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U.S. Presidents Trivia
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What state is Camp David in?
Maryland
When he jumped out of the balcony - his foot got stuck in the bunting and he fell onto stage
Barack Obama
14
2. What is the oldest you can be to get surviver benefits?
Dwight David Eisenhower
18
Woodrow Wilson
35 said He was guilty - but he needed 36
3. Did we win the Spanish American War?
Peterson House; the next morning
132
Yes
World War I
4. Which president was the 'father of the constitution'?
April 12th - 1861
James Madison
Kentucky; Log cabin
Monroe
5. What is Camp David?
Thomas Jefferson
James Madison
A 2nd home for the president
A person who knew the truth about Richard Nixon and told Woodward and Bernstein
6. Where did Thomas Jefferson go to college?
William and Mary College
0
7; 11
Barack Obama
7. What war was Abraham Lincoln president during?
Yes
Woodrow Wilson
Harry S Truman
The Civil War
8. What were the territories we gained in the Spanish American War? (ABC order with commas inbetween)
William Henry Harrison
Iraq invaded Kuwait - and a coalition of naions push Iraq out of Kuwait
Teddy Roosevelt
Guam - Midway Islands - Philippines - and Puerto Rico
9. Which president recognized Israel and traded with them and gave money and embassadors to them?
In their state's capital
Harry S Truman
Writters for Washington Post who figured out Richard Nixon's case
Alien and sedition acts
10. Who pays for all personal entertainment and dinners not related to teh government business in the White House?
Martha
The president
A group of representatives chosen by the voters to elect the President
If he serves 2 or less years of someone else's term plus 8 years on his own
11. Who is the current speaker of the House?
4
George H. W. Bush
The federal government guarentees your money at a bank
John Boehner
12. The ______ was invented when William McKinley was killed - and it could have saved him.
The first Tuesday of Novermber that follows a monday in November
Harry S Truman
The fourteen points
X-ray
13. Who was a peanut farmer?
Gerald Ford
Jimmy Carter
Barack Obama
Mary Todd-Lincoln
14. Why didn't the Emancipation proclamation work?
Civil rights
The north and the south were split up
Free the slaves in the south
Perjury and obstruction of justice
15. Who created the Family Medical Leave Act?
Honor people who died - make sure the country survies
He was shot
Civil War
William Jefferson Clinton
16. How many states broke away during the civil war AT FIRST? how many total ending up breaking away?
7; 11
Thomas Jefferson
Universal health care
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
17. What is the Electoral College?
His 5th cousin
5
5
A group of representatives chosen by the voters to elect the President
18. What presidents lost the popular vote but won the electoral vote? (in order)
The Vice President
The south
John Quincy Adams - Rutherford B. Hayes - Benjamin Harrison - and George W. Bush
Worker can take three months off in a year to take care of sick relatives or him/herself and cannot be fired
19. Who was president when the United Nations was formed?
Harry S Truman
Revolutionary War
Teddy Roosevelt
350
20. Which president created Yellowstone National Park and Yosemite?
Polio
William Howard Taft
Teddy Roosevelt
He gets shot
21. Who built the Interstate Highway System?
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Air Force One - Marine One - and limousines
September 1st - 1939
Dwight David Eisenhower
22. What is the inauguration date?
8
George Washington - John Adams - Thomas Jefferson - James Madison - James Monroe - and John Quincy Adams
January 20th
Teddy Roosevelt
23. Why did we invade Iraq?
24. Who did fireside chats?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
20
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
April 1917- November 1918
25. What is FDIC (explaIn what it means - not what it stands for)?
William Henry Harrison - Zachary Taylor - Warren Harding - and Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Mount Vernon - Virginia
The federal government guarentees your money at a bank
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
26. How many presidents died of natural causes in office?
A person who knew the truth about Richard Nixon and told Woodward and Bernstein
He fired the Secretary of War Staton
The federal government guarentees your money at a bank
4
27. How many kids did George Washington have?
Abraham Lincoln
0
14
Richard Nixon
28. How many presidents were killed in office?
4
Harry S Truman
William Henry Harrison
2
29. Why did we enter WWII?
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor - Hawaii
When we dropped food and supplies to people in West Berlin
Barack Obama
William and Mary College
30. Which president presented the bill of rights at the first Congress?
Teddy Roosevelt
James Madison
Dwight David Eisenhower
Massachusetts
31. Where was Abraham Lincoln born? What kind of house did he live in?
James Polk
In their state's capital
John Adams
Kentucky; Log cabin
32. Which president adopted independence - was loyal - smart - and a lawyer?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Pearl Harbor bombing
John Adams
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
33. What transportation does the president get?
Air Force One - Marine One - and limousines
If he serves 2 or less years of someone else's term plus 8 years on his own
The federal government guarentees your money at a bank
Abraham Lincoln
34. Who were the first presidents to be father and son?
The president
Conspiracy
Hillary Clinton
John Adams and John Quincy Adams
35. During the civil war - the south named itself _____.
George W. Bush
Andrew Johnson
The Confederate States of America
James Polk
36. What was the Tenure of Office Act/
The president could not fire and federal official who had gotten their job with Senate approval
England - France - Russia - USA
Harry S Truman
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
37. When was the Emancipation proclamation?
A gun
538
Ford's Theater
January 1st - 1863
38. What are surviver benefits?
November 22nd - 1963
Teddy Roosevelt
Lyndon Johnson
Money goes to kids when a parent dies
39. Which president got Alzheimers and forgot being president?
Medical insurance for all americans
Andrew Jackson
Ronald Reagan
Civil rights
40. This president swam naked in the Potomac River
John Adams
William Jefferson Clinton
John Quicy Adams
4
41. John Adams went to what college?
Harvard
35
George Washington
When he jumped out of the balcony - his foot got stuck in the bunting and he fell onto stage
42. How many electoral votes does Florida have?
27
Ford's Theater
Mary Todd-Lincoln
25
43. Which president presented the bill of rights at the first Congress?
George H. W. Bush
7; 11
James Madison
Harry S Truman
44. Who balanced the budget?
Social Security
Electors
George H. W. Bush
William Jefferson Clinton
45. Who is considered 'the father of our country'?
The Korean War
George Washington
4
Dwight David Eisenhower
46. What is universal health care?
Medical insurance for all americans
Barack Obama
538
George H. W. Bush
47. what ended a couple of days before Abraham Lincoln's Assasination?
4
John Adams
Civil War
April 12th - 1861
48. When did we get involved and stop being involved with WWI? (month and year)
7; 11
April 1917- November 1918
Mary Todd-Lincoln
William Howard Taft
49. Who was the only man to be president Who was not elected to either vp spot or the presidency?
Teddy Roosevelt
Gerald Ford
The south
538
50. This president swam naked in the Potomac River
Harry S Truman
The president could not fire and federal official who had gotten their job with Senate approval
John Quicy Adams
Cuba wanted to overthrow Castrow and our military helped train them