Q 01/05

After his patrol boat was sunk in 1943, John F. Kennedy scratched a rescue message onto what?

A) A canteen lid

B) A coconut shell

C) A wooden paddle

D) A piece of driftwood

Answer · why

B) A coconut shell

A coconut shell carried his plea for help, and all eleven survivors of PT-109 were rescued. He later kept it as a paperweight on his Oval Office desk.

Q 02/05

Which operation, arranged by her father in 1941, left Rosemary Kennedy permanently incapacitated?

A) A spinal fusion

B) A thyroidectomy

C) A tonsillectomy

D) A lobotomy

Answer · why

D) A lobotomy

A lobotomy at 23 left Rosemary unable to walk or speak intelligibly. From 1949 she lived at a care institution in Wisconsin, at first isolated from he...

Q 03/05

Which sporting movement grew out of a summer camp Eunice Kennedy Shriver ran at her Maryland farm?

A) Special Olympics

B) Paralympic Games

C) Invictus Games

D) Deaflympics

Answer · why

A) Special Olympics

Special Olympics held its first international games at Chicago's Soldier Field in 1968, drawing 1,000 athletes with intellectual disabilities from 26 ...

Q 04/05

Which bodybuilder turned film star did Maria Shriver, a niece of John F. Kennedy, marry in 1986?

A) Sylvester Stallone

B) Jean-Claude Van Damme

C) Arnold Schwarzenegger

D) Lou Ferrigno

Answer · why

C) Arnold Schwarzenegger

Arnold Schwarzenegger, later a Republican governor, married into America's best-known Democratic dynasty. The couple had four children and divorced in...

Q 05/05

Which Soviet leader gave the Kennedy family Pushinka, a puppy whose mother had flown in space?

A) Leonid Brezhnev

B) Nikita Khrushchev

C) Joseph Stalin

D) Mikhail Gorbachev

Answer · why

B) Nikita Khrushchev

Nikita Khrushchev sent the puppy after Jacqueline Kennedy asked him about the space dog Strelka at a dinner in Vienna. Pushinka later had four pups th...