Wednesday, August 13, 2014

Test your Knowledge of Nixon and Watergate

Four decades after the epic scandal that drove President Richard Nixon from office, how well do you remember the cast of characters, their quirky traits, and foul deeds?  
Fox News chief Washington correspondent James Rosen, author of "The Strong Man: John Mitchell and the Secrets of Watergate," has composed this trivia quiz to test your memory of what you remember firsthand, learned in school -- or were never taught in school.  
Answers appear at bottom. 
I. THE BREAK-IN: 
1. On which floor of the Watergate office building was the suite belonging to the Democratic National Committee (DNC) located? 
a. The first
b. The second
c. The sixth
d. The seventh 
2. What was the name of the former FBI agent stationed across the street, in the Howard Johnson's Motor Lodge, who served as a lookout and wiretap monitor for the listening devices installed in the DNC? 
a. James McCord
b. Alfred C. Baldwin III
c. Donald Segretti
d. Thomas Gregory 
3. Who was the Democratic Party official whose telephone was the only one wiretapped and monitored for the three-week lifespan of the surveillance operation carried out at the DNC? 
a. Chairman Lawrence F. O'Brien
b. Deputy Chairman Stanley Greigg
c. Treasurer Robert Strauss
d. Association of State Party Chairmen Executive Director R. Spencer Oliver, Jr. 
4. Which of the Watergate burglars was still on the payroll of the Central Intelligence Agency at the time of the break-in, reporting to his case officer on the activities of the break-in team? 
a. Eugenio Martinez
b. Frank Sturgis
c. Virgilio Gonzalez
d. Bernard Barker 
5. Name the former FBI agent -- never arrested -- whose mysterious actions in and around the Watergate complex on the night of June 16, 1972, have led researchers to call him "the sixth man" present for the break-in? 
a. E. Howard Hunt
b. James Jesus Angleton
c. Carmine Bellino
d. Lou Russell
The rest of the 15 Question Quiz and Answers can be found HERE.

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