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U.S. Presidents Trivia
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1. How many presidents died of natural causes in office?
100
4
The Vice President
William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison
2. How many Vice Presidents have moved up because the president died?
8
Mary Todd-Lincoln
OK to send home foregienors if they looked dangerous; also if we were in war with their country
Teddy Roosevelt
3. Who was a Great General in war of 1812?
Andrew Jackson
30
20
Cuba wanted to overthrow Castrow and our military helped train them
4. Which president was obnoxious and disliked?
Crime to print false or meliscious or scandalist stuff about the U.S. gov.
John Adams
George H. W. Bush
Sexual harrassment
5. In the War of 1812 - ________ (country) kept stealing our ________ (people) and _______ (items) in the middle of the ocean (separate with semicolon).
William Henry Harrison - Zachary Taylor - Warren Harding - and Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Getting out of the Great depression by hiring people - which would start a chain reaction
The first Tuesday of Novermber that follows a monday in November
England; sailors; products
6. What is the address of the white house?
Dwight David Eisenhower
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Andrew Johnson
Mom
7. What war was George Washington in the military for?
French and Indian War
George Washington
6'4'
Dwight David Eisenhower
8. What month and year was the Gettysburg Address said?
November 1863
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Sexual harrassment
Ford's Theater
9. Where does the right to navigate teh seas without interference not apply?
East of Africa
None
Joe Biden
Ford's Theater
10. What was the point of the Gettysburg Address (two things)?
4
Hillary Clinton
He wanted a date Jodie Foster
Honor people who died - make sure the country survies
11. Who had the shortest presidency?
William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison
James Madison
15
William Henry Harrison
12. Who won a Nobel Peace Prize for what they were going to do?
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor - Hawaii
Dwight David Eisenhower
Bad
Barack Obama
13. What is universal health care?
Medical insurance for all americans
Eleanor
The president
Democratic National Headquarters; Watergate
14. Alien Acts
Electors
Harvard
England; sailors; products
OK to send home foregienors if they looked dangerous; also if we were in war with their country
15. Which president adopted independence - was loyal - smart - and a lawyer?
George H. W. Bush
Maryland
Getting out of the Great depression by hiring people - which would start a chain reaction
John Adams
16. The ______ was invented when William McKinley was killed - and it could have saved him.
Mary Todd-Lincoln
35 said He was guilty - but he needed 36
George Washington
X-ray
17. How many Vice Presidents ran again for president and became president?
A group of representatives chosen by the voters to elect the President
Thomas Jefferson
5
James Polk
18. When did we enter WWII?
December 7th - 1941
Jefferson Davis
World War I
Teddy Roosevelt
19. Which president got Alzheimers and forgot being president?
Massachusetts
Abraham Lincoln
Ronald Reagan
John Adams
20. Who had many affairs during their presidency but claimed not to?
George Washington
William Jefferson Clinton
Maryland
William Henry Harrison - Zachary Taylor - Warren Harding - and Franklin Delano Roosevelt
21. What war did George Washington lead the army for?
Jimmy Carter
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
1803
Revolutionary War
22. John Adams went to what college?
The three day battle in July in Gettysburg about slaves
He fired the Secretary of War Staton
Harvard
Self
23. What to laws did Adams TRY to pass?
Speeches given for hope
The number of people in Congress plus 3 for DC
Alien and sedition acts
James Madison
24. In most states - what percent of the state's electoral votes does a candidate get if they win the popular vote?
100
George W. Bush
John Boehner
Abraham Lincoln
25. Where was John Fitzgerald Kennedy assassinated?
Air Force One - Marine One - and limousines
$400000
No
Dallas - Texas
26. What is the family Medical Leave Act?
Worker can take three months off in a year to take care of sick relatives or him/herself and cannot be fired
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Polio
November 22nd - 1963
27. Who was on the good side for WWI (abc order)?
22 - 24
England - France - Russia - USA
Woodrow Wilson
England
28. Who were Woodward and Bernstein?
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29. Name the Founding Fathers plus the son in order...
Harvard
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
George Washington - John Adams - Thomas Jefferson - James Madison - James Monroe - and John Quincy Adams
30. Who is the current Vice President?
The government
14
Joe Biden
25
31. Which president helped create the Library of Congress when he sells and donates 6000 books?
Thomas Jefferson
The government
The fourteen points
He resigned before the impeachment trial
32. What was a talent of John Wilkes Booth?
Acting
Thomas Jefferson
Eleanor
14
33. This president swam naked in the Potomac River
Harvard
8
6'4'
John Quicy Adams
34. What president did the Berlin airlift?
Universal health care
Harry S Truman
Club with all countries where problems were discussed peacefully
Monticello - Virginia
35. What is NATO (not what it stands for - what it is)?
Alien and sedition acts
Hillary Clinton
A support group of countries
7; 11
36. Andrew Johnson was _________'s VP
Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Pearl Harbor bombing
Abraham Lincoln
Abigail
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
37. Where did the name 'gettysburg' come from?
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor - Hawaii
The three day battle in July in Gettysburg about slaves
George H. W. Bush
Europe
38. How much was the Louisiana Territory when it was purchased?
The Vice President
Universal health care
15 million
$150000
39. When was the Emancipation proclamation?
The House of Representatives selects the President and the Senate selects the Vice President
January 1st - 1863
England; sailors; products
James Madison
40. After Abraham Lincoln was shot - He was carried across the street to ________________ where he dies when?
When peace was made between Israel and Egypt at Camp David
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
8
Peterson House; the next morning
41. Abraham Lincoln was ______ educated
Period after the Civil War and how we reunited
Harry S Truman
Self
John Adams
42. Who were the first presidents to be father and son?
350
John Adams and John Quincy Adams
April 1917- November 1918
None
43. Who was President during the Spanish American War?
Gerald Ford
William McKinley
Acting
The White House
44. Who won the Civil war for Lincoln and later on became a president?
Europe
OK to send home foregienors if they looked dangerous; also if we were in war with their country
Ulysses S. Grant
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
45. What month and day do we vote for the president?
Woodrow Wilson
Mount Vernon - Virginia
The Vice President
The first Tuesday of Novermber that follows a monday in November
46. What were the territories we gained in the Spanish American War? (ABC order with commas inbetween)
Guam - Midway Islands - Philippines - and Puerto Rico
4
4
The House of Representatives selects the President and the Senate selects the Vice President
47. What did the Interstate Highway System also do besides provide a road for driving?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Acting
Providing a backup place for military plane landing
48. Which presidents won the nobel peace prize (in order)?
Democratic National Headquarters; Watergate
Teddy Roosevelt - Woodrow Wilson - Jimmy Carter - and Barack Obama
22 - 24
World War I
49. There was a _________ - or a group of people - who helped John Wilkes Booth kill Lincoln and also planned to kill the VP and Secretary.
Conspiracy
George Washington
William Jefferson Clinton
4
50. How many presidents were killed in office?
Money goes to kids when a parent dies
Kentucky; Log cabin
William Henry Harrison
4