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Sunday, July 6, 2008
 
INTERACTIVE QUIZ

Ronald Reagan
Test your knowledge of his life and times

1. Which of the following was not one of Reagan's former professions?
Coast Guard officer
radio sportscaster
spokesperson for General Electric
president of the Screen Actors Guild

2. Reagan's nationally televised speech for whom has been credited with launching his own political career?
Gerald Ford
Bob Dole
Barry Goldwater
Richard Nixon

3. Which film gave Ronald Reagan his longstanding nickname, "The Gipper"?
Kings Row
Knute Rockne–All American
Brother Rat
Bedtime for Bonzo

4. What was the popular slogan from Nancy Reagan's antidrug campaign?
D.A.R.E.
This is your brain on drugs.
You matter.
Just say no.

5. Where did Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev hold their first summit?
Washington, D.C.
Geneva, Switzerland
Reykjavik, Iceland
Oslo, Norway

6. Which statement about Ronald Reagan is false?
He was once an informant for the CIA.
He was the oldest man elected president.
He appointed the first woman to the Supreme Court.
His first wife was actress Jane Wyman.

7. Money diverted during the Iran-Contra scandal was used to assist anticommunist rebels in which country?
Afghanistan
Grenada
Lebanon
Nicaragua

8. Who is the author of Ronald Reagan's controversial biography Dutch?
Edmund Morris
Lou Cannon
Kenneth T. Walsh
William E. Pemberton

9. Which White House press secretary was wounded during a 1981 assassination attempt on Reagan?
Donald Regan
James Brady
George Shultz
Joe Lockhart

10. How many times did Ronald Reagan make the cover of U.S.News & World Report during his political career?
18
23
27
33


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