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1.	In Die Hard with a Vengeance, one of Simon Gruber's riddles was, who was the 21st US President. Well?
		Chester A. Arthur
		Rutherford B. Hayes
		Grover Cleveland
		Abraham Lincoln

2.	In Michael Bay's WWII epic, President Franklin Roosevelt dramatically stands up from his wheelchair to show the US's courage. Who was the actor that embodied FDR?
		Gary Sinise
		Paul Newman
		Jon Voight
		Gene Hackman

3.	If your film of choice has a commander in chief named President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho, then you are fan of what comedy?
		Leonard Part 6
		Idiocracy
		Half Baked
		Scary Movie

4.	Oliver Stone loves U.S. Presidents. Which of these Commanders in Chief has NOT been the title film subject for the director?
		John F. Kennedy
		Richard M. Nixon
		Lyndon B. Johnson
		George W. Bush

5.	Point Break is probably the closest we will ever get to a Surfer in Chief. To perform their criminal acts, the bank robbers don masks for each of these presidents, except:
		Kennedy
		Reagan
		Nixon
		Johnson
		*By way of explanation.....*

6.	Uh oh. Kelsey Grammer is the president and Dennis Hopper is challenging him. The election all comes down to New Mexico and the "Swing Vote" of _________.
		Matthew McConaughey
		Val Kilmer
		Harrison Ford
		Kevin Costner

7.	The 90s were a rough time to be fictional president. Consider that there's a dead body found at the presidential residence. What action star is brought in to investigate this "Murder at 1600"?
		Bruce Willis
		Wesley Snipes
		Sylvester Stallone
		Jeff Speakman, the human weapon

8.	In The Contender, President Jackson Evans (Jeff Bridges) has endorsed his VP Laine Hanson (Joan Allen) as his successor. Prior to this what previous first lady had Allen portrayed on the big screen?
		Jackie Kennedy
		Nancy Reagan
		Betty Ford
		Pat Nixon

9.	Stone's sprawling assassination biopic JFK stars just about everyone but which actor was cast as would-be presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald?
		Gary Oldman
		Steve Buscemi
		Kevin Bacon
		Tim Blake Nelson

10.	Just like competing asteroid/disaster movies, moviegoers had to choose between dueling movies about the teenage daughters of a U.S. President. First, you may know that Katie Holmes starred in First Daughter but who played her presidential daddy?
		Mark Harmon
		Dennis Quaid
		Michael Keaton
		William Petersen

11.	Next, Chasing Liberty featured Mandy Moore as the presidential offspring but who played her U.S. President father?
		Mark Harmon
		Dennis Quaid
		Michael Keaton
		William Petersen

12.	Speaking of presidential daddies, who portrayed W’s daddy President George H. W. Bush in Oliver Stone’s film W.?
		Donald Sutherland
		Alan Alda
		James Cromwell
		James Rebhorn

13.	In 1995, Nick Nolte went all colonial as Thomas Jefferson and courted Thandie Newton as Sally Hemmings. Complete the title of the film: Jefferson in ______
		London
		Venice
		Rome
		Paris

14.	The Oval Office and the Resolute Desk of the president hold a hidden clue to treasure in National Treasure: Book of Secrets. The generically named “The President” is portrayed by what fellow who has also played JFK?
		Greg Kinnear
		Bruce Greenwood
		Martin Sheen
		Cliff Robertson

15.	In the world of The Watchmen, a fictionalized version of which U.S. President is still alive and in power having served way more than the two term limit would allow?
		LBJ
		JFK
		Nixon
		Reagan

16.	In American ______, Dennis Quaid portrays President Staton, a thinly veiled yet profoundly stupid variation of George W. Bush. The film features the president's obsession with an American Idol spoof and a plot to kill the president.
		Starz
		Dreamerz
		Dreamz
		Duetz

17.	What common phrase is the title of the comedy about two former presidents played by Jack Lemmon and James Garner?
		My Fellow Americans
		We the People
		Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness
		Grumpy Old Presidents

18.	To cover up a brewing presidential scandal in Wag the Dog, Dustin Hoffman and Robert DeNiro use the power of movie making to manufacture a fictional war between the U.S. and _____.
		Lichtenstein
		Estonia
		Luxembourg
		Albania

19.	While technically still the story of electing a 'President,' Election focuses on Reese Witherspoon running for Student Body President. What was the catchy, rhyming campaign slogan that she plasters everywhere?
		Click's your Pick
		Elect Fleck
		Pick Flick
		Vote Right for Boatwright

20.	Martin Sheen played small screen President Bartlett on The West Wing but on the big screen he played the Chief of Staff A.J. MacInerney for which cinematic president?
		President Andrew Shepherd
		President Bill Mitchell
		President Thomas Whitmore
		President Tom Dobbs
		*By way of explanation.....* Shepherd was from The American President, Mitchell was from Dave, Whitmore was from Independence Day and Dobbs was from Man of the Year.

21.	Who fills the role of brother and Vice President to Chris Rock's President Mays in Head of State?
		Cedric the Etertainer
		Dave Chappelle
		Bernie Mac
		Chris Tucker

22.	Which comedian's face and name has been obscured from the poster for Man of the Year about a comedian running for president?
		Billy Crystal
		Kevin James
		Rob Schneider
		Robin Williams

23.	Nixon is way more popular of a film subject than as a President. For the two most notable portrayals of Nixon - Anthony Hopkins in Nixon and Frank Langella in Frost/Nixon - how did the Academy Awards recognize the actors?
		Both were nominated and won
		Both were nominated and lost
		Langella won but Hopkins lost
		Hopkins won but Langella lost

24.	Presidentially speaking Sir Anthony Hopkins also embodied what former president in Spielberg's Amistad?
		John Quincy Adams
		James Madison
		John Adams
		Alexanader Hamilton
		*By way of explanation.....* To prevent angry corrections, we know that Hamilton was never president.

25.	Last year's Transformers: Dark of the Moon made several truckloads of money; so you likely saw it. Which of these actual presidents was NOT featured in the film whether in archive footage or otherwise?
		John F. Kennedy
		Richard Nixon
		Bill Clinton
		Barack Obama