POP QUIZ (Presidents and television)

On this day in 1968, presidential candidate Richard Nixon appeared on the hit comedy series "Rowan & Martin's Laugh In."  To honor that historic event, we look at other presidential TV "appearances"

1. What Laugh-In catchphrase did Nixon repeat in his cameo appearance?
a) "And that's the truth."
b) "One ringy-dingy......"
c) "Sock it to me."
d) "You bet your sweet bippy."
2. Candidate Bill Clinton played the saxophone on this late-night show.
a) The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
b) The Arsenio Hall Show
c) The Dick Cavett Show
d) Saturday Night Live
3. The shows Freaks and Geeks, The Wonder Years, and Glee are all set in schools named after this president.
a) Millard Fillmore
b) John F. Kennedy
c) Grover Cleveland
d) William McKinley
4. This president is featured in the theme song of All in the Family.
a) Herbert Hoover
b) Franklin Roosevelt
c) Teddy Roosevelt
d) Harry Truman
5. Cory, Shawn, Topanga, and the rest of the Boy Meets World cast went to this secondary school.
a) Thomas Jefferson High
b) John Adams High
c) James Madison High
d) Benjamin Harrison High
6. In The Ordeal of Dr. Mudd, this president was portrayed by Bill Hindman, who later played Coach Goodenough in the Porky's movies.
a) John Quincy Adams
b) Zachary Taylor
c) James Buchanan
d) Andrew Johnson
7. "Nucky" Thompson helps him become president in Boardwalk Empire.
a) Woodrow Wilson
b) Calvin Coolidge
c) Warren Harding
d) William Howard Taft
8. "Wouldn't be prudent" was one of the catchphrases that Saturday Night Live's Dana Carvey put into the mouth of this president.
a) Bill Cliton
b) Jimmy Carter
c) George H.W. Bush
d) Ronald Reagan
9. The Wild, Wild West was about a pair of Secret Service agents working for this president.
a) Rutherford B. Hayes
b) Ulysses S. Grant
c) Chester A. Arthur
d) James Garfield
10. He's known as "history's greatest monster" on The Simpsons.
a) Jimmy Carter
b) Ronald Reagan
c) George W. Bush
d) Richard Nixon



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Answers : 1. c  ; 2. b  ; 3. d   ; 4. a  ; 5. b  ; 6. d  ; 7. c  ; 8. c  ; 9. b  ; 10. a