(Basic) Ronald Reagan Quiz

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[Reaganite Republican]

1. When was Ronald Reagan first sworn in as President of USA?
a) 20 January 1981
b) 4 November 1980
c) 20 January 1989
d) 4 March 1981

2. When was Ronald Reagan born?
a) 6 February 1911
b) 3 April 1912
c) 4 July 1916
d) 25 November 1921

3. Where was Ronald Reagan born?
a) Honolulu
b) Los Alamos
c) New Hampshire
d) Tampico

4. Which college did Ronald Reagan attend?
a) Eureka College
b) Bethany College
c) Trinity College
d) Brown College

5. When did Ronald Reagan marry Nancy Davis?
a) 4 March 1952
b) 9 May 1956
c) 6 June 1946
d) 14 December 1948

6. What was Ronald Reagan's preferred nickname until the late 1930s?
a) Ron
b) Wilson
c) Butch
d) Dutch

7. When was Ronald Reagan shot?
a) 30 March 1981
b) 15 June 1980
c) 21 September 1976
d) 28 December 1974

8. How many hours did Ronald Reagan give to air traffic controllers
who went on strike on 3 August 1981 to get back to work?
a) 24
b) 48
c) 72
d) 96

9. When did Ronald Reagan die?
a) 3 January 2000
b) 5 June 2004
c) 14 August 1999
d) 11 October 2001

10. What was the official name for Reagan's $1 trillion
"Star Wars" program?
a) National Missile Defense (NMD)
b) Theater Missile Defense (TMD)
c) Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)
d) Satellite Defense System (SDS)

11. What job did Reagan hold for seven summers
between school terms?
a) Lifeguard
b) Shoe salesman
c) Montgomery Wards clerk
d) Window washer

12. The US Army invaded which country in 1982 to fight
Communist rebels?
a) Lebanon
b) Nicaragua
c) Iran
d) Grenada

13. President Reagan's economic plans for the nation were based on
the supply-side economic theories developed by which economist?
a) John Maynard Keynes
b) Martin Feldstein
c) Arthur Laffer
d) Jeffrey Sachs

14. Reagan became famous in the Midwest while working as a/an...?
a) Television news anchor
b) Chicago Tribune journalist
c) radio announcer
d) photographer

15. What was Reagan's FBI code name during the
'Red Scare' of the 1950s?
a) T-2
b) T-10
c) RR-666
d) F-14

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Answers -here-

[Reaganite Republican]

***ping***

[defconw]

They only one I missed was the last one. I had no idea on that.

[Dr. Sivana]

Okay, I only missed the ATC question (I said 24) and the date of the marriage to Nancy Davis (I said 1956). I admit I got lucky with the educate guess of T-10.

[Reaganite Republican]

OK not bad, next week I will post ‘moderate’ Reagan quiz, a bit more challenging hopefully

[Dr. Sivana]

They only one I missed was the last one. I had no idea on that.

Here's how I guessed right. First, we throw out RR-666, which would be the kind of game a Tom Harkin would play, not a 1950s U.S. agency. Of the three remaining, two of them begin with "T", which could stand for Television. I assumed that lower numbers are more important (e.g. #6 in the Prisoner, and the 007 in James Bond is assumed to be more important than a 0019 would be. Reagan was a presence, but certainly NOT a #2 at the time. Ten sounded about right, so I went with 10.

[Mich Patriot]

In the “Answers” section, question 15 is T-10, but that was choice b, not a.

I got 11 correct and feel okay about that. Some of the questions were pretty tough.

[Reaganite Republican]

Thank you MP, corrected

[Sans-Culotte]

I only got 11. I got all the stuff related to his presidency, but wasn’t up to speed on some of the early years stuff.

[Mich Patriot]

No problem. I liked the quiz, thanks.

[Reaganite Republican]

Very intuitive of you

I just guessed T-2 and was wrong when I first saw it.

This was thrown in so everybody would have to guess at least one...

[defconw]

Good logic. I will admit I got totally lucky on when he married Nancy question. I had to think about how old Michael is to come up with that one.

[Fiji Hill]

I got all except the last one—my guess was T-2.

[huldah1776]

They forgot one:

When did Reagan cover up a disaster like Benghazi?

In 1983 debacle, Reagan escaped the blame game
...

The Reagan administration immediately attempted to deflect blame for the attack with a deluge of false statements and misrepresentations. In a televised speech four days after the bombing, the president insisted the attack was unstoppable, erroneously declaring that the truck crashed through a series of barriers, including a chain-link fence and barbed-wire entanglements, and argued that the U.S. mission was succeeding.

Despite the fact that Reagan had dispatched the Marines into an impossible situation and then had issued orders that led to their inability to defend themselves, he suffered relatively little criticism from the press or partisan opponents, and after months of vigorous campaigning was overwhelmingly re-elected the following year.

...

http://www.phillyburbs.com/entertainment/in-debacle-reagan-escaped-the-blame-game/article_0174fce9-b60c-5b6b-8934-915bd3c2bcf7.html

[Nifster]

You must not have watched his funeral.......

[Nifster]

You are so WRONG... not even comparable situations....

I conclude you are not a Reagan fan....

[Joe Marine 76]

Operation Urgent Fury, the Invasion of Grenada was October 1983, not 1982. I was serving at MCAS Cherry Point, NC at the time. Specifically, it was October 25 - 15 December 1983. Easy to remember because we lost our 241 Servicemen in Beirut on the 23rd of October. If memory serves, we lost 237 US Marines, 4 US Sailors and 2 US Soldiers. I’ll have to check those figures.

[Sans-Culotte]

In 1983 debacle, Reagan escaped the blame game.

I remember when this happened, and Reagan did not escape blame; he certainly didn't escape criticism. The press were all over him for this as they later would be for Iran/Contra. Neither "scandal" really stuck because Reagan was so gosh-darned popular.

[Joe Marine 76]

The correct numbers lost: 220 Marines, 18 Sailors, 3 Soldiers.

[Vendome]

Missed two, guessed the rest...