Watergate Scandal! Trivia Questions Quiz
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- 1.On January 8th, the trials for seven defendants were presided over by which judge?
- A.
Judge Judy
- B.
John Sirica
- C.
Francis Biddle
- 2.On January 11th one of the defendants pleads guilty.
- A.
E. Howard Hunt
- B.
Mames W. McCord Jr.
- C.
Gordon Liddy
- 3.On April 6th, this White House Counsel begins cooperating with the Watergate prosecutors.
- A.
John Mitchell
- B.
H.R.Haldeman
- C.
John Dean
- 4.On May 18th this man was announced to be the Justice Dept. Special Prosecutor for the trials. He is sworn in on May 25th.
- A.
Elliot Richardson
- B.
Archibald Cox
- C.
Alexander Butterfield
- 5.On June 25th this man claimed, before Senate Watergate Committee, that President Nixon was involved in the coverup within days of the inicident in June 1972.
- A.
Chuck Colson
- B.
Gordon Liddy
- C.
John Dean
- 6.This man reveals the presence of a taping system in the White House which President Nixon had used to tape all of his phone calls and conversations in his office.
- A.
John Mitchell
- B.
Egil Krogh
- C.
Alexander P. Butterfield
- 7.On July 25th, President Nixon refused to surrender these to the Watergate Committee
- A.
Classified documents concerning his role in Vietnam
- B.
Documents and tapes from his office
- C.
Memos of meetings with Watergate conspirators
- 8.This high-level government member resigned on October 10th over a different kind of charge.
- A.
John Mitchell
- B.
Spiro T. Agnew
- C.
Hubert Humphrey
- 9.Which one of these men actually carried out the order by President Nixon to fire the Special Prosecutor?
- A.
Elliot Richardson
- B.
William Ruckelshaus
- C.
Robert Bork
- 10.This man was named as the new Special Prosecutor.
- A.
John Stennis
- B.
Leon Jaworski
- C.
Harold Hill
- 11.Erasures found in the tapes were said to be done by "some sinister force." Name the person that made this statement.
- A.
Alexander Haig
- B.
William Ruckelshaus
- C.
Rose Mary Woods
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