• 1. 
    Who is considered the father of the U.S. Constitution?

  • John Quincy Adams
  • Thomas Jefferson
  • James Madison
  • Andrew Jackson
  • 2. 
    Which future U.S. president’s correspondence helped establish the consensus for calling a constitutional convention?

  • Thomas Jefferson
  • James Madison
  • George Washington
  • John Adams
  • 3. 
    Who was Australia’s first prime minister?

  • Arthur Phillip
  • Alfred Deakin
  • Andrew Fisher
  • Edmund Barton
  • 4. 
    The lower house of the Australian Parliament is known as the…

  • Legislative Council
  • House of Representatives
  • Congress
  • House of Lords
  • 5. 
    Australian senators who are responsible for organizing the activities of party members in the House of Representatives and the Senate are known as what?

  • whips
  • private members
  • clerks
  • interns
  • 6. 
    Which of these entertainers also served as a member of the Australian Parliament?

  • Sir Robert Helpmann
  • Peter Garrett
  • Jimi Hendrix
  • Pat Benatar
  • 7. 
    This U.S. president’s Secret Service code name was Searchlight.

  • George W. Bush
  • Donald Trump
  • Jimmy Carter
  • Richard Nixon
  • 8. 
    Which organization was established at the initiative of the victorious Allied Powers at the end of World War I?

  • United Nations
  • League of Nations
  • Potsdam Conference
  • World Trade Organization
  • 9. 
    This U.S. president’s Secret Service code name was Lancer.

  • John F. Kennedy
  • Donald Trump
  • George H.W. Bush
  • Bill Clinton
  • 10. 
    Which U.S. first lady rescued a Gilbert Stuart portrait of George Washington from the White House when British troops occupied and burned Washington, D.C., in August 1814?

  • Dolley Madison
  • Abigail Adams
  • Elizabeth Monroe
  • Martha Washington
  • 11. 
    Which amendment to the U.S. Constitution limits the number of times a person may be elected to the presidency?

  • 16th amendment
  • 22nd amendment
  • 12th amendment
  • 9th amendment
  • 12. 
    Which U.S. political party was on the losing end of the most-lopsided presidential race in U.S. history, in terms of electoral votes?

  • Democratic
  • Free Soil
  • Republican
  • Whig
  • 13. 
    This U.S. president’s Secret Service code name was Renegade.

  • Barack Obama
  • Donald Trump
  • Gerald Ford
  • Ronald Reagan
  • 14. 
    Which organization, established as a military counterweight to the Soviet military presence in eastern Europe during the Cold War, formed a cooperative bond with Russia in 2001 to address arms control and terrorism?

  • Non-Aligned Movement
  • League of Nations
  • NATO
  • United Nations
  • 15. 
    Which of these U.S. political parties was the first to have a woman on the presidential ticket?

  • Republican
  • Democratic
  • 16. 
    Which of these U.S. presidents was not a lawyer by profession?

  • Ronald Reagan
  • Abraham Lincoln
  • Bill Clinton
  • John Adams
  • 17. 
    Which title is given to the head of the executive branch of government in an Australian state?

  • premier
  • governor
  • chief minister
  • mayor
  • 18. 
    No country has both a parliament and a president.

  • true
  • false
  • 19. 
    Which dissident political faction nominated former U.S. president Theodore Roosevelt for the presidency in 1912?

  • American Labor Party
  • Dixiecrats
  • Republican Party
  • Bull Moose Party
  • 20. 
    Which U.S. president’s refusal to support U.S. Supreme Court decisions led to the Trail of Tears?

  • Andrew Jackson
  • Donald Trump
  • Theodore Roosevelt
  • John Quincy Adams
  • 21. 
    Which amendment to the U.S. Constitution gives women the right to vote?

  • 19th amendment
  • 20th amendment
  • 5th amendment
  • 10th amendment
  • 22. 
    Which U.S. president’s acting first lady was his niece?

  • James Buchanan
  • Andrew Jackson
  • Martin Van Buren
  • Calvin Coolidge
  • 23. 
    Who was the first secretary-general of the United Nations?

  • Boutros Boutros-Ghali
  • Trygve Lie
  • Dag Hammarskjöld
  • Kurt Waldheim
  • 24. 
    Which future U.S. president made the “Checkers” speech in 1952?

  • Richard Nixon
  • Adlai Stevenson
  • Dwight D. Einsenhower
  • Gerald Ford
  • 25. 
    Which amendment to the U.S. Constitution prohibits imposing poll taxes?

  • 8th amendment
  • 24th amendment
  • 20th amendment
  • 17th amendment
  • 26. 
    Dictators always abolish legislatures.

  • true
  • false
  • 27. 
    Which U.S. presidential candidate holds the record for the most second-place finishes?   

  • Henry Clay
  • Adlai Stevenson
  • William Jennings Bryan
  • Aaron Burr
  • 28. 
    Which U.S. first lady participated more in political affairs, including weekly business lunches with the president and occasional attendance at cabinet meetings, than her predecessors?

  • Nancy Reagan
  • Michelle Obama
  • Eleanor Roosevelt
  • Rosalynn Carter
  • 29. 
    The United States has the oldest written national constitution in operation.

  • false
  • true
  • 30. 
    The first president to be impeached by the House of Representatives belonged to which of these U.S. political parties?

  • Republican
  • Democratic
  • 31. 
    Which amendment to the U.S. Constitution prohibits cruel and unusual punishment?

  • 16th amendment
  • 10th amendment
  • 1st amendment
  • 8th amendment
  • 32. 
    Which U.S. president issued the Emancipation Proclamation?

  • Abraham Lincoln
  • Andrew Johnson
  • George Washington
  • Ulysses S. Grant
  • 33. 
    In a parliamentary system, the prime minister is the most important political leader.

  • true
  • false
  • 34. 
    Which U.S. president helped found the Democratic Party?

  • James Madison
  • Martin Van Buren
  • John F. Kennedy
  • George Washington
  • 35. 
    Which amendment to the U.S. Constitution gives the right to bear arms?

  • 2nd amendment
  • 5th amendment
  • 1st amendment
  • 12th amendment
  • 36. 
    GOP refers to which of these U.S. political parties?

  • Republican
  • Democratic
  • 37. 
    Which international alliance’s self-defense clause was first invoked in 2001, following terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon?

  • NATO
  • European Union
  • Warsaw Pact
  • SEATO
  • 38. 
    Which military leader was the first to become U.S. president by a direct appeal to the mass of voters?

  • Woodrow Wilson
  • John Quincy Adams
  • George Washington
  • Andrew Jackson
  • 39. 
    Which U.S. first lady is thought to have been responsible for making her husband’s political views notably more conservative?

  • Edith Roosevelt
  • Nancy Reagan
  • Martha Washington
  • Barbara Bush
  • 40. 
    Who was the only U.S. president to serve two discontinuous terms?

  • John Tyler
  • Grover Cleveland
  • Andrew Jackson
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • 41. 
    Which U.S. political party’s logo is a donkey?

  • Democratic
  • Republican
  • 42. 
    Which amendment to the U.S. Constitution grants freedom of religion, speech, and the press?

  • 2nd amendment
  • 1st amendment
  • 5th amendment
  • 10th amendment
  • 43. 
    Most parliaments are bicameral.

  • true
  • false
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