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Test Your Knowledge of the Watergate Scandal

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Barbara Goodman

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Published June 14, 2019

9 Questions

Test Your Knowledge of the Watergate Scandal

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  "question" : "On June 17, 1972, five burglars broke into what office in the Watergate complex in Washington?",
  "answers" : [ {
    "answer" : "The Democratic National Committee (DNC) headquarters",
    "correctAnswer" : true
  }, {
    "answer" : "The Committee to Re-elect the President",
    "correctAnswer" : false
  }, {
    "answer" : "The headquarters of George S. McGovern",
    "correctAnswer" : false
  }, {
    "answer" : "The apartment of Rose Mary Woods",
    "correctAnswer" : false
  } ],
  "multiSelect" : false,
  "explanation" : "They were arrested at 2:30 a.m. in the process of burglarizing and planting surveillance bugs.",
  "hint" : "",
  "hintLink" : "",
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}, {
  "question" : "How did a security guard at the Watergate offices notice the burglary?",
  "answers" : [ {
    "answer" : "He heard the burglars arguing",
    "correctAnswer" : false
  }, {
    "answer" : "He saw them breaking in",
    "correctAnswer" : false
  }, {
    "answer" : "He found doors that had tape on them to keep them unlocked",
    "correctAnswer" : true
  }, {
    "answer" : "He found burglary tools",
    "correctAnswer" : false
  } ],
  "multiSelect" : false,
  "explanation" : "Police found multiple hallway doors had been taped across the locks, and that the DNC office door had been jimmied.",
  "hint" : "",
  "hintLink" : "",
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}, {
  "question" : "What was the name of “Deep Throat,” the famous government source used by Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein?",
  "answers" : [ {
    "answer" : "John Dean",
    "correctAnswer" : false
  }, {
    "answer" : "W. Mark Felt Sr.",
    "correctAnswer" : true
  }, {
    "answer" : "Daniel Ellsberg",
    "correctAnswer" : false
  }, {
    "answer" : "Martha Mitchell",
    "correctAnswer" : false
  } ],
  "multiSelect" : false,
  "explanation" : "Felt was the deputy director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation at the time.",
  "hint" : "",
  "hintLink" : "",
  "questionImgCaption" : "",
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}, {
  "question" : "In which year was the identity of “Deep Throat” revealed?",
  "answers" : [ {
    "answer" : "1973",
    "correctAnswer" : false
  }, {
    "answer" : "2005",
    "correctAnswer" : true
  }, {
    "answer" : "1974",
    "correctAnswer" : false
  }, {
    "answer" : "1999",
    "correctAnswer" : false
  } ],
  "multiSelect" : false,
  "explanation" : "In an article published in Vanity Fair magazine, W. Mark Felt’s family revealed that he had been the source.",
  "hint" : "",
  "hintLink" : "",
  "questionImgCaption" : "",
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}, {
  "question" : "Who said the famous line, “What did the president know and when did he know it?”",
  "answers" : [ {
    "answer" : "Sen. Samuel J. Ervin Jr.",
    "correctAnswer" : false
  }, {
    "answer" : "Sen. Howard Baker Jr.",
    "correctAnswer" : true
  }, {
    "answer" : "Leon Jaworski",
    "correctAnswer" : false
  }, {
    "answer" : "Bob Woodward",
    "correctAnswer" : false
  } ],
  "multiSelect" : false,
  "explanation" : "Baker, of Tennessee, was vice chair of the Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities, commonly known as the Watergate Committee.",
  "hint" : "",
  "hintLink" : "",
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}, {
  "question" : "What was the “Saturday Night Massacre”?",
  "answers" : [ {
    "answer" : "Spiro Agnew’s resignation as vice president ",
    "correctAnswer" : false
  }, {
    "answer" : "John Dean’s testimony to a Senate panel",
    "correctAnswer" : false
  }, {
    "answer" : "The events surrounding President Nixon ordering the firing of Archibald Cox, the Watergate special prosecutor",
    "correctAnswer" : true
  }, {
    "answer" : "The convictions of the Watergate burglars",
    "correctAnswer" : false
  } ],
  "multiSelect" : false,
  "explanation" : "The resignations of Attorney General Elliot L. Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William D. Ruckelshaus came the same day.",
  "hint" : "",
  "hintLink" : "",
  "questionImgCaption" : "",
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}, {
  "question" : "Who disclosed to congressional investigators that there was a recording system in the White House?",
  "answers" : [ {
    "answer" : "John D. Ehrlichman",
    "correctAnswer" : false
  }, {
    "answer" : "H.R. Haldeman",
    "correctAnswer" : false
  }, {
    "answer" : "John Mitchell",
    "correctAnswer" : false
  }, {
    "answer" : "Alexander Butterfield",
    "correctAnswer" : true
  } ],
  "multiSelect" : false,
  "explanation" : "Butterfield, the former presidential appointments secretary, told a congressional panel in July 1973 about the system.",
  "hint" : "",
  "hintLink" : "",
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}, {
  "question" : "On Nov. 17, 1973, investigators reported that a portion of conversation of one tape recorded in the Oval Office had been erased. How long was that gap?",
  "answers" : [ {
    "answer" : "18 minutes",
    "correctAnswer" : true
  }, {
    "answer" : "13 1/2 minutes",
    "correctAnswer" : false
  }, {
    "answer" : "20 minutes",
    "correctAnswer" : false
  }, {
    "answer" : "1 1/2 minutes",
    "correctAnswer" : false
  } ],
  "multiSelect" : false,
  "explanation" : "The gap occurs during a conversation between Nixon and former then-White House Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman, three days after the Watergate break in.",
  "hint" : "",
  "hintLink" : "",
  "questionImgCaption" : "",
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}, {
  "question" : "In which year did President Ford pardon Richard Nixon?",
  "answers" : [ {
    "answer" : "1973",
    "correctAnswer" : false
  }, {
    "answer" : "1974",
    "correctAnswer" : true
  }, {
    "answer" : "1975",
    "correctAnswer" : false
  }, {
    "answer" : "1976",
    "correctAnswer" : false
  } ],
  "multiSelect" : false,
  "explanation" : "In the pardon, Ford said a trial of Nixon “will cause prolonged and divisive debate over the propriety of exposing to further punishment and degradation a man who has already paid the unprecedented penalty of relinquishing the highest elective office of the United States.”",
  "hint" : "",
  "hintLink" : "",
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} ]

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