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US Political Scandals Quiz

Name the politicians described in these famous political scandals.
Position = position at the time the scandal was revealed
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Last updated: September 12, 2012
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First submittedSeptember 12, 2012
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Scandal
Position
Politician
Covered up break-in at Watergate Hotel
President
Richard Nixon
Drove car off bridge at Chappaquiddick island. Passenger died
US Senator
Ted Kennedy
Invaded Iraq because of WMD's but none were found
President
George Bush
Screamed wildly at campaign rally in 2004
Presidential Candidate
Howard Dean
Used high-class call girls
NY Governor
Elliot Spitzer
Killed Alexander Hamilton in duel (note: Hamilton fired first)
Former VP
Aaron Burr
Solicited gay sex in airport bathroom
Idaho Senator
Larry Craig
Unfaithful to wife during 1988 primaries
Presidential Candidate
Gary Hart
Took a long road trip with the family dog on roof of car
Presidential Candidate
Mitt Romney
Said "you didn’t build that"
President
Barack Obama
Had an affair with Monica Lewinsky
President
Bill Clinton
Shot a guy in the face while hunting
Vice President
Dick Cheney
Couldn't name a single newspaper she read
Alaska Governor
Sarah Palin
Smoked crack
DC Mayor
Marion Barry
Tried to sell a seat in the US Senate
Illinois Governor
Rod Blagojevich
Called the internet "a series of tubes"
Alaska Senator
Ted Stevens
Said that pregnancy can't result from "legitimate rape"
Missouri Congressman
Todd Akin
Quizmaster
+2
Level ∞
Sep 12, 2012
Updated and expanded!
someone2018
+3
Level 83
Aug 22, 2018
Man, oh man, does this need an update.
mountainsong
+5
Level 34
Sep 30, 2012
How is Obama saying "you didn't build that" a scandal?
ctleng76
+2
Level 63
Oct 2, 2012
It is a scandal if it causes a wild amount of controversy. When you tell millions of Americans who built their businesses with their own money and hard work, that they didn't do it themselves, then you cause a scandal.
Baltimorean
+10
Level 71
Nov 19, 2012
Of course, he didn't actually say that; what he said is that you didn't build the infrastructure on which your business depends. To quote: "Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business -- you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen. The Internet didn’t get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet. The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together. There are some things, just like fighting fires, we don’t do on our own. I mean, imagine if everybody had their own fire service. That would be a hard way to organize fighting fires. So we say to ourselves, ever since the founding of this country, you know what, there are some things we do better together. That’s how we funded the G.I. Bill. That’s how we created the middle class. That’s how we built the Golden Gate Bridge or the Hoover Dam."
BlendedCow
+1
Level 50
Jan 3, 2013
As usual, the line is taken out of context, but is it too much that the President chose more precise language and grammar, after all, he is the leader of the free world. Also, the binder full of women thing. A scandal for sure, but obviously not the actual intent of the comment.
TheWombat
+6
Level 74
May 27, 2015
Nah BC, he's the leader of America. We have our own leader over here...
samiamco
+5
Level 72
Jun 7, 2016
Thank you, Baltimorean, for comprehensively explaining how that was a totally manufactured "scandal". My other favorite was the government department deputy or something who used the word "niggardly" in a speech and everyone had an utter cow. I think he wound up having to resign. My GOD, I can't believe how willfully stupid people are.
td
+3
Level 52
Sep 30, 2012
How is Palin not naming a newspaper she read a scandal or Dean making a strange shout? This is either poorly titled or several "scandals" should be taken out.
buck1017
+4
Level 72
Dec 29, 2013
Dean's strange shout cost him the presidency that year. He was endlessly ridiculed and no longer became a serious option to voters. It was more than a "strange shout." Now...to EDUCATED people, he was just excited...but to people who actually vote, he sounded dumb.
TheQuizzler
+3
Level 62
Mar 19, 2014
Yes, a key part of education is the ability to properly differentiate between one's screaming sounding "dumb" (a charge no one made) and sounding "excited".
joeythelemur
+3
Level 84
Jun 6, 2019
It's a massive overstatement to say that his scream cost him the presidency. He had just finished third in the Iowa Caucus after he had a huge lead just prior to the voting, and the scream came later that night after the results came in. He only won a single primary in his home state of Vermont. He was mostly an outsider in the entire race, regardless of how much press he got.
Miguelon
+2
Level 66
Apr 11, 2020
Palin couldn’t name a single newspaper. When asked which newspapers she read, she said, “All of them.” When asked to give just one example of a newspaper she read, she kept saying, “All of them.” It seemed like she had never heard of any American newspaper. Why couldn’t she just say, “The Wall Street Journal”? That would have made many American conservatives happy. But she apparently didn’t know the name of any newspaper. She also apparently thought Africa was a country and that the Queen is really the ruler of the UK. But she’s about as knowledgeable as the current president, so maybe I’m being too hard on her.
orange
+2
Level 25
Sep 30, 2012
Darn, couldn't spell Blagojevich. Remembered the scandal about Craig but couldn't recall his name... :\
kitshef
+2
Level 76
May 9, 2014
Well, considering I couldn't spell Akin, not spelling blago isn't so bad. I had same problem with Craig - I could remember the Larry, and first letter C, but that was it.
courthousedoc
+5
Level 74
Mar 1, 2014
At least Marion Barry did give us one of the all time great quotes: "The bitch set me up". Comedy gold.
ander217
+4
Level 78
Jan 31, 2015
I missed Marion Barry because I spelled it Berry. I guess I was thinking of Chuck.
caribdevist
+2
Level 64
Feb 2, 2015
Oh that's right, I'd forgotten that about Hart.
tuub
+3
Level 23
Jul 10, 2015
I'm missing the Iran-contra scandal, by far the biggest scandal every in US history.
someone2018
+4
Level 83
Aug 22, 2018
I love how people think things they live through are the most [whatever] in the entire history. It's amazing how Clinton, Bush, Obam and Trump were all, one right after the other, the worst, most duplicitous, treasonous and corrupt by far in American history. That is, according to people who know none.
someone2018
+2
Level 83
Aug 22, 2018
And no, I'm not entirely addressing Iran-Contra, which was a major treasonous, two-faced bit of b.s. just for one's political gain.
Pimbard6
+2
Level 74
Jul 21, 2015
Didn't Hamilton fire his shot straight up into the air? What Burr did next was not unheard of in dueling, but it definitely looks bad 200 years later.
Quizmaster
+3
Level ∞
Jul 21, 2015
Accounts differ, but the correct way to signal non-lethal intention was to fire into the ground. Hamilton didn't, and probably deserved what he got.
panchemist
+2
Level 27
Dec 27, 2015
Another politics quiz right here:

GOP Presidential Candidates 2016

beccimoo
+4
Level 59
Feb 14, 2016
I shudder to think of the number of scandalous, or at least wildly embarrassing, comments we will be able to list from Trump by time November comes around.
Carry
+6
Level 64
Aug 31, 2017
He can have his own quiz.
JWatson24
+2
Level 65
Aug 8, 2020
At this point, he can have his own quiz series
divantilya
+2
Level 37
Apr 26, 2018
The Todd Akin, Ted Stevens and certainly the Howard Dean quotes are not scandals. The Akin and Stevens quotes can be attributed to sheer ignorance, while Dean should not be condemned for shouting into a mike in a crowded, noisy room at the very moment that the crowd finally decided to shut the hell up (as they had been asked to do no less than a half-dozen times).
CurrentFuture
+3
Level 58
Jul 11, 2018
When I saw "Smoked Crack" I immediately entered Rob Ford, but was confused as to why it didn't work... then I remembered it was US only.
Bernard62601
+2
Level 74
Dec 30, 2018
Lol I remember the whole Larry Craig thing. Funny how some of those anti gay crusaders are so into gay sex themselves.
Valenmiceli
+2
Level 66
May 14, 2020
You forgot the Budd Dwyer one

ps: we all saw how it ended

JohnnyYeet
+2
Level 50
Jul 1, 2020
We should give an honorable mention to Dan Quayle for sure :)
Froststar101
+2
Level 67
Aug 4, 2020
"Spitzer" by itself doesn't work, so I thought it was wrong.
Quizmaster
+2
Level ∞
Aug 4, 2020
Fixed. Currently unsure of whether to update this quiz or just delete it. Politics used to be fun, but lately its just depressing.
JohnnyYeet
+2
Level 50
Aug 18, 2020
Didn't Burr kill Hamilton while in office?
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