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U.S. Presidents Trivia
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1. What is Camp David?
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
8
A 2nd home for the president
Teddy Roosevelt
2. Who was the commander in charge of Europe afor the Allies in WWII?
No
1 million
When peace was made between Israel and Egypt at Camp David
Dwight David Eisenhower
3. Sewards Folly was when ________ (secretary of state) bought land for $______ - which was thought to be as a joke then - but now that land is known as ________.
Barack Obama
The Vice President
William Seward; $7.2 million; Alaska
Conspiracy
4. Who was sent to a mental institution after Abraham Lincoln's death?
England; sailors; products
Iraq invaded Kuwait - and a coalition of naions push Iraq out of Kuwait
The idea to own all the land from the pacific to the atlantic ocean; 1.2 million
Mary Todd-Lincoln
5. Who had the shortest presidency?
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Barack Obama
John Quicy Adams
William Henry Harrison
6. What was the point of the Gettysburg Address (two things)?
Richard Nixon
Mary Todd-Lincoln
Universal health care
Honor people who died - make sure the country survies
7. The person who killed John Fitzgerald Kennedy is thought to have killed him in a _______ - or not alone.
1914-1918
Conspiracy
His 5th cousin
Mount Vernon - Virginia
8. What date did WWII begin?
Barack Obama
Andrew Jackson
September 1st - 1939
Teddy Roosevelt
9. Who introduced social security?
January 1st - 1863
England; sailors; products
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Mary Todd-Lincoln
10. What does 'Sic Semper Tyrranis' mean?
Conspiracy
Thus always to tyrants
Yes
Mount Vernon - Virginia
11. James Madison's wife was ________ Madison.
When peace was made between Israel and Egypt at Camp David
The south
Teddy Roosevelt
Dolley
12. Why was Andrew Johnson impeached?
1 million
He fired the Secretary of War Staton
1914-1918
George W. Bush
13. ______ years later - the Tenure of Office act was gotten rid of by the Supreme court because it was ________.
Mount Vernon - Virginia
Barack Obama
September 1st - 1939
60; unconstitutional
14. Which president was a great general - a leader - honest - and trustworth?
George Washington
Free the slaves in the south
Period after the Civil War and how we reunited
James Polk
15. Who was Deep Throat?
A person who knew the truth about Richard Nixon and told Woodward and Bernstein
1814
Jimmy Carter
4
16. Who pays for all personal entertainment and dinners not related to teh government business in the White House?
John Wilkes Booth
Acting
A group of representatives chosen by the voters to elect the President
The president
17. Who supported manifest destiny?
William Seward; $7.2 million; Alaska
James Polk
Mount Vernon - Virginia
Dental; medical
18. What was reconstruction?
Dwight David Eisenhower
Period after the Civil War and how we reunited
Buffalo - New York
Dwight David Eisenhower
19. Who was the only president to be president and then supreme court chief justice?
April 12th - 1861
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor - Hawaii
William Howard Taft
444
20. How many presidents died in office?
Jimmy Carter
Teddy Roosevelt
November 1863
8
21. Franklin Delano Roosevelt died a short time into his ____ term.
A person who knew the truth about Richard Nixon and told Woodward and Bernstein
4th
18
William Henry Harrison
22. How many Vice Presidents have moved up because the president died?
35
8
John Quicy Adams
Thomas Jefferson
23. When did we enter WWII?
Zapruder film
Providing a backup place for military plane landing
The Korean War
December 7th - 1941
24. Where did Thomas Jefferson go to college?
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Abigail
Lee Harvey Oswald
William and Mary College
25. Which president served the most terms?
John Adams
Richard Nixon
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
November
26. Why wasn't Andrew Johnson removed from office when He was impeached?
35 said He was guilty - but he needed 36
30
Barack Obama
Andrew Jackson
27. Which president was a lawyer - very smart - an architect - a musician - and an inventor?
Teddy Roosevelt
The Vice President
0
Thomas Jefferson
28. Paula Jones sued William Jefferson Clinton for _______.
Sexual harrassment
Jimmy Carter
Dwight David Eisenhower
Air Force One - Marine One - and limousines
29. What president did the Berlin airlift?
He fired the Secretary of War Staton
Mary Todd-Lincoln
Germany - Hungary - Turkey
Harry S Truman
30. Who supported manifest destiny?
Hillary Clinton
William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison
James Polk
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
31. Who's son is Camp David named after?
Saving a picture of Washington during the war
Dwight David Eisenhower
Ulysses S. Grant
Mary Todd-Lincoln
32. Which president created the University of Virgina?
A gun
The banks were closed because everyone wanted their money at once
Thomas Jefferson
Ulysses S. Grant
33. Jimmy Carter was the former governor of ____.
French and Indian War
Barack Obama
William McKinley
Georgia
34. Who was embarrassed when they received the Nobel Peace Prize?
Andrew Jackson
Barack Obama
1814
2
35. Who was the only catholic president?
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
538
270
Germany - Hungary - Turkey
36. Who was George Washington's wife?
November
Barack Obama
Martha
The president
37. Who killed Abraham Lincoln?
Mary Todd-Lincoln
A support group of countries
Lee Harvey Oswald
John Wilkes Booth
38. Who was president for the nullification crisis?
Barack Obama
None
4th
Andrew Jackson
39. What was the persian gulf war/desert storm?
Jimmy Carter
Iraq invaded Kuwait - and a coalition of naions push Iraq out of Kuwait
Thomas Jefferson
April 12th - 1861
40. Who presented the Fourteen Points?
Woodrow Wilson
Barack Obama
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The federal government guarentees your money at a bank
41. How many presidents died of natural causes in office?
William McKinley
Lyndon Johnson
4
Dental; medical
42. What date was John Fitzgerald Kennedy killed on?
Andrew Jackson
Harry S Truman
November 22nd - 1963
Period after the Civil War and how we reunited
43. What is Camp David?
Alien and sedition acts
A 2nd home for the president
Crime to print false or meliscious or scandalist stuff about the U.S. gov.
Barack Obama
44. What was the name of the airplane that bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Acting
350
Thomas Jefferson
Enola Gay
45. Who had an affair with Monica Lewinsky - a young intern at the White House?
Harry S Truman
Teddy Roosevelt
William Jefferson Clinton
22 - 24
46. Who was Franklin Delano Roosevelt married to?
Eleanor
Air Force One - Marine One - and limousines
William Howard Taft
East of Africa
47. What law that Barack Obama passed might be unconstitutional and is being looked at by the supreme court now?
1 million
The north were comunists and the south were not
Universal health care
Perjury and obstruction of justice
48. What is the oldest you can be to get surviver benefits?
18
George Washington - John Adams - Thomas Jefferson - James Madison - James Monroe - and John Quincy Adams
Jimmy Carter
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.
49. Which president was a 'rough rider' in the Spanish American War?
Barack Obama
Teddy Roosevelt
18
Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Pearl Harbor bombing
50. Why did we invade Iraq?
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