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Dimple Times Trivia What a Scandal

Dimple Times Trivia What a Scandal

1. The Teapot Dome bribery scandal occurred within the administration of which US President?
a-Warren G. Harding
b-Andrew Johnson
c-Calvin Coolidge
d-Herbert Hoover.

2. Which actress was censured by the U.S. Congress in the 1950s after deserting her Swedish husband and children for film director Roberto Rossellini?
a-Hedy Lamarr
b-Vivien Leigh
c-Ava Gardner
d-Ingrid Bergman

3. Who saved his political career from a scandal with the dramatic “Checkers” speech in 1952?
a-Richard Nixon
b-Harry Truman
c-Joseph McCarthy
d-John Foster Dulles.


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4. During the Black Sox Scandal in the 1919 World Series, Chicago White Sox players conspired with gamblers to intentionally lose against which team?
a-Brooklyn Dodgers
b-Cincinnati Reds
c-Philadelphia Athletics
d-New York Giants.

5. In which scandalous novel is literature professor Humbert Humbert obsessed with pre-teen Dolores Haze?
a-“Catcher in the Rye”
b-“Lolita”
c-“Lady Chatterley’s Lover”
d-“Under the Volcano”

6. Which governor’s bid for the presidency in 2016 is hampered by the George Washington Bridge scandal?
a-Ron DeSantis
b-Chris Christie
c-Tony Evers
d-Ralph S. Northam

7. Which game show emcee returned from exile for his involvement in the “21” scandal to host “The Joker’s Wild”?
a-Bill Cullen
b-Gene Rayburn
c-Jack Barry
d-Wink Martindale

8. Which NBC newsanchor was demoted for claiming he was aboard a military helicopter hit by a missile while covering the Iraq War in 2003?
a-Roger Mudd
b-Frank McGee
c-Brian Williams
d-Bob Woodruff

9. Who resigned as the president of the NAACP chapter in Spokane, Washington after she was exposed as a white woman passing for black?
a-Rachel Dolezal
b-Elizabeth Warren
c-Martina Big
d-Melissa Harris-Perry

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