John F. Kennedy was the 35th president of the United States. Who was the 34th president?
Richard Nixon
Harry S. Truman
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Dwight D. Eisenhower
The Cold War was ongoing during JFK's presidency from 1961–1963. Who was the leader of the Soviet Union during that time?
Georgy Malenkov
Leonid Brezhnev
Mikhail Gorbachev
Nikita Khrushchev
During what war was John F. Kennedy awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Medal?
Korean War
Vietnam War
The Great War
World War II
Who was the Republican candidate that John F. Kennedy beat out to win the 1960 presidential election?
Richard Nixon
Thomas E. Dewey
Barry Goldwater
Dwight Eisenhower
John F. Kennedy is considered to be the first _____ US president.
Harvard-educated
Clean shaven
Irish
Catholic
What was the name of JFK's failed 1961 attempt to overthrow the government of Fidel Castro in Cuba?
Operation Freedom
Bay of Pigs Invasion
Cuban Missile Crisis
Operation Eagle Claw
In 1961, the year JFK became president, what major achievement did the Soviet Union become the first in the world to accomplish?
Sent a person to space
Won a gold medal in hockey
Invented the polio vaccine
Landed a rover on the moon
What popular film would win the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1964 months after JFK was assassinated?
Tom Jones
My Fair Lady
Cleopatra
The Sound of Music
How old was Lee Harvey Oswald when he assassinated John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963?
After being convicted of Lee Harvey Oswald's murder, the appellate court granted Jack Ruby a new trial. Why did the second trial never take place?
Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested at the Texas Theater where he was hiding in a movie theater. What movie was playing at the time?
The Birds
War is Hell
From Russia With Love
Cleopatra
John F. Kennedy was the youngest US president to win an election at 43 years of age. Which US president was actually the youngest to hold office at the age of 42?
Franklin Pierce
Grover Cleveland
Theodore Roosevelt
Ulysses S. Grant
The month before his death, JFK signed the "Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty" which banned the testing of all nuclear weapons except if it took place where?
Underwater
Underground
In the desert
In space
JFK was the US president during the Cuban Missile Crisis. How long did this crisis last?
6 days
13 days
27 days
19 days
Who became president of the United States following JFK's assassination in 1963?
Richard Nixon
Lyndon B. Johnson
Jimmy Carter
Gerald Ford
11 Comments
13/15
11/15 I remember quite a bit of this when it was on TV. Everyone was shocked! It took some time for people to except that a president had been shot and killed in the United States. It was hard to believe that someone was crazy enough to do such a thing.
I got 8 out of 15!
You are the JFK Admirer! You didn’t get a perfect score but you did really well. Nice job!
I got 8 out of 15 – 53%
You are the JFK Admirer! You didn’t get a perfect score but you did really well. Nice job!
Not bad for an Aussie.
18 / 6 / 25
I got 5 out of 15!
You are the JFK Trainee! While you didn’t knock this one out of the park, there’s going to be an entirely different set of questions in the next history quiz. Try again then to see if you can beat your score!
to be honest I’m not the smartest in history subject
Dang – only 13/15.
I got 15 out of 15!
You are the JFK Scholar! Your knowledge about history and John F. Kennedy in particular knows no bounds.
I was in Elementary School at the time of his death. Living during that time was basically flooding all news broadcasts so you needed to keep up as this video was replayed numerous times. My folks got the books covering this for us 3 kids. We still have them and I look at them every November 22, and again on his birthday on May 27th. To pay my respect as it were. 🫡. 🇺🇸.
11/15. Thought I would do a little better. I was 13 when he was assassinated. I’m not American but remember some of the events of the time, but it was a long time ago.
10/15 Not bad, to say I didn’t know much, Bit early would have been about 7or so and since then not very interested in American politics only got more interested in ours since becoming older.
5/15 👍🏻
15/15
You are the JFK Scholar! Your knowledge about history and John F. Kennedy in particular knows no bounds.