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U.S. Presidents Trivia
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Which president served the most terms?
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Universal health care
John Boehner
2. What were John Adams's last words?
Daniel Inouye
Teddy Roosevelt
Lyndon Johnson
Jefferson still survives
3. How many Vice Presidents have moved up because the president resigned?
1
Iraq invaded Kuwait - and a coalition of naions push Iraq out of Kuwait
William McKinley
When we dropped food and supplies to people in West Berlin
4. John Adams went to what college?
Harvard
November 1863
Abraham Lincoln
A group of representatives chosen by the voters to elect the President
5. Which president recognized Israel and traded with them and gave money and embassadors to them?
Ulysses S. Grant
Harry S Truman
1814
Money goes to kids when a parent dies
6. How many former vice presidents have become president?
Eleanor
14
South; north
His 5th cousin
7. Which president started the two term tradition?
George Washington
4
Eleanor
Democratic National Headquarters; Watergate
8. The president get ____ care and _____ care for free.
Dental; medical
George Washington
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Sic Semper Tyrannis - the south is avenged
9. When did we enter WWII?
Harry S Truman
Social Security
December 7th - 1941
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
10. ______ years later - the Tenure of Office act was gotten rid of by the Supreme court because it was ________.
The Vice President
The three day battle in July in Gettysburg about slaves
60; unconstitutional
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
11. During the Great Depression - ____% were unemployed.
4th
Ronald Reagan
25
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
12. Who was FDR's VP Who was president for WWII?
Harry S Truman
None
Dwight David Eisenhower
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
13. Lyndon Johnson got lots of bills passed involving ______.
Andrew Johnson
Dwight David Eisenhower
Civil rights
John Tyler
14. Who was president for the nullification crisis?
Civil rights
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.
James Madison
Andrew Jackson
15. Who was a peanut farmer?
The number of people in Congress plus 3 for DC
William Jefferson Clinton
Jimmy Carter
Barack Obama
16. What college did George Washington go to?
Jefferson still survives
Joe Biden
Ulysses S. Grant
None
17. Who introduced disability benefits?
4
35 said He was guilty - but he needed 36
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
18. What was Lincoln's most famous speech?
30
The Gettysburg Address
Dwight David Eisenhower
The House of Representatives selects the President and the Senate selects the Vice President
19. Who was president during the War of 1812 against England?
James Madison
Dwight David Eisenhower
John Wilkes Booth
Harry S Truman
20. What is universal health care?
Medical insurance for all americans
Ft. Sumter - South Carolina
0
14
21. 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
35
He wanted a date Jodie Foster
OK to send home foregienors if they looked dangerous; also if we were in war with their country
22. Who was our president during the Korean war?
Dwight David Eisenhower
Air Force One - Marine One - and limousines
15 million
Teddy Roosevelt
23. Who ran the country when Woodrow Wilson couldn't?
Teddy Roosevelt
18
His wife
November 22nd - 1963
24. How many rooms in the white house?
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
1814
$150000
132
25. What was the Banking Holiday?
60; unconstitutional
Thomas Jefferson
The banks were closed because everyone wanted their money at once
The Vice President
26. What was a talent of John Wilkes Booth?
Gerald Ford
270
Harry S Truman
Acting
27. How tall was Abraham Lincoln?
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28. Who was president for the 9/11 attacks?
George W. Bush
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
6'4'
William Henry Harrison - Zachary Taylor - Warren Harding - and Franklin Delano Roosevelt
29. What is FDIC (explaIn what it means - not what it stands for)?
Joe Biden
The federal government guarentees your money at a bank
Monticello - Virginia
USA
30. What is the address of the white house?
Polio
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
He resigned before the impeachment trial
14
31. What did the Interstate Highway System also do besides provide a road for driving?
John Boehner
Ronald Reagan
James Madison
Providing a backup place for military plane landing
32. Who pays for all personal entertainment and dinners not related to teh government business in the White House?
The president
Since birth
Electors
William Jefferson Clinton
33. When Harry S Truman was president during WWII - what two places in japan were bombed (abc order)?
William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison
18
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Buffalo - New York
34. Where was John Fitzgerald Kennedy assassinated?
0
Acting
Speeches given for hope
Dallas - Texas
35. Who was president during the Great depression?
Mary Todd-Lincoln
William McKinley
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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. How much was the Louisiana Territory when it was purchased?
Dallas - Texas
15 million
20
Lee Harvey Oswald
37. how many years is a score?
20
6'4'
Polio
Woodrow Wilson
38. When did we get involved and stop being involved with WWI? (month and year)
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
April 1917- November 1918
Harvard
Dallas - Texas
39. Who was the first VP?
14
Barack Obama
John Adams
The US was prepared to send money and military support to countries that want to resist communism
40. After Abraham Lincoln was shot - He was carried across the street to ________________ where he dies when?
Peterson House; the next morning
The president
Martha
Harvard
41. The ______ was invented when William McKinley was killed - and it could have saved him.
The fourteen points
1803
Martha
X-ray
42. What was a popular film of John Fitzgerald Kennedy's assassination?
William Howard Taft
Zapruder film
Massachusetts
William Jefferson Clinton
43. What is the oldest you can be to get surviver benefits?
November
Civil rights
18
15
44. Who said 'The buck stops here'?
The Vice President
Revolutionary War
Harry S Truman
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
45. How many years is a presidential term?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
4
Abraham Lincoln
Richard Nixon
46. Where was William McKinley killed?
Buffalo - New York
When we dropped food and supplies to people in West Berlin
A person who knew the truth about Richard Nixon and told Woodward and Bernstein
England - France - Russia - USA
47. What year was the White House burnt down?
John Hinkley Jr.
Abigail
1814
1803
48. Why did the person who tried to assassinate Ronald Reagan do it?
Monroe
They were classmates in college
William Seward; $7.2 million; Alaska
He wanted a date Jodie Foster
49. Who said 'A date that will live in infamy'? What were they talking about (separate with semicolon)?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Pearl Harbor bombing
You can collect money if you become disabled before retirement
William Henry Harrison
Mary Todd-Lincoln
50. Which president was the youngest to serve?
Teddy Roosevelt
Medical insurance for all americans
The fourteen points
New Mexico to California