Q 01/05

The Secret Service is famous for guarding presidents, but what was it founded in 1865 to stop?

A) Foreign spies

B) Counterfeit money

C) Mail robbery

D) Smuggling

Answer · why

B) Counterfeit money

Counterfeit money. By the end of the Civil War about a third of the cash in circulation was fake, so the new agency was set up inside the Treasury to ...

Q 02/05

Which federal department has the Secret Service belonged to since 2003?

A) Homeland Security

B) Justice Department

C) Defense Department

D) The Treasury

Answer · why

A) Homeland Security

Homeland Security. The department was created after the September 11 attacks and absorbed the Secret Service on March 1, 2003, ending its 138 years in...

Q 03/05

Whose assassination prompted Congress to ask the Secret Service to protect the President?

A) John F. Kennedy

B) James Garfield

C) Abraham Lincoln

D) William McKinley

Answer · why

D) William McKinley

William McKinley. Three Secret Service men were already guarding him informally when he was shot in Buffalo in 1901; only afterwards did Congress ask ...

Q 04/05

What happened on the same day Abraham Lincoln approved the creation of the Secret Service?

A) He won re-election

B) The Civil War formally ended

C) The Treasury was robbed

D) He was shot that evening

Answer · why

D) He was shot that evening

He was shot that evening. Lincoln gave his Treasury secretary the nod on April 14, 1865, hours before going to Ford's Theatre, and the agency he appro...

Q 05/05

Which candidate was given Secret Service protection in May 2007, earlier in a campaign than anyone before?

A) John McCain

B) Barack Obama

C) Hillary Clinton

D) Rudy Giuliani

Answer · why

B) Barack Obama

Barack Obama. His detail began about eighteen months before the 2008 election; Hillary Clinton already had agents as a former first lady, so hers did ...