Barack Obama Trivia

1. During a press conference in Hawaii on November 16, 2011, which continent did President Obama mistakenly state he was on?

From Quiz I Meant To Do That!

Answer: Asia

This is an -ism since it is both a US state and the state that he was born and raised. One would hope he would remember where he was raised. "When I meet with world leaders, what's striking -- whether it's in Europe or here in Asia -- the kinds of fundamental reforms and changes, both on the revenue side and the public pension side, that other countries are having to make are so much more significant than what we need to do in order to get our books in order."

From Quiz Barack Hussein Obama - The Czars

Answer: Jeffrey Crowley & Grant Colfax

Crowley and Colfax were Obama appointees. Gebbie and Fleming belong to Clinton, while O'Neill and Evertz are appointees of George W. Bush. Thompson belongs to Bush and Thurman to Clinton. Czars are political appointees made by the President to oversee some particular aspect of American society such as mine safety, agriculture subsidies, food additives and (as above) AIDS.

From Quiz Barack to the Future

Answer: The Democratic Party

Barack Obama represents the Democratic Party, which he won the right to stand for President for his party after beating Hillary Clinton in the Democratic Presidential Primary.

From Quiz Obama - The 44th American President

Answer: He was the first president born outside the continental United States

Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, on August 4, 1961. His father was Barack Hussein Obama Sr., born in Kenya, and his mother was Stanley Anne Dunham. Obama was also the first president to have racially- mixed parents.

From Quiz Barack Obama

Answer: Honolulu, Hawaii

Barack Hussein Obama II was born on August 4, 1961. His parents, Barack Obama, Sr. and Ann Dunham, were married on February 2, 1961. Ann and Barack Obama, Sr. wouldn't stay together long, they would divorce in 1964. His father moved back to Kenya, where he would die in a car crash in 1982; he was only 46. Ann would then marry Lolo Soetoro in 1967, only to divorce thirteen years later. Ann would later be diagnosed with ovarian and uterine cancer; she died in 1995, due to those cancers.

From Quiz Obama - The Inauguration

Answer: 20th January 2009

He was sworn in at 12:05pm (EST) on 20th January 2009, but the oath was repeated privately on 21st January 2009 due to a glitch in the wording on the 20th.

From Quiz Barack Obama: His Life and Rise in Politics

Answer: Hawaii

Obama was born in Honolulu to Barack Obama, Sr. and Ann Dunham of Wichita, Kansas, who met while both were students at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Obama, Sr. and Dunham would separate when the young Barack was two and finally divorce when he was four. The future president would remain with his mother.

From Quiz I Meant To Do That!

Answer: 57 states

There have been 50 states in the USA since President Obama's home state of Hawaii joined the union on August 21, 1959. It would have been amusing to know what other places he visited that he thought were a part of the United States. "I've now been in 57 states -- I think one left to go."

From Quiz Barack Hussein Obama - The Czars

Answer: Asian Carp Czar

He is the Asian Carp Czar. At a salary of $172,000, he is charged with fighting the invasion of this non-native species which consumes 40% of its body weight per day, and is threatening many US native species in areas such as the Great Lakes.

From Quiz Obama - The 44th American President

Answer: Indonesia

Obama's parents divorced when he was three years old. His mother married Lolo Soetoro and they moved to his native Indonesia when Obama was six. He moved back to Hawaii when he was 10 and lived with his maternal grandparents.

From Quiz Barack Obama

Answer: Two years

Obama moved to Los Angeles, following his completion of high school. He went to Occidental College while in Los Angeles. After he went there for two years he transferred to Columbia University, an Ivy League school in NY city. Obama majored in political science and specialized in international relations. He graduated in 1983 with a Bachelor of Arts degree.

From Quiz Obama - The Inauguration

Answer: Chief Justice John G. Roberts

Chief Justice John G. Roberts is the 17th Chief Justice of the USA. He assumed office on 29th September 2005.

From Quiz Barack Obama: His Life and Rise in Politics

Answer: Kenya

Barack Obama, Sr. returned to Kenya after his divorce from Dunham and went on to receive a graduate degree in economics from Harvard. At the age of 46, Obama, Sr. was killed in an automobile accident, having lost both of his legs in a previous crash. Although the president's father was raised as a Muslim, he identified as an atheist after moving to the United States.

From Quiz I Meant To Do That!

Answer: Come on! I just answered, like, eight questions

After giving a speech in Ohio where he criticized NAFTA for job losses, a memo was released by Canadian authorities, outlining a conversation that one of Obama's financial advisers, Austin D Goolsbee, had with a Canadian official affirming that his speech on the campaign trail "should be viewed as more about political positioning than a clear articulation of policy plans." The press corp used this press conference to try to extract information about that memo, to which Obama walked away from the podium and responded with, "Come on! I just answered, like, eight questions." Before this point in the campaign, Hillary Clinton's camp was accusing the press corps of being soft on Obama and failing to ask tough questions.

From Quiz Obama - The 44th American President

Answer: Harvard

Obama attended Occidental College in Los Angeles in 1979. He transferred to Columbia University in 1981 and graduated with a bachelor degree in political science. He then moved to Chicago and got a job as a community organizer. He enrolled at Harvard Law school in 1988 and graduated magna cum laude in 1991. Obama soon became a prominent civil rights attorney and also taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago.

From Quiz Barack Obama

Answer: Editor

Obama went back to college in 1988. He then began to work for the Harvard Law Review. He was then selected as editor at the end of his first year. At the end of his second year attending Harvard, Barack Obama reached president of the journal. He soon became the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review.

From Quiz Obama - The Inauguration

Answer: Jason Wu

Jason Wu described Mrs Obama as "the ultimate person to dress... There's no muss, no fuss".

From Quiz Barack Obama: His Life and Rise in Politics

Answer: Indonesia

From the ages of 6-10, Obama attended various schools within Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia. Throughout this period, Barack received education in the Christian faith, although he was formally enrolled as a Muslim (the faith of his stepfather). Obama's third grade teacher recalls how the future senator wrote an essay describing his desire to one day be president (of which country, she wasn't sure)! Barack would eventually return to the United States, living with his maternal grandparents in Honolulu.

From Quiz I Meant To Do That!

Answer: The Middle East

January 28, 2010 -- "The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries". What he meant to say is anybody's guess.

From Quiz Barack Hussein Obama - The Czars

Answer: Communist

As of August 1992, Van Jones has stated that he is an avowed communist. His involvement with STORM (Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement), his comments about race, and his support of Mumia Abu-Jamal (who was sentenced to death for murdering a police officer) all contributed to his dismissal from his post as Czar.

From Quiz Barack to the Future

Answer: Michelle & Michelle Obama

Michelle Obama married Barack in 1992. She was born Michelle Robinson. After becoming the First Lady, she was on the cover of "Vogue", becoming the second First Lady to appear on the cover.

From Quiz Obama - The 44th American President

Answer: Illinois state senate

Obama was elected to the Illinois state senate in 1996. During this time, he made great success in ethics reform and criminal justice issues. His greatest accomplishments came in 1998 when his legislation banned gift giving from lobbyists and then in 2003 when he persuaded police to videotape interrogations of prisoners on death row. This proved that many death row prisoners were innocent of crimes they were convicted of. Obama ran for the U.S. House of Representatives in 2000 but was defeated.

From Quiz Barack Obama

Answer: Magna cum laude

Obama graduated in 1991 from Harvard. He graduated with a Juris Doctor, a degree. Magna cum laude is Latin for "with great praise." Summa cum laude translates to "with highest praise." Cum laude is Latin for "with praise." After graduating Barack returned to Chicago.

From Quiz Obama - The Inauguration

Answer: Ten

At one ball, in the chaos one woman near the front fell off her heels and briefly passed out before being caught by her partner.

From Quiz Barack Obama: His Life and Rise in Politics

Answer: Columbia

Barack graduated from Columbia in 1983 with a BA in political science; it would be another five years until he returned to academia (in this case, Harvard Law School). He remained in New York City for two years, working at both Business International Corporation, an American advisory firm offering its services to American businesses operating abroad, and the New York Public Interest Research Group, a non-profit, student-run "consumer, environmental and government reform" agency.

From Quiz I Meant To Do That!

Answer: Federal Express and UPS

August 11, 2009 -- "UPS and Federal Express are doing fine, right? It's the Post Office that's always having problems." Federal Express and UPS are privately run organizations - private industry providing a service and doing it well. The Post Office is regulated by the government - government regulated industry that is going bankrupt and has high customer dissatisfaction.

From Quiz Barack Hussein Obama - The Czars

Answer: Copyright Czar

Victoria Espinel was appointed to the position of Copyright Czar in 2009. The ex-consumer czar, Elizabeth Warren, is a Senator from Massachusetts winning the election in 2012.

From Quiz Obama - The 44th American President

Answer: they worked together at a law firm

Obama met Michelle Robinson in 1989 while working as a summer associate at the Sidley Austin law firm in Chicago. She was a lawyer and later became a hospital executive. They married in October 1992. The Obamas have two daughters, Malia and Natasha (Sasha).

From Quiz Barack Obama

Answer: The 13th district

In 1996 Barack Obama was elected to the Illinois Senate. He succeeded Alice Palmer as Member of the Illinois Senate from the 13th district. Once, elected he sponsored a law that increased tax credits for low-income families. Barack Obama was reelected in 1998. Obama would maintain that position until November 4, 2004.

From Quiz Obama - The Inauguration

Answer: Hawaii

He was born on the 4th August 1961 in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.

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