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"question" : "On June 17, 1972, five burglars broke into what office in the Watergate complex in Washington?", "answers" : [ { "answer" : "The Democratic National Committee (DNC)

headquarters", "correctAnswer" : true }, { "answer" : "The Committee to Re-elect the President", "correctAnswer" : false }, { "answer" : "The headquarters of George S. McGovern",

"correctAnswer" : false }, { "answer" : "The apartment of Rose Mary Woods", "correctAnswer" : false } ], "multiSelect" : false, "explanation" : "They were arrested at 2:30 a.m. in the

process of burglarizing and planting surveillance bugs.", "hint" : "", "hintLink" : "", "questionImgCaption" : "", "questionImgCredit" : ""}, { "question" : "How did a security guard at the

Watergate offices notice the burglary?", "answers" : [ { "answer" : "He heard the burglars arguing", "correctAnswer" : false }, { "answer" : "He saw them breaking in", "correctAnswer" :

false }, { "answer" : "He found doors that had tape on them to keep them unlocked", "correctAnswer" : true }, { "answer" : "He found burglary tools", "correctAnswer" : false } ],

"multiSelect" : false, "explanation" : "Police found multiple hallway doors had been taped across the locks, and that the DNC office door had been jimmied.", "hint" : "", "hintLink" : "",

"questionImgCaption" : "", "questionImgCredit" : ""}, { "question" : "What was the name of “Deep Throat,” the famous government source used by Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl

Bernstein?", "answers" : [ { "answer" : "John Dean", "correctAnswer" : false }, { "answer" : "W. Mark Felt Sr.", "correctAnswer" : true }, { "answer" : "Daniel Ellsberg", "correctAnswer" :

false }, { "answer" : "Martha Mitchell", "correctAnswer" : false } ], "multiSelect" : false, "explanation" : "Felt was the deputy director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation at the

time.", "hint" : "", "hintLink" : "", "questionImgCaption" : "", "questionImgCredit" : ""}, { "question" : "In which year was the identity of “Deep Throat” revealed?", "answers" : [ {

"answer" : "1973", "correctAnswer" : false }, { "answer" : "2005", "correctAnswer" : true }, { "answer" : "1974", "correctAnswer" : false }, { "answer" : "1999", "correctAnswer" : false } ],

"multiSelect" : false, "explanation" : "In an article published in Vanity Fair magazine, W. Mark Felt’s family revealed that he had been the source.", "hint" : "", "hintLink" : "",

"questionImgCaption" : "", "questionImgCredit" : ""}, { "question" : "Who said the famous line, “What did the president know and when did he know it?”", "answers" : [ { "answer" : "Sen.

Samuel J. Ervin Jr.", "correctAnswer"

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"multiSelect" : false, "explanation" : "Baker, of Tennessee, was vice chair of the Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities, commonly known as the Watergate Committee.",

"hint" : "", "hintLink" : "", "questionImgCaption" : "", "questionImgCredit" : ""}, { "question" : "What was the “Saturday Night Massacre”?", "answers" : [ { "answer" : "Spiro Agnew’s

resignation as vice president ", "correctAnswer" : false }, { "answer" : "John Dean’s testimony to a Senate panel", "correctAnswer" : false }, { "answer" : "The events surrounding President

Nixon ordering the firing of Archibald Cox, the Watergate special prosecutor", "correctAnswer" : true }, { "answer" : "The convictions of the Watergate burglars", "correctAnswer" : false }

], "multiSelect" : false, "explanation" : "The resignations of Attorney General Elliot L. Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William D. Ruckelshaus came the same day.", "hint" : "",

"hintLink" : "", "questionImgCaption" : "", "questionImgCredit" : ""}, { "question" : "Who disclosed to congressional investigators that there was a recording system in the White House?",

"answers" : [ { "answer" : "John D. Ehrlichman", "correctAnswer" : false }, { "answer" : "H.R. Haldeman", "correctAnswer" : false }, { "answer" : "John Mitchell", "correctAnswer" : false },

{ "answer" : "Alexander Butterfield", "correctAnswer" : true } ], "multiSelect" : false, "explanation" : "Butterfield, the former presidential appointments secretary, told a congressional

panel in July 1973 about the system.", "hint" : "", "hintLink" : "", "questionImgCaption" : "", "questionImgCredit" : ""}, { "question" : "On Nov. 17, 1973, investigators reported that a

portion of conversation of one tape recorded in the Oval Office had been erased. How long was that gap?", "answers" : [ { "answer" : "18 minutes", "correctAnswer" : true }, { "answer" : "13

1/2 minutes", "correctAnswer" : false }, { "answer" : "20 minutes", "correctAnswer" : false }, { "answer" : "1 1/2 minutes", "correctAnswer" : false } ], "multiSelect" : false, "explanation"

: "The gap occurs during a conversation between Nixon and former then-White House Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman, three days after the Watergate break in.", "hint" : "", "hintLink" : "",

"questionImgCaption" : "", "questionImgCredit" : ""}, { "question" : "In which year did President Ford pardon Richard Nixon?", "answers" : [ { "answer" : "1973", "correctAnswer" : false }, {

"answer" : "1974", "correctAnswer" : true }, { "answer" : "1975", "correctAnswer" : false }, { "answer" : "1976", "correctAnswer" : false } ], "multiSelect" : false, "explanation" : "In the

pardon, Ford said a trial of Nixon “will cause prolonged and divisive debate over the propriety of exposing to further punishment and degradation a man who has already pa

id the unprecedented penalty of relinquishing the highest elective office of the United States.”", "hint" : "", "hintLink" : "", "questionImgCaption" : "", "questionImgCredit" : ""} ] Quiz

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