Jester Politics Americana Quiz Week 35

Name this President:

I’m a Democrat from Massachusetts who served as President from 1961 to 1963 and was the first Roman Catholic to be elected President.

As a senator I refused to condemn Senator Joseph McCarthy, who was a friend of my family.  The Senate voted to censure McCarthy in 1954 for his relentless pursuit of suspected communists.

I was the commander of PT-109 in the Pacific during WW II when it was sunk in a collision with a Japanese destroyer.

I approved a CIA plan to overthrow Fidel Castro by using 1,400 CIA- trained Cuban exiles to invade Cuba at the Bay of Pics.  The plan ended in complete failure with the exiles being killed or captured.

I faced off with Khrushchev in the Cuban Missile Crisis (16 October - 20 November 1962).  The crisis ended when Khrushchev agreed to remove Soviet missiles from Cuba.

On November 22, 1963, I was assassinated in Dallas, Texas by Lee Harvey Oswald, who was known to have Communist sympathies. Two days later Oswald was shot and killed by Jack Ruby.

Which is the only federal office that a person must be a natural born U.S. citizen to hold?

To serve as a U.S. federal judge a person must have a law degree (Juris Doctor).

The Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor at 8:00 a.m. on:

Which is a right protected by the 1st Amendment?

Double jeopardy prevents a person from being tried in both federal and state court for the same crime.

Everyone knows the word “woman” is not in the Constitution, but how many times does the word “man” appear in the Constitution?

Which state was the only state that did not send delegates to the Constitutional Convention of 1787?

Everyone knows the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the U.S. resulted in almost 3,000 people killed.  What year did those attacks occur in?

How many voting members are there in the House of Representatives?