Portrait of the Kennedy family in their living room, Brookline, Massachusetts, 1930s.

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The Kennedy Family Trivia Quiz

How much do you really know about the Kennedys, our country’s closest thing to royalty?

Carlton L. English

En español

Published March 09, 2018

12 Questions

Decades of historic events surround the Kennedy clan. How much do you know?

The Kennedy Family Trivia Quiz

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 "question" : "In the tradition of past U.S. presidents, John F. Kennedy decided in 1961 to change the name of the presidential yacht to the &quot;Honey Fitz.&quot; For whom or what was the yacht named?\n",
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 "answer" : "John Francis Fitzgerald",
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 "answer" : "JFK’s favorite cocktail",
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 "answer" : "A Harvard Nightclub",
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 "answer" : "The Kennedy family's dog",
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 "explanation" : "&quot;Honey Fitz&quot; was the nickname of John Francis Fitzgerald, the father of JFK's mother, Rose Kennedy, and the grandfather of the president. Fitzgerald was an extremely popular, two-term mayor of Boston and a Democratic U.S. congressman.\n",
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 "question" : "In 1926, Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. purchased the film studio, FBO Pictures Corporation. Ultimately, by the early 1930s, FBO Pictures became which major Hollywood studio?\n",
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 "answer" : "MGM",
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 "answer" : "Warner Bros.",
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 "answer" : "RKO Radio Pictures",
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 "answer" : "20th Century Fox",
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 "answer" : "Universal Pictures",
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 "explanation" : "In 1928, with the advent of talking pictures, Joseph P. Kennedy Sr.'s FBO Pictures merged with the Radio Corporation of America and was later renamed RKO Radio Pictures. By 1948, RKO was owned by millionaire aviator and movie mogul Howard Hughes. In 1958, the studio facility was purchased by Desilu Productions.\n",
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 "question" : "True or false? On Sept. 3, 1939, John F. Kennedy was present in Parliament to hear the British prime minister announce a declaration of war between England and Germany.\n",
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 "answer" : "True",
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 "answer" : "False",
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 "explanation" : "At the outbreak of war, Kennedy’s father, Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. was the U.S. ambassador to the United Kingdom, and young JFK was in London with him.\n",
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 "question" : "&quot;Democracy is finished in England. It may be here [the United States].&quot; Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. made this remark in 1940, shining a light on his defeatist attitude at the start of World War II. Which British prime minister’s appeasement policy did Kennedy support?\n",
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 "answer" : "Stanley Baldwin",
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 "answer" : "Winston Churchill",
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 }, {
 "answer" : "Ramsay MacDonald",
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 }, {
 "answer" : "Neville Chamberlain",
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 "explanation" : "Joseph Kennedy was an ally of Chamberlain, who was replaced by Winston Churchill as prime minister.\n",
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 "question" : "True or false? After a failed surgical lobotomy procedure in 1940, JFK’s younger sister Rosemary would not see a single member of her family for more than 20 years?\n",
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 "answer" : "True",
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 "answer" : "False",
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 "explanation" : "Rose Kennedy visited her daughter Rosemary in 1964 — the first family member to do so — after Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. suffered a crippling stroke.\n",
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}, {
 "question" : "More than 20 actresses have portrayed the eloquent former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis on the big screen and in TV films and miniseries. Which of the following women did not play Jackie?\n",
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 "answer" : "Blair Brown",
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 }, {
 "answer" : "Jodie Foster",
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 }, {
 "answer" : "Jodi Balfour",
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 }, {
 "answer" : "Jacqueline Bisset",
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 }, {
 "answer" : "Natalie Portman",
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 "explanation" : "Blair Brown played Jackie in the 1983 miniseries “Kennedy,” Jodi Balfour played her in the 2017 TV series “The Crown,” Jacqueline Bisset played her in the 2003 TV movie “America’s Prince: The John F. Kennedy Story,” and Natalie Portman played her in the 2016 film “Jackie.”\n",
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}, {
 "question" : "What profession did both John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Bouvier share before getting married?\n",
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 "answer" : "Modeling",
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 }, {
 "answer" : "Diplomat",
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 }, {
 "answer" : "Playwright",
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 }, {
 "answer" : "Reporter",
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 "explanation" : "Both John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Bouvier worked as journalists. Kennedy worked as a special correspondent for Hearst, and Bouvier worked as a photographer and reporter for the Washington Times-Herald.\n",
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}, {
 "question" : "True or false? The Beach Boys song, &quot;The Warmth of the Sun,&quot; was inspired by the death of JFK?\n",
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 "answer" : "True",
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 "answer" : "False",
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 "explanation" : "The Beach Boys were scheduled to perform in California on the same day as the former president’s assassination and had discussed canceling their evening performance. The concert went ahead as scheduled, and around this period, Brian Wilson composed the sublime music for this classic song.\n",
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 "question" : "In 1964, the Canadian government named the peak of the St. Elias Mountains, Mount Kennedy, in honor of the assassinated president. At the time, it was the highest, unclimbed peak in North America. Who was the first person to reach Mount Kennedy's summit in 1965?\n",
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 "answer" : "George Ingle Finch",
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 "answer" : "Robert Kennedy",
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 }, {
 "answer" : "Tom Frost",
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 }, {
 "answer" : "Edmund Hillary",
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 "explanation" : "On Mount Kennedy’s first ascent, Robert Kennedy was part of a team of experienced mountaineers led by Jim Whittaker.\n",
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 "question" : "Which former U.S. senator pulled seriously injured Sen. Edward Kennedy from the wreckage of a plane crash, saving Kennedy’s life in 1964?\n",
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 "answer" : "Edmund Muskie",
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 }, {
 "answer" : "Barry Goldwater",
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 }, {
 "answer" : "Birch Bayh",
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 }, {
 "answer" : "Edward Brooke",
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 "explanation" : "The plane crash occurred after both senators had delayed their flight to Massachusetts in order to vote for the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Also on the doomed flight were the pilot, Edwin Zimny; Kennedy aide Edward Moss; and Bayh’s wife, Marvella. Zimny and Moss were killed in the crash.\n",
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 "question" : "In which city was Sen. Robert F. Kennedy campaigning for president in 1968 when he learned that Martin Luther King Jr. had been assassinated a few hours earlier in Memphis, Tenn.?\n",
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 "answer" : "Boston",
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 }, {
 "answer" : "Newark",
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 }, {
 "answer" : "Chicago",
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 }, {
 "answer" : "Indianapolis",
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 "explanation" : "Later that evening, RFK delivered what was arguably his finest speech, a healing tribute to the slain civil rights leader. Over the following days, riots erupted throughout major U.S. cities, but not in Indianapolis.\n",
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 "question" : "Which supermodel appeared dressed as George Washington on the cover of the first issue of &quot;George&quot;, the monthly political magazine founded by John F. Kennedy, Jr. in 1995?\n",
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 "answer" : "Kate Moss",
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 }, {
 "answer" : "Cindy Crawford",
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 }, {
 "answer" : "Naomi Campbell",
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 }, {
 "answer" : "Claudia Schiffer",
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 "explanation" : "&quot;Not Just Politics as Usual&quot; was the tagline for the short lived political magazine. The memorable image of Cindy Crawford and the subsequent attention it garnered, lived up to the publication’s motto.\n",
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