Q 01/05

Ronald Reagan was born on 6 February 1911 in the small town of Tampico, in which state?

A) Iowa

B) Illinois

C) Ohio

D) Missouri

Answer · why

B) Illinois

Illinois was home through his childhood, as his salesman father's search for work moved the family from town to town before they settled in Dixon in 1...

Q 02/05

What nickname did Reagan's father give him as a baby, a name he still went by as a young man?

A) Sonny

B) Skip

C) Buck

D) Dutch

Answer · why

D) Dutch

Dutch came from his father's habit of calling his infant son a 'fat little Dutchman', and the name stuck with Reagan well beyond childhood.

Q 03/05

Reagan's first paid job as a teenager was as what, on the Rock River near Dixon?

A) A caddie

B) A newsboy

C) A lifeguard

D) A soda jerk

Answer · why

C) A lifeguard

He worked seven summers at Lowell Park and always said one of the proudest statistics of his life was the number of swimmers he pulled out, which he t...

Q 04/05

Which word completes the opening line of Reagan's 1984 campaign ad, 'It's ___ again in America'?

A) Morning

B) Springtime

C) Sunrise

D) Summertime

Answer · why

A) Morning

Morning again in America was the ad's promise, and it closed by asking why voters would ever want to return to where they were less than four years be...

Q 05/05

Before Hollywood, Reagan worked at WHO radio in Des Moines as a broadcaster for which baseball team?

A) The St. Louis Cardinals

B) The Chicago Cubs

C) The Chicago White Sox

D) The Detroit Tigers

Answer · why

B) The Chicago Cubs

The Chicago Cubs' games reached the station only as sketchy teletype reports, so he improvised a running account of the action from the studio.