Richard Nixon Quiz - 61 Trivia Questions!

Who leaked the Pentagon Papers to the New York Times and Washington Post in 1971?

Daniel Ellsberg
The government
The National Security Council
John F. Kennedy

Where did US President Richard Nixon and Soviet leader Nikita Brezhnev meet in 1974?

At the White House
Moscow
The White House
Yalta

What was the name of the first arms control treaty signed by US President Richard Nixon and Soviet President Nikita Brezhnev?

SALT II
SALT I
Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty
NPT

Who replaced Archibald Cox as Nixon's Watergate special counsel?

Robert Kennedy
David Petraeus
Leon Jaworski
David Gergen

Who was the controversial anti-communist senator in the US Senate during the presidency of Richard Nixon?

John Connolly
Charles E. Schultz
John F. Kennedy
Joseph McCarthy

Who was the Chinese Premier at the time of US President Richard Nixon's visit to China in 1972?

Li Keqiang
Chen Yongjiang
Hu Jintao
Zhou Enlai

Which Vice-President of the USA was responsible for the desegregation of schools in the South during the presidency of Richard Nixon?

George Bush
John F. Kennedy
Agnew
Richard Nixon

Who was the Senate Minority Leader at the time of the Watergate break-in?

John Kennedy
John F. Kennedy
Hugh Scott
Ronald Reagan

What was US President Richard Nixon's policy to turn the South into a Republican stronghold?

Southern Civil War
Southern Strategy
Nationalization of the South
The South's Civil War

In which year did US President Richard Nixon die?

1974
1994
1975
1970

Who was Richard Nixon's Democratic opponent in the 1972 US Presidential election?

George Washington
George Bush
Bill Clinton
Edmund Muskie

Who was the first Soviet leader to meet with US President Richard Nixon?

Boris Yeltsin
Leonid Brezhnev
Vladimir Lenin
Vladimir Putin

In 1969, US President Richard Nixon attended the opening day of which baseball team?

San Francisco Giants
Washington Senators
New York Mets
Chicago Cubs

Who was US President Richard Nixon's 'enemy number one' when he was a member of the House Un-American Activities Committee

George Washington
Gerhard Eisler
George W. Bush
George Meany

In which city were the peace Accords signed in 1973 to end the Vietnam War?

Los Angeles
Paris
Washington, D.C.
New York

Who wrote the book 'Nixon's Shadow: The History of an Image'?

George Washington
George Bush
John Grisham
Greenberg

Which biographer described Richard Nixon as 'a strange man of uncomfortable shyness, who functioned best alone with his thoughts'?

Michael Keaton
John Steinbeck
Peter Jennings
Richard Reeves

Which US President was impeached in 1998 over his handling of the Watergate scandal?

Ronald Reagan
Bill Clinton
George Washington
Richard Nixon

What card game did US President Richard Nixon play?

Texas Hold'em
Poker
Deal or No Deal
Bridge

Who did Richard Nixon defeat in his bid for the US Senate in 1950?

John Kerry
Sheridan Downey
William Howard Taft
George Washington

Who seized power from Salvador Allende in a 1973 military coup?

Augusto Pinochet
Santiago Mayor
Santiago
A military group

Who was the biographer of US President Richard Nixon?

Conrad Black
John F. Kennedy
Richard Nixon
George Bush

Who was the Republican candidate who lost to Lyndon Johnson in the 1964 Presidential election?

George Washington
Barry Goldwater
George Bush
John F. Kennedy

What was the name of the policy advocated by US President Richard Nixon to devolve power to state and local elected officials?

New Federalism
Federalist
Federalism
The National Policy

What war was fought between Israel and Egypt in 1973?

The Middle East Peace Talks
Arab-Israeli War
The Arab-Israeli War
Yom Kippur War

Who succeeded Richard Nixon as US President in August 1974?

Gerald Ford
John Johnson
Jimmy Carter
George Bush

Who was the Soviet leader when Richard Nixon visited in 1986?

Gorbachev
Putin
Boris Yeltsin
Yevgeny one of the leaders

What was the name of the first American spaceflight to land men on the moon?

The Challenger
The first American manned flight to the moon
The Space Shuttle Columbia
Apollo 11

Who was Richard Nixon's Democratic opponent in the US Presidential election of 1968?

John Kennedy
Richard Nixon
Ronald Reagan
Hubert Humphrey

Who conducted the famous Watergate interview with Richard Nixon in 1977?

The New York Times
Richard Nixon
The Guardian
David Frost

Who was Richard Nixon's running mate in the 1960 US Presidential election?

Robert Kennedy.
Charles Wilson
George Washington
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.

In which South American country did US President Richard Nixon meet with student protesters in 1958?

Colombia
Brazil
Peru
Argentina

Who was the Democratic running mate to George McGovern in the 1972 US Presidential election?

Thomas Eagleton
John Kerry
Bill Richardson
George Washington

Who was the Soviet leader at the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis?

Putin
Boris Yeltsin
Khrushchev
President Jimmy Carter

What was the name of the Cambodian leader who was bombed by the USA in 1969?

Norodom Sihanouk
Sihanouk
Cambodian King
Khmer Rouge

What was US President Richard Nixon's first job in Washington DC in 1942?

Office of Price Administration
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
Office of the Secretary of Agriculture
Office of War Information

Which university did US President Richard Nixon attend?

Duke University
Princeton University
University of California
Yale University

Which US oil company was founded by Armand Hammer in 1973?

Transocean
Texaco
Occidental Petroleum
ExxonMobil

Which US President pardoned Richard Nixon in 1974?

Ford
George Washington
Ronald Reagan
Jimmy Carter

What was the name of US President Richard Nixon's high school?

Fullerton High School
Fullerton Union High School
California State University, Fullerton
Los Angeles High School

What was the name of Richard Nixon's wife?

Pat
Nancy
Richard Nixon
Linda

In the Bible, who was doomed to be traduced, double crossed, misunderstood and underappreciated?

David
Job
Noah
The King of the World

What did US President Richard Nixon end in 1972?

A dollar
Gold standard
The gold standard
Abolition of the gold standard

What was the name of the college attended by US President Richard Nixon?

Whittier College
Southern California College
University of Southern California
Southern California Institute of Technology

Who succeeded Richard Nixon as US President in 1976?

Jimmy Carter
George Washington
Bill Clinton
Ronald Reagan

In 1986, former US President Richard Nixon addressed a convention of what profession?

Newspaper reporters
Government officials
Newspaper publishers
Police officers

What type of medicine did former US President Richard Nixon take?

Pain killer
Sleeping pill
Sleeping pill and a placebo
Sleeping pills and alcohol

What holiday was first celebrated on April 22, 1970, under the direction of US President Richard Nixon?

Earth Day
Mother's Day
National Environmental Week
National Park Day

Who was the only US President to resign from office?

Harry S. Truman
Richard Milhous Nixon
John F.Kennedy
George Washington

Who was the first Chinese leader to meet with US President Richard Nixon?

Wang Guozhen
President Jimmy Carter
Mao Zedong
Chen Shuangjie

Who was US Secretary of State during Richard Nixon's presidency?

John F. Kennedy
Ronald Reagan
Robert Gates
Henry Kissinger

What was the medical condition of US President Richard Nixon when he died in 1974?

Heart disease
Heart attack
Phlebitis
He had been ill since then.

"Who wrote ""He Was a Crook"" for Rolling Stone magazine?"

Hunter S. Thompson
John O. Sullivan
John Grisham
Hunter S. Thompson and John Saunders

Who was the Democratic candidate defeated by Richard Nixon in the 1972 US Presidential election?

Ronald Reagan
George Bush
George McGovern
Bill Clinton

What was the result of the 1973 Arab oil embargo on the USA?

The oil market
The US economy
Oil crisis
Oil production

What was the first name of US President Richard Nixon's brother?

Harold
Robert
Richard
Nixon

Which US government agency was created by Richard Nixon in 1973?

Environmental Protection Agency
National Wildlife Federation
United States Environmental Protection Agency
Federal Highway Administration

What country was supported by the US under the Nixon Doctrine?

Israel
Cuba
South Vietnam
South Africa

What was former US President Richard Nixon's profession before he became President of the USA?

Attorney
Police officer
Newspaper editor
Reporter

What was the name of the U.S. foreign aid plan passed by the House of Representatives in 1947?

Marshall Plan
American foreign policy
American Aid to Foreign Nations
The International Monetary Fund

In which book of the Old Testament is the phrase 'They shall beat their swords into plowshares'?

The Book of Job
Isaiah
Deuteronomy
Joshua
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