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U.S. Presidents Trivia
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1. What was a popular film of John Fitzgerald Kennedy's assassination?
When peace was made between Israel and Egypt at Camp David
Teddy Roosevelt
George Washington
Zapruder film
2. Which president created Yellowstone National Park and Yosemite?
Europe
William Jefferson Clinton
Eleanor
Teddy Roosevelt
3. Who is considered 'the father of our country'?
Zapruder film
November
Club with all countries where problems were discussed peacefully
George Washington
4. Where was Thomas Jefferson born?
Writters for Washington Post who figured out Richard Nixon's case
Monticello - Virginia
5
Bad
5. Who ran the country when Woodrow Wilson couldn't?
1803
Thomas Jefferson
His wife
Teddy Roosevelt
6. Who's son married Nixon's daughter?
Ulysses S. Grant
Gerald Ford
Dwight David Eisenhower
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
7. Which president helped create the Library of Congress when he sells and donates 6000 books?
Thomas Jefferson
The US was prepared to send money and military support to countries that want to resist communism
Dwight David Eisenhower
A 2nd home for the president
8. John Adams went to what college?
Ft. Sumter - South Carolina
Andrew Jackson
Harvard
September 1st - 1939
9. Where did the name 'gettysburg' come from?
Europe
November 22nd - 1963
George Washington
The three day battle in July in Gettysburg about slaves
10. How many days was the Iran Hostage crisis?
444
When we dropped food and supplies to people in West Berlin
Lee Harvey Oswald
Lyndon Johnson
11. Why wasn't Richard Nixon thrown out of office?
Speeches given for hope
Woodrow Wilson
The government
He resigned before the impeachment trial
12. Who was the only man to be president Who was not elected to either vp spot or the presidency?
Dwight David Eisenhower
Gerald Ford
4
Richard Nixon
13. Who introduced surviver benefits?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The north were comunists and the south were not
George Washington - John Adams - Thomas Jefferson - James Madison - James Monroe - and John Quincy Adams
35
14. Who was president during the War of 1812 against England?
James Madison
Mary Todd-Lincoln
Free the slaves in the south
He was shot
15. Name the Founding Fathers plus the son in order...
4
George Washington
Teddy Roosevelt - Woodrow Wilson - Jimmy Carter - and Barack Obama
George Washington - John Adams - Thomas Jefferson - James Madison - James Monroe - and John Quincy Adams
16. John Quicy Adams spent time In what continent?
100
Europe
4
A gun
17. How much of a retirement income per year does the president make (for life)?
John Adams
The Korean War
$150000
Barack Obama
18. How much was the Louisiana Territory when it was purchased?
The president
Dwight David Eisenhower
He gets shot
15 million
19. Who is the current President Pro-Tempore of the Senate?
Mary Todd-Lincoln
Daniel Inouye
Woodrow Wilson
William Henry Harrison
20. What were the territories we gained in the Spanish American War? (ABC order with commas inbetween)
John Tyler
The north and the south were split up
Barack Obama
Guam - Midway Islands - Philippines - and Puerto Rico
21. Sedition acts
Crime to print false or meliscious or scandalist stuff about the U.S. gov.
The Vice President
$400000
George Washington - John Adams - Thomas Jefferson - James Madison - James Monroe - and John Quincy Adams
22. Who had many affairs during their presidency but claimed not to?
Andrew Jackson
William Jefferson Clinton
The north were comunists and the south were not
Air Force One - Marine One - and limousines
23. What was the New Deal?
Getting out of the Great depression by hiring people - which would start a chain reaction
Air Force One - Marine One - and limousines
Woodrow Wilson
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
24. Andrew Johnson had a (good/bad) relation ship with congress over reconstruction
4th
Ulysses S. Grant
Bad
Honor people who died - make sure the country survies
25. John Quicy Adams spent time In what continent?
Europe
Kentucky; Log cabin
270
Robert E. Lee
26. What state is Camp David in?
George H.W. Bush and George Bush
The US was prepared to send money and military support to countries that want to resist communism
Maryland
Andrew Jackson
27. Who was the only president to resign?
Jefferson Davis
When peace was made between Israel and Egypt at Camp David
Richard Nixon
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.
28. Who did we help in the Vietnam war and the korean war?
He was shot on his way to a college reunion
Dwight David Eisenhower
The south
John Wilkes Booth
29. What were the sides for the Korean war and the Vietnam war?
Gerald Ford
The north were comunists and the south were not
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Monticello - Virginia
30. What was the Berlin Airlift?
The idea to own all the land from the pacific to the atlantic ocean; 1.2 million
When we dropped food and supplies to people in West Berlin
Abraham Lincoln
Massachusetts
31. How many rooms in the white house?
14
132
William Jefferson Clinton
Conspiracy
32. What is the Electoral College?
Revolutionary War
A group of representatives chosen by the voters to elect the President
538
Massachusetts
33. Which president was the 'father of the constitution'?
$150000
William Jefferson Clinton
Germany was attacking ships
James Madison
34. Who gave the longest inauguration speech?
Free the slaves in the south
William Henry Harrison
Conspiracy
Massachusetts
35. Who won a Nobel Peace Prize for what they were going to do?
Jimmy Carter
Germany was attacking ships
Barack Obama
The White House
36. What is the inauguration date?
William Jefferson Clinton
Maine and Nebraska
January 20th
Jimmy Carter
37. What president did the Berlin airlift?
Harry S Truman
OK to send home foregienors if they looked dangerous; also if we were in war with their country
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Jimmy Carter
38. Where did the name 'gettysburg' come from?
William Henry Harrison
The three day battle in July in Gettysburg about slaves
0
A 2nd home for the president
39. Who were Woodward and Bernstein?
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40. What was the name of the airplane that bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Lyndon Johnson
A group of representatives chosen by the voters to elect the President
Enola Gay
World War I
41. Who won the Nobel peace prize because he told Russia and Japan not to fight - but to love?
We thought there were weapons of mass destruction - but there weren't
Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Pearl Harbor bombing
Teddy Roosevelt
14
42. Who had a 12 year affair with Gennifer Flowers?
Woodrow Wilson
The south
Maryland
William Jefferson Clinton
43. The committee of the watergate scandal illegally entered the __________ (building) and spied on Nixon's opponent Who was in the _______ complex.
Medical insurance for all americans
Democratic National Headquarters; Watergate
French and Indian War
William Jefferson Clinton
44. Who said 'The buck stops here'?
Harry S Truman
Forced the president to issue all military orders through general of the army who could not be removed without senate approval
He wanted a date Jodie Foster
The number of people in Congress plus 3 for DC
45. When was the Emancipation proclamation?
A gun
January 1st - 1863
The federal government guarentees your money at a bank
Europe
46. What month and day do we vote for the president?
The first Tuesday of Novermber that follows a monday in November
Sexual harrassment
John Adams
Zapruder film
47. Who created the Family Medical Leave Act?
Revolutionary War
William Jefferson Clinton
George W. Bush
Thomas Jefferson
48. Why did we invade Iraq?
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49. How many Vice Presidents have moved up because the president resigned?
The Vice President
1
Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Pearl Harbor bombing
0
50. Who became president when Richard Nixon resigend because they were his VP?
Writters for Washington Post who figured out Richard Nixon's case
Gerald Ford
Sexual harrassment
James Madison