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U.S. Presidents Trivia
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1. Which president was the youngest to serve?
Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter
Teddy Roosevelt
A support group of countries
2. Who were Woodward and Bernstein?
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3. Which president was a lawyer - very smart - an architect - a musician - and an inventor?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Pearl Harbor bombing
Woodrow Wilson
November
Thomas Jefferson
4. Who won the Nobel peace prize because he told Russia and Japan not to fight - but to love?
Dwight David Eisenhower
The Gettysburg Address
William Howard Taft
Teddy Roosevelt
5. Who had the first death in office?
None
William Henry Harrison
Bad
1914-1918
6. The ______ was invented when William McKinley was killed - and it could have saved him.
They were classmates in college
X-ray
8
Dolley
7. How many days was the Iran Hostage crisis?
0
444
Worker can take three months off in a year to take care of sick relatives or him/herself and cannot be fired
The south
8. What state is Camp David in?
South; north
Maryland
The south
The president could not fire and federal official who had gotten their job with Senate approval
9. What war was George Washington in the military for?
George Washington
The Vice President
18
French and Indian War
10. Who won a Nobel Peace Prize for what they were going to do?
Barack Obama
1814
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
He was shot
11. How many terms is a president alowed to serve?
2
Teddy Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt
When we dropped food and supplies to people in West Berlin
5
12. During the civil war - the north's general was ___________.
X-ray
Money goes to kids when a parent dies
Ulysses S. Grant
April 12th - 1861
13. During the Great Depression - ____% were unemployed.
November 1863
A 2nd home for the president
25
Sic Semper Tyrannis - the south is avenged
14. Which president started the two term tradition?
When we dropped food and supplies to people in West Berlin
George Washington
Teddy Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The White House
15. What was the league of nations?
Hillary Clinton
Joe Biden
Club with all countries where problems were discussed peacefully
Crime to print false or meliscious or scandalist stuff about the U.S. gov.
16. Who was the first President during WWII?
William Henry Harrison
Mount Vernon - Virginia
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Europe
17. What was the nullification crisis?
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18. What is the command of army act?
$400000
Harry S Truman
Forced the president to issue all military orders through general of the army who could not be removed without senate approval
John Adams
19. What was the New Deal?
The three day battle in July in Gettysburg about slaves
When we dropped food and supplies to people in West Berlin
Getting out of the Great depression by hiring people - which would start a chain reaction
George H. W. Bush
20. Where do electors vote?
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21. What is the command of army act?
John Adams
George W. Bush
John Adams
Forced the president to issue all military orders through general of the army who could not be removed without senate approval
22. How many Vice Presidents have moved up because the president died?
Daniel Inouye
November 22nd - 1963
Andrew Johnson
8
23. Where did Abraham Lincoln's assasination take place?
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24. What happens if no candidate gets the majorit y of electoral votes?
The House of Representatives selects the President and the Senate selects the Vice President
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The White House
25. Why wasn't Andrew Johnson removed from office when He was impeached?
1814
If he serves 2 or less years of someone else's term plus 8 years on his own
8
35 said He was guilty - but he needed 36
26. Who was the first president not to win the popular vote and to become president?
14
The federal government guarentees your money at a bank
27
John Quicy Adams
27. which president was former head of CIA?
Dwight David Eisenhower
Richard Nixon
George H. W. Bush
Civil rights
28. What did John Wilkes Booth say after he shot Lincoln?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Maine and Nebraska
Self
Sic Semper Tyrannis - the south is avenged
29. Who was president for the Bay of Pigs?
Honor people who died - make sure the country survies
April 1917- November 1918
Harry S Truman
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
30. Who became president when Richard Nixon resigend because they were his VP?
The Vice President
Gerald Ford
8
Civil rights
31. what ended a couple of days before Abraham Lincoln's Assasination?
Abigail
22 - 24
Thus always to tyrants
Civil War
32. How can a president serve up to ten years?
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33. Who's son is Camp David named after?
27
Democratic National Headquarters; Watergate
Dwight David Eisenhower
He resigned before the impeachment trial
34. 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)
January 1st - 1863
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson; July 4th - 1826
Lee Harvey Oswald
The number of people in Congress plus 3 for DC
35. How much money does the president earn per year?
4
Period after the Civil War and how we reunited
$400000
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.
36. Who was our president when we kille Osama bin Laden?
The government
Ford's Theater
Barack Obama
Germany was attacking ships
37. Which presidents were cousins?
Teddy Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Harry S Truman
Harry S Truman
Harvard
38. What are the people in the electoral college called?
Dwight David Eisenhower
November 22nd - 1963
They were classmates in college
Electors
39. How many Vice Presidents ran again for president and became president?
He fired the Secretary of War Staton
5
7; 11
1
40. What were the sides for the Korean war and the Vietnam war?
Gerald Ford
The north were comunists and the south were not
Worker can take three months off in a year to take care of sick relatives or him/herself and cannot be fired
William Jefferson Clinton
41. Who passed Universal health care?
Barack Obama
4
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
No
42. Lyndon Johnson got lots of bills passed involving ______.
Jimmy Carter
14
Dwight David Eisenhower
Civil rights
43. What presidents (in order) died of natural causes?
Medical insurance for all americans
William Henry Harrison - Zachary Taylor - Warren Harding - and Franklin Delano Roosevelt
James Madison
22 - 24
44. Who were the second presidents to be father and son?
The south
James Madison
The Vice President
George H.W. Bush and George Bush
45. What is Camp David?
OK to send home foregienors if they looked dangerous; also if we were in war with their country
Woodrow Wilson
A 2nd home for the president
Andrew Johnson
46. How many years is a presidential term?
Teddy Roosevelt
The north and the south were split up
4
Universal health care
47. What was a popular film of John Fitzgerald Kennedy's assassination?
Buffalo - New York
Zapruder film
Mary Todd-Lincoln
Dental; medical
48. Where did Thomas Jefferson go to college?
He wanted a date Jodie Foster
Mount Vernon - Virginia
William and Mary College
Harry S Truman
49. During the civil war - the ________ wanted slaves and the ________ did not.
Revolutionary War
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Germany - Hungary - Turkey
South; north
50. Who was a Great General in war of 1812?
Andrew Jackson
Cuba wanted to overthrow Castrow and our military helped train them
Teddy Roosevelt
George Washington
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