Q 01/05

Hoover lost in 1932 to Franklin Roosevelt, then governor of which state?

A) New York

B) Georgia

C) Ohio

D) Massachusetts

Answer · why

A) New York

New York. Governor Roosevelt carried 42 of the 48 states, a landslide even bigger than the one that had swept Hoover into office four years earlier.

Q 02/05

In which state was Hoover born?

A) Oregon

B) Iowa

C) Kansas

D) Ohio

Answer · why

B) Iowa

Iowa. Orphaned as a boy, he left West Branch at 11 for an uncle's home in Oregon, and he is buried on a hill overlooking the cottage where he was born...

Q 03/05

Hoover was raised in which religious tradition?

A) Lutheran

B) Methodist

C) Quaker

D) Mennonite

Answer · why

C) Quaker

Quaker. He rarely attended meetings as an adult, yet he held fast to Quaker tenets such as charity, which shaped his years of famine relief.

Q 04/05

Hoover was a member of the first graduating class of which university?

A) University of Chicago

B) Cornell

C) Johns Hopkins

D) Stanford

Answer · why

D) Stanford

Stanford. He paid his way by starting a student laundry service, and it was there that he met Lou Henry, the geology student he later married.

Q 05/05

Hoover made his fortune in which profession?

A) Railroad lawyer

B) Grain trader

C) Mining engineer

D) Shipbuilder

Answer · why

C) Mining engineer

Mining engineer. He became known as the "doctor of sick mines" for turning failing operations around, and was worth an estimated $4 million by 1914.