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U.S. Presidents Trivia
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1. After Abraham Lincoln was shot - He was carried across the street to ________________ where he dies when?
The House of Representatives selects the President and the Senate selects the Vice President
William McKinley
George Washington
Peterson House; the next morning
2. Who were the first presidents to be father and son?
John Quicy Adams
The idea to own all the land from the pacific to the atlantic ocean; 1.2 million
John Adams and John Quincy Adams
John Tyler
3. Why did the person who tried to assassinate Ronald Reagan do it?
The fourteen points
1803
He wanted a date Jodie Foster
Richard Nixon
4. Who was president for the persian gulf war?
George H. W. Bush
8
John Hinkley Jr.
22 - 24
5. Who passed Universal health care?
Barack Obama
Andrew Jackson
60; unconstitutional
Martha
6. When was the Emancipation proclamation?
John Boehner
January 1st - 1863
X-ray
Electors
7. What date did the civil war begin?
George Washington
The first Tuesday of Novermber that follows a monday in November
John Adams
April 12th - 1861
8. After what event was the Fourteen Points presented?
William and Mary College
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
World War I
Barack Obama
9. Who was the oldest elected president (age 73 at 2nd term)?
Enola Gay
The first Tuesday of Novermber that follows a monday in November
Writters for Washington Post who figured out Richard Nixon's case
Ronald Reagan
10. Who was president for the Bay of Pigs?
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
He gets shot
Crime to print false or meliscious or scandalist stuff about the U.S. gov.
Dwight David Eisenhower
11. Which president was author of the Virginia Plan?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Mom
James Madison
Barack Obama
12. How many pounds was William Howard Taft?
England - France - Russia - USA
Thomas Jefferson
350
The number of people in Congress plus 3 for DC
13. What did the monroe doctrine say?
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14. What war was George Washington in the military for?
1914-1918
French and Indian War
George Washington
The president could not fire and federal official who had gotten their job with Senate approval
15. What was the Banking Holiday?
The banks were closed because everyone wanted their money at once
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Thomas Jefferson
16. How many rooms in the white house?
Abraham Lincoln
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Barack Obama
132
17. Who is the current President Pro-Tempore of the Senate?
Daniel Inouye
Richard Nixon
$400000
Sexual harrassment
18. Who attends diplomatic functions in place of the president?
Dwight David Eisenhower
Teddy Roosevelt
Harry S Truman
The Vice President
19. Who did the Banking Holiday?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
William and Mary College
Jefferson still survives
Joe Biden
20. What was the Emancipation proclamation meant to do?
Ulysses S. Grant
Harry S Truman
A support group of countries
Free the slaves in the south
21. What state is Camp David in?
Maryland
He was shot
4th
Germany - Hungary - Turkey
22. Can the amount of money a president earns be increased/decreased during someone's term of office?
September 1st - 1939
No
You can collect money if you become disabled before retirement
Andrew Johnson
23. What president did the Berlin airlift?
William Jefferson Clinton
The president could not fire and federal official who had gotten their job with Senate approval
Harry S Truman
James Madison
24. Why did WWI happen?
100
Germany was attacking ships
Civil rights
James Madison
25. What was the camp david accords?
When peace was made between Israel and Egypt at Camp David
5
John Tyler
George W. Bush
26. Who was the only president to get all the electoral votes?
Eleanor
George Washington
April 12th - 1861
Jefferson Davis
27. What college did George Washington go to?
None
4th
Ulysses S. Grant
John Quicy Adams
28. Who was a Great General in war of 1812?
No
January 20th
Andrew Jackson
The north and the south were split up
29. Who won a Nobel Peace Prize for what they were going to do?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Thomas Jefferson
Conspiracy
Barack Obama
30. What did the monroe doctrine say?
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31. What is the oldest you can be to get surviver benefits?
18
Woodrow Wilson
Civil rights
Harry S Truman
32. What did John Wilkes Booth say after he shot Lincoln?
Sic Semper Tyrannis - the south is avenged
November 1863
Monticello - Virginia
Since birth
33. James Madison's wife is famous for...
Saving a picture of Washington during the war
Thomas Jefferson
USA
Lee Harvey Oswald
34. Who were the second presidents to be father and son?
Lee Harvey Oswald
George Washington
George H.W. Bush and George Bush
George Washington
35. Where did Thomas Jefferson go to college?
William and Mary College
Ft. Sumter - South Carolina
Abigail
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
36. When was the Emancipation proclamation?
William Jefferson Clinton
Richard Nixon
Money goes to kids when a parent dies
January 1st - 1863
37. Who was William McKinley's VP that moved up when He was killed?
Harvard
Acting
Dwight David Eisenhower
Teddy Roosevelt
38. Who had a 12 year affair with Gennifer Flowers?
Ford's Theater
William Jefferson Clinton
Honor people who died - make sure the country survies
Maryland
39. Why did the league of nations fail (what country wouldn't join)?
George W. Bush
Teddy Roosevelt
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.
USA
40. What were the territories we gained in the Spanish American War? (ABC order with commas inbetween)
Guam - Midway Islands - Philippines - and Puerto Rico
5
Gerald Ford
Woodrow Wilson
41. Who was George Washington's wife?
George H.W. Bush and George Bush
England; sailors; products
30
Martha
42. What was the New Deal?
George H. W. Bush
The Korean War
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Getting out of the Great depression by hiring people - which would start a chain reaction
43. What president had the watergate scandal?
Richard Nixon
The president
14
Speeches given for hope
44. Which president created the University of Virgina?
John Adams and John Quincy Adams
Thomas Jefferson
A group of representatives chosen by the voters to elect the President
Abigail
45. What were the years of WWI?
Mary Todd-Lincoln
1914-1918
Teddy Roosevelt
2
46. Who invaded Iraq?
George W. Bush
Harry S Truman
8
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
47. Grover Cleveland was the ____ and ____ president (numbers)
22 - 24
25
William Jefferson Clinton
James Madison
48. Who did fireside chats?
A 2nd home for the president
William Henry Harrison
The federal government guarentees your money at a bank
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
49. How long do you have to be a citizen for to be president?
John Wilkes Booth
35 said He was guilty - but he needed 36
Since birth
Medical insurance for all americans
50. Who became president when Richard Nixon resigend because they were his VP?
Gerald Ford
Georgia
None
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor - Hawaii