Q 01/05

John F. Kennedy was which number president of the United States?

A) 35th

B) 36th

C) 37th

D) 38th

Answer · why

A) 35th

He served from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963. His vice president, who became the 36th, was sworn in that same afternoon.

Q 02/05

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

A) Brookline

B) Cambridge

C) Newport

D) Hyannis Port

Answer · why

A) Brookline

His birthplace on Beals Street is now a National Historic Site.

Q 03/05

JFK graduated from which university in 1940?

A) Princeton

B) Harvard

C) Georgetown

D) Yale

Answer · why

B) Harvard

He had earlier attended Choate, a boarding school in Connecticut.

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) Profiles in Courage

Answer · why

C) Why England Slept

It examined why Britain was so slow to rearm against Hitler.

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

Kennedy towed a burned crewman to an island with the man's life-jacket strap in his teeth.