Q 01/05

Jimmy Carter was the first US president to be born in what kind of place?

A) A hospital

B) A military base

C) A big-city apartment

D) A hotel

Answer · why

A) A hospital

A hospital: Carter was delivered at the Wise Sanitarium in Plains, yet the farmhouse where he grew up went without electricity for most of his boyhood...

Q 02/05

What was Jimmy Carter's mother's profession?

A) Librarian

B) Registered Nurse

C) Schoolteacher

D) Social Worker

Answer · why

B) Registered Nurse

A registered nurse, Lillian Carter crossed Georgia's segregation lines to counsel poor Black women on health care, and at 68 she joined the Peace Corp...

Q 03/05

Which college did Jimmy Carter attend immediately before entering the U.S. Naval Academy in 1943?

A) Georgia Institute of Technology

B) University of Georgia

C) Vanderbilt University

D) University of Alabama

Answer · why

A) Georgia Institute of Technology

Georgia Institute of Technology was his second college: he threw himself into coursework there to improve his chances at Annapolis, where competition ...

Q 04/05

As a qualified undersea officer, Carter earned which Navy badge?

A) The trident

B) The dolphin

C) The anchor

D) The eagle

Answer · why

B) The dolphin

The dolphin badge marks an officer qualified in submarines; Carter chose the submarine service, then the Navy's most hazardous duty, and served in bot...

Q 05/05

Which officer, then a captain, led the fledgling nuclear submarine program Carter joined in 1952?

A) Chester W. Nimitz

B) Ernest J. King

C) Hyman G. Rickover

D) Arleigh Burke

Answer · why

C) Hyman G. Rickover

Hyman G. Rickover, later called the father of the nuclear Navy, pushed his young officers mercilessly; Carter named him among the greatest influences ...