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U.S. Presidents Trivia
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1. Which president helped create the Library of Congress when he sells and donates 6000 books?
His wife
Ulysses S. Grant
USA
Thomas Jefferson
2. Who was the first VP?
South; north
John Adams
The House of Representatives selects the President and the Senate selects the Vice President
George Washington
3. Who was the only president to be president and then supreme court chief justice?
Dolley
7; 11
Dental; medical
William Howard Taft
4. Who created the Family Medical Leave Act?
William Jefferson Clinton
No
Lee Harvey Oswald
Social Security
5. What is FDIC (explaIn what it means - not what it stands for)?
The Confederate States of America
The House of Representatives selects the President and the Senate selects the Vice President
The federal government guarentees your money at a bank
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor - Hawaii
6. What was the point of the Gettysburg Address (two things)?
Robert E. Lee
0
Honor people who died - make sure the country survies
20
7. Where do electors vote?
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8. How can a president serve up to ten years?
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9. What is the Truman Doctrine?
Ft. Sumter - South Carolina
Barack Obama
The Vice President
The US was prepared to send money and military support to countries that want to resist communism
10. How many presidents were killed in office?
132
Guam - Midway Islands - Philippines - and Puerto Rico
4
A group of representatives chosen by the voters to elect the President
11. Who did fireside chats?
Money goes to kids when a parent dies
15
The Gettysburg Address
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
12. Who attempted to assassinate Ronald Reagan?
Revolutionary War
George Washington - John Adams - Thomas Jefferson - James Madison - James Monroe - and John Quincy Adams
John Hinkley Jr.
If he serves 2 or less years of someone else's term plus 8 years on his own
13. What was the Tenure of Office Act/
The president could not fire and federal official who had gotten their job with Senate approval
Conspiracy
Harvard
Monroe
14. Where was Thomas Jefferson born?
Ulysses S. Grant
Self
Monticello - Virginia
England - France - Russia - USA
15. How was James Garfield killed?
World War I
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
He was shot on his way to a college reunion
He gets shot
16. How many electors are in the electoral college?
He gets shot
Cuba wanted to overthrow Castrow and our military helped train them
538
35 said He was guilty - but he needed 36
17. Who is the current Vice President?
He was shot
The north and the south were split up
Joe Biden
Barack Obama
18. What date did WWII begin?
September 1st - 1939
Guam - Midway Islands - Philippines - and Puerto Rico
Teddy Roosevelt
Acting
19. Who was the only president to resign?
Sexual harrassment
Richard Nixon
George Washington
William Henry Harrison
20. What was the Bay of Pigs?
The Gettysburg Address
Cuba wanted to overthrow Castrow and our military helped train them
350
Andrew Johnson
21. Who had the shortest presidency?
They were classmates in college
Teddy Roosevelt
James Madison
William Henry Harrison
22. How many Vice Presidents ran again for president and became president?
Thomas Jefferson
5
Germany - Hungary - Turkey
The banks were closed because everyone wanted their money at once
23. How many years is a presidential term?
They were classmates in college
4
Crime to print false or meliscious or scandalist stuff about the U.S. gov.
$400000
24. Why did WWI happen?
April 12th - 1861
Germany was attacking ships
A gun
Barack Obama
25. This president helped write the federalist papers.
His 5th cousin
Dwight David Eisenhower
John Quicy Adams
James Madison
26. What was the Banking Holiday?
The number of people in Congress plus 3 for DC
November 1863
The banks were closed because everyone wanted their money at once
Teddy Roosevelt
27. Where was George Washington born?
1
Mount Vernon - Virginia
George Washington
Peterson House; the next morning
28. Who was a Great General in war of 1812?
William and Mary College
Andrew Jackson
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
George H. W. Bush
29. Who won a Nobel Peace Prize for what they were going to do?
Barack Obama
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
James Polk
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor - Hawaii
30. Who had an affair with Monica Lewinsky - a young intern at the White House?
William Jefferson Clinton
April 1917- November 1918
Daniel Inouye
John Adams
31. Who was FDR's VP Who was president for WWII?
William Jefferson Clinton
Harry S Truman
None
Andrew Jackson
32. When Harry S Truman was president during WWII - what two places in japan were bombed (abc order)?
September 1st - 1939
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
35
Abraham Lincoln
33. What is universal health care?
Medical insurance for all americans
Mary Todd-Lincoln
The US was prepared to send money and military support to countries that want to resist communism
The Vice President
34. How long do you have to be a citizen for to be president?
November
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Barack Obama
Since birth
35. In the War of 1812 - ________ (country) kept stealing our ________ (people) and _______ (items) in the middle of the ocean (separate with semicolon).
William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison
England; sailors; products
Ulysses S. Grant
Iraq invaded Kuwait - and a coalition of naions push Iraq out of Kuwait
36. What was a talent of John Wilkes Booth?
Medical insurance for all americans
Acting
Polio
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
37. Who won the Civil war for Lincoln and later on became a president?
Ulysses S. Grant
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
4th
Maine and Nebraska
38. The person who killed John Fitzgerald Kennedy is thought to have killed him in a _______ - or not alone.
The Civil War
Conspiracy
The federal government guarentees your money at a bank
He was shot
39. Who attends diplomatic functions in place of the president?
Dwight David Eisenhower
The Gettysburg Address
1814
The Vice President
40. What is the family Medical Leave Act?
George Washington
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
132
Worker can take three months off in a year to take care of sick relatives or him/herself and cannot be fired
41. Who was the only president to get all the electoral votes?
George Washington
Barack Obama
14
Ford's Theater
42. Who supported manifest destiny?
George Washington
James Polk
4
Jimmy Carter
43. What college did George Washington go to?
None
Barack Obama
Money goes to kids when a parent dies
Thomas Jefferson
44. What is Camp David?
22 - 24
Teddy Roosevelt
A 2nd home for the president
November 22nd - 1963
45. Which president was the 'father of the constitution'?
Abraham Lincoln
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
A person who knew the truth about Richard Nixon and told Woodward and Bernstein
James Madison
46. Grover Cleveland was the ____ and ____ president (numbers)
Civil War
22 - 24
The president
18
47. John Adams had a successful marriage with ______ (first name).
Abigail
James Polk
Mom
Providing a backup place for military plane landing
48. What did John Wilkes Booth say after he shot Lincoln?
They were classmates in college
Ulysses S. Grant
Sic Semper Tyrannis - the south is avenged
Harry S Truman
49. How many Vice Presidents have moved up because the president resigned?
Teddy Roosevelt
John Quicy Adams
1
The US was prepared to send money and military support to countries that want to resist communism
50. Where does the number of electors in the electoral college come from?
The Vice President
1 million
Barack Obama
The number of people in Congress plus 3 for DC