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U.S. Presidents Trivia

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1. How many Vice Presidents have moved up because the president died?
No
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
8
Yes

2. Which president created Yellowstone National Park and Yosemite?
The Civil War
Abraham Lincoln
Teddy Roosevelt
Buffalo - New York

3. What were John Adams's last words?
Jefferson still survives
The Korean War
William Henry Harrison
Germany - Hungary - Turkey

4. What did the monroe doctrine say?

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5. What is universal health care?
Barack Obama
Germany invaded Poland
Medical insurance for all americans
The banks were closed because everyone wanted their money at once

6. which president was former head of CIA?
The Civil War
A support group of countries
George H. W. Bush
Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Pearl Harbor bombing

7. What was the most terms served by a president?
4
Air Force One - Marine One - and limousines
April 12th - 1861
Thomas Jefferson

8. Who was on the bad side for WWI (abc order)?
Mom
Germany - Hungary - Turkey
When peace was made between Israel and Egypt at Camp David
Maine and Nebraska

9. How many former vice presidents have become president?
Dental; medical
132
14
Ronald Reagan

10. Which presidents were cousins?
Teddy Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt
George H. W. Bush
George H.W. Bush and George Bush
He was shot

11. Who was a Great General in war of 1812?
The White House
September 1st - 1939
Andrew Jackson
25

12. What did John Wilkes Booth say after he shot Lincoln?
14
James Madison
Sic Semper Tyrannis - the south is avenged
The north were comunists and the south were not

13. What are the people in the electoral college called?
Harry S Truman
Teddy Roosevelt - Woodrow Wilson - Jimmy Carter - and Barack Obama
The fourteen points
Electors

14. Who was president for the Bay of Pigs?
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Dallas - Texas
Dwight David Eisenhower
His wife

15. Who was the only man to be president Who was not elected to either vp spot or the presidency?
Gerald Ford
444
Sic Semper Tyrannis - the south is avenged
Teddy Roosevelt

16. Who was the only catholic president?
The House of Representatives selects the President and the Senate selects the Vice President
Acting
Lyndon Johnson
John Fitzgerald Kennedy

17. What transportation does the president get?
Air Force One - Marine One - and limousines
The banks were closed because everyone wanted their money at once
Ft. Sumter - South Carolina
Conspiracy

18. What war never officially ended but just doesn't fight any more?
Georgia
The Korean War
Thomas Jefferson
Universal health care

19. Who did the Banking Holiday?
Social Security
His 5th cousin
Air Force One - Marine One - and limousines
Franklin Delano Roosevelt

20. What does NATO stand for?
Social Security
Iraq invaded Kuwait - and a coalition of naions push Iraq out of Kuwait
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
John Boehner

21. What was reconstruction?
George Washington
Buffalo - New York
Period after the Civil War and how we reunited
The Gettysburg Address

22. How many pounds was William Howard Taft?
James Madison
15
350
Thus always to tyrants

23. When did we enter WWII?
Abraham Lincoln
Guam - Midway Islands - Philippines - and Puerto Rico
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
December 7th - 1941

24. What is the address of the white house?
January 1st - 1863
Democratic National Headquarters; Watergate
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Hillary Clinton

25. What were fireside chats?
Speeches given for hope
April 1917- November 1918
18
The Vice President

26. How was James Garfield killed?
4
He was shot on his way to a college reunion
Teddy Roosevelt
Jimmy Carter

27. Which president was a lawyer - very smart - an architect - a musician - and an inventor?
132
Medical insurance for all americans
Sic Semper Tyrannis - the south is avenged
Thomas Jefferson

28. What state is Camp David in?
Air Force One - Marine One - and limousines
Getting out of the Great depression by hiring people - which would start a chain reaction
Zapruder film
Maryland

29. What is the oldest you can be to get surviver benefits?
Jefferson Davis
18
Civil rights
The number of people in Congress plus 3 for DC

30. During the civil war - the south's general was ____________.
Free the slaves in the south
Forced the president to issue all military orders through general of the army who could not be removed without senate approval
Maine and Nebraska
Robert E. Lee

31. Who was our president during the Korean war?
Martha
William Jefferson Clinton
Dwight David Eisenhower
Eleanor

32. Who was president for the Bay of Pigs?
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
World War I
He wanted a date Jodie Foster
Abraham Lincoln

33. Who balanced the budget?
He resigned before the impeachment trial
George Washington - John Adams - Thomas Jefferson - James Madison - James Monroe - and John Quincy Adams
Thus always to tyrants
William Jefferson Clinton

34. What war never officially ended but just doesn't fight any more?
The north and the south were split up
The Korean War
Ronald Reagan
Thus always to tyrants

35. How many presidents were killed in office?
Bad
Richard Nixon
James Madison
4

36. Who attempted to assassinate Ronald Reagan?
5
When peace was made between Israel and Egypt at Camp David
Harry S Truman
John Hinkley Jr.

37. After what event was the Fourteen Points presented?
14
Teddy Roosevelt
George Washington
World War I

38. What are disability benefits?
He was shot
The Korean War
Democratic National Headquarters; Watergate
You can collect money if you become disabled before retirement

39. Which president was a great general - a leader - honest - and trustworth?
He fired the Secretary of War Staton
Harvard
George Washington
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.

40. What was the point of the Gettysburg Address (two things)?
The banks were closed because everyone wanted their money at once
Ulysses S. Grant
$150000
Honor people who died - make sure the country survies

41. Who introduced social security?
25
The White House
The north and the south were split up
Franklin Delano Roosevelt

42. Andrew Johnson was _________'s VP
George H. W. Bush
Abraham Lincoln
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
The Vice President

43. Gerald Ford pardons _____________ for all crimes committed.
Richard Nixon
Barack Obama
Teddy Roosevelt
Electors

44. How many years is a presidential term?
4
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
He resigned before the impeachment trial
The fourteen points

45. Gerald Ford pardons _____________ for all crimes committed.
Richard Nixon
John Hinkley Jr.
2
November 22nd - 1963

46. What is the family Medical Leave Act?
None
Zapruder film
Worker can take three months off in a year to take care of sick relatives or him/herself and cannot be fired
Self

47. Who takes over if the President is disabled or dies?
The Vice President
7; 11
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Woodrow Wilson

48. Which president was the 'father of the constitution'?
John Quincy Adams - Rutherford B. Hayes - Benjamin Harrison - and George W. Bush
James Madison
The US was prepared to send money and military support to countries that want to resist communism
Thomas Jefferson

49. Who ran the country when Woodrow Wilson couldn't?
Zapruder film
Bad
His wife
Germany invaded Poland

50. Which president created the University of Virgina?
Teddy Roosevelt - Woodrow Wilson - Jimmy Carter - and Barack Obama
5
Thomas Jefferson
Robert E. Lee