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U.S. Presidents Trivia
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1. Which president started the two term tradition?
George Washington
Germany invaded Poland
The government
East of Africa
2. Which president was the youngest to serve?
April 12th - 1861
Teddy Roosevelt
350
The president could not fire and federal official who had gotten their job with Senate approval
3. The president get ____ care and _____ care for free.
Dental; medical
James Polk
James Madison
Free the slaves in the south
4. How many days was the Iran Hostage crisis?
444
Revolutionary War
Abigail
If he serves 2 or less years of someone else's term plus 8 years on his own
5. What to laws did Adams TRY to pass?
Alien and sedition acts
Saving a picture of Washington during the war
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
East of Africa
6. Who was the only catholic president?
The president could not fire and federal official who had gotten their job with Senate approval
Ft. Sumter - South Carolina
Abigail
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
7. Who was the first African American President?
Jefferson Davis
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Barack Obama
Bad
8. Who was on the good side for WWI (abc order)?
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
England - France - Russia - USA
James Madison
8
9. Why was Andrew Johnson impeached?
A 2nd home for the president
The Civil War
444
He fired the Secretary of War Staton
10. Who moved up when John Fitzgerald Kennedy died because He was his VP?
If he serves 2 or less years of someone else's term plus 8 years on his own
Civil War
The banks were closed because everyone wanted their money at once
Lyndon Johnson
11. Why did the league of nations fail (what country wouldn't join)?
Sic Semper Tyrannis - the south is avenged
USA
Ulysses S. Grant
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
12. How many electoral votes does Florida have?
He was shot on his way to a college reunion
The Civil War
27
$400000
13. How many Vice Presidents have moved up because the president resigned?
Mary Todd-Lincoln
Barack Obama
1
Self
14. How many Vice Presidents have moved up because the president died?
8
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Maine and Nebraska
1803
15. What was the nullification crisis?
16. Which presient send Lewis and Clark on their journey?
Thomas Jefferson
England
4
The Korean War
17. Manifest Destiny was to have all the land from __________ to ___________ (east to west)
George W. Bush
Lyndon Johnson
New Mexico to California
Martha
18. Which president was obnoxious and disliked?
William Jefferson Clinton
The Vice President
Jimmy Carter
John Adams
19. What happens to John Wilkes Booth?
Self
Forced the president to issue all military orders through general of the army who could not be removed without senate approval
He gets shot
Money goes to kids when a parent dies
20. There was a _________ - or a group of people - who helped John Wilkes Booth kill Lincoln and also planned to kill the VP and Secretary.
His wife
Conspiracy
John Hinkley Jr.
The Vice President
21. Which presidents were cousins?
Teddy Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt
John Adams and John Quincy Adams
Ronald Reagan
The north were comunists and the south were not
22. How old do you have to be to be president?
Barack Obama
35
Harry S Truman
Teddy Roosevelt
23. How many electors are in the electoral college?
18
538
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Jimmy Carter
24. Who burnt down the White House during a war?
The north were comunists and the south were not
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Jimmy Carter
England
25. Who was the first President during WWII?
Ronald Reagan
Dwight David Eisenhower
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Jimmy Carter
26. Who was president for the persian gulf war?
George H. W. Bush
OK to send home foregienors if they looked dangerous; also if we were in war with their country
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Money goes to kids when a parent dies
27. What two states do not use 'winner-takes all' for the electoral college?
The White House
Maine and Nebraska
James Madison
Abraham Lincoln
28. What was the persian gulf war/desert storm?
Iraq invaded Kuwait - and a coalition of naions push Iraq out of Kuwait
1
The federal government guarentees your money at a bank
Dwight David Eisenhower
29. What was the nullification crisis?
30. This president swam naked in the Potomac River
John Quicy Adams
Dolley
James Madison
Thus always to tyrants
31. What does 'Sic Semper Tyrranis' mean?
Dental; medical
Thus always to tyrants
William McKinley
He gets shot
32. What year was the Louisiana Territory bought?
OK to send home foregienors if they looked dangerous; also if we were in war with their country
4
1803
18
33. What is manifest destiny? how many square miles was it?
William Howard Taft
The idea to own all the land from the pacific to the atlantic ocean; 1.2 million
Barack Obama
The Confederate States of America
34. Which president created Yellowstone National Park and Yosemite?
He was shot on his way to a college reunion
Teddy Roosevelt
14
William Henry Harrison
35. Who had many affairs during their presidency but claimed not to?
A group of representatives chosen by the voters to elect the President
27
William Jefferson Clinton
George Washington
36. Andrew Johnson had a (good/bad) relation ship with congress over reconstruction
The federal government guarentees your money at a bank
Bad
Mom
The north were comunists and the south were not
37. Who's son is Camp David named after?
Electors
Dwight David Eisenhower
World War I
4
38. Who was a Great General in war of 1812?
4
French and Indian War
Dwight David Eisenhower
Andrew Jackson
39. Franklin Delano Roosevelt died a short time into his ____ term.
Honor people who died - make sure the country survies
4th
The Vice President
Air Force One - Marine One - and limousines
40. What month and day do we vote for the president?
Mary Todd-Lincoln
Teddy Roosevelt
The first Tuesday of Novermber that follows a monday in November
Revolutionary War
41. Who was president when the United Nations was formed?
William Henry Harrison
Harry S Truman
Dwight David Eisenhower
George H.W. Bush and George Bush
42. What were fireside chats?
George W. Bush
Conspiracy
Dwight David Eisenhower
Speeches given for hope
43. How many Vice Presidents ran again for president and became president?
5
350
No
November 1863
44. Sedition acts
Crime to print false or meliscious or scandalist stuff about the U.S. gov.
4
Harry S Truman
George Washington
45. What is universal health care?
Germany - Hungary - Turkey
Medical insurance for all americans
Woodrow Wilson
Democratic National Headquarters; Watergate
46. In the War of 1812 - ________ (country) kept stealing our ________ (people) and _______ (items) in the middle of the ocean (separate with semicolon).
Dwight David Eisenhower
England; sailors; products
Kentucky; Log cabin
Teddy Roosevelt
47. Why did WWII begin?
The Vice President
538
The Vice President
Germany invaded Poland
48. What state was John Adams from?
Ronald Reagan
A 2nd home for the president
John Boehner
Massachusetts
49. Which president was a 'rough rider' in the Spanish American War?
Dwight David Eisenhower
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Teddy Roosevelt
18
50. Who won the Civil war for Lincoln and later on became a president?
The first Tuesday of Novermber that follows a monday in November
John Quincy Adams - Rutherford B. Hayes - Benjamin Harrison - and George W. Bush
Ulysses S. Grant
Ronald Reagan