Q 01/05

John F. Kennedy became the first US president of which religious faith?

A) Methodist

B) Roman Catholic

C) Baptist

D) Episcopalian

Answer · why

B) Roman Catholic

Roman Catholic faith dogged Kennedy's campaign, so in September 1960 he told a gathering of Protestant ministers that his church did not speak for him...

Q 02/05

In which Massachusetts town was JFK born on May 29, 1917?

A) Cambridge

B) Brookline

C) Quincy

D) Salem

Answer · why

B) Brookline

Brookline is where Kennedy was born; after his death the family bought back the house, and his mother, Rose, recreated it as she remembered it.

Q 03/05

JFK graduated from which university in 1940?

A) Princeton

B) Harvard

C) Georgetown

D) Yale

Answer · why

B) Harvard

Harvard gave Kennedy his degree in 1940, though he had begun college at Princeton and left within months.

Q 04/05

What was the title of Kennedy's first book, published in 1940 from his senior thesis?

A) A Nation of Immigrants

B) The Strategy of Peace

C) Why England Slept

D) As We Remember Joe

Answer · why

C) Why England Slept

Why England Slept, about Britain's unreadiness for war with Hitler, won over critics and became a bestseller.

Q 05/05

In August 1943 the patrol boat JFK commanded, PT-109, was cut in half by what?

A) A naval mine

B) A kamikaze aircraft

C) A submarine torpedo

D) A Japanese destroyer

Answer · why

D) A Japanese destroyer

A Japanese destroyer rammed PT-109, and Kennedy towed a badly burned crewman to an island by a life-jacket strap clenched in his teeth.