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U.S. Presidents Trivia
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1. Who is thought to have assassinated John Fitzgerald Kennedy?
30
Air Force One - Marine One - and limousines
Lee Harvey Oswald
William Henry Harrison
2. Who pays for all personal entertainment and dinners not related to teh government business in the White House?
The president
William Jefferson Clinton
Crime to print false or meliscious or scandalist stuff about the U.S. gov.
The first Tuesday of Novermber that follows a monday in November
3. What did John Wilkes Booth say after he shot Lincoln?
Ronald Reagan
Sic Semper Tyrannis - the south is avenged
Harry S Truman
Dallas - Texas
4. Congress passed 2 laws designed to limit __________'s (a president) power .
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
James Madison
Andrew Johnson
The US was prepared to send money and military support to countries that want to resist communism
5. Who supported manifest destiny?
Saving a picture of Washington during the war
8
John Hinkley Jr.
James Polk
6. Where was Abraham Lincoln born? What kind of house did he live in?
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
He was shot on his way to a college reunion
Kentucky; Log cabin
Teddy Roosevelt
7. Who was the first VP?
Martha
The Vice President
John Adams
Getting out of the Great depression by hiring people - which would start a chain reaction
8. Where does the right to navigate teh seas without interference not apply?
William Jefferson Clinton
7; 11
George Washington
East of Africa
9. Who said 'The buck stops here'?
Harry S Truman
James Madison
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Dolley
10. Where was John Fitzgerald Kennedy assassinated?
Ronald Reagan
Dallas - Texas
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor - Hawaii
French and Indian War
11. How many years do you have to live in the U.S. for to be president?
Andrew Jackson
Thomas Jefferson
Speeches given for hope
14
12. Andrew Johnson was _________'s VP
He resigned before the impeachment trial
Abraham Lincoln
No
Ft. Sumter - South Carolina
13. What is the oldest you can be to get surviver benefits?
18
No
OK to send home foregienors if they looked dangerous; also if we were in war with their country
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
14. Who was the only catholic president?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Teddy Roosevelt
Jefferson still survives
15. Who was president for the Bay of Pigs?
4
USA
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Yes
16. Who is the current speaker of the House?
John Boehner
Kentucky; Log cabin
A gun
6'4'
17. Who moved up when John Fitzgerald Kennedy died because He was his VP?
Mary Todd-Lincoln
William McKinley
A support group of countries
Lyndon Johnson
18. Which president was a 'rough rider' in the Spanish American War?
Abigail
Abraham Lincoln
Teddy Roosevelt
James Madison
19. What was reconstruction?
He gets shot
Period after the Civil War and how we reunited
His wife
We thought there were weapons of mass destruction - but there weren't
20. Who had an affair with Monica Lewinsky - a young intern at the White House?
Civil rights
Gerald Ford
William Jefferson Clinton
132
21. What transportation does the president get?
The Gettysburg Address
Air Force One - Marine One - and limousines
Forced the president to issue all military orders through general of the army who could not be removed without senate approval
The government
22. After Abraham Lincoln was shot - He was carried across the street to ________________ where he dies when?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Peterson House; the next morning
27
The Korean War
23. Who invaded Iraq?
He was shot on his way to a college reunion
George W. Bush
Teddy Roosevelt
X-ray
24. What did the Interstate Highway System also do besides provide a road for driving?
The federal government guarentees your money at a bank
January 1st - 1863
George Washington
Providing a backup place for military plane landing
25. What is the family Medical Leave Act?
George H. W. Bush
Worker can take three months off in a year to take care of sick relatives or him/herself and cannot be fired
Richard Nixon
Barack Obama
26. What is the family Medical Leave Act?
Thomas Jefferson
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Saving a picture of Washington during the war
Worker can take three months off in a year to take care of sick relatives or him/herself and cannot be fired
27. What is Camp David?
8
A 2nd home for the president
England; sailors; products
25
28. Where did the civil war begin?
Ft. Sumter - South Carolina
George H. W. Bush
The Vice President
Harry S Truman
29. How many kids did George Washington have?
0
George H.W. Bush and George Bush
Mount Vernon - Virginia
Civil rights
30. How many presidents were killed in office?
November 22nd - 1963
Teddy Roosevelt
4
Teddy Roosevelt
31. Who passed Universal health care?
December 7th - 1941
Barack Obama
132
Teddy Roosevelt
32. Where did Thomas Jefferson go to college?
Guam - Midway Islands - Philippines - and Puerto Rico
Maryland
A support group of countries
William and Mary College
33. Sedition acts
444
The fourteen points
Crime to print false or meliscious or scandalist stuff about the U.S. gov.
Teddy Roosevelt
34. Which president was the youngest to serve?
4
Teddy Roosevelt
Free the slaves in the south
Barack Obama
35. Which presidents were cousins?
Teddy Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt
William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison
Hillary Clinton
Alien and sedition acts
36. What is the command of army act?
5
Forced the president to issue all military orders through general of the army who could not be removed without senate approval
George W. Bush
The three day battle in July in Gettysburg about slaves
37. The person who killed John Fitzgerald Kennedy is thought to have killed him in a _______ - or not alone.
Conspiracy
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
Dwight David Eisenhower
14
38. Who killed Abraham Lincoln?
Barack Obama
John Wilkes Booth
World War I
Teddy Roosevelt
39. Abraham Lincoln was ______ educated
Self
Dental; medical
William Henry Harrison
Andrew Johnson
40. Who became president when Richard Nixon resigend because they were his VP?
Gerald Ford
Bad
1914-1918
X-ray
41. Who was the only president to be president and then supreme court chief justice?
John Adams
William Howard Taft
Barack Obama
Germany was attacking ships
42. What was the Emancipation proclamation meant to do?
35 said He was guilty - but he needed 36
Free the slaves in the south
George W. Bush
William Jefferson Clinton
43. What date was John Fitzgerald Kennedy killed on?
November 22nd - 1963
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Woodrow Wilson
0
44. What is the inauguration date?
Barack Obama
Harvard
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
January 20th
45. During the Great Depression - ____% were unemployed.
25
No
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The number of people in Congress plus 3 for DC
46. Who presented the Fourteen Points?
Daniel Inouye
William Jefferson Clinton
Woodrow Wilson
Barack Obama
47. How many years do you have to live in the U.S. for to be president?
No
Richard Nixon
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
14
48. Which president started the two term tradition?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
George Washington
April 12th - 1861
Dwight David Eisenhower
49. Who was the oldest elected president (age 73 at 2nd term)?
Crime to print false or meliscious or scandalist stuff about the U.S. gov.
Andrew Jackson
Ronald Reagan
Yes
50. Grover Cleveland was the ____ and ____ president (numbers)
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Teddy Roosevelt
22 - 24
World War I