Q 01/05

Alvin Karpis, the gangster Hoover helped arrest in 1936, went on to serve 26 years in which prison?

A) Sing Sing

B) San Quentin

C) Folsom

D) Alcatraz

Answer · why

D) Alcatraz

Alcatraz. Hoover flew to New Orleans to join the raid after a senator taunted him for never making an arrest, and with no handcuffs to hand, an agent ...

Q 02/05

Who was 'Deep Throat', the Watergate source passed over to succeed Hoover as FBI director?

A) John Dean

B) Mark Felt

C) G. Gordon Liddy

D) Alexander Butterfield

Answer · why

B) Mark Felt

Mark Felt. The senior FBI man wanted Hoover's chair and was angry when the White House gave it to an outsider with no FBI experience; he kept his Wate...

Q 03/05

Under which president did Hoover become director of the Bureau of Investigation in 1924?

A) Calvin Coolidge

B) Warren Harding

C) Herbert Hoover

D) Woodrow Wilson

Answer · why

A) Calvin Coolidge

Calvin Coolidge. His new attorney general, Harlan Fiske Stone, sacked the Bureau's chief in the wake of the Teapot Dome scandal and handed the job to ...

Q 04/05

Which three-word motto did Hoover's Bureau adopt in 1935?

A) Duty, Honor, Country

B) Justice, Integrity, Service

C) Fidelity, Bravery, Integrity

D) Honor, Courage, Commitment

Answer · why

C) Fidelity, Bravery, Integrity

Fidelity, Bravery, Integrity. It was coined the year the Bureau was renamed the FBI so that the motto would spell out the new initials, which a Bureau...

Q 05/05

In which city was Hoover born on New Year's Day 1895 and did he live his entire life?

A) Washington, D.C.

B) Richmond

C) Philadelphia

D) Baltimore

Answer · why

A) Washington, D.C.

He was born on Capitol Hill, on the site of a church that now has a stained-glass window dedicated to him.