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U.S. Presidents Trivia
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What was the Bay of Pigs?
Thomas Jefferson
George H. W. Bush
Cuba wanted to overthrow Castrow and our military helped train them
8
2. What were the sides for the Korean war and the Vietnam war?
Harry S Truman
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
The north were comunists and the south were not
Andrew Jackson
3. What weapon was used to kill Lincoln?
Barack Obama
A gun
His 5th cousin
1814
4. what ended a couple of days before Abraham Lincoln's Assasination?
Harvard
Bad
Civil War
The Korean War
5. Who was on the good side for WWI (abc order)?
England - France - Russia - USA
Universal health care
George Washington - John Adams - Thomas Jefferson - James Madison - James Monroe - and John Quincy Adams
When he jumped out of the balcony - his foot got stuck in the bunting and he fell onto stage
6. Who was Franklin Delano Roosevelt married to?
Daniel Inouye
22 - 24
The Gettysburg Address
Eleanor
7. What was the New Deal?
Getting out of the Great depression by hiring people - which would start a chain reaction
1
November 22nd - 1963
Maine and Nebraska
8. Manifest Destiny was to have all the land from __________ to ___________ (east to west)
30
New Mexico to California
No
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor - Hawaii
9. What was the persian gulf war/desert storm?
Iraq invaded Kuwait - and a coalition of naions push Iraq out of Kuwait
New Mexico to California
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
10. What is the address of the white house?
Perjury and obstruction of justice
Germany was attacking ships
Lee Harvey Oswald
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
11. What was the camp david accords?
September 1st - 1939
East of Africa
When peace was made between Israel and Egypt at Camp David
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.
12. Who said 'The only thing we have to fear is fear itself' at their 1st inaugural?
Jefferson still survives
Robert E. Lee
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
January 20th
13. What is NATO (not what it stands for - what it is)?
Gerald Ford
Barack Obama
A support group of countries
$150000
14. How many Vice Presidents ran again for president and became president?
Speeches given for hope
5
Iraq invaded Kuwait - and a coalition of naions push Iraq out of Kuwait
$150000
15. What is manifest destiny? how many square miles was it?
The north and the south were split up
If he serves 2 or less years of someone else's term plus 8 years on his own
James Madison
The idea to own all the land from the pacific to the atlantic ocean; 1.2 million
16. Who presented the Fourteen Points?
Universal health care
Woodrow Wilson
14
William Jefferson Clinton
17. What law that Barack Obama passed might be unconstitutional and is being looked at by the supreme court now?
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
2
April 1917- November 1918
Universal health care
18. Who was the only president to get all the electoral votes?
John Adams
George Washington
Maine and Nebraska
Harry S Truman
19. what disease did Franklin Delano Roosevelt have?
Polio
Eleanor
A gun
A group of representatives chosen by the voters to elect the President
20. How did John Wilkes Booth break his leg?
The north were comunists and the south were not
Teddy Roosevelt
When he jumped out of the balcony - his foot got stuck in the bunting and he fell onto stage
He fired the Secretary of War Staton
21. What are surviver benefits?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
35
Money goes to kids when a parent dies
The Korean War
22. What presidents lost the popular vote but won the electoral vote? (in order)
John Quincy Adams - Rutherford B. Hayes - Benjamin Harrison - and George W. Bush
Acting
East of Africa
Jimmy Carter
23. After what event was the Fourteen Points presented?
Civil War
Georgia
Barack Obama
World War I
24. Franklin Delano Roosevelt died a short time into his ____ term.
4th
William Henry Harrison - Zachary Taylor - Warren Harding - and Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Medical insurance for all americans
We thought there were weapons of mass destruction - but there weren't
25. Who said 'A date that will live in infamy'? What were they talking about (separate with semicolon)?
George Washington - John Adams - Thomas Jefferson - James Madison - James Monroe - and John Quincy Adams
Harvard
Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Pearl Harbor bombing
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.
26. What was the camp david accords?
When peace was made between Israel and Egypt at Camp David
William Seward; $7.2 million; Alaska
Ronald Reagan
Abigail
27. Why was Andrew Johnson impeached?
January 20th
He fired the Secretary of War Staton
George H. W. Bush
The first Tuesday of Novermber that follows a monday in November
28. Where was Abraham Lincoln born? What kind of house did he live in?
60; unconstitutional
Kentucky; Log cabin
John Adams
The president
29. James Madison's wife was ________ Madison.
The government
Dolley
Eleanor
Ronald Reagan
30. What were John Adams's last words?
Jefferson still survives
Teddy Roosevelt
No
30
31. What is the family Medical Leave Act?
John Quicy Adams
Worker can take three months off in a year to take care of sick relatives or him/herself and cannot be fired
George W. Bush
William Jefferson Clinton
32. Where did Thomas Jefferson go to college?
He wanted a date Jodie Foster
Ulysses S. Grant
William and Mary College
1814
33. Name the Founding Fathers plus the son in order...
Conspiracy
George Washington - John Adams - Thomas Jefferson - James Madison - James Monroe - and John Quincy Adams
William Henry Harrison
William Henry Harrison
34. What is the command of army act?
Crime to print false or meliscious or scandalist stuff about the U.S. gov.
John Adams
The north and the south were split up
Forced the president to issue all military orders through general of the army who could not be removed without senate approval
35. Which president was the youngest to serve?
Joe Biden
Sic Semper Tyrannis - the south is avenged
Teddy Roosevelt
Mary Todd-Lincoln
36. what ended a couple of days before Abraham Lincoln's Assasination?
Jefferson still survives
Massachusetts
Civil War
Lee Harvey Oswald
37. How many presidents died in office?
April 12th - 1861
John Quicy Adams
Conspiracy
8
38. Who gave the longest inauguration speech?
Teddy Roosevelt
George Washington
William Henry Harrison
The first Tuesday of Novermber that follows a monday in November
39. Who was president for the 9/11 attacks?
No
Lee Harvey Oswald
Thomas Jefferson
George W. Bush
40. What are disability benefits?
Jimmy Carter
35
Europe
You can collect money if you become disabled before retirement
41. What does 'Sic Semper Tyrranis' mean?
Joe Biden
Teddy Roosevelt
Thus always to tyrants
None
42. Where was George Washington born?
538
Jimmy Carter
Mount Vernon - Virginia
April 12th - 1861
43. What was the point of the Gettysburg Address (two things)?
Honor people who died - make sure the country survies
Hillary Clinton
Polio
444
44. Why did WWII begin?
Dental; medical
John Quincy Adams - Rutherford B. Hayes - Benjamin Harrison - and George W. Bush
John Boehner
Germany invaded Poland
45. How many kids did George Washington have?
35
William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison
0
George Washington
46. What year was the White House burnt down?
England; sailors; products
1814
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
William and Mary College
47. Who's son is Camp David named after?
Dwight David Eisenhower
Ford's Theater
The Korean War
England - France - Russia - USA
48. What are disability benefits?
Jimmy Carter
His wife
You can collect money if you become disabled before retirement
Conspiracy
49. What is the mandatory retirement plan run by the government?
William and Mary College
Social Security
Barack Obama
George Washington
50. Who is thought to have assassinated John Fitzgerald Kennedy?
4
27
Richard Nixon
Lee Harvey Oswald