George Herbert Walker Bush III Quiz

Answer: U.S. Senator

Prescott Sheldon Bush served as the U.S. senator from Connecticut from 1952 to 1963.

Answer: Skull & Bones

More a fraternity than a world-wide conspiracy, both Bush and his son George W. were members of Yale's premier secret society, Skull & Bones, as well as the DKE fraternity. All of the other choices are also Yale secret societies.

Answer: False

Bush was on active duty from 1942 to 1945, flying torpedo bombers. In 1944, his plane was shot down over the Pacific by the Japanese, and he was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross.

Answer: U.S. Senate

Bush unsuccessfully ran for senator from Texas in 1964 and 1970. In 1964, he lost to Ralph Yarborough. In 1970, he lost to Lloyd Bentsen, who faced off against Bush again as the Democratic nominee for vice-president in 1988. Bentsen and presidential candidate Michael Dukakis lost the election to Bush.

Answer: U.S. Congressman

Bush served two terms as a congressman from Texas (1967-1971). While he held a variety of appointed offices, including CIA director, he was one of the few presidents never to serve as either a governor or U.S. senator.

Answer: Voodoo economics

Prior to joining Reagan's 1980 ticket as vice-president, Bush was running against Reagan in the 1980 Republican primaries. It was during that campaign that he made this statement, which he later undoubtedly regretted.

Answer: All of these

Bush's four years as president (1989-1993) were full of major foreign events. Along with the fall of the wall (1989), the end of the USSR (1991) and the Gulf War (1991) were the U.S. invasion of Panama and the end of apartheid in South Africa.

Answer: Dan Quayle

Dan Quayle was a conservative U.S. senator from Indiana. During his term, Quayle was one of the most attacked and mocked vice-presidents in recent history. His tendency toward misstatements and the public perception of him as lacking intelligence hurt Bush in his re-election bid in 1992.

Answer: Pat Buchanan

While Bush won the primary, political commentator Pat Buchanan's 37 percent showing surprised pundits and his right wing criticism wounded Bush going into the general election, which he lost to Bill Clinton. David Duke, a Louisiana state legislator and former Ku Klux Klan grand dragon also challenged Bush in the primaries, though not in New Hampshire. Rev. Pat Robertson ran against Bush and other Republicans in the 1988 primaries.

Answer: False

Neil Bush was the director of Silverado Savings and Loan during the S&L scandal of the early 1990s. While he had to pay a fine and civil court settlements and was banned from banking, Neil never went to jail. Bush's son George Walker served as governor of Texas and was elected president of the United States in 2000, and son Jeb served as governor of Florida.