U.S. History trivia quiz

304 and 307, correct.

302 and 303, not correct!

“I did not have sex with that woman, Ms. Lewinsky.”?

  1. Correct!–or, to be more exact, “I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky.”

With all due respect, aren’t these questions supposed to be things that we know to be true without resort to using any reference materials?
If so please consider me astonished.

Is this one, “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.”?

  1. Correct.

If I gave you the quote and asked for the day, you would need reference materials. By giving you the day and asking for the quote, you don’t need reference materials, as demonstrated by the fact that people have already gotten four out of the six.

The remaining two (Clinton in 1992 and Reagan in 1980) are perhaps slightly more difficult–the key is to recognize that the speakers were campaigning at the time. What is the original catch phrase associated with each man?

Well then, 303. is either “Whoop-whoop-whoop” followed by a sax solo or “I tired marijuana, but I didn’t inhale.” Heck if I know what Reagan said when I was 6. :slight_smile:

  1. “It’s the economy, stupid.”?
  1. has to be “There you go again.”
  1. Correct.
  2. Come on, people, what phrase was indelibly associated with Clinton before all that Monica stuff?

Freddy you did see kidchameleon’s post? Because that’s the only other phrase I can associate with Bill Clinton.

I think you misunderstood what denquixote meant. According to the rules in the OP;

Ask about any person, place, thing or event since 1492. You must completely rely on your own memory - you can’t consult any book, teh internets, or ask someone else, either in formulating or answering a question. Number your question(s) (no more than five at a time, please), sequentially after those which came before. You can’t post questions of your own until you’ve correctly answered at least one earlier question.

  1. Correct, although it was spelled “Black Jack.”
  2. Incorrect, obviously (likewise for denquixote). :wink:

Thank you, An Gadai, for the reminder about the OP rules.

Let’s turn to presidential aides…

  1. This Carter OMB chief resigned under a cloud when irregularities in his Georgia banking practices came to light.
  2. Who was JFK’s White House chief of staff?
  3. This Eisenhower White House chief of staff, a former governor of New Hampshire, was widely recognized as the second-most-powerful man in government, but was forced to resign for official misconduct, much to Ike’s chagrin.
  4. This GHWB White House chief of staff admired the man who is the answer to Question 310, going so far as to get the same license plate from the District of Columbia DMV. He, too, was forced to resign after questions were raised about his perceived abuse of the perks of office.
  5. These two men swapped the jobs of White House chief of staff and Secretary of the Treasury at the beginning of Reagan’s second term.
  1. Bert Lance

  2. Sherman Adams

  3. John Sununu

  1. Clinton - “I feel your pain.”

  2. Kenneth O’Donnell

  3. Irascible golfer was Tommy Bolt

  4. '50’s tv show was “I led three lives” starring Richard Carlson as Herbert Philbrick. The Matt Cvetic answer is wrong because that was a movie.

Thanks for the game all. Must quit will be incommunicado for a while. (Not witness protection, but close.)

  1. Clinton – “I never inhaled.”

For Reagan, wasn’t it: “We bomb the soviet Union in three minutes”?

  1. Hamilton argued that this portion of the Constitution, the “_____ ____ ______ ______,” authorized the Federal government to do more than what was spelled out in the document.
    "Necessary and proper clause" also known as the elastic clause

  2. How many pages was the first IRS tax form?
    one page, actually just a half-page

  3. These two men swapped the jobs of White House chief of staff and Secretary of the Treasury at the beginning of Reagan’s second term.
    James Baker and Donald Regan

All correct.

  1. Denquixote, incorrect.

Also all correct. I’ve read that getting the first income-tax form was actually regarded as something of a status symbol among the aspiring middle class. Those were the days!