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Quiz on Barack Obama: Test Your Knowledge

Test your knowledge about Barack Obama with this engaging quiz covering his life, career, and significant events during his presidency.

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1 What order does Robert Gibbs belong to?

2 military to develop plans to withdraw troops from Iraq,[106] and ordered the closing of the ________ "as soon as practicable and no later than" January 2010.

3 What did Barack Obama do for a living?

4 When did Barack Obama's term start?

5 Which is currently the premier party of Barack Obama?

6 Nominee: ________ (campaign, positions) VP Nominee: Wayne Allyn Root

7 What does the following picture show?  Obama playing basketball with U.S. military at Camp Lemonier, Djibouti in 2006[248]   Obama delivers his presidential election victory speech in Chicago's Grant Park.   Obama and U.S. Sen. Richard Lugar (R-IN) visit a Russian mobile launch missile dismantling facility in August 2005.[84]   Senate bill sponsors Tom Coburn (R-OK) and Obama discussing the Coburn–Obama Transparency Act[77]

8 Where was Barack Obama born?

9 What religion does Barack Obama adhere to?

10 Who is Barack Obama's spouse?

💡 Interesting Facts

  • during his days as a community organizer in Chicago, Barack Obama worked as a consultant and trainer for the Gamaliel Foundation.
  • both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama refused to hand out street money, a political tactic common in Philadelphia, during the 2008 Pennsylvania primary.
  • on January 22 Barack Obama issued an executive order requiring interrogations by any U.S. agency to comply with the Army's Human Intelligence Collector Operations field manual.
  • one of the international polls on the 2008 U.S. presidential election found 22 percent of German women would have an affair with Barack Obama.
  • presidential candidate Barack Obama's chief of staff, Pete Rouse, came to be known as "the 101st Senator" due to his savvy on Capitol Hill.
  • before his inauguration, President Barack Obama read The Defining Moment, planning to apply some of Franklin D. Roosevelt's strategies outlined in the book into his own administration.
  • because of his race, U.S. President Barack Obama has been the subject of multiple assassination threats and alleged plots.
  • U.S. president-elect Barack Obama delivered his acceptance speech (pictured) from behind 2 inches (51 mm) of bulletproof glass.
  • a digital time capsule "A Message From Earth" was transmitted to the planet Gliese 581c and included a message by actress Gillian Anderson consisting of images of George W. Bush and Barack Obama.
  • a former brother-in-law to Barack Obama might stand at the next Bracknell parliamentary election in the UK.
  • although U.S. President Barack Obama is Christian, high-ranked al-Qaida member Ayman al-Zawahiri has falsely claimed that Obama secretly "pray[s] the prayers of the Jews".
  • prominent American Jewish leader Alan Solow called President Barack Obama "the first Jewish president".
  • the drama film Obama Anak Menteng, a fictionalized recreation of Barack Obama's boyhood in Indonesia, was originally intended to première during his planned state visit.
  • the grandfather of Barack Obama's new Cabinet Secretary, Chris Lu, was attorney general for the Republic of China.
  • the Citizen's Briefing Book is a compilation work of citizen recommendations to Barack Obama, to be presented to him after his inauguration as President of the United States.
  • the release of Game Change, a book about the 2008 United States presidential election, led Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to apologize over remarks he made about President Barack Obama.
  • the term "Obama Doctrine" was used more than a year before Barack Obama (pictured) became President of the United States.
  • two white supremacists allegedly plotted to assassinate Senator Barack Obama as part of a supposed plan to murder more than 100 African Americans in Tennessee.
  • the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode "Zebras" earned higher ratings than an NBC special about Barack Obama, which aired the same night.
  • the Rod Blagojevich fraud cases (Blagojevich pictured) caused the Illinois General Assembly to consider erasing the Illinois Governor's statutory power to appoint a United States Senate replacement for Barack Obama.
  • the private railroad car Georgia 300 has been used by United States Presidents George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama, as well as presidential candidate John Kerry.
  • the Santa Rosa Island endemic lichen Caloplaca obamae is the first species to be named in honor of United States President Barack Obama.
  • the Barack Obama "HOPE" poster designed by artist Shepard Fairey was based on a photograph from before Obama officially launched his presidential campaign.
  • the Oregon State Beavers men's basketball team (Gill Coliseum pictured) is coached by Craig Robinson, brother-in-law of US President-elect Barack Obama.
  • Rabbi Arnold Jacob Wolf supported Barack Obama's 1996 Illinois Senate bid, telling him "someday you will be Vice President of the United States", to which Obama replied "Why vice president?"
  • American entrepreneur Tom Krieglstein was the first person in line for President-elect Barack Obama's election night rally.
  • Hillary Rodham Clinton (pictured) may be ineligible for appointment as United States Secretary of State by Barack Obama unless a Saxbe fix can be worked out.
  • Harvard lecturer Marshall Ganz is credited with devising the successful grassroots organizing model and training for Barack Obama’s winning 2008 presidential campaign.
  • Oregon judge Marco A. Hernandez has been nominated to serve in the federal courts by both presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama.
  • President Barack Obama called to congratulate baseball pitcher Mark Buehrle after his perfect game.
  • Susan Crawford and Kevin Werbach have been selected by President-elect Barack Obama to lead the review of the Federal Communications Commission.
  • Facebook polls asking whether Barack Obama should be assassinated have been investigated by the government as possible felonious threats against the President of the United States.
  • Barack Obama's most recent State of the Union address was almost scheduled to preempt the broadcast of "LA X", the final season premiere of the television show Lost.
  • "There's No One As Irish As Barack O'Bama" is a folk song first performed in the village where Barack Obama's great-great-great grandfather was born.
  • Barack Obama biographer Christoph von Marschall compares his life story with the American Dream.
  • Barack Obama met his future speechwriter Jon Favreau while rehearsing his keynote address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention.
  • Barack Obama nominated former United Mine Workers official Joe Main to serve as the head of Mine Safety and Health Administration.
  • President Barack Obama has appointed two former Presidents of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to positions in his administration.
  • Ann Nixon Cooper, the subject of Barack Obama's presidential acceptance speech, served for more than fifty years on the board of Gate City Nursery Association.
  • Wilma B. Liebman (pictured), the second woman ever to be Chair of the National Labor Relations Board, was named to the position by President Barack Obama on his first day in office.
  • Zeituni Onyango is the half-aunt of President-elect Barack Obama and a political asylum claimant from Kenya whose case was disclosed in the final days of the 2008 U.S. presidential election.
  • Air and Simple Gifts, performed at the inauguration of Barack Obama on 20 January 2009, was the first classical music quartet ever performed at a United States presidential inauguration.
  • Obama Anak Menteng (Obama, the Menteng Kid), a novel about Barack Obama's childhood in Indonesia, was written in just four days.
  • Terence Tolbert, Nevada state director for Barack Obama's presidential campaign, died of a heart attack at age 44, two days before the 2008 U.S. presidential election.
  • Robert F. Hale was serving as Executive Director of the American Society of Military Comptrollers when President Barack Obama appointed him Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller).
  • Azalea Trail Maids appeared in the inauguration parade of President Barack Obama in full antebellum-era dresses.
  • Jamie M. Morin (pictured) was 34 years old when President Barack Obama appointed him to be Assistant Secretary of the Air Force, responsible for managing the $160 billion U.S. Air Force annual budget.
  • Kesha Rogers, who won the 2010 Democratic primary for Texas's 22nd congressional district, is a follower of the LaRouche movement and has called for the impeachment of President Barack Obama.
  • Million Fax on Washington is a petition to the transition administration of Barack Obama organized by the UFO community to put the extraterrestrial issue on the new U.S. administration's agenda.
  • "Barack the Magic Negro" is a controversial satirical song by Paul Shanklin which refers to Barack Obama as a magical Negro.
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