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U.S. Presidents Trivia
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1. Who was president for the nullification crisis?
Andrew Jackson
World War I
Club with all countries where problems were discussed peacefully
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
2. Where did the name 'gettysburg' come from?
The three day battle in July in Gettysburg about slaves
Civil rights
Barack Obama
5
3. Who went to the Supreme court and tried to increase it to fifteen judges - but was told no?
Eleanor
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Honor people who died - make sure the country survies
Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Pearl Harbor bombing
4. How many electors are in the electoral college?
John Quincy Adams - Rutherford B. Hayes - Benjamin Harrison - and George W. Bush
William Jefferson Clinton
538
Dwight David Eisenhower
5. Who was on the bad side for WWI (abc order)?
Germany - Hungary - Turkey
The north and the south were split up
The Vice President
George H. W. Bush
6. Which president got Alzheimers and forgot being president?
Dental; medical
Thomas Jefferson
Ronald Reagan
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.
7. What president made the emancipation proclamtion?
Abraham Lincoln
Self
Air Force One - Marine One - and limousines
The Civil War
8. What is manifest destiny? how many square miles was it?
The idea to own all the land from the pacific to the atlantic ocean; 1.2 million
The south
The Vice President
Sic Semper Tyrannis - the south is avenged
9. Who was the first VP?
John Adams
Period after the Civil War and how we reunited
Ronald Reagan
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
10. What is the Truman Doctrine?
35
Maine and Nebraska
The US was prepared to send money and military support to countries that want to resist communism
Enola Gay
11. Which presidents were great grandfather and grandson?
Ft. Sumter - South Carolina
John Hinkley Jr.
William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison
Dental; medical
12. Which president was obnoxious and disliked?
Kentucky; Log cabin
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
He gets shot
John Adams
13. Where was William McKinley killed?
132
Buffalo - New York
15 million
He was shot on his way to a college reunion
14. how many years is a score?
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor - Hawaii
He was shot on his way to a college reunion
Kentucky; Log cabin
20
15. During the civil war - the ________ wanted slaves and the ________ did not.
South; north
November 1863
Daniel Inouye
He fired the Secretary of War Staton
16. How many kids did John Tyler have?
Period after the Civil War and how we reunited
The banks were closed because everyone wanted their money at once
John Adams
15
17. what disease did Franklin Delano Roosevelt have?
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
The banks were closed because everyone wanted their money at once
Polio
Ulysses S. Grant
18. What presidents lost the popular vote but won the electoral vote? (in order)
James Madison
Period after the Civil War and how we reunited
John Quincy Adams - Rutherford B. Hayes - Benjamin Harrison - and George W. Bush
Germany was attacking ships
19. Who is the current President Pro-Tempore of the Senate?
22 - 24
The White House
Daniel Inouye
Cuba wanted to overthrow Castrow and our military helped train them
20. Who was our president during the Korean war?
Sexual harrassment
November 22nd - 1963
The three day battle in July in Gettysburg about slaves
Dwight David Eisenhower
21. How much of a retirement income per year does the president make (for life)?
30
15
100
$150000
22. Who introduced social security?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The Civil War
William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison
Saving a picture of Washington during the war
23. What month is the election in?
4
Electors
Harvard
November
24. Who takes over if the President is disabled or dies?
Maine and Nebraska
James Madison
The Vice President
18
25. Who gave the longest inauguration speech?
William Henry Harrison
William Jefferson Clinton
Joe Biden
Woodrow Wilson
26. How much money does the president earn per year?
Thomas Jefferson
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson; July 4th - 1826
George Washington
$400000
27. who pays for the costs of operating the white house?
The government
Teddy Roosevelt
Gerald Ford
He resigned before the impeachment trial
28. What happens if no candidate gets the majorit y of electoral votes?
Mount Vernon - Virginia
The House of Representatives selects the President and the Senate selects the Vice President
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Robert E. Lee
29. Who's son married Nixon's daughter?
Self
John Hinkley Jr.
Dwight David Eisenhower
1914-1918
30. What year was the White House burnt down?
25
The Vice President
Electors
1814
31. 'Speak softley and carry a big stick' was a quote of who?
Teddy Roosevelt
Massachusetts
15
Enola Gay
32. What war was George Washington in the military for?
18
French and Indian War
350
Teddy Roosevelt
33. Sedition acts
Barack Obama
Crime to print false or meliscious or scandalist stuff about the U.S. gov.
The three day battle in July in Gettysburg about slaves
Robert E. Lee
34. What war never officially ended but just doesn't fight any more?
The three day battle in July in Gettysburg about slaves
The Korean War
Maine and Nebraska
5
35. What date did WWII begin?
Jimmy Carter
William Henry Harrison
$400000
September 1st - 1939
36. What month and day do we vote for the president?
The first Tuesday of Novermber that follows a monday in November
Barack Obama
The fourteen points
John Hinkley Jr.
37. Which president was the youngest to serve?
1
Teddy Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
20
38. Who was FDR's VP Who was president for WWII?
22 - 24
4
Harry S Truman
Teddy Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt
39. Who created the Family Medical Leave Act?
The Gettysburg Address
Jimmy Carter
William Jefferson Clinton
April 1917- November 1918
40. What is manifest destiny? how many square miles was it?
The idea to own all the land from the pacific to the atlantic ocean; 1.2 million
He was shot
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Perjury and obstruction of justice
41. Where does the number of electors in the electoral college come from?
He fired the Secretary of War Staton
The number of people in Congress plus 3 for DC
60; unconstitutional
1914-1918
42. The committee of the watergate scandal illegally entered the __________ (building) and spied on Nixon's opponent Who was in the _______ complex.
The House of Representatives selects the President and the Senate selects the Vice President
Barack Obama
Democratic National Headquarters; Watergate
He resigned before the impeachment trial
43. When did we get involved and stop being involved with WWI? (month and year)
Democratic National Headquarters; Watergate
8
Monroe
April 1917- November 1918
44. During the civil war - the south's president was _____________.
Harry S Truman
Dwight David Eisenhower
Jefferson Davis
4
45. Do we vote directly for the president?
No
15
4
Germany was attacking ships
46. Who said 'The only thing we have to fear is fear itself' at their 1st inaugural?
Eleanor
Peterson House; the next morning
Abraham Lincoln
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
47. Who balanced the budget?
George W. Bush
Richard Nixon
William Jefferson Clinton
The Vice President
48. How long do you have to be a citizen for to be president?
60; unconstitutional
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Since birth
Zapruder film
49. Why was Andrew Johnson impeached?
30
If he serves 2 or less years of someone else's term plus 8 years on his own
The federal government guarentees your money at a bank
He fired the Secretary of War Staton
50. How many presidents died in office?
The Korean War
William Jefferson Clinton
8
1814