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U.S. Presidents Trivia
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1. Andrew Johnson was _________'s VP
George H.W. Bush and George Bush
350
Sexual harrassment
Abraham Lincoln
2. What year was the White House burnt down?
South; north
1814
John Quicy Adams
Eleanor
3. What was the Emancipation proclamation meant to do?
Guam - Midway Islands - Philippines - and Puerto Rico
The Gettysburg Address
Thus always to tyrants
Free the slaves in the south
4. Where was Thomas Jefferson born?
No
January 1st - 1863
Money goes to kids when a parent dies
Monticello - Virginia
5. The president get ____ care and _____ care for free.
Dwight David Eisenhower
William Jefferson Clinton
John Wilkes Booth
Dental; medical
6. How many rooms in the white house?
132
4
A 2nd home for the president
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor - Hawaii
7. Who was George Washington's wife?
The idea to own all the land from the pacific to the atlantic ocean; 1.2 million
Martha
4
Speeches given for hope
8. Who said 'The only thing we have to fear is fear itself' at their 1st inaugural?
Georgia
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
6'4'
We thought there were weapons of mass destruction - but there weren't
9. What was the most terms served by a president?
Ulysses S. Grant
The president
4
William and Mary College
10. Which president adopted independence - was loyal - smart - and a lawyer?
Self
George Washington
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
John Adams
11. Who was the only president to get all the electoral votes?
January 1st - 1863
The government
England - France - Russia - USA
George Washington
12. Which president was the 'father of the constitution'?
Martha
James Madison
William Seward; $7.2 million; Alaska
John Adams
13. Paula Jones sued William Jefferson Clinton for _______.
April 1917- November 1918
Writters for Washington Post who figured out Richard Nixon's case
Sexual harrassment
The House of Representatives selects the President and the Senate selects the Vice President
14. Sedition acts
John Quincy Adams - Rutherford B. Hayes - Benjamin Harrison - and George W. Bush
John Hinkley Jr.
September 1st - 1939
Crime to print false or meliscious or scandalist stuff about the U.S. gov.
15. Who was the only president to resign?
Richard Nixon
Daniel Inouye
The north were comunists and the south were not
Medical insurance for all americans
16. Who was Deep Throat?
Joe Biden
Dwight David Eisenhower
A person who knew the truth about Richard Nixon and told Woodward and Bernstein
Jefferson Davis
17. Which president created the University of Virgina?
George H. W. Bush
8
Thomas Jefferson
January 20th
18. Gerald Ford pardons _____________ for all crimes committed.
Richard Nixon
East of Africa
Europe
The idea to own all the land from the pacific to the atlantic ocean; 1.2 million
19. Who were the second presidents to be father and son?
George H.W. Bush and George Bush
The Confederate States of America
4
4
20. What date was John Fitzgerald Kennedy killed on?
Bad
November 22nd - 1963
Alien and sedition acts
He was shot on his way to a college reunion
21. Which president was a lawyer - very smart - an architect - a musician - and an inventor?
Democratic National Headquarters; Watergate
Thomas Jefferson
John Adams
132
22. In most states - what percent of the state's electoral votes does a candidate get if they win the popular vote?
100
South; north
John Adams
Universal health care
23. How many presidents died of natural causes in office?
No
4
John Adams
The president could not fire and federal official who had gotten their job with Senate approval
24. What were the years of WWI?
Buffalo - New York
Polio
Woodrow Wilson
1914-1918
25. Who was Abraham Lincoln married to?
Ronald Reagan
4
Mary Todd-Lincoln
When we dropped food and supplies to people in West Berlin
26. Who was president when the United Nations was formed?
Harry S Truman
Richard Nixon
Europe
Writters for Washington Post who figured out Richard Nixon's case
27. How old do you have to be to be president?
Sic Semper Tyrannis - the south is avenged
35
Money goes to kids when a parent dies
John Hinkley Jr.
28. what disease did Franklin Delano Roosevelt have?
A group of representatives chosen by the voters to elect the President
Polio
James Madison
William Howard Taft
29. How much of a retirement income per year does the president make (for life)?
Teddy Roosevelt
French and Indian War
$150000
15 million
30. What was the nullification crisis?
31. William Jefferson Clinton paid Paula Jones $____.
OK to send home foregienors if they looked dangerous; also if we were in war with their country
1 million
Martha
James Madison
32. Who was president when the United Nations was formed?
George Washington
Harry S Truman
Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Pearl Harbor bombing
George W. Bush
33. Who was president for the Bay of Pigs?
His wife
The fourteen points
He resigned before the impeachment trial
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
34. What is NATO (not what it stands for - what it is)?
Mom
Thus always to tyrants
A support group of countries
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
35. Which president was a 'rough rider' in the Spanish American War?
Dwight David Eisenhower
Teddy Roosevelt
Social Security
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
36. What are surviver benefits?
Money goes to kids when a parent dies
Barack Obama
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
15 million
37. Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant knew eachother because _________.
1914-1918
Dental; medical
Barack Obama
They were classmates in college
38. What happens to John Wilkes Booth?
Teddy Roosevelt
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
England
He gets shot
39. Who supported manifest destiny?
A person who knew the truth about Richard Nixon and told Woodward and Bernstein
James Polk
The House of Representatives selects the President and the Senate selects the Vice President
The north and the south were split up
40. During the civil war - the south's general was ____________.
The Vice President
James Madison
Robert E. Lee
Richard Nixon
41. Who was embarrassed when they received the Nobel Peace Prize?
The federal government guarentees your money at a bank
Period after the Civil War and how we reunited
Barack Obama
William Jefferson Clinton
42. This president helped write the federalist papers.
James Madison
Saving a picture of Washington during the war
The first Tuesday of Novermber that follows a monday in November
Harry S Truman
43. What year was the Louisiana Territory bought?
1 million
1803
The Vice President
September 1st - 1939
44. What state was John Adams from?
Massachusetts
William Seward; $7.2 million; Alaska
1803
Barack Obama
45. Who won a Nobel Peace Prize for what they were going to do?
Civil rights
Barack Obama
Period after the Civil War and how we reunited
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
46. This president swam naked in the Potomac River
John Quicy Adams
35
The government
Teddy Roosevelt
47. Which president was the youngest to serve?
Abraham Lincoln
4
Teddy Roosevelt
January 1st - 1863
48. What was the Tenure of Office Act/
Abraham Lincoln
Democratic National Headquarters; Watergate
James Madison
The president could not fire and federal official who had gotten their job with Senate approval
49. What was a talent of John Wilkes Booth?
Maine and Nebraska
350
Acting
Teddy Roosevelt
50. Which president made the panama canal?
Teddy Roosevelt
Medical insurance for all americans
Jimmy Carter
Dwight David Eisenhower