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U.S. Presidents Trivia
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1. Who introduced disability benefits?
Monroe
Thus always to tyrants
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Gerald Ford
2. Who was the first African American President?
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
Hillary Clinton
Harvard
Barack Obama
3. What were the territories we gained in the Spanish American War? (ABC order with commas inbetween)
14
Lyndon Johnson
Guam - Midway Islands - Philippines - and Puerto Rico
The Vice President
4. Why did WWI happen?
100
Guam - Midway Islands - Philippines - and Puerto Rico
November
Germany was attacking ships
5. Who was the fpresident during WWI?
Barack Obama
Woodrow Wilson
Teddy Roosevelt
The Vice President
6. Who had a 12 year affair with Gennifer Flowers?
30
Abigail
William Jefferson Clinton
Civil War
7. Who takes over if the President is disabled or dies?
The banks were closed because everyone wanted their money at once
Lee Harvey Oswald
Harry S Truman
The Vice President
8. Alien Acts
French and Indian War
OK to send home foregienors if they looked dangerous; also if we were in war with their country
Ulysses S. Grant
Monroe
9. Who pays for all personal entertainment and dinners not related to teh government business in the White House?
His 5th cousin
A group of representatives chosen by the voters to elect the President
1914-1918
The president
10. Where did the civil war begin?
Andrew Johnson
Ft. Sumter - South Carolina
South; north
30
11. How was James Garfield killed?
He was shot on his way to a college reunion
Europe
In their state's capital
6'4'
12. What is the Truman Doctrine?
The idea to own all the land from the pacific to the atlantic ocean; 1.2 million
The US was prepared to send money and military support to countries that want to resist communism
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson; July 4th - 1826
Teddy Roosevelt - Woodrow Wilson - Jimmy Carter - and Barack Obama
13. Who was the youngest elected president?
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.
A person who knew the truth about Richard Nixon and told Woodward and Bernstein
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
William Henry Harrison - Zachary Taylor - Warren Harding - and Franklin Delano Roosevelt
14. What weapon was used to kill Lincoln?
A gun
Lee Harvey Oswald
George H. W. Bush
John Wilkes Booth
15. Who was president when the United Nations was formed?
Teddy Roosevelt
Harry S Truman
Woodrow Wilson
Jefferson Davis
16. Who was on the good side for WWI (abc order)?
John Adams
England - France - Russia - USA
George W. Bush
John Adams and John Quincy Adams
17. What year was the White House burnt down?
The fourteen points
When peace was made between Israel and Egypt at Camp David
1814
Civil rights
18. Who had a 12 year affair with Gennifer Flowers?
He gets shot
William Jefferson Clinton
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Ford's Theater
19. How many presidents were killed in office?
James Madison
November 22nd - 1963
18
4
20. How many electoral votes do you need to win the election?
270
He fired the Secretary of War Staton
Enola Gay
Teddy Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt
21. What was the Berlin Airlift?
Dwight David Eisenhower
7; 11
When we dropped food and supplies to people in West Berlin
X-ray
22. How many former vice presidents have become president?
You can collect money if you become disabled before retirement
14
Harry S Truman
7; 11
23. How many kids did George Washington have?
Harry S Truman
538
0
The Gettysburg Address
24. Who created the Family Medical Leave Act?
William Jefferson Clinton
Electors
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Joe Biden
25. What was William Jefferson Clinton impeached for?
Jefferson still survives
Perjury and obstruction of justice
Buffalo - New York
Eleanor
26. Name the Founding Fathers plus the son in order...
Guam - Midway Islands - Philippines - and Puerto Rico
George Washington - John Adams - Thomas Jefferson - James Madison - James Monroe - and John Quincy Adams
James Madison
1
27. What year was the Louisiana Territory bought?
November 1863
Universal health care
Ft. Sumter - South Carolina
1803
28. What does 'Sic Semper Tyrranis' mean?
Thus always to tyrants
George Washington - John Adams - Thomas Jefferson - James Madison - James Monroe - and John Quincy Adams
Dwight David Eisenhower
A gun
29. Who presented the Fourteen Points?
Germany - Hungary - Turkey
John Hinkley Jr.
Thomas Jefferson
Woodrow Wilson
30. Which president was a great general - a leader - honest - and trustworth?
Dwight David Eisenhower
George H. W. Bush
George Washington
George H.W. Bush and George Bush
31. Name the two presidents (ABC order by last name - write first and last name) who died on the same day - and the date they died (separate with semi colon)
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson; July 4th - 1826
John Wilkes Booth
27
1
32. What was the nullification crisis?
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33. Who was president for the Iran Hostage crisis?
Jimmy Carter
8
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Revolutionary War
34. What were fireside chats?
George H. W. Bush
George H.W. Bush and George Bush
Teddy Roosevelt
Speeches given for hope
35. Who did fireside chats?
Jimmy Carter
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
John Adams
Since birth
36. How many years is a presidential term?
4
Maine and Nebraska
William Jefferson Clinton
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
37. Who is the current President Pro-Tempore of the Senate?
Richard Nixon
Gerald Ford
Daniel Inouye
The first Tuesday of Novermber that follows a monday in November
38. What was a talent of John Wilkes Booth?
Acting
November
November 22nd - 1963
Social Security
39. Who was the first president not to win the popular vote and to become president?
Iraq invaded Kuwait - and a coalition of naions push Iraq out of Kuwait
John Quicy Adams
In their state's capital
William Henry Harrison
40. What did the Interstate Highway System also do besides provide a road for driving?
England
Teddy Roosevelt
Monticello - Virginia
Providing a backup place for military plane landing
41. Who was president when the United Nations was formed?
Harry S Truman
Germany was attacking ships
Ronald Reagan
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
42. Who was president for the Bay of Pigs?
French and Indian War
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Saving a picture of Washington during the war
4
43. What was the persian gulf war/desert storm?
John Adams
4th
Iraq invaded Kuwait - and a coalition of naions push Iraq out of Kuwait
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
44. What is Camp David?
November 22nd - 1963
A 2nd home for the president
Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Pearl Harbor bombing
World War I
45. Which president was a lawyer - very smart - an architect - a musician - and an inventor?
William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison
He was shot on his way to a college reunion
Thomas Jefferson
Period after the Civil War and how we reunited
46. Who was George Washington's wife?
Gerald Ford
Germany was attacking ships
Martha
September 1st - 1939
47. What was the New Deal?
John Adams
The president
Getting out of the Great depression by hiring people - which would start a chain reaction
Harry S Truman
48. How many electors are in the electoral college?
The House of Representatives selects the President and the Senate selects the Vice President
James Madison
538
The US was prepared to send money and military support to countries that want to resist communism
49. what ended a couple of days before Abraham Lincoln's Assasination?
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
William McKinley
Ronald Reagan
Civil War
50. John Adams had a successful marriage with ______ (first name).
Guam - Midway Islands - Philippines - and Puerto Rico
William Jefferson Clinton
A support group of countries
Abigail
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