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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 was obnoxious and disliked?
John Adams
Gerald Ford
$400000
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
2. Which president started the two term tradition?
His 5th cousin
Ulysses S. Grant
George Washington
Thomas Jefferson
3. What was the most terms served by a president?
Civil rights
60; unconstitutional
4
Polio
4. What presidents lost the popular vote but won the electoral vote? (in order)
The Civil War
John Quincy Adams - Rutherford B. Hayes - Benjamin Harrison - and George W. Bush
X-ray
1
5. Do we vote directly for the president?
September 1st - 1939
No
His 5th cousin
Teddy Roosevelt
6. Who won a nobel peace prize because of the camp david accords?
1914-1918
The Vice President
Mom
Jimmy Carter
7. How many years younger was John Tyler's wife than him?
Teddy Roosevelt
100
Harry S Truman
30
8. Name the Founding Fathers plus the son in order...
The US was prepared to send money and military support to countries that want to resist communism
George Washington - John Adams - Thomas Jefferson - James Madison - James Monroe - and John Quincy Adams
Electors
Thomas Jefferson
9. Who's son married Nixon's daughter?
20
Dwight David Eisenhower
Barack Obama
The president could not fire and federal official who had gotten their job with Senate approval
10. James Madison's wife is famous for...
Andrew Johnson
Thomas Jefferson
Air Force One - Marine One - and limousines
Saving a picture of Washington during the war
11. Which president was obnoxious and disliked?
John Adams
The north and the south were split up
George W. Bush
William and Mary College
12. There was a _________ - or a group of people - who helped John Wilkes Booth kill Lincoln and also planned to kill the VP and Secretary.
100
$150000
Conspiracy
Since birth
13. Which president was a great general - a leader - honest - and trustworth?
George Washington
Jimmy Carter
John Tyler
5
14. How many terms is a president alowed to serve?
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
George Washington
2
John Hinkley Jr.
15. How tall was Abraham Lincoln?
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16. What was the New Deal?
Getting out of the Great depression by hiring people - which would start a chain reaction
John Adams
Barack Obama
Dallas - Texas
17. Who was our president during the Korean war?
Teddy Roosevelt - Woodrow Wilson - Jimmy Carter - and Barack Obama
4
Teddy Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Dwight David Eisenhower
18. Where was William McKinley killed?
The House of Representatives selects the President and the Senate selects the Vice President
Buffalo - New York
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Barack Obama
19. Who was the only man to be president Who was not elected to either vp spot or the presidency?
The Civil War
Gerald Ford
8
Universal health care
20. Who passed Universal health care?
Barack Obama
James Madison
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
The Vice President
21. Who moved up when John Fitzgerald Kennedy died because He was his VP?
Polio
A gun
Lyndon Johnson
John Adams
22. Who built the Interstate Highway System?
Dwight David Eisenhower
Iraq invaded Kuwait - and a coalition of naions push Iraq out of Kuwait
Mary Todd-Lincoln
A person who knew the truth about Richard Nixon and told Woodward and Bernstein
23. What date was John Fitzgerald Kennedy killed on?
November 22nd - 1963
George H.W. Bush and George Bush
Barack Obama
Money goes to kids when a parent dies
24. How many years do you have to live in the U.S. for to be president?
14
Harry S Truman
John Adams
Conspiracy
25. Who were the first presidents to be father and son?
John Adams and John Quincy Adams
4
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Ford's Theater
26. Which president was a lawyer - very smart - an architect - a musician - and an inventor?
Robert E. Lee
Barack Obama
7; 11
Thomas Jefferson
27. Who was FDR's VP Who was president for WWII?
Harry S Truman
Ronald Reagan
Electors
William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison
28. How many presidents died of natural causes in office?
The number of people in Congress plus 3 for DC
4
John Hinkley Jr.
He wanted a date Jodie Foster
29. What to laws did Adams TRY to pass?
William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison
Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Pearl Harbor bombing
He fired the Secretary of War Staton
Alien and sedition acts
30. What year was the Louisiana Territory bought?
4
Jimmy Carter
1803
Harry S Truman
31. Who said 'The only thing we have to fear is fear itself' at their 1st inaugural?
350
George Washington
Teddy Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
32. What did John Wilkes Booth say after he shot Lincoln?
Sic Semper Tyrannis - the south is avenged
John Wilkes Booth
November 1863
A group of representatives chosen by the voters to elect the President
33. Who's son is Camp David named after?
Mary Todd-Lincoln
Teddy Roosevelt - Woodrow Wilson - Jimmy Carter - and Barack Obama
Dwight David Eisenhower
John Wilkes Booth
34. Why did the league of nations fail (what country wouldn't join)?
Forced the president to issue all military orders through general of the army who could not be removed without senate approval
Lyndon Johnson
Lee Harvey Oswald
USA
35. The committee of the watergate scandal illegally entered the __________ (building) and spied on Nixon's opponent Who was in the _______ complex.
Revolutionary War
Democratic National Headquarters; Watergate
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
The federal government guarentees your money at a bank
36. How many presidents were killed in office?
4
Ronald Reagan
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
Yes
37. How was James Garfield killed?
He was shot on his way to a college reunion
George H. W. Bush
No
Bad
38. Jimmy Carter was the former governor of ____.
Georgia
Jimmy Carter
December 7th - 1941
George Washington
39. Abraham Lincoln was ______ educated
Air Force One - Marine One - and limousines
No
The Vice President
Self
40. Who won a Nobel Peace Prize for what they were going to do?
Lee Harvey Oswald
Period after the Civil War and how we reunited
James Madison
Barack Obama
41. What president had the watergate scandal?
30
They were classmates in college
Richard Nixon
Georgia
42. What was reconstruction?
35
6'4'
Period after the Civil War and how we reunited
He was shot
43. Which president was former ambassador to China?
January 1st - 1863
George H. W. Bush
7; 11
William Henry Harrison - Zachary Taylor - Warren Harding - and Franklin Delano Roosevelt
44. What month is the election in?
Abigail
2
Polio
November
45. After Abraham Lincoln was shot - He was carried across the street to ________________ where he dies when?
Mary Todd-Lincoln
A group of representatives chosen by the voters to elect the President
Peterson House; the next morning
Germany invaded Poland
46. Who had an affair with Monica Lewinsky - a young intern at the White House?
Maryland
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor - Hawaii
William Jefferson Clinton
Woodrow Wilson
47. Why wasn't Richard Nixon thrown out of office?
4th
He resigned before the impeachment trial
538
Teddy Roosevelt - Woodrow Wilson - Jimmy Carter - and Barack Obama
48. What was a talent of John Wilkes Booth?
Acting
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson; July 4th - 1826
George W. Bush
William Henry Harrison
49. What presidents (in order) died of natural causes?
60; unconstitutional
William Henry Harrison - Zachary Taylor - Warren Harding - and Franklin Delano Roosevelt
November
Martha
50. How much was the Louisiana Territory when it was purchased?
15 million
East of Africa
Woodrow Wilson
Conspiracy