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U.S. Presidents Trivia
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1. Who is considered 'the father of our country'?
George Washington
The banks were closed because everyone wanted their money at once
Mount Vernon - Virginia
William Jefferson Clinton
2. Who was the first VP?
William Seward; $7.2 million; Alaska
Woodrow Wilson
John Quicy Adams
John Adams
3. This president swam naked in the Potomac River
John Quicy Adams
Maryland
Mount Vernon - Virginia
We thought there were weapons of mass destruction - but there weren't
4. What did the monroe doctrine say?
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5. Why did WWI happen?
4
Germany was attacking ships
Barack Obama
14
6. Which president got Alzheimers and forgot being president?
Ronald Reagan
$150000
Dolley
Teddy Roosevelt
7. Which president had a stroke in his bathroom?
William Henry Harrison
Woodrow Wilson
The president could not fire and federal official who had gotten their job with Senate approval
Teddy Roosevelt - Woodrow Wilson - Jimmy Carter - and Barack Obama
8. What month and year was the Gettysburg Address said?
He was shot on his way to a college reunion
November 1863
The White House
George Washington
9. Who introduced surviver benefits?
A gun
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Money goes to kids when a parent dies
In their state's capital
10. Which president was a great general - a leader - honest - and trustworth?
14
They were classmates in college
18
George Washington
11. What happens to John Wilkes Booth?
Alien and sedition acts
William Jefferson Clinton
He gets shot
Dolley
12. Which president was a 'rough rider' in the Spanish American War?
The Vice President
John Hinkley Jr.
Teddy Roosevelt
Medical insurance for all americans
13. Who was the only president to resign?
Thus always to tyrants
27
Richard Nixon
John Hinkley Jr.
14. What was the most terms served by a president?
4
Andrew Jackson
George Washington
George H. W. Bush
15. What was reconstruction?
William Henry Harrison - Zachary Taylor - Warren Harding - and Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Jimmy Carter
Richard Nixon
Period after the Civil War and how we reunited
16. Why was Andrew Johnson impeached?
England; sailors; products
Harry S Truman
Speeches given for hope
He fired the Secretary of War Staton
17. Woodrow Wilson's ideas on not to have a war - the league of nations - and the freedom to navigate the seas without interference are known as ________.
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson; July 4th - 1826
The fourteen points
A group of representatives chosen by the voters to elect the President
0
18. Why did we enter WWII?
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor - Hawaii
Providing a backup place for military plane landing
They were classmates in college
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
19. Alien Acts
OK to send home foregienors if they looked dangerous; also if we were in war with their country
Teddy Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Monroe
Harry S Truman
20. Who passed Universal health care?
The Gettysburg Address
Free the slaves in the south
Barack Obama
Period after the Civil War and how we reunited
21. How many Vice Presidents have moved up because the president resigned?
USA
1 million
1
Free the slaves in the south
22. William Jefferson Clinton paid Paula Jones $____.
Conspiracy
April 12th - 1861
8
1 million
23. What was the name of the airplane that bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Dwight David Eisenhower
Enola Gay
4
Ulysses S. Grant
24. What is the family Medical Leave Act?
$400000
Woodrow Wilson
A person who knew the truth about Richard Nixon and told Woodward and Bernstein
Worker can take three months off in a year to take care of sick relatives or him/herself and cannot be fired
25. Who did we help in the Vietnam war and the korean war?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The south
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The Vice President
26. What was the persian gulf war/desert storm?
Iraq invaded Kuwait - and a coalition of naions push Iraq out of Kuwait
Thomas Jefferson
Ronald Reagan
Social Security
27. How many rooms in the white house?
Ford's Theater
60; unconstitutional
132
Woodrow Wilson
28. Which president was former ambassador to China?
The Confederate States of America
18
Barack Obama
George H. W. Bush
29. What did the Interstate Highway System also do besides provide a road for driving?
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.
Providing a backup place for military plane landing
The Confederate States of America
Hillary Clinton
30. Who won a nobel peace prize because of the camp david accords?
X-ray
4
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson; July 4th - 1826
Jimmy Carter
31. Which presidents were great grandfather and grandson?
The Confederate States of America
William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison
Massachusetts
William Jefferson Clinton
32. In most states - what percent of the state's electoral votes does a candidate get if they win the popular vote?
100
Daniel Inouye
William Jefferson Clinton
Teddy Roosevelt
33. Where was John Fitzgerald Kennedy assassinated?
Dallas - Texas
They were classmates in college
7; 11
1 million
34. How much of a retirement income per year does the president make (for life)?
The US was prepared to send money and military support to countries that want to resist communism
$150000
The Civil War
Writters for Washington Post who figured out Richard Nixon's case
35. The president get ____ care and _____ care for free.
William Henry Harrison
The banks were closed because everyone wanted their money at once
Period after the Civil War and how we reunited
Dental; medical
36. How long do you have to be a citizen for to be president?
Since birth
Mary Todd-Lincoln
$150000
Democratic National Headquarters; Watergate
37. Sedition acts
Crime to print false or meliscious or scandalist stuff about the U.S. gov.
Europe
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson; July 4th - 1826
Speeches given for hope
38. What was a talent of John Wilkes Booth?
15
18
Europe
Acting
39. What is the mandatory retirement plan run by the government?
Dwight David Eisenhower
Jimmy Carter
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Social Security
40. What is the address of the white house?
OK to send home foregienors if they looked dangerous; also if we were in war with their country
Universal health care
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Monticello - Virginia
41. James Monroe created the ________ Doctrine
Air Force One - Marine One - and limousines
Monroe
35
James Madison
42. Woodrow Wilson's ideas on not to have a war - the league of nations - and the freedom to navigate the seas without interference are known as ________.
The fourteen points
James Madison
East of Africa
Period after the Civil War and how we reunited
43. How was James Garfield killed?
James Madison
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
November
He was shot on his way to a college reunion
44. Which presidents won the nobel peace prize (in order)?
Dallas - Texas
Dwight David Eisenhower
Teddy Roosevelt - Woodrow Wilson - Jimmy Carter - and Barack Obama
November 22nd - 1963
45. What college did George Washington go to?
Harry S Truman
None
Ulysses S. Grant
Martha
46. Which presidents were cousins?
132
Teddy Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt
He wanted a date Jodie Foster
Dental; medical
47. During the civil war - the south's president was _____________.
Mary Todd-Lincoln
Dwight David Eisenhower
Woodrow Wilson
Jefferson Davis
48. Why wasn't Andrew Johnson removed from office when He was impeached?
William Henry Harrison
The Vice President
35 said He was guilty - but he needed 36
Civil rights
49. How many terms is a president alowed to serve?
Thus always to tyrants
George H.W. Bush and George Bush
September 1st - 1939
2
50. What were the sides for the Korean war and the Vietnam war?
538
The north were comunists and the south were not
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Acting