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U.S. Presidents Trivia
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1. How many states broke away during the civil war AT FIRST? how many total ending up breaking away?
No
7; 11
The Korean War
35 said He was guilty - but he needed 36
2. Who attends diplomatic functions in place of the president?
April 1917- November 1918
The Vice President
Harry S Truman
Teddy Roosevelt
3. Who won a Nobel Peace Prize for what they were going to do?
Lyndon Johnson
0
USA
Barack Obama
4. Who did we help in the Vietnam war and the korean war?
John Adams
William Jefferson Clinton
George Washington
The south
5. What date did WWII begin?
The fourteen points
No
The fourteen points
September 1st - 1939
6. 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
Enola Gay
35 said He was guilty - but he needed 36
When we dropped food and supplies to people in West Berlin
7. Manifest Destiny was to have all the land from __________ to ___________ (east to west)
Says to Europe to stay out of the western memosphere and don't colonize; the U.S. will consider colonization a threat to our secruity; we will stay out of European affairs unless they affect us
New Mexico to California
Abigail
1 million
8. Franklin Delano Roosevelt died a short time into his ____ term.
4th
Maine and Nebraska
Dental; medical
Dental; medical
9. How long do you have to be a citizen for to be president?
A gun
William Howard Taft
John Hinkley Jr.
Since birth
10. Why did we enter WWII?
Jimmy Carter
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor - Hawaii
The president could not fire and federal official who had gotten their job with Senate approval
Dolley
11. Where did Thomas Jefferson go to college?
William Henry Harrison - Zachary Taylor - Warren Harding - and Franklin Delano Roosevelt
William and Mary College
William Jefferson Clinton
4
12. Who was on the good side for WWI (abc order)?
Ulysses S. Grant
The House of Representatives selects the President and the Senate selects the Vice President
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
England - France - Russia - USA
13. How many presidents died of natural causes in office?
South; north
England; sailors; products
George Washington
4
14. which president was former head of CIA?
Barack Obama
William McKinley
George H. W. Bush
Andrew Johnson
15. How many Vice Presidents have moved up because the president resigned?
4
William Henry Harrison
John Tyler
1
16. what ended a couple of days before Abraham Lincoln's Assasination?
Civil War
January 1st - 1863
Social Security
The north were comunists and the south were not
17. The person who killed John Fitzgerald Kennedy is thought to have killed him in a _______ - or not alone.
Bad
25
Conspiracy
Writters for Washington Post who figured out Richard Nixon's case
18. Who was president for the persian gulf war?
4
Monroe
Democratic National Headquarters; Watergate
George H. W. Bush
19. What were John Adams's last words?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Harry S Truman
Conspiracy
Jefferson still survives
20. Who created the Family Medical Leave Act?
4th
His wife
William Jefferson Clinton
George H. W. Bush
21. Who is the current speaker of the House?
Teddy Roosevelt
George H. W. Bush
John Boehner
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
22. What war was George Washington in the military for?
$400000
French and Indian War
Barack Obama
Guam - Midway Islands - Philippines - and Puerto Rico
23. Which president had a stroke in his bathroom?
Thomas Jefferson
Woodrow Wilson
Writters for Washington Post who figured out Richard Nixon's case
World War I
24. Who ran the country when Woodrow Wilson couldn't?
The three day battle in July in Gettysburg about slaves
His wife
444
John Adams
25. Who did we help in the Vietnam war and the korean war?
John Wilkes Booth
Barack Obama
John Quincy Adams - Rutherford B. Hayes - Benjamin Harrison - and George W. Bush
The south
26. What date did WWII begin?
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.
Dental; medical
The Vice President
September 1st - 1939
27. Who said 'A date that will live in infamy'? What were they talking about (separate with semicolon)?
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
William Jefferson Clinton
Thomas Jefferson
Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Pearl Harbor bombing
28. What is the command of army act?
Air Force One - Marine One - and limousines
Forced the president to issue all military orders through general of the army who could not be removed without senate approval
Daniel Inouye
Iraq invaded Kuwait - and a coalition of naions push Iraq out of Kuwait
29. Who is the current speaker of the House?
John Boehner
George Washington
Lyndon Johnson
Woodrow Wilson
30. Who was president for the Cuban Missile Crisis?
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
The federal government guarentees your money at a bank
Andrew Johnson
If he serves 2 or less years of someone else's term plus 8 years on his own
31. How tall was Abraham Lincoln?
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32. Which president helped create the Library of Congress when he sells and donates 6000 books?
Monticello - Virginia
Thomas Jefferson
A group of representatives chosen by the voters to elect the President
Woodrow Wilson
33. Who was George Washington's wife?
England; sailors; products
Maine and Nebraska
Martha
Harry S Truman
34. Which president was author of the Virginia Plan?
Enola Gay
January 20th
OK to send home foregienors if they looked dangerous; also if we were in war with their country
James Madison
35. Who was the only catholic president?
William Howard Taft
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
In their state's capital
A person who knew the truth about Richard Nixon and told Woodward and Bernstein
36. What is the address of the white house?
22 - 24
Ulysses S. Grant
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
The Korean War
37. Who were the second presidents to be father and son?
60; unconstitutional
George H.W. Bush and George Bush
Bad
James Madison
38. During the Great Depression - ____% were unemployed.
Harvard
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
No
25
39. What was the camp david accords?
When peace was made between Israel and Egypt at Camp David
James Madison
Germany invaded Poland
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
40. Which presidents were cousins?
Social Security
He was shot on his way to a college reunion
Martha
Teddy Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt
41. John Quicy Adams spent time In what continent?
8
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Sic Semper Tyrannis - the south is avenged
Europe
42. What was the Tenure of Office Act/
Teddy Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Acting
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson; July 4th - 1826
The president could not fire and federal official who had gotten their job with Senate approval
43. Where does the president live for free?
25
The White House
Dwight David Eisenhower
John Quicy Adams
44. What are disability benefits?
You can collect money if you become disabled before retirement
22 - 24
14
William Jefferson Clinton
45. Congress passed 2 laws designed to limit __________'s (a president) power .
Andrew Johnson
John Adams and John Quincy Adams
When we dropped food and supplies to people in West Berlin
27
46. Which president created the University of Virgina?
Buffalo - New York
Alien and sedition acts
8
Thomas Jefferson
47. Who introduced social security?
Mary Todd-Lincoln
John Adams
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
John Tyler
48. Who supported manifest destiny?
35 said He was guilty - but he needed 36
Says to Europe to stay out of the western memosphere and don't colonize; the U.S. will consider colonization a threat to our secruity; we will stay out of European affairs unless they affect us
Woodrow Wilson
James Polk
49. During the civil war - the south named itself _____.
No
Club with all countries where problems were discussed peacefully
The Confederate States of America
The number of people in Congress plus 3 for DC
50. In the War of 1812 - ________ (country) kept stealing our ________ (people) and _______ (items) in the middle of the ocean (separate with semicolon).
Universal health care
A support group of countries
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
England; sailors; products