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The Watergate Scandal centered on what president's administration?
Ronald Reagan
John F. Kennedy
Lyndon B. Johnson
Richard Nixon
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How did the Watergate Scandal get is name?
Watergate was Richard Nixon's aide who was arrested breaking into a place.
Watergate was the name of a location that was broken into.
The Watergate Code was a law used to force Nixon's resignation.
Watergate was the lead prosecutor who proved Nixon's guilt.
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The stage for Watergate was set by the resignation of what Nixon vice president who was discovered to have committed bribery and tax fraud?
Jasper Corbin
Gerald Ford
Spiro Agnew
Jack Dublin
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The Watergate break-in was arranged to spy on what political party's headquarters?
The Republican Party
The Democratic Party
The Green Party
The Tea Party
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What C.I.A. agent and security operative under Nixon orchestrated the Watergate break-in and even led the infiltration teams during both wiretapping missions?
Alexander Perkins
Tommy Curtis
Rich Dublin
James McCord
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Some of the burglars arrested during the Watergate break-in were members of what secretive task force that sought to prevent information leaks from reaching the public?
The White House Plumbers
The White House Black Hawks
The White House Hunters
The House Scoundrels
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Funds discovered on the Watergate burglars connected them to what nonprofit organization that was directly involved with Richard Nixon?
The Committee to Re-Elect the President
The Nixon Homeless Charity
The World Relief Fund
The Presidential Security Fund
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What F.B.I. agent had been hired to aid the Watergate criminals by monitoring the tapped calls and watching out for the police during the break-ins only for him to not alert his fellows of police approaching the Watergate because he was watching television on the job?
Samuel Cochran
Alfred Baldwin
Peter Wylie
Timothy Nesbit
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What is the name of the security guard who ended up foiling the second Watergate break-in because he noticed some of the complex's doors had their latches taped?
Wesley Reinum
Rupert Bayle
Tom Doyle
Frank Wills
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Fill in the blank to complete this culturally significant quote by Richard Nixon during the Watergate Scandal. "People have got to know if their president is a crook. (BLANK)."
Me? A crook? Unlikely.
Well, I think the people are the real crooks.
Crooks hide. Here I am. I'm not hiding.
Well, I'm not a crook.
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Much of the insider news surrounding the Watergate Scandal and the Nixon Administration's involvement in it came from the F.B.I. leaker Mark Felt who was identified by what famous nickname?
Cloak and Dagger
Leaky-Eye Luca
Stool Pigeon
Deep Throat
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Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein were the reporters who published Deep Throat's leaks on the Watergate Scandal. What newspaper did Woodward and Bernstein famously print these secrets in?
The New York Times
The Washington Post
The Boston Globe
The Chicago Tribune
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What was the name of Richard Nixon's Chief of Staff who acted as an in-between man for Nixon and the Watergate criminals?
Rubert Codder
Toby Robey
James Parr
H. R. Haldeman
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As investigators got closer and closer to connecting Nixon to Watergate, he began what infamous night when he fired the heads of the Justice Department for refusing to obstruct justice on his behalf?
The Saturday Night Massacre
Bloody Sunday
Red Friday
The Wednesday Morning Removal
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The Saturday Night Massacre was centered on Nixon's demands that his underlings fire what special prosecutor who was investigating Watergate?
Archibald Cox
Daryl Byrne
Howard Scopes
Johnnie Cochran
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The first person to lose their job in the Saturday Night Massacre was Elliott Richardson. As Head of the Justice Department, he occupied what position in Nixon's cabinet?
Secretary of Homeland Security
Attorney General
Secretary of Defense
Secretary of Law Enforcement
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The next casualty of the Saturday Night Massacre was Elliot Richardson's subordinate William Ruckelshaus who also refused to fire Archibald Cox. What office did Ruckelshaus hold as the Attorney General's second-in-command?
The Deputy Attorney General
The Vice Attorney General
The Attorney Colonel
The American First Justicar
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The Saturday Night Massacre finally ended when Robert Bork agreed to fire Archibald Cox so that Nixon wouldn't fire the entire Justice Department. What post did Bork hold as the next in the chain-of-command of the Justice Department?
Postmaster General
Chief of Federal Police
Chief Warden of Prisons
Solicitor General
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Following the Saturday Night Massacre, what new legal expert would replace Archibald Cox to become the new special prosecutor investigating Nixon's connection to Watergate?
Lowen Faber
Peter Byrch
Leon Jaworski
Michael Rosen
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Which of the following facts is true about the aftermath of the Saturday Night Massacre?
The Saturday Night Massacre caused Nixon's vice president to resign in shame.
The Saturday Night Massacre left the U.S. without an Attorney General for an entire year.
The Saturday Night Massacre resulted in articles of impeachment being drafted against Nixon.
The Saturday Night Massacre temporarily suspended America's membership in N.A.T.O.
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One of the lesser-known but shocking events from the Watergate Scandal was the kidnapping of what woman who was the wife of Richard Nixon's Attorney General in 1972?
Martha Mitchell
Fanny Douglas
Mildred Oscar
Penelope Maddigan
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What crime reporter tracked down and rescued Martha Mitchell from her captivity?
Sally Port
Alexandria Priestly
Jane Nedwork
Marcia Kramer
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Sam Ervin, the Chairman of the Senate Watergate Committee, was appointed because of his previous experience discrediting what politician who pioneered the Red Scare?
Lyndon B. Johnson
Joe McCarthy
Lionel Spock
Richard Barrymore
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A major turncoat in the Watergate investigation was a man named John Dean who flipped on Nixon to get a lesser sentence. What was Dean's position in the Nixon administration until he was fired for betraying his boss?
White House Counsel
White House Press Secretary
Janitor
White House Chief of Staff
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What Supreme Court case ruled that Richard Nixon had to hand over multiple recordings of conversations he had while in the Oval Office?
The United States v. Nixon
The United States v. Kissinger
The United States v. Washington D.C.
The United States v. Mayberry
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What deputy assistant to Richard Nixon cracked the Watergate case open when he revealed that the Oval Office had a taping system to record most conversations that take place within its walls?
Richard Hawke
Alexander Butterfield
Hiram Gurney
Stanley Madarov
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One of the unsolved mysteries of the Watergate investigation is what happened to an 18.5-minute-long gap in Nixon's Oval Office recordings. Only five minutes of that time is accounted for because what secretary accidentally shut off the recorders to answer a phone call?
Wendy Kaelyn Axminster
Abigail Ruth Burns
Lisa Marie Nixon
Rose Mary Woods
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What nickname is commonly applied to the section of Oval Office tapes where Nixon suggested covering up Watergate by claiming it was part of a C.I.A. investigation to keep the F.B.I. from looking into it?
The Smoking Gun
The Black and White
The Closer
The Botch Tape
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In what year did Richard Nixon resign as a result of the Watergate Scandal?
1974
1976
1978
1980
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Who pardoned Richard Nixon after succeeding him to the presidency?
George H. W. Bush
Jimmy Carter
Ronald Reagan
Gerald Ford
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