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The John F. Kennedy Presidency

Can you guess these facts about John F. Kennedy and his presidency?
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First submittedJuly 13, 2013
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His Vice President
Lyndon B. Johnson
1960 election opponent
Richard Nixon
Religious affiliation
Catholic
Ethnicity
Irish-American
Home state
Massachusetts
His middle name
Fitzgerald
Wife's first name
Jacqueline
Father's name
Joseph
Mother's first name
Rose
Attorney general brother
Robert
Congressman brother
Ted
Nuclear standoff
Cuban Missile Crisis
Book for which he won
a Pulitzer
Profiles in Courage
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City where he was assassinated
Dallas
Name of the assassin
Lee Harvey
Oswald
Ill-fated plan to overthrow Castro
Bay of Pigs
Invasion
Government program announced in 1960
Peace Corps
Where he wanted the US to land
before 1970
The Moon
What marks his gravesite
Eternal Flame
Arthurian name for his Presidency
Camelot
Actress who sang "Happy Birthday" to him
Marilyn Monroe
 
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Ask not what your country can do for you
Ich bin ein Berliner
Bob12
+2
Level 37
Sep 27, 2013
got 'em all with 3:40 to spare
gimplord209
+1
Level 48
Nov 24, 2023
yeah
kalbahamut
+4
Level 82
Sep 27, 2013
No Bobby for Robert?
Quizmaster
+5
Level ∞
Sep 27, 2013
That will work now.
NightcapSailing
+5
Level 24
Mar 4, 2014
You should say 'Mother's FIRST name.' I was thinking maiden name.
ander217
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Level 75
Nov 22, 2015
Fitzgerald had already been answered for JFK's middle name.
kitshef
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Level 84
Apr 25, 2014
Can you accept "a cabal of assassins financed through war department block ops slush funds and directed by LBJ working with the Russians" for Oswald?
smartcookie17
+5
Level 45
Jun 25, 2014
Whoa...
pkerr116
+11
Level 73
Sep 7, 2014
what, no mafia tie-in also? lol
caribdevist
+12
Level 62
Feb 2, 2015
Also, lizard people and chemtrails.
LarryLovage
+12
Level 55
Nov 23, 2015
No, Quizmaster isn't going to accept that. Because you spelled "black ops" as "block ops".
Malbaby
+3
Level 71
Nov 24, 2015
Should be the 'Patsy' involved in the assassination.
mikeb
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Level 66
Nov 22, 2018
Illuminati, Mafia, KKK, John Birch Society, Freemasons, and Ted Cruz' father.
martay
+3
Level 70
Nov 22, 2018
You tried that too??
JackintheBox
+4
Level 79
Nov 8, 2019
What about Obama?
driehoek25
+3
Level 66
Dec 16, 2019
The Mossad
McKenzieFam
+1
Level 63
Nov 23, 2023
The triads. The yakuza. Possibly the Belgians.
PsychoGunnar
+4
Level 28
May 7, 2014
Wrote "Cuba" over and over and could not think of adding the last "-n". Feel pretty stupid right now.
Susie222
+3
Level 59
Jul 12, 2015
I almost did not take this because I didn't think I would know many, but I knew them all. Guess I shouldn't judge a quiz by its subject.
ander217
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Level 75
Nov 22, 2015
Easy peasy, 4:01 left. It helped to be alive during his presidency.
jilbert99
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Level 65
Apr 11, 2018
Not necessarily! 4:03 left and I was born 13 years and one day after his death. ;-)
Greenland
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Level 48
Nov 25, 2015
one day I will learn how to spell Massachuesettes
TinklePork
+21
Level 62
Dec 29, 2017
Apparently today is not that day
beccimoo
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Level 56
May 22, 2016
As a Brit (not born til after 1963) I'm pleased I got them all with 2.20 to spare. His death has to be one of the great American tragedies of all time.
TinklePork
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Level 62
Dec 29, 2017
One of the greatest tragedies. It's up there with the discontinuation of Oreo O's cereal in the mid 2000's.
Walacama
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Level 81
Nov 8, 2019
Or the cancellation of the A-Team, which I tragically realized as I went to the appropriate channel at the appropriate time and saw Matlock for the first time. A truly chilling and haunting memory from my childhood.
IsleAuHaulte
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Level 89
Jun 14, 2018
Henry Blake was pretty catastrophic.
divantilya
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Level 37
Dec 11, 2018
^Except that Henry Blake was a fictional character.JFK was real.
divantilya
+2
Level 37
Apr 4, 2017
If the school taught history as they should, then everyone would know about JFK, just as we all know about Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, Napoleon, Louis XVI, Nicholas of Russia, Henry VII, etal
AchillesFirstStand
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Level 78
Nov 22, 2018
IMO he's not really as important as any of the people you listed. Kennedy is a romanticized figure - people act like he was a really big deal, but his presidency was pretty short, and not a lot of major things really happened while he was president.
jmellor13
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Level 67
Nov 22, 2018
If you take the narrow view, then no, he didn't accomplish a lot. But his election was very significant. He was the first president that was any kind of "outsider" because he was Catholic (which was a big deal then -- a lot of people genuinely believed Kennedy would just be a puppet for a papal regime in the US) and he was young. It's no coincidence that he is the youngest president ever elected, and ran on a progressive platform that foreshadowed the uprising of young people in the 60's. He didn't serve long enough to see his signature policies enacted, but the Johnson Administration took up his torch and got them passed, most notably the Civil Rights Act, which was Kennedy's brainchild. Add in all the intrigue surrounding his assassination and the alleged plot, and you'd have to say that the Kennedy presidency is definitely historically noteworthy. But yes, I agree the man himself is romanticized.
divantilya
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Level 37
Dec 11, 2018
His tenure as president was relatively short through no fault of his. It may have been romanticized but continued in effect, under Lyndon Johnson who pushed through most of the items on the Kennedy agenda, as well as some of his own. In my opinion, Johnson was one of the most underrated presidents we have ever had.
NV1
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Level 51
May 17, 2021
His presidency was way more eventful than almost every other one...and considering all of that happened in his short 2 year term you should hopefully realize that you don't know what you're talking about.
Dollyfroggy
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Level 60
Nov 23, 2023
It's pretty clear that JFK is more significant than Henry VII... because divantilya probably meant Henry VIII.
rabble
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Level 66
Nov 23, 2023
Seems like he could be portrayed in a similar way to Trump:

celebrity loved by ignorant masses, in over his head, generational wealth + corrupt/corrupt associates, lack of morals & general decency, made some terrible decisions, egoist.

Seems like the major reason he was "loved" by Americans is because 1) he died. 2) a media campaign. 3) manufactured liberal martyr figurehead. Kind of like George Floyd. Just attribute whatever positive characteristics you'd like, and ignore the rest. Voila, political propaganda for the ignorant masses

DanOfMan
+4
Level 45
Feb 26, 2018
Damn, how did I miss the moon one?
mikeb
+5
Level 66
Nov 22, 2018
Don't feel bad, so did Appolo 13.
FlabberBapper
+3
Level 74
Nov 22, 2018
And the Russians
ander217
+4
Level 75
Nov 25, 2018
For a more difficult Kennedy quiz try mine. https://www.jetpunk.com/user-quizzes/97423/john-f-kennedys-life-his-presidency-and-his-family-difficult
nerdalert
+3
Level 85
Mar 25, 2020
Most overrated president of all-time. He had the charisma of Barack Obama, but none of the decency and convictions. Drugged and raped women, didn't even actually write Profiles in Courage, got us into the Vietnam War. Why Boomers are all so in love with him is beyond me.
JackintheBox
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Level 79
Jul 31, 2020
Really?
kalbahamut
+6
Level 82
Aug 1, 2020
Most overrated? Probably so. But the rest of what you said... have to agree with Jack: really?
Quizmaster
+2
Level ∞
Sep 12, 2023
The Sandy Koufax of U.S. Presidents.
Martinvanburen
+2
Level 54
Sep 9, 2020
you guys should watch chappaquiddick, it is a very interesting film
Martinvanburen
+2
Level 54
Sep 9, 2020
how is Irish American an ethnicity, he's white
Quizmaster
+5
Level ∞
Sep 12, 2023
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnicity

"An ethnicity or ethnic group is a grouping of people who identify with each other on the basis of perceived shared attributes that distinguish them from other groups."

A person can have more than one ethnicity.

Jacktheguy
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Level 89
Nov 22, 2023
Irish-American is a more accurate term for ethnicity than “white.”
Andrew169
+1
Level 73
Jan 11, 2023
Wow. 100% in 1:27. I was born in '63.
dunkinggandalf2
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Level 68
Nov 23, 2023
Can someone explain the Camelot thing?
dunkinggandalf2
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Level 68
Nov 23, 2023
Nevermind, I looked it up myself:

"The term "Camelot" is often used to describe his presidency, reflecting both the mythic grandeur accorded Kennedy in death, and the powerful nostalgia that millions feel for that era of American history. According to Richard Dean Burns and Joseph M. Siracusa, the most popular theme surrounding Kennedy's legacy is its replay of the legend of King Arthur and Camelot from medieval England. In the days after JFK's death, his widow Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, who herself would play a central role in the myth, approached journalist Theodore H. White. Mrs. Kennedy emphasized an image that would shape the adoring memory of JFK and his administration."

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