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U.S. Presidents Trivia
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1. Franklin Delano Roosevelt's wife was related to him how?
Cuba wanted to overthrow Castrow and our military helped train them
The White House
James Madison
His 5th cousin
2. What are the people in the electoral college called?
William Jefferson Clinton
England
Electors
Ulysses S. Grant
3. Alien Acts
OK to send home foregienors if they looked dangerous; also if we were in war with their country
Teddy Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt
John Adams
Teddy Roosevelt
4. What was reconstruction?
England - France - Russia - USA
He resigned before the impeachment trial
Civil rights
Period after the Civil War and how we reunited
5. Who was president for the 9/11 attacks?
George W. Bush
15
The number of people in Congress plus 3 for DC
George Washington
6. Who was a Great General in war of 1812?
100
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
George H.W. Bush and George Bush
Andrew Jackson
7. Who is the current secretary of state?
George H. W. Bush
Hillary Clinton
Thus always to tyrants
4
8. Who was our president during the Korean war?
James Madison
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Dwight David Eisenhower
Medical insurance for all americans
9. Who acts as an advisor to the president?
350
Bad
The Vice President
September 1st - 1939
10. Which president created Yellowstone National Park and Yosemite?
Woodrow Wilson
Richard Nixon
Teddy Roosevelt
27
11. Who is considered 'the father of our country'?
George Washington
James Madison
November
November 1863
12. What war was George Washington in the military for?
Dwight David Eisenhower
French and Indian War
Teddy Roosevelt
8
13. how many years is a score?
20
Georgia
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
OK to send home foregienors if they looked dangerous; also if we were in war with their country
14. Who had many affairs during their presidency but claimed not to?
Richard Nixon
Ronald Reagan
William Jefferson Clinton
William Seward; $7.2 million; Alaska
15. what ended a couple of days before Abraham Lincoln's Assasination?
When he jumped out of the balcony - his foot got stuck in the bunting and he fell onto stage
January 1st - 1863
November 1863
Civil War
16. William Jefferson Clinton paid Paula Jones $____.
Andrew Jackson
$150000
Crime to print false or meliscious or scandalist stuff about the U.S. gov.
1 million
17. What war never officially ended but just doesn't fight any more?
The Korean War
1914-1918
Getting out of the Great depression by hiring people - which would start a chain reaction
We thought there were weapons of mass destruction - but there weren't
18. Who was Franklin Delano Roosevelt married to?
John Adams
14
Eleanor
James Madison
19. What year was the White House burnt down?
Teddy Roosevelt
George H. W. Bush
1814
Ft. Sumter - South Carolina
20. James Monroe created the ________ Doctrine
4
15 million
Monroe
Dwight David Eisenhower
21. How much of a retirement income per year does the president make (for life)?
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.
The banks were closed because everyone wanted their money at once
$150000
$400000
22. Who was our president during the Korean war?
Dwight David Eisenhower
George H. W. Bush
Jefferson still survives
270
23. Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant knew eachother because _________.
They were classmates in college
100
Germany - Hungary - Turkey
Teddy Roosevelt
24. There was a _________ - or a group of people - who helped John Wilkes Booth kill Lincoln and also planned to kill the VP and Secretary.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Conspiracy
Teddy Roosevelt
He fired the Secretary of War Staton
25. During the civil war - the south's general was ____________.
Andrew Jackson
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson; July 4th - 1826
4
Robert E. Lee
26. Who was embarrassed when they received the Nobel Peace Prize?
Barack Obama
Honor people who died - make sure the country survies
6'4'
Free the slaves in the south
27. What war did George Washington lead the army for?
The White House
The president could not fire and federal official who had gotten their job with Senate approval
Harry S Truman
Revolutionary War
28. Where was William McKinley killed?
1 million
1914-1918
Buffalo - New York
538
29. Who was Franklin Delano Roosevelt married to?
1803
Says to Europe to stay out of the western memosphere and don't colonize; the U.S. will consider colonization a threat to our secruity; we will stay out of European affairs unless they affect us
Ronald Reagan
Eleanor
30. Who was FDR's VP Who was president for WWII?
Providing a backup place for military plane landing
When peace was made between Israel and Egypt at Camp David
Harry S Truman
New Mexico to California
31. Who presented the Fourteen Points?
World War I
Woodrow Wilson
The Vice President
November 1863
32. Who was the first African American President?
Iraq invaded Kuwait - and a coalition of naions push Iraq out of Kuwait
Dallas - Texas
Barack Obama
4
33. Who is the current Vice President?
No
Joe Biden
The US was prepared to send money and military support to countries that want to resist communism
James Madison
34. The ______ was invented when William McKinley was killed - and it could have saved him.
Jefferson still survives
A person who knew the truth about Richard Nixon and told Woodward and Bernstein
X-ray
Since birth
35. Where was Abraham Lincoln born? What kind of house did he live in?
Kentucky; Log cabin
Speeches given for hope
Ford's Theater
Barack Obama
36. How long do you have to be a citizen for to be president?
Dental; medical
Universal health care
Since birth
Social Security
37. Do we vote directly for the president?
Europe
4
No
Acting
38. Who takes over if the President is disabled or dies?
14
William Henry Harrison
Eleanor
The Vice President
39. The president get ____ care and _____ care for free.
The banks were closed because everyone wanted their money at once
November 1863
Dental; medical
Thomas Jefferson
40. Franklin Delano Roosevelt got his middle name because his _____'s favorite relative was de la Noye
John Adams
Mom
The Vice President
Harvard
41. Which president presented the bill of rights at the first Congress?
James Madison
The Vice President
Harry S Truman
When peace was made between Israel and Egypt at Camp David
42. What was the camp david accords?
When peace was made between Israel and Egypt at Camp David
Jimmy Carter
New Mexico to California
Daniel Inouye
43. Can the amount of money a president earns be increased/decreased during someone's term of office?
Jefferson still survives
1
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.
No
44. What was the most terms served by a president?
John Hinkley Jr.
He was shot
Abigail
4
45. Who supported manifest destiny?
Harry S Truman
James Polk
60; unconstitutional
William Henry Harrison
46. Who gave the longest inauguration speech?
Richard Nixon
0
William Henry Harrison
Civil rights
47. Who passed Universal health care?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
8
Barack Obama
Teddy Roosevelt - Woodrow Wilson - Jimmy Carter - and Barack Obama
48. How many presidents died of natural causes in office?
4
South; north
Europe
Jefferson still survives
49. In most states - what percent of the state's electoral votes does a candidate get if they win the popular vote?
George H.W. Bush and George Bush
Thomas Jefferson
Barack Obama
100
50. Who is considered 'the father of our country'?
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
George Washington
350
None