - 24
We thought there were weapons of mass destruction - but there weren't
James Madison
37. Franklin Delano Roosevelt got his middle name because his _____'s favorite relative was de la Noye
Lyndon Johnson
Mom
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Robert E. Lee
38. Why didn't the Emancipation proclamation work?
The north and the south were split up
Mom
When peace was made between Israel and Egypt at Camp David
Germany invaded Poland
39. Who was president for the Bay of Pigs?
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Enola Gay
He fired the Secretary of War Staton
Dental; medical
40. What are surviver benefits?
Money goes to kids when a parent dies
Harry S Truman
World War I
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
41. Who is the current Vice President?
He gets shot
Joe Biden
Money goes to kids when a parent dies
25
42. Who passed Universal health care?
Zapruder film
The first Tuesday of Novermber that follows a monday in November
Barack Obama
15
43. Who was president for the Bay of Pigs?
Jefferson still survives
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Dwight David Eisenhower
270
44. Which president was the youngest to serve?
The Vice President
William Henry Harrison
Teddy Roosevelt
Ford's Theater
45. Who was William McKinley's VP that moved up when He was killed?
Mount Vernon - Virginia
X-ray
Teddy Roosevelt
Martha
46. How many former vice presidents have become president?
December 7th - 1941
14
George Washington
X-ray
47. Who introduced disability benefits?
George Washington
No
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
George W. Bush
48. During the civil war - the south's general was ____________.
Medical insurance for all americans
The Confederate States of America
January 1st - 1863
Robert E. Lee
49. During the civil war - the south's president was _____________.
Germany was attacking ships
Monroe
December 7th - 1941
Jefferson Davis
50. Who was Deep Throat?
A person who knew the truth about Richard Nixon and told Woodward and Bernstein
Polio
John Quicy Adams
James Madison