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U.S. Presidents Trivia
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Who supported manifest destiny?
1 million
James Polk
Civil rights
Polio
2. Andrew Johnson had a (good/bad) relation ship with congress over reconstruction
Bad
John Quincy Adams - Rutherford B. Hayes - Benjamin Harrison - and George W. Bush
Lee Harvey Oswald
George Washington - John Adams - Thomas Jefferson - James Madison - James Monroe - and John Quincy Adams
3. Which president made the panama canal?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
0
Teddy Roosevelt
Peterson House; the next morning
4. Where did Abraham Lincoln's assasination take place?
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5. After what event was the Fourteen Points presented?
The banks were closed because everyone wanted their money at once
World War I
George Washington
270
6. Who acts as an advisor to the president?
The Vice President
444
538
Self
7. How much of a retirement income per year does the president make (for life)?
Hillary Clinton
$150000
When we dropped food and supplies to people in West Berlin
Woodrow Wilson
8. Who was president during the War of 1812 against England?
Bad
Lee Harvey Oswald
Revolutionary War
James Madison
9. Who was President during the Spanish American War?
None
William McKinley
35 said He was guilty - but he needed 36
Teddy Roosevelt
10. Which president was obnoxious and disliked?
X-ray
John Adams
James Madison
4
11. How many electoral votes does Florida have?
He was shot on his way to a college reunion
Cuba wanted to overthrow Castrow and our military helped train them
Teddy Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt
27
12. Who had an affair with Monica Lewinsky - a young intern at the White House?
William Jefferson Clinton
Conspiracy
James Madison
Mary Todd-Lincoln
13. Why did we invade Iraq?
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14. Jimmy Carter was the former governor of ____.
20
Georgia
Ford's Theater
John Wilkes Booth
15. Who takes over if the President is disabled or dies?
The Vice President
8
John Adams
Robert E. Lee
16. Who attends diplomatic functions in place of the president?
He gets shot
The Civil War
The Vice President
Gerald Ford
17. What was William Jefferson Clinton impeached for?
Perjury and obstruction of justice
England; sailors; products
Polio
French and Indian War
18. What date did the civil war begin?
April 12th - 1861
7; 11
4th
Providing a backup place for military plane landing
19. What state is Camp David in?
14
James Madison
Maryland
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
20. How many years do you have to live in the U.S. for to be president?
The federal government guarentees your money at a bank
14
Free the slaves in the south
England; sailors; products
21. How long do you have to be a citizen for to be president?
Crime to print false or meliscious or scandalist stuff about the U.S. gov.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
When peace was made between Israel and Egypt at Camp David
Since birth
22. Who was William McKinley's VP that moved up when He was killed?
Writters for Washington Post who figured out Richard Nixon's case
John Adams
Maine and Nebraska
Teddy Roosevelt
23. Who was the only president to be president and then supreme court chief justice?
January 20th
Thomas Jefferson
William Howard Taft
Electors
24. Who was the first VP to move up on death of a president?
John Tyler
8
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
25. What is NATO (not what it stands for - what it is)?
Medical insurance for all americans
Germany was attacking ships
Ulysses S. Grant
A support group of countries
26. Who went to the Supreme court and tried to increase it to fifteen judges - but was told no?
George H. W. Bush
Martha
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Sexual harrassment
27. what ended a couple of days before Abraham Lincoln's Assasination?
Teddy Roosevelt
Civil War
A support group of countries
John Adams
28. How much of a retirement income per year does the president make (for life)?
$150000
If he serves 2 or less years of someone else's term plus 8 years on his own
0
Dallas - Texas
29. When Harry S Truman was president during WWII - what two places in japan were bombed (abc order)?
George Washington
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
A support group of countries
James Madison
30. Which president adopted independence - was loyal - smart - and a lawyer?
Teddy Roosevelt
John Adams
Harry S Truman
Harry S Truman
31. Where was Abraham Lincoln born? What kind of house did he live in?
Gerald Ford
George Washington
George Washington
Kentucky; Log cabin
32. What did the monroe doctrine say?
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33. What did the Interstate Highway System also do besides provide a road for driving?
Abigail
Providing a backup place for military plane landing
Teddy Roosevelt
James Madison
34. Who was president for the persian gulf war?
1803
Civil rights
George H. W. Bush
Jimmy Carter
35. What was the name of the airplane that bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Enola Gay
Social Security
538
Jefferson still survives
36. What does 'Sic Semper Tyrranis' mean?
Thus always to tyrants
The north were comunists and the south were not
The president could not fire and federal official who had gotten their job with Senate approval
England
37. Who had the first death in office?
James Polk
William Henry Harrison
Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Pearl Harbor bombing
April 1917- November 1918
38. Where did the name 'gettysburg' come from?
The three day battle in July in Gettysburg about slaves
George Washington
Dwight David Eisenhower
Guam - Midway Islands - Philippines - and Puerto Rico
39. What state was John Adams from?
5
Barack Obama
William Henry Harrison
Massachusetts
40. Where was Thomas Jefferson born?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
James Polk
Monticello - Virginia
He was shot on his way to a college reunion
41. What war was George Washington in the military for?
George W. Bush
French and Indian War
Andrew Johnson
Medical insurance for all americans
42. Which presient send Lewis and Clark on their journey?
George W. Bush
George W. Bush
Teddy Roosevelt
Thomas Jefferson
43. What was a popular film of John Fitzgerald Kennedy's assassination?
Zapruder film
The Vice President
Dental; medical
Club with all countries where problems were discussed peacefully
44. Who was the fpresident during WWI?
Woodrow Wilson
William and Mary College
John Adams
In their state's capital
45. Who supported manifest destiny?
14
James Polk
Monticello - Virginia
Kentucky; Log cabin
46. What was William Jefferson Clinton impeached for?
Maryland
George Washington
Perjury and obstruction of justice
X-ray
47. What president did the Berlin airlift?
George H.W. Bush and George Bush
George Washington
Harry S Truman
Dallas - Texas
48. Franklin Delano Roosevelt died a short time into his ____ term.
A support group of countries
14
4th
The Gettysburg Address
49. What was the league of nations?
Ft. Sumter - South Carolina
Barack Obama
Club with all countries where problems were discussed peacefully
Abraham Lincoln
50. Which president created Yellowstone National Park and Yosemite?
John Adams
Jefferson Davis
A group of representatives chosen by the voters to elect the President
Teddy Roosevelt