Bold Forbes Trivia Quiz

Answer: Morristown, New Jersey

Steve Forbes was born Malcolm Stevenson Forbes, Junior on July 18, 1947 in Morristown, New Jersey. His parents names were Roberta Remsen and Malcolm Forbes, Senior.

Answer: Princeton University

Steve Forbes earned a bachelor's degree in history in 1970 from Princeton University. Forbes was a member of the Alpha Kappa Psi business fraternity and the Tau Kappa Epsilon social fraternity.

Answer: Business Today

In 1968 at Princeton University, students Steve Forbes, Jonathan Perel and Michael Mims founded a magazine called "Business Today". This magazine is currently the largest college student-run magazine in the world.

Answer: no

The "Forbes" business magazine was founded in 1917 by B.C. Forbes and Walter Drey. B.C. Forbes passed his magazine responsibilities to his sons Bruce Charles Forbes and Malcolm Stevenson Forbes, Senior. Eventually B.C. Forbes' grandson, Steve Forbes, continued working with the family magazine.

Answer: yes

The Project for the New American Century was an organization which researched and advocated for conservative principles in the United States. The organization was founded by William Kristol and Robert Kagan on June 3, 1997 and was dissolved in 2006. The main issue advocated by this group was the United States' involvement in a regime change in Iraq between 1998 and 2002.

Steve Forbes was one of the twenty-five co-signers of the Statement of Principles of Project for the New American Century on June 3, 1997. This statement was a declaration of the organization's beliefs and missions.

Answer: 1996 and 2000

Steve Forbes competed in the Republican primaries for the office of the President of the United States in 1996 and 2000. In the 1996 Republican primary, Steve Forbes carried two states and received 11.4 percent of the votes. In the 2000 Republican primary, Steve Forbes didn't carry any states and received less than one percent of the votes. Forbes did not earn the Republican nomination for the office of the President of the United States in either year.

Answer: A flat income tax for all citizens

When Forbes ran for President of the United States in 1996 and 2000, his major campaign issue was a flat income tax of seventeen percent. Forbes also supported include free trade, health savings accounts, downsizing government agencies, tough crime laws and school vouchers.

Answer: FreedomWorks

FreedomWorks is an American advocacy group which advocates for conservative and libertarian values. FreedomWorks is associated with the Tea Party movement in the United Sates. Issues advocated by FreedomWorks include Federal budget and spending, health care reform and fundamental tax reform.

In December 2006, Steve Forbes joined the board of directors of the FreedomWorks advocacy group.

Answer: 3

Steve Forbes wrote the book "The New Birth of Freedom: Vision for America" in 1999. Steve Forbes wrote the book "Flat Tax Revolution: Using a Postcard to Abolish the IRS" in 2005. Steve Forbes wrote the book "Freedom Manifesto: Why Free Markets Are Moral and Big Government Isn't" in 2012.

Answer: Saturday Night Live

Steve Forbes hosted the April 13, 1996 episode of "Saturday Night Live". Rage Against the Machine was the musical guest of the episode. Rage Against the Machine opposed some of Forbes' political views. To make a statement, the band placed American flags upside-down on their amplifiers for their musical performance.

The show's stagehands pulled the flags off the amplifiers before the musical performance aired on television.