Monday, August 31, 2009

*****PRESIDENTIAL QUIZ*****

1. Which U.S. president served the longest term in office?

2. How long can a person serve as president of the United States?

3. How can a president serve ten years?

4. If something happens to President Obama, who takes office as president?

5. If something happens to the Vice President, who takes office as president?

6. If something happens to the Speaker of the House, who takes office as president?

7. If something happens to the President Pro Tem of the Senate, who takes office as president?

8. If something happens to the Secretary of State, who takes office as president?

9. If something happens to the Secretary of The Treasury, who takes office as president?

10. Name the succession of the office of president after the Secretary of The Treasury.

ANSWERS * ANSWERS * ANSWERS * ANSWERS * ANSWERS * ANSWERS * ANSWERS * ANSWERS * ANSWERS * ANSWERS * ANSWERS * ANSWERS * ANSWERS * ANSWERS * ANSWERS *

1. Franklin Delano Roosevelt served 12 years from March 1933 to April 1945.
2. The 22nd Amendment limited presidential terms to two, four year terms, totaling eight years.
3. A VP can serve up to two years of a previous president’s term and still be elected president two more times making a total of ten years.
4. Vice President, Joe Biden
5. Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi
6. President Pro Tem of the Senate, Robert C. Byrd (Yeah, the guy born in 1917 who was once a member of the KKK!)
7. Secretary of State, Hillary Rodham Clinton
8. Secretary of the Treasury, Timothy Geithner
9. Secretary of Defense, Attorney General, Secretary of Interior, Secretary of Agriculture, Secretary of Commerce, Secretary of Labor, Secretary of Health & Human Services, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Secretary of Transportation, Secretary of Energy, Secretary of Education, Secretary of Veterans Affairs, Secretary of Homeland Security

If you correctly answered between 1 – 5 questions, CONGRATULATIONS, you are much smarter than me.

If you correctly answered between 6 – 10 questions, you are either a political science major or the Secretary of Homeland Security just waiting for 19 people to keel over so you can have your chance to be the President of The United States!

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