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

The family lived in a flat above a bakery on Main Street. He was the first US president born in that state, though Lincoln, Grant and Obama all launch...

Q 02/05

What nickname did Reagan's father give him as a baby who looked like 'a fat little Dutchman'?

A) Sonny

B) Skip

C) Buck

D) Dutch

Answer · why

D) Dutch

He was known by it through school, college and his radio days, and it stuck with old friends for life. His mother's 'Dutch boy' haircut helped it alon...

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

Reagan graduated from Eureka College in 1932 with a joint major in economics and which other subject?

A) Sociology

B) Drama

C) History

D) Journalism

Answer · why

A) Sociology

He was a C student who later joked that he majored in extracurricular activities. In 1982 he told the college that 'everything that has been good in m...

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

He recreated games in the studio from bare telegraph reports, and once ad-libbed a string of foul balls when the wire went dead. It was a Cubs spring-...