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U.S. Presidents Trivia

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1. Who created the Family Medical Leave Act?
4
Peterson House; the next morning
William Jefferson Clinton
Money goes to kids when a parent dies

2. Who's son is Camp David named after?
William Henry Harrison - Zachary Taylor - Warren Harding - and Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Dwight David Eisenhower
He was shot
Self

3. What was the Berlin Airlift?
When we dropped food and supplies to people in West Berlin
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
30
Teddy Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt

4. What war was George Washington in the military for?
20
French and Indian War
Buffalo - New York
The federal government guarentees your money at a bank

5. How can a president serve up to ten years?

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6. Who passed Universal health care?
Iraq invaded Kuwait - and a coalition of naions push Iraq out of Kuwait
Barack Obama
The idea to own all the land from the pacific to the atlantic ocean; 1.2 million
538

7. Lyndon Johnson got lots of bills passed involving ______.
Germany was attacking ships
England
The White House
Civil rights

8. Which president created the University of Virgina?
Thomas Jefferson
Medical insurance for all americans
Cuba wanted to overthrow Castrow and our military helped train them
538

9. 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 ________.
Air Force One - Marine One - and limousines
William Seward; $7.2 million; Alaska
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
He fired the Secretary of War Staton

10. 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 ________.
Barack Obama
2
December 7th - 1941
The fourteen points

11. What is FDIC (explaIn what it means - not what it stands for)?
Gerald Ford
A support group of countries
The federal government guarentees your money at a bank
Buffalo - New York

12. How many terms is a president alowed to serve?
Mary Todd-Lincoln
2
Teddy Roosevelt - Woodrow Wilson - Jimmy Carter - and Barack Obama
Thomas Jefferson

13. When Harry S Truman was president during WWII - what two places in japan were bombed (abc order)?
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
William Jefferson Clinton
Barack Obama
William Henry Harrison

14. Where did Abraham Lincoln's assasination take place?

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15. Why did we invade Iraq?

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16. What are surviver benefits?
They were classmates in college
Money goes to kids when a parent dies
George H. W. Bush
Dwight David Eisenhower

17. What presidents lost the popular vote but won the electoral vote? (in order)
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
John Quincy Adams - Rutherford B. Hayes - Benjamin Harrison - and George W. Bush
Gerald Ford
Getting out of the Great depression by hiring people - which would start a chain reaction

18. Who was Franklin Delano Roosevelt married to?
The government
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Eleanor
Maine and Nebraska

19. In the War of 1812 - ________ (country) kept stealing our ________ (people) and _______ (items) in the middle of the ocean (separate with semicolon).
Sexual harrassment
East of Africa
8
England; sailors; products

20. Which president had a stroke in his bathroom?
Woodrow Wilson
Monroe
Providing a backup place for military plane landing
April 1917- November 1918

21. What was the point of the Gettysburg Address (two things)?
The Gettysburg Address
15 million
November 22nd - 1963
Honor people who died - make sure the country survies

22. What was a popular film of John Fitzgerald Kennedy's assassination?
A group of representatives chosen by the voters to elect the President
Zapruder film
When we dropped food and supplies to people in West Berlin
Dwight David Eisenhower

23. What date did the civil war begin?
April 12th - 1861
John Quicy Adams
Thus always to tyrants
The Confederate States of America

24. Who was Abraham Lincoln married to?
Abigail
George W. Bush
Mary Todd-Lincoln
Andrew Jackson

25. Who pays for all personal entertainment and dinners not related to teh government business in the White House?
Self
The president
Teddy Roosevelt
Civil rights

26. Who was on the good side for WWI (abc order)?
The Confederate States of America
William Seward; $7.2 million; Alaska
England - France - Russia - USA
The banks were closed because everyone wanted their money at once

27. Why did WWII begin?
Harry S Truman
Germany invaded Poland
35 said He was guilty - but he needed 36
Crime to print false or meliscious or scandalist stuff about the U.S. gov.

28. Sedition acts
1803
Crime to print false or meliscious or scandalist stuff about the U.S. gov.
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Georgia

29. What are disability benefits?
Robert E. Lee
April 1917- November 1918
You can collect money if you become disabled before retirement
Acting

30. Who were the first presidents to be father and son?
We thought there were weapons of mass destruction - but there weren't
November 22nd - 1963
John Adams and John Quincy Adams
Enola Gay

31. What is manifest destiny? how many square miles was it?
Ronald Reagan
The idea to own all the land from the pacific to the atlantic ocean; 1.2 million
England - France - Russia - USA
England - France - Russia - USA

32. How many former vice presidents have become president?
14
Mom
8
Democratic National Headquarters; Watergate

33. Who attends diplomatic functions in place of the president?
The Vice President
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Saving a picture of Washington during the war
If he serves 2 or less years of someone else's term plus 8 years on his own

34. Which president got Alzheimers and forgot being president?
The idea to own all the land from the pacific to the atlantic ocean; 1.2 million
Ronald Reagan
George H.W. Bush and George Bush
35 said He was guilty - but he needed 36

35. What is the Truman Doctrine?
Dwight David Eisenhower
The US was prepared to send money and military support to countries that want to resist communism
South; north
1814

36. what ended a couple of days before Abraham Lincoln's Assasination?
Eleanor
Civil War
Bad
His 5th cousin

37. What was the nullification crisis?

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38. This president swam naked in the Potomac River
John Quicy Adams
Dwight David Eisenhower
George H. W. Bush
Free the slaves in the south

39. Which president served the most terms?
The president
Buffalo - New York
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Ronald Reagan

40. Who was president for the Iran Hostage crisis?
When peace was made between Israel and Egypt at Camp David
Andrew Johnson
November 22nd - 1963
Jimmy Carter

41. Where was William McKinley killed?
Buffalo - New York
Robert E. Lee
He was shot
England - France - Russia - USA

42. What does NATO stand for?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
We thought there were weapons of mass destruction - but there weren't
George H. W. Bush
North Atlantic Treaty Organization

43. Who moved up when John Fitzgerald Kennedy died because He was his VP?
Lyndon Johnson
John Quincy Adams - Rutherford B. Hayes - Benjamin Harrison - and George W. Bush
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Pearl Harbor bombing

44. Why did we enter WWII?
A 2nd home for the president
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor - Hawaii
New Mexico to California
Barack Obama

45. How much money does the president earn per year?
Polio
$400000
William Henry Harrison
You can collect money if you become disabled before retirement

46. Which president started the two term tradition?
George Washington
Abraham Lincoln
William Jefferson Clinton
Abraham Lincoln

47. Where was John Fitzgerald Kennedy assassinated?
Saving a picture of Washington during the war
Guam - Midway Islands - Philippines - and Puerto Rico
Dallas - Texas
Franklin Delano Roosevelt

48. Who was president for the nullification crisis?
Period after the Civil War and how we reunited
Andrew Jackson
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
John Tyler

49. When was the Emancipation proclamation?
January 1st - 1863
The Vice President
Club with all countries where problems were discussed peacefully
Buffalo - New York

50. What is the address of the white house?
Mary Todd-Lincoln
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
John Adams
Teddy Roosevelt