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US Politics Questions
- Which political scandal led to President Richard Nixon's resignation?
- Which populist conservative movement was launched in 2009 with its primary demands being drastic cuts in government spending and taxes?
- GOP is the traditional nickname for the Republican Party, what does it stand for?
- Name the first woman in U.S. political history to serve as Speaker of the United States House of Representatives?
- Who became known as the Father of the Constitution because of his pivotal role in the document's drafting as well as its ratification?
- Which Party did Abraham Lincoln belong to?
- Name the only President to be elected four times in a row?
- The United States Senate consists of how many members?
- Which president's foreign policy was to "speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far"?
- Can you name the longest-serving independent in U.S. congressional history?
- Sarah Palin served as governor of which state from 2006 until her resignation in 2009?
- Hillary and Bill Clinton first met whilst students at which university?
- What word describes a meeting of supporters or members of a specific political party?
- The Democratic party is recognised by which animal symbol?
- Who served as a Senator for Arizona from 1987 until his death in 2018?
- Four sitting American presidents have been assassinated, can you name all four?
- Can you name America's first female United States Secretary of State?
- Which American politician was named Time Person of the Year for 2001, and given an honorary knighthood in 2002 by Queen Elizabeth II?
- Barack Obama served three terms as a state senator for which state, from 1997 to 2004?
- Who was First Lady of the United States from 1963 to 1969?
- Who was mayor of Palm Springs, California, from 1988 to 1992?
- "Roe v Wade" is a landmark 1973 Supreme Court judgement that prohibited states from banning what?
- Can you remember the name of the 22-year-old White House intern involved in a scandal with President Bill Clinton?
- Which building is the home of the United States Congress and the seat of the legislative branch of the U.S. federal government?
- Who served as the 38th governor of Minnesota from 1999 to 2003?
- Which United States Marine Corps lieutenant colonel came to prominence during the Iran–Contra political scandal of the late 1980s?
- Which state was subject to a recount in the presidential election between George W. Bush and Al Gore in 2000?
- Who served as the 42nd vice president of the United States from 1977 to 1981?
- Ronald Reagan was governor of which state from 1967 to 1975?
- In which American city was Barack Obama born?
- Unlike the seven presidents who preceded him, who was the first president to be born a citizen of the United States and not a British subject?
- As directed by the Constitution, a president must be at least how many years of age?
Answers:
- Watergate scandal
- The Tea Party movement
- Grand Old Party
- Nancy Pelosi
- John Madison
- Republican Party
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- 100 members (two from each of the 50 states)
- Theodore Roosevelt
- Bernie Sanders
- Alaska
- Yale
- Caucus
- A Donkey
- John McCain
- Abraham Lincoln (1865), James A. Garfield (1881), William McKinley (1901), and John F. Kennedy (1963)
- Madeleine Albright (she served from 1997 to 2001 under President Bill Clinton)
- Rudy Giuliani
- Illinois
- Lady Bird Johnson (Claudia Alta "Lady Bird" Johnson)
- Sonny Bono
- Abortion
- Monica Lewinsky
- The United States Capitol or the Capitol Building
- Jesse Ventura (and the first and only candidate of the Reform Party to win a major government position)
- Oliver North
- Florida
- Walter Mondale
- California
- Honolulu (Hawaii)
- Martin Van Buren
- 35-years-old