Q 01/05

What on a door latch exposed the Watergate burglars?

A) A strip of tape

B) A folded matchbook

C) A wad of chewing gum

D) A wooden wedge

Answer · why

A) A strip of tape

A strip of tape: a night guard peeled it off, assuming a worker had left it, then found the latch taped again on a later round and called the police.

Q 02/05

The Watergate break-in grew out of which covert campaign plan devised by G. Gordon Liddy and E. Howard Hunt?

A) Operation Sandwedge

B) Operation Mongoose

C) Operation Gemstone

D) Operation Chaos

Answer · why

C) Operation Gemstone

Operation Gemstone: the first draft, pitched to the attorney general, included kidnapping protest leaders and hiring sex workers to entrap Democrats, ...

Q 03/05

Where did Bob Woodward hold his late-night meetings with his secret Watergate source?

A) A hotel bar

B) A parking garage

C) A Georgetown church

D) A riverside park

Answer · why

B) A parking garage

A parking garage in Rosslyn, Virginia: Woodward says he asked for a meeting by moving a flowerpot with a red flag on his balcony, and a historical mar...

Q 04/05

Who was Bob Woodward's reporting partner on the Watergate story at The Washington Post?

A) Carl Bernstein

B) Seymour Hersh

C) Jack Anderson

D) Tad Szulc

Answer · why

A) Carl Bernstein

Carl Bernstein was 28 and Woodward 29 when the paper teamed them on the break-in story, and their reporting won The Washington Post the 1973 Pulitzer ...

Q 05/05

What nickname did Washington Post editor Howard Simons give Bob Woodward's anonymous Watergate source?

A) Deep Background

B) The Insider

C) Deep Throat

D) The Whisperer

Answer · why

C) Deep Throat

Deep Throat punned on 'deep background', the terms on which the informant spoke, and on a notorious 1972 adult film; his identity stayed secret until ...