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Barack Obama Trivia Questions With Answers
On what date was Barack Obama born?
A: August 4, 1961.
Barack Hussein Obama II is the first African American man
to hold the office of what?
A: President of the United States of America.
Where was Barack Obama born?
A: In Honolulu, Hawaii.
Obama is a graduate of what universities?
A: Columbia University and Harvard Law School.
Before he earned his law degree, what did Barack Obama do?
A: He was a community organizer in Chicago.
After high school, where did Obama move to in
1979 to
attend Occidental College?
A: Los Angeles.
Where was Barack Obama’s mother born?
A: In Wichita, Kansas.
From 1992 to
2004, Barack worked as a civil rights
attorney and taught constitutional law where?
A: At the University of Chicago Law School.
How many terms did Barack represent the 13th District in
the Illinois Senate?
A: He served three terms.
In 2000, what did Obama unsuccessfully run for?
A: The United States House of Representatives.
Barack entered Harvard Law School in the fall of what year?
A: 1988.
What did Barack Obama win in 2009?
A: The Nobel Peace Prize.
Barack Obama was re-elected president in November 2012,
defeating what
Republican nominee?
A: Mitt Romney.
Barack Obama was the first President to have been born in
what state?
A: Hawaii.
Where did Obama travel to in mid-1981?
A: To Indonesia to visit his mother and half-sister Maya.
In February 1981, Obama made his first what?
A: Public speech.
What was Barack Obama’s mother’s name?
A: Stanley Ann Dunham.
Where did Obama's parents meet in 1960?
A: In a Russian class at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.
Where were Barack Obama’s parents married?
A: In Wailuku on Maui.
On what date were Barack Obama’s parents married?
A: On February 2, 1961.
When did Obama's parents divorce?
A: In March 1964.
In what year date did Barack’s father die in an automobile
accident?
A: In 1982 when his son was 21 years old.
Obama returned to Honolulu in 1971 to live with whom?
A: His grandparents, Madelyn and Stanley Dunham.
With the aid of a scholarship what school did Barack
attend?
A: Punahou School, a private college preparatory school.
Barack visited Kenya in 1992 with whom?
A: His fiancée Michelle and his half-sister Auma.
What did Obama’s mother die of?
A: Ovarian cancer and uterine cancer.
What did Obama became chairman of in January
2003?
A: The Illinois Senate's Health and Human Services Committee.
In 1981, where did he transfer to as a junior?
A: Columbia College, Columbia University in
New York City.
At Columbia, what did he major in?
A: Political
science.
Barack graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in what year?
A: 1983.
In 1985, Obama was among the leaders of May Day efforts to
bring attention to the New York City Subway system, and was photographed at the
City College subway station holding what?
A: A sign protesting the system's condition.
What was Obama was hired in Chicago as two years after
graduating?
A: Director of the Developing Communities Project.
Obama worked as a community organizer from June 1985 to
what date?
A: May 1988.
In mid-1988, Obama traveled in Europe for how many weeks?
A: Three weeks.
Obama returned to Kenya in August 2006 for a visit to
where?
A: His father's birthplace, a village near Kisumu in rural western Kenya.
In 1998 Barack was reelected to the Illinois Senate
defeating what Republican?
A: Yesse Yehudah.
What was Obama selected as at the end of his first year at
Harvard?
A: An editor of the Harvard Law Review.
During his summers, what did Barack returned to Chicago
for?
A: He worked as an associate at the law firms of Sidley Austin in
1989 and
Hopkins & Sutter in 1990.
Obama's election as what gained national media attention?
A: First black president of the Harvard Law Review.
What did Barack Obama teach at the University of Chicago
Law School for twelve years?
A: Constitutional law.
Barack joined what law firm, a 13-attorney law firm
specializing in civil rights litigation and neighborhood economic development in
1993?
A: Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland.
From 1994 to 2002, what two boards did Obama serve on?
A: The Woods Fund of Chicago, and the Joyce Foundation.
When was Barack elected to the Illinois Senate?
A: In 1996.
On October 2, 2002, Obama addressed the first high-profile
Chicago what?
A: Anti-Iraq War rally.
In the March 2004 primary election, Obama won in a what?
A: Unexpected landslide.
What did Barack Obama do in July 2004?
A: He delivered the keynote address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention.
In the November 2004 general election, what percentage of
the votes did Obama win?
A: With 70 percent of the vote.
On January 3, 2005, Barack became the only Senate member of
the what?
A: Congressional Black Caucus.
In 2007, Obama sponsored an amendment to the Defense
Authorization Act to do what?
A: Add safeguards for personality-disorder military discharges.
On August 23, who did Barack Obama announce as his
selection for his vice presidential running mate?
A: Delaware Senator Joe Biden.
