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U.S. Presidents Trivia
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Which president started the two term tradition?
Woodrow Wilson
William Jefferson Clinton
John Adams and John Quincy Adams
George Washington
2. What is the command of army act?
Forced the president to issue all military orders through general of the army who could not be removed without senate approval
Harry S Truman
Civil War
Worker can take three months off in a year to take care of sick relatives or him/herself and cannot be fired
3. Who killed Abraham Lincoln?
The north and the south were split up
John Wilkes Booth
Thus always to tyrants
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
4. What is FDIC (explaIn what it means - not what it stands for)?
Saving a picture of Washington during the war
James Madison
The federal government guarentees your money at a bank
1814
5. Who was President during the Spanish American War?
Monroe
William McKinley
Harry S Truman
Harry S Truman
6. Which president recognized Israel and traded with them and gave money and embassadors to them?
Germany invaded Poland
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
George Washington - John Adams - Thomas Jefferson - James Madison - James Monroe - and John Quincy Adams
Harry S Truman
7. What year was the Louisiana Territory bought?
England
1803
When he jumped out of the balcony - his foot got stuck in the bunting and he fell onto stage
$400000
8. Who was president during the Great depression?
Polio
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Ulysses S. Grant
George H.W. Bush and George Bush
9. Where did the civil war begin?
Ft. Sumter - South Carolina
4
The president
Teddy Roosevelt
10. what ended a couple of days before Abraham Lincoln's Assasination?
Abraham Lincoln
Cuba wanted to overthrow Castrow and our military helped train them
444
Civil War
11. Why did the person who tried to assassinate Ronald Reagan do it?
He wanted a date Jodie Foster
Since birth
Andrew Jackson
4
12. What presidents (in order) died of natural causes?
Harry S Truman
William Henry Harrison - Zachary Taylor - Warren Harding - and Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Zapruder film
Jefferson Davis
13. Which president was a great general - a leader - honest - and trustworth?
Barack Obama
George Washington
Jimmy Carter
15 million
14. What was the point of the Gettysburg Address (two things)?
The idea to own all the land from the pacific to the atlantic ocean; 1.2 million
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.
Honor people who died - make sure the country survies
Martha
15. what ended a couple of days before Abraham Lincoln's Assasination?
Worker can take three months off in a year to take care of sick relatives or him/herself and cannot be fired
The Civil War
Civil War
Massachusetts
16. What is the family Medical Leave Act?
100
Saving a picture of Washington during the war
Worker can take three months off in a year to take care of sick relatives or him/herself and cannot be fired
444
17. What were fireside chats?
35 said He was guilty - but he needed 36
Speeches given for hope
George Washington
Woodrow Wilson
18. Which president had a stroke in his bathroom?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Monticello - Virginia
A gun
Woodrow Wilson
19. Name the two presidents (ABC order by last name - write first and last name) who died on the same day - and the date they died (separate with semi colon)
The idea to own all the land from the pacific to the atlantic ocean; 1.2 million
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.
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson; July 4th - 1826
Bad
20. Who said 'A date that will live in infamy'? What were they talking about (separate with semicolon)?
John Boehner
Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Pearl Harbor bombing
George Washington - John Adams - Thomas Jefferson - James Madison - James Monroe - and John Quincy Adams
No
21. Lyndon Johnson got lots of bills passed involving ______.
January 20th
No
Lyndon Johnson
Civil rights
22. Where did Abraham Lincoln's assasination take place?
23. Who was our president during the Korean war?
Dwight David Eisenhower
Enola Gay
January 1st - 1863
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
24. Who was President during the Spanish American War?
Alien and sedition acts
6'4'
Hillary Clinton
William McKinley
25. What year was the White House burnt down?
15 million
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
1814
Mary Todd-Lincoln
26. What was a popular film of John Fitzgerald Kennedy's assassination?
The House of Representatives selects the President and the Senate selects the Vice President
The Vice President
Zapruder film
Ft. Sumter - South Carolina
27. Which president got Alzheimers and forgot being president?
George Washington
January 20th
In their state's capital
Ronald Reagan
28. Who was on the bad side for WWI (abc order)?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Germany - Hungary - Turkey
East of Africa
Ulysses S. Grant
29. Which president helped create the Library of Congress when he sells and donates 6000 books?
Richard Nixon
Thomas Jefferson
John Adams and John Quincy Adams
In their state's capital
30. Can the amount of money a president earns be increased/decreased during someone's term of office?
Maine and Nebraska
John Wilkes Booth
No
East of Africa
31. Did we win the Spanish American War?
Yes
England; sailors; products
Andrew Johnson
George Washington
32. How many pounds was William Howard Taft?
Barack Obama
Abraham Lincoln
William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison
350
33. Who was the only president to be president and then supreme court chief justice?
Providing a backup place for military plane landing
William Howard Taft
Peterson House; the next morning
He resigned before the impeachment trial
34. What president made the emancipation proclamtion?
Teddy Roosevelt
Medical insurance for all americans
Abraham Lincoln
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
35. How many presidents died in office?
Yes
8
The Gettysburg Address
James Madison
36. Who was William McKinley's VP that moved up when He was killed?
Polio
Teddy Roosevelt
Ford's Theater
The south
37. What month and day do we vote for the president?
Germany was attacking ships
William and Mary College
William McKinley
The first Tuesday of Novermber that follows a monday in November
38. What were the sides for the Korean war and the Vietnam war?
The first Tuesday of Novermber that follows a monday in November
The north were comunists and the south were not
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Crime to print false or meliscious or scandalist stuff about the U.S. gov.
39. 'Speak softley and carry a big stick' was a quote of who?
Teddy Roosevelt
Robert E. Lee
Providing a backup place for military plane landing
1914-1918
40. Gerald Ford pardons _____________ for all crimes committed.
Richard Nixon
John Boehner
Acting
1914-1918
41. What is the oldest you can be to get surviver benefits?
William McKinley
Teddy Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt
18
George H.W. Bush and George Bush
42. Where does the number of electors in the electoral college come from?
Mom
South; north
The number of people in Congress plus 3 for DC
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
43. Who won the Nobel peace prize because he told Russia and Japan not to fight - but to love?
The Vice President
Teddy Roosevelt
Electors
A 2nd home for the president
44. 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 ________.
Sexual harrassment
The fourteen points
14
Self
45. Who's son married Nixon's daughter?
Dwight David Eisenhower
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Woodrow Wilson
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
46. Who was president for the Bay of Pigs?
Jimmy Carter
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Barack Obama
Kentucky; Log cabin
47. Why did WWII begin?
Maryland
Saving a picture of Washington during the war
James Madison
Germany invaded Poland
48. How did William McKinley die?
He was shot on his way to a college reunion
He was shot
The White House
John Quincy Adams - Rutherford B. Hayes - Benjamin Harrison - and George W. Bush
49. Who is the current secretary of state?
Hillary Clinton
No
OK to send home foregienors if they looked dangerous; also if we were in war with their country
100
50. What war was George Washington in the military for?
George W. Bush
Dwight David Eisenhower
French and Indian War
7; 11