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U.S. Presidents Trivia
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. What is the Truman Doctrine?
When he jumped out of the balcony - his foot got stuck in the bunting and he fell onto stage
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
John Adams and John Quincy Adams
The US was prepared to send money and military support to countries that want to resist communism
2. What state is Camp David in?
20
Lee Harvey Oswald
Maryland
The House of Representatives selects the President and the Senate selects the Vice President
3. Who was the first President during WWII?
His 5th cousin
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Providing a backup place for military plane landing
Woodrow Wilson
4. Why did WWI happen?
The Gettysburg Address
Germany was attacking ships
No
Harry S Truman
5. Who's son married Nixon's daughter?
When we dropped food and supplies to people in West Berlin
Worker can take three months off in a year to take care of sick relatives or him/herself and cannot be fired
Teddy Roosevelt
Dwight David Eisenhower
6. Where did the civil war begin?
Ft. Sumter - South Carolina
30
George Washington
Barack Obama
7. What year was the White House burnt down?
Richard Nixon
James Polk
His wife
1814
8. What was the Tenure of Office Act/
Joe Biden
The president could not fire and federal official who had gotten their job with Senate approval
Abraham Lincoln
Period after the Civil War and how we reunited
9. What month and day do we vote for the president?
He gets shot
14
The first Tuesday of Novermber that follows a monday in November
Monroe
10. What war was George Washington in the military for?
William and Mary College
French and Indian War
Richard Nixon
Teddy Roosevelt
11. What is NATO (not what it stands for - what it is)?
Abraham Lincoln
A support group of countries
Maine and Nebraska
Abigail
12. Why did WWI happen?
January 1st - 1863
England
He gets shot
Germany was attacking ships
13. Which president was a great general - a leader - honest - and trustworth?
Teddy Roosevelt
Mary Todd-Lincoln
Joe Biden
George Washington
14. What was William Jefferson Clinton impeached for?
Perjury and obstruction of justice
William Henry Harrison
270
Enola Gay
15. What are surviver benefits?
When we dropped food and supplies to people in West Berlin
Germany invaded Poland
Money goes to kids when a parent dies
Teddy Roosevelt
16. What was the camp david accords?
No
Richard Nixon
When peace was made between Israel and Egypt at Camp David
Kentucky; Log cabin
17. What weapon was used to kill Lincoln?
A gun
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Hillary Clinton
East of Africa
18. Which president was the youngest to serve?
Teddy Roosevelt
Enola Gay
John Hinkley Jr.
8
19. Jimmy Carter was the former governor of ____.
A group of representatives chosen by the voters to elect the President
Mary Todd-Lincoln
Georgia
Teddy Roosevelt
20. How much was the Louisiana Territory when it was purchased?
Richard Nixon
15 million
Ronald Reagan
14
21. How many years do you have to live in the U.S. for to be president?
14
Club with all countries where problems were discussed peacefully
Dwight David Eisenhower
444
22. Who was the first president not to win the popular vote and to become president?
John Hinkley Jr.
John Adams
George H.W. Bush and George Bush
John Quicy Adams
23. Why didn't the Emancipation proclamation work?
The north and the south were split up
2
William Henry Harrison
Getting out of the Great depression by hiring people - which would start a chain reaction
24. Who was the first president not to win the popular vote and to become president?
Richard Nixon
William Henry Harrison - Zachary Taylor - Warren Harding - and Franklin Delano Roosevelt
John Quicy Adams
Yes
25. Who went to the Supreme court and tried to increase it to fifteen judges - but was told no?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
George Washington
Saving a picture of Washington during the war
John Adams
26. What are disability benefits?
Richard Nixon
You can collect money if you become disabled before retirement
The number of people in Congress plus 3 for DC
A 2nd home for the president
27. During the civil war - the south's general was ____________.
Dwight David Eisenhower
He gets shot
Robert E. Lee
Dental; medical
28. Who were the first presidents to be father and son?
George Washington
Thomas Jefferson
John Adams and John Quincy Adams
Germany invaded Poland
29. Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant knew eachother because _________.
James Madison
They were classmates in college
0
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
30. What are the people in the electoral college called?
He gets shot
Electors
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
John Adams
31. Who won a nobel peace prize because of the camp david accords?
Jimmy Carter
Germany was attacking ships
18
444
32. Who had the shortest presidency?
Ford's Theater
William Henry Harrison
60; unconstitutional
Gerald Ford
33. Who was our president during the Korean war?
William Seward; $7.2 million; Alaska
In their state's capital
Dwight David Eisenhower
The president could not fire and federal official who had gotten their job with Senate approval
34. Which president was a great general - a leader - honest - and trustworth?
Air Force One - Marine One - and limousines
George Washington
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Dwight David Eisenhower
35. Can the amount of money a president earns be increased/decreased during someone's term of office?
The president
September 1st - 1939
1 million
No
36. Where did Thomas Jefferson go to college?
John Quicy Adams
William and Mary College
Harry S Truman
Yes
37. Who were the second presidents to be father and son?
George H.W. Bush and George Bush
November
Teddy Roosevelt
George H. W. Bush
38. Who was FDR's VP Who was president for WWII?
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Medical insurance for all americans
Peterson House; the next morning
Harry S Truman
39. ______ years later - the Tenure of Office act was gotten rid of by the Supreme court because it was ________.
John Boehner
George Washington
60; unconstitutional
Ford's Theater
40. What were the years of WWI?
1914-1918
350
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
41. Which president served the most terms?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Ronald Reagan
Dwight David Eisenhower
OK to send home foregienors if they looked dangerous; also if we were in war with their country
42. Who was President during the Spanish American War?
William McKinley
He was shot on his way to a college reunion
Dwight David Eisenhower
England; sailors; products
43. How many rooms in the white house?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Ft. Sumter - South Carolina
Richard Nixon
132
44. Who takes over if the President is disabled or dies?
The Civil War
25
Abraham Lincoln
The Vice President
45. Who went to the Supreme court and tried to increase it to fifteen judges - but was told no?
6'4'
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
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Germany - Hungary - Turkey
46. Which president created Yellowstone National Park and Yosemite?
Teddy Roosevelt
4
35
Dwight David Eisenhower
47. Why did WWII begin?
1803
Germany invaded Poland
Period after the Civil War and how we reunited
Honor people who died - make sure the country survies
48. Why did the person who tried to assassinate Ronald Reagan do it?
April 12th - 1861
15
Forced the president to issue all military orders through general of the army who could not be removed without senate approval
He wanted a date Jodie Foster
49. Where was William McKinley killed?
Buffalo - New York
35 said He was guilty - but he needed 36
James Madison
27
50. During the civil war - the north's general was ___________.
December 7th - 1941
Barack Obama
Ulysses S. Grant
1 million