Q 01/05

Who is the only US president to hold a PhD?

A) Theodore Roosevelt

B) Woodrow Wilson

C) Herbert Hoover

D) Jimmy Carter

Answer · why

B) Woodrow Wilson

Woodrow Wilson: a political scientist by training, in 1913 he revived delivering the annual message to Congress in person, a practice Jefferson had dr...

Q 02/05

Which 1950s–60s movement pushed political science toward the scientific study of behavior?

A) Behavioral revolution

B) Perestroika Movement

C) New institutionalism

D) Cambridge School

Answer · why

A) Behavioral revolution

Robert Dahl and Philip Converse were among its leading figures; it favored surveys and empirical testing over legal texts.

Q 03/05

In 1948, which newspaper's early edition wrongly announced 'Dewey Defeats Truman'?

A) The New York Times

B) The Washington Post

C) Chicago Daily Tribune

D) The Boston Globe

Answer · why

C) Chicago Daily Tribune

Chicago Daily Tribune: polls had predicted a Dewey win, and a printers' strike forced the paper to go to press hours early, before most results were i...

Q 04/05

Game theorists devised their most famous dilemma in 1950 while working at which Cold War think tank?

A) Brookings Institution

B) Hudson Institute

C) Heritage Foundation

D) RAND Corporation

Answer · why

D) RAND Corporation

RAND Corporation: the tale of two suspects each offered a deal came later, from Albert Tucker, who wanted to make the game clear to an audience of psy...

Q 05/05

Alexis de Tocqueville's 1831 trip that produced Democracy in America was officially meant to study what?

A) Schools

B) Prisons

C) Hospitals

D) Railways

Answer · why

B) Prisons

Prisons: he and Gustave de Beaumont did publish a prison report in 1833, but his letters admit the mission was largely a pretext for studying American...