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American Politics Trivia

Flex your political savvy with questions from Lincoln’s iconic Gettysburg Address to Nixon’s dramatic exit—because American politics is wild, witty, and unapologetic.

EXAMPLE QUESTIONS

In the Preamble of the U.S. Constitution, the framers aimed “to form a more perfect” what?

Union

Appointed in 1789, which Founding Father served as the first Secretary of the Treasury under President George Washington?

Alexander Hamilton

Leaked by Daniel Ellsberg and published by the New York Times in 1971, the Pentagon Papers exposed U.S. government lies about which conflict?

Vietnam War

In 2020, Donald Trump became the first incumbent president since which predecessor to lose a reelection bid?

George H.W. Bush

Which U.S. president survived back-to-back 1975 assassination attempts by women—first in Sacramento, then in San Francisco—just 17 days apart?

Gerald Ford