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U.S. Presidents Trivia
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What were the territories we gained in the Spanish American War? (ABC order with commas inbetween)
Guam - Midway Islands - Philippines - and Puerto Rico
Mary Todd-Lincoln
George W. Bush
Teddy Roosevelt
2. How many years do you have to live in the U.S. for to be president?
22 - 24
No
14
25
3. Which president created the University of Virgina?
Thomas Jefferson
The Gettysburg Address
14
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
4. Who was Deep Throat?
A person who knew the truth about Richard Nixon and told Woodward and Bernstein
September 1st - 1939
William Jefferson Clinton
The federal government guarentees your money at a bank
5. How much money does the president earn per year?
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.
$400000
He wanted a date Jodie Foster
When we dropped food and supplies to people in West Berlin
6. Where was Thomas Jefferson born?
James Madison
4th
270
Monticello - Virginia
7. What was the name of the airplane that bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Maine and Nebraska
Teddy Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt
He wanted a date Jodie Foster
Enola Gay
8. How many years younger was John Tyler's wife than him?
The White House
35
30
Ft. Sumter - South Carolina
9. What was the Bay of Pigs?
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.
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Getting out of the Great depression by hiring people - which would start a chain reaction
Cuba wanted to overthrow Castrow and our military helped train them
10. Who said 'The only thing we have to fear is fear itself' at their 1st inaugural?
100
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Teddy Roosevelt
Monticello - Virginia
11. Andrew Johnson was _________'s VP
Crime to print false or meliscious or scandalist stuff about the U.S. gov.
French and Indian War
Abraham Lincoln
William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison
12. Who's son is Camp David named after?
George H.W. Bush and George Bush
Gerald Ford
Dwight David Eisenhower
Barack Obama
13. What war was Abraham Lincoln president during?
The president
Yes
The Civil War
We thought there were weapons of mass destruction - but there weren't
14. Who was the only president to resign?
USA
0
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Richard Nixon
15. How many Vice Presidents ran again for president and became president?
5
Mom
Abraham Lincoln
OK to send home foregienors if they looked dangerous; also if we were in war with their country
16. 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
6'4'
444
They were classmates in college
17. How many presidents were killed in office?
Conspiracy
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
25
4
18. Who was the first VP to move up on death of a president?
Electors
John Tyler
Cuba wanted to overthrow Castrow and our military helped train them
Polio
19. How many Vice Presidents ran again for president and became president?
5
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
No
Harry S Truman
20. Who was a peanut farmer?
Jimmy Carter
Yes
Georgia
Ulysses S. Grant
21. What presidents (in order) died of natural causes?
William Henry Harrison - Zachary Taylor - Warren Harding - and Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Dental; medical
Barack Obama
John Hinkley Jr.
22. What are the people in the electoral college called?
Iraq invaded Kuwait - and a coalition of naions push Iraq out of Kuwait
Teddy Roosevelt
Electors
Maryland
23. What was the point of the Gettysburg Address (two things)?
Lyndon Johnson
The north were comunists and the south were not
Honor people who died - make sure the country survies
The north were comunists and the south were not
24. Who moved up when John Fitzgerald Kennedy died because He was his VP?
Lyndon Johnson
John Tyler
Teddy Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt
William Howard Taft
25. Who did the Banking Holiday?
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor - Hawaii
The south
The north were comunists and the south were not
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
26. What was Lincoln's most famous speech?
Jimmy Carter
Woodrow Wilson
The Gettysburg Address
James Polk
27. James Monroe created the ________ Doctrine
Free the slaves in the south
Daniel Inouye
Monroe
Lee Harvey Oswald
28. What was the New Deal?
He fired the Secretary of War Staton
Peterson House; the next morning
Getting out of the Great depression by hiring people - which would start a chain reaction
William Jefferson Clinton
29. Which president was former ambassador to China?
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
You can collect money if you become disabled before retirement
George H. W. Bush
30. Who was a peanut farmer?
Club with all countries where problems were discussed peacefully
Germany - Hungary - Turkey
Jimmy Carter
Self
31. What is Camp David?
William Henry Harrison
The White House
15 million
A 2nd home for the president
32. Who were the second presidents to be father and son?
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor - Hawaii
Gerald Ford
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
George H.W. Bush and George Bush
33. Who was Franklin Delano Roosevelt married to?
Eleanor
September 1st - 1939
England; sailors; products
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
34. What was the Banking Holiday?
Ulysses S. Grant
Money goes to kids when a parent dies
The banks were closed because everyone wanted their money at once
Honor people who died - make sure the country survies
35. Who had many affairs during their presidency but claimed not to?
He gets shot
William Jefferson Clinton
Ronald Reagan
Peterson House; the next morning
36. What was the Berlin Airlift?
Speeches given for hope
Kentucky; Log cabin
Mary Todd-Lincoln
When we dropped food and supplies to people in West Berlin
37. What is FDIC (explaIn what it means - not what it stands for)?
The federal government guarentees your money at a bank
Perjury and obstruction of justice
Barack Obama
Abraham Lincoln
38. What are surviver benefits?
Money goes to kids when a parent dies
Ronald Reagan
7; 11
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
39. Which president made the panama canal?
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson; July 4th - 1826
Ulysses S. Grant
Teddy Roosevelt
England
40. How much of a retirement income per year does the president make (for life)?
World War I
$150000
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Georgia
41. During the civil war - the north's general was ___________.
Ulysses S. Grant
Teddy Roosevelt
Yes
The US was prepared to send money and military support to countries that want to resist communism
42. How many days was the Iran Hostage crisis?
100
Cuba wanted to overthrow Castrow and our military helped train them
444
Dwight David Eisenhower
43. Where did Thomas Jefferson go to college?
14
William and Mary College
Sic Semper Tyrannis - the south is avenged
January 1st - 1863
44. How many presidents died in office?
8
Kentucky; Log cabin
When he jumped out of the balcony - his foot got stuck in the bunting and he fell onto stage
He was shot
45. Which presidents won the nobel peace prize (in order)?
Teddy Roosevelt - Woodrow Wilson - Jimmy Carter - and Barack Obama
French and Indian War
William Henry Harrison
William Jefferson Clinton
46. How much was the Louisiana Territory when it was purchased?
No
14
15 million
Conspiracy
47. Where did the civil war begin?
Ft. Sumter - South Carolina
William Jefferson Clinton
The Civil War
The Vice President
48. Who attends diplomatic functions in place of the president?
The Vice President
John Adams
Teddy Roosevelt
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson; July 4th - 1826
49. Who gave the longest inauguration speech?
William Henry Harrison
Richard Nixon
George H. W. Bush
Andrew Johnson
50. When was the Emancipation proclamation?
William Jefferson Clinton
January 1st - 1863
Gerald Ford
7; 11