Q 01/05

Richard Nixon became the 37th president in January 1969, succeeding which man?

A) Eisenhower

B) Kennedy

C) Johnson

D) Truman

Answer · why

C) Johnson

Lyndon B. Johnson had announced in March 1968 that he would not seek re-election, so Nixon beat Johnson's vice president, Hubert Humphrey, eight years...

Q 02/05

Nixon is the only US president to have done what?

A) Been convicted while in office

B) Resigned from office

C) Been impeached by the House

D) Been removed by the Senate

Answer · why

B) Resigned from office

Resigned from office, not impeached: the House Judiciary Committee had approved three articles of impeachment in late July 1974, but Nixon quit on Aug...

Q 03/05

Nixon was born into a poor family belonging to which religious group?

A) Mennonites

B) Quakers

C) Baptists

D) Mormons

Answer · why

B) Quakers

Quakers through his mother, Hannah, whose faith his Methodist-born father adopted. As a birthright Quaker Nixon could have claimed exemption from wart...

Q 04/05

Nixon was born in a Southern California house his father built on what kind of farm?

A) A dairy farm

B) A lemon ranch

C) A walnut orchard

D) A grape vineyard

Answer · why

B) A lemon ranch

A lemon ranch, and a failing one: it went under in 1922 and the family moved to nearby Whittier, where his father opened a grocery store and gas stati...

Q 05/05

Richard Nixon, like three of his four brothers, was named after which British king?

A) Richard the Lionheart

B) Richard Cromwell

C) Richard II of Bordeaux

D) Richard III of York

Answer · why

A) Richard the Lionheart

Richard the Lionheart gave the future president his name, and Harold, Arthur and Edward were royal namesakes too; the odd one out was Donald, whose fi...