Q 01/05

Jimmy Carter was born on October 1 of which year, in the small town of Plains, Georgia?

A) 1920

B) 1924

C) 1928

D) 1932

Answer · why

B) 1924

Born in 1924 at the Wise Sanitarium, he was the first US president born in a hospital.

Q 02/05

What was Jimmy Carter's mother's profession?

A) Farmer

B) Registered Nurse

C) Teacher

D) Social Worker

Answer · why

B) Registered Nurse

Lillian Carter was a registered nurse who worked at the Wise Sanitarium in Plains, where Jimmy was born; in 1966, at age 68, she joined the Peace Corp...

Q 03/05

Before attending the U.S. Naval Academy, which of these institutions did Jimmy Carter attend?

A) Georgia Institute of Technology

B) University of Georgia

C) Emory University

D) Mercer University

Answer · why

A) Georgia Institute of Technology

He started engineering coursework at Georgia Southwestern College in 1941 and transferred to what was then the Georgia School of Technology a year lat...

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

Carter qualified in submarines and earned the dolphin badge, the Navy's submarine warfare insignia; his other decorations included the American Campai...

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

Captain Hyman G. Rickover ran the Navy's nuclear propulsion program that Carter joined in 1952; Carter later said that, next to his parents, Rickover ...