Deck 13: The Reagan and Bush Years, 1980-1992

Question 1

In which country were 241 US servicemen killed in 1983?

A) Korea
B) China
C) Japan
D) Afghanistan
E) Lebanon

Answer 1

Lebanon

Question 2

Who coined the phrase "Are you better off than you were four years ago?"

A) Billy Graham
B) Jimmy Carter
C) George Bush (Sr.)
D) Pat Buchanan
E) Ronald Reagan

Answer 2

Ronald Reagan

Question 3

What was the name of the Pope who returned home to Poland to support reformists?

A) Alexander
B) John Paul II
C) Peter 23rd
D) Francis 8th
E) Romano 27th

Answer 3

John Paul II

Question 4

What was the nickname for President Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) ?

A) Target USSR
B) 1984
C) Back to the Future
D) Star Wars
E) Impossible Dream

Question 5

Who was President Reagan's Secretary of the Interior?

A) Donald Rumsfeld
B) Peter Havens
C) James Watt
D) James Reagan
E) Al Haig

Question 6

On what island did the US land troops to "free" medical students .

A) Haiti
B) Grenada
C) Cuba
D) Puerto Rico
E) Dominican Republic

Question 7

What was the name of President Reagan's Ambassador to the United Nations?

A) Jeane Kirkpatrick
B) Sandra O'Connor.
C) Mary Witherspoon
D) Phyllis Schlafly
E) Helen Douglas

Question 8

Which of the following people was not a popular televangelist in the 1980's?

A) Edgar Casey
B) Billy Graham
C) Tammy Faye Bakker
D) Pat Robertson
E) Jerry Farwell

Question 9

What was the name of the US Supreme Court case that legalized abortion?

A) Roe v. Wade
B) Ashbrook v. Ohio
C) Brown v. Topeka
D) NY Times v. US
E) Kennedy v. Indiana

Question 10

President Reagan's Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981 reduced the top federal tax rate from ____ to____?

A) 50 30
B) 70 50
C) 40 20
D) 90 30
E) 50 10

Question 11

Which union went on strike early in the Reagan Administration?

A) Teamsters
B) Bus Drivers
C) Air Traffic Controllers
D) Commercial Pilots
E) Truck Drivers

Question 12

Which of the following groups was not a part of the conservative movement of the 1980's?

A) Middle-class voters
B) Disenchanted Democrats
C) Union leaders
D) Intellectuals
E) Fundamentalist Christians

Question 13

What was the name of the communist group in charge of Nicaragua? .

A) Freedom Party
B) Samozas
C) Liberation Army
D) Sandinistas
E) Popular Front

Question 14

Who was the first woman to become a US Supreme Court Justice?

A) Phyllis Schlafley
B) Condolezza Rice
C) Peggy Noonan
D) Sandra Day O'Connor
E) Margaret Thatcher

Question 15

Which financial institutions collapsed due to bad loans in the 1980's?

A) Credit Unions
B) Savings and Loans
C) Wall Street Investment Firms
D) Stock Brokerage Firms
E) Non Profits

Question 16

What is another name for "Reaganomics" that is used by economists?

A) Socialism
B) Keynesian Economics
C) Supply Side Economics
D) Fascism
E) Unbridled Capitalism

Question 17

Which of the following countries did the Soviet Union send troops to in the late 1970's in order to support the communist government but resulted in failure?

A) Iraq
B) Poland
C) Iran
D) Afghanistan
E) North Korea

Question 18

The largest item in the federal budget after national defense became what during Reagan's time in office?

A) Debt interest
B) Food stamps
C) Environment
D) Highways
E) Housing

Question 19

The phrase "win one for the Gipper" referred to a football player from what college?

A) Harvard
B) Notre Dame
C) Southern California
D) Boston College
E) Florida State

Question 20

What year did the Berlin wall fall?

A) 1999
B) 2001
C) 1989
D) 1991
E) 1983

Question 21

Which ethnic group increased the most in numbers dramatically in the 1980's?

A) Hispanic
B) African Americans
C) Asians
D) American Indians
E) Europeans

Question 22

Which of the following positions did President George Bush Sr. hold? .

A) UN Ambassador
B) Congressman
C) Vice President
D) CIA Director
E) All of the above

Question 23

Approximately, how many Americans died from AIDS in the 1980's?.

A) 20,000
B) 2 million
C) 100,000
D) 250,000
E) 500,000

Question 24

What is the name of the South African anti-apartheid leader who won the Nobel peace prize?.

A) Nelson Mandela
B) Victor Soto
C) Ronald Flume
D) Joseph Belay
E) Desmond Tutu

Question 25

What does the word "Apartheid' mean?

A) Concentration
B) Difference
C) Superiority
D) Racism.
E) Separation

Question 26

Who said "A women's place is in the house---the House of Representatives"?

A) Gloria Steiner .
B) Bella Abzug
C) Nancy Reagan
D) Betty Friedan.
E) Nancy Gartner

Question 27

About what percent of black families were headed by women in the 1980's?.

A) Five percent
B) Ten percent
C) Fifteen percent
D) Forty Seven percent
E) Twenty-five percent

Question 28

When did the minimum drinking age in the US become 21 in all 50 states?

A) 1976
B) 1984
C) 1948
D) 2001
E) 1971

Question 29

Which of the following was a founder of Apple Computers?

A) Steve Jobs
B) Michael Karnish
C) Frank Powers
D) Eugene James
E) Paul Lennon