• 1. 
    Which lawyer and presidential adviser in 1969 became the only Supreme Court justice to resign under threat of impeachment?

  • William Brennan
  • Abe Fortas
  • Arthur Goldberg
  • William O. Douglas
  • 2. 
    Which U.S. senator in 1969 drove his car off a bridge in Martha's Vineyard and fled the scene of the accident, which resulted in the drowning death of Mary Jo Kopechne, his 28-year-old companion?

  • Ted Kennedy
  • Robert Byrd
  • George McGovern
  • Frank Church
  • 3. 
    Which long-serving Democratic politician resigned his chairmanship of the House Ways and Means Committee in 1975 after admitting to an extramarital affair with an exotic dancer known as Fanne Foxe, the Argentine Firecracker?

  • Newt Gingrich
  • Wilbur Mills
  • Tip O’Neill
  • Jim Wright
  • 4. 
    What was the code name of the late 1970s undercover criminal investigation of several U.S. elected officials that involved FBI agents posing as an Arab sheikh and his retinue?

  • Desert Glow
  • Abscam
  • Sheikhstorm
  • Sandstorm
  • 5. 
    What was the name of the team of White House staff members that President Richard Nixon assembled in 1971 to collect damaging information on Daniel Ellsberg, the military analyst who leaked the Pentagon Papers?

  • The bagmen
  • The headhunters
  • The assassins
  • The plumbers
  • 6. 
    Which governor and former crusading state attorney general was forced to resign in 2008 after federal investigators discovered that he had been a frequent customer of a high-priced prostitution ring known as the Emperors Club VIP?

  • Rod Blagojevich
  • Arnold Schwarzenegger
  • Bobby Jindal
  • Eliot Spitzer
  • 7. 
    Which White House secretary in 1987 testified to Congress about helping her boss, Oliver North, destroy incriminating documents related to the illegal transfer of U.S. funds to the Nicaraguan contras in the Iran-Contra Affair?

  • Fawn Hall
  • Betty Curry
  • Jane Hathaway
  • Rose Mary Woods
  • 8. 
    Which high official of the George W. Bush administration was convicted in 2007 of lying to a grand jury and to agents of the FBI in connection with the Valerie Plame affair?

  • John Yoo
  • Alberto Gonzales
  • Scooter Libby
  • Dick Cheney
  • 9. 
    Which governor was sentenced to 14 years in federal prison in 2011 for attempting to sell an appointment to a recently vacated U.S. Senate seat?

  • Rod Blagojevich
  • Bobby Jindal
  • Eliot Spitzer
  • Arnold Schwarzenegger
  • 10. 
    Which U.S. politician fatefully (and falsely) declared at a press conference in 1998: "I want you to listen to me.…I did not have sexual relations with that woman."

  • Barbara Boxer
  • John McCain
  • Mitch McConnell
  • Bill Clinton
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