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U.S. Presidents Trivia
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1. What month is the election in?
14
John Quicy Adams
November
Club with all countries where problems were discussed peacefully
2. Who was Deep Throat?
Ford's Theater
England
A person who knew the truth about Richard Nixon and told Woodward and Bernstein
John Adams
3. Who said 'The buck stops here'?
Abraham Lincoln
England; sailors; products
Harry S Truman
6'4'
4. What is the Truman Doctrine?
The US was prepared to send money and military support to countries that want to resist communism
Electors
OK to send home foregienors if they looked dangerous; also if we were in war with their country
Harvard
5. The committee of the watergate scandal illegally entered the __________ (building) and spied on Nixon's opponent Who was in the _______ complex.
French and Indian War
Democratic National Headquarters; Watergate
William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison
25
6. What date was John Fitzgerald Kennedy killed on?
Ronald Reagan
John Adams
November 22nd - 1963
George H. W. Bush
7. Who was the fpresident during WWI?
When he jumped out of the balcony - his foot got stuck in the bunting and he fell onto stage
Andrew Jackson
Speeches given for hope
Woodrow Wilson
8. How many kids did John Tyler have?
15
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
100
January 1st - 1863
9. Which president was author of the Virginia Plan?
James Madison
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Revolutionary War
10. Which presidents were great grandfather and grandson?
Ulysses S. Grant
Harry S Truman
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison
11. What does 'Sic Semper Tyrranis' mean?
Hillary Clinton
George H. W. Bush
Thus always to tyrants
Bad
12. What was the persian gulf war/desert storm?
Club with all countries where problems were discussed peacefully
Maryland
Iraq invaded Kuwait - and a coalition of naions push Iraq out of Kuwait
Thomas Jefferson
13. Which presidents were cousins?
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.
Teddy Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Robert E. Lee
Ronald Reagan
14. How many states broke away during the civil war AT FIRST? how many total ending up breaking away?
A group of representatives chosen by the voters to elect the President
George Washington
7; 11
William Henry Harrison
15. Who was President during the Spanish American War?
60; unconstitutional
William McKinley
$400000
James Polk
16. Why didn't the Emancipation proclamation work?
30
George W. Bush
Getting out of the Great depression by hiring people - which would start a chain reaction
The north and the south were split up
17. Who is the current speaker of the House?
1803
John Boehner
You can collect money if you become disabled before retirement
Monticello - Virginia
18. What war never officially ended but just doesn't fight any more?
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
The Korean War
14
4
19. What was the most terms served by a president?
4
November 22nd - 1963
$400000
Eleanor
20. which president was former head of CIA?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
4
George H. W. Bush
Dwight David Eisenhower
21. Who's son is Camp David named after?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Forced the president to issue all military orders through general of the army who could not be removed without senate approval
Dwight David Eisenhower
Thus always to tyrants
22. Who became president when Richard Nixon resigend because they were his VP?
Gerald Ford
They were classmates in college
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
William Howard Taft
23. What were fireside chats?
350
Speeches given for hope
George Washington
William Howard Taft
24. What transportation does the president get?
Monroe
Air Force One - Marine One - and limousines
George Washington - John Adams - Thomas Jefferson - James Madison - James Monroe - and John Quincy Adams
November 1863
25. 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 ________.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The fourteen points
His 5th cousin
Robert E. Lee
26. What was reconstruction?
Period after the Civil War and how we reunited
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Polio
Revolutionary War
27. What was the league of nations?
Barack Obama
14
Buffalo - New York
Club with all countries where problems were discussed peacefully
28. Which president started the two term tradition?
60; unconstitutional
The south
His wife
George Washington
29. How many terms is a president alowed to serve?
Ft. Sumter - South Carolina
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
2
November 22nd - 1963
30. Who was the fpresident during WWI?
Ft. Sumter - South Carolina
George Washington
Woodrow Wilson
Sic Semper Tyrannis - the south is avenged
31. Who burnt down the White House during a war?
November 1863
England
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Germany - Hungary - Turkey
32. What happens to John Wilkes Booth?
8
538
He gets shot
Jefferson Davis
33. What are disability benefits?
The Vice President
Barack Obama
You can collect money if you become disabled before retirement
January 1st - 1863
34. Who was sent to a mental institution after Abraham Lincoln's death?
Mary Todd-Lincoln
Conspiracy
Georgia
Forced the president to issue all military orders through general of the army who could not be removed without senate approval
35. Franklin Delano Roosevelt's wife was related to him how?
The White House
He fired the Secretary of War Staton
His 5th cousin
November 22nd - 1963
36. what disease did Franklin Delano Roosevelt have?
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Universal health care
Ronald Reagan
Polio
37. What to laws did Adams TRY to pass?
Richard Nixon
8
Teddy Roosevelt
Alien and sedition acts
38. Abraham Lincoln was ______ educated
He resigned before the impeachment trial
George Washington
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Self
39. Who was President during the Spanish American War?
William Jefferson Clinton
The idea to own all the land from the pacific to the atlantic ocean; 1.2 million
Germany - Hungary - Turkey
William McKinley
40. How much was the Louisiana Territory when it was purchased?
The first Tuesday of Novermber that follows a monday in November
5
The banks were closed because everyone wanted their money at once
15 million
41. Who was the commander in charge of Europe afor the Allies in WWII?
Buffalo - New York
John Adams
1803
Dwight David Eisenhower
42. who pays for the costs of operating the white house?
1814
Hillary Clinton
The government
Jimmy Carter
43. In the War of 1812 - ________ (country) kept stealing our ________ (people) and _______ (items) in the middle of the ocean (separate with semicolon).
England; sailors; products
Andrew Jackson
Barack Obama
Harry S Truman
44. Why did the person who tried to assassinate Ronald Reagan do it?
You can collect money if you become disabled before retirement
Alien and sedition acts
He wanted a date Jodie Foster
William Jefferson Clinton
45. Which president made the panama canal?
New Mexico to California
Massachusetts
Teddy Roosevelt
Dolley
46. What was the league of nations?
William Jefferson Clinton
James Madison
Club with all countries where problems were discussed peacefully
George Washington
47. How many Vice Presidents ran again for president and became president?
5
George Washington
Yes
John Adams and John Quincy Adams
48. Grover Cleveland was the ____ and ____ president (numbers)
William and Mary College
The fourteen points
You can collect money if you become disabled before retirement
22 - 24
49. What date was John Fitzgerald Kennedy killed on?
Joe Biden
James Madison
November 22nd - 1963
The fourteen points
50. Who built the Interstate Highway System?
Dwight David Eisenhower
Barack Obama
Lyndon Johnson
The Vice President