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Quiz about Fictional American Presidents in the Movies
Quiz about Fictional American Presidents in the Movies

Fictional American Presidents in the Movies Quiz


Look forward to the world of American Presidents, who actually have never been a real American President, except for being one in the movies. I hope you enjoy my quiz of politics and intrigue!

A multiple-choice quiz by BullsGold. Estimated time: 4 mins.
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Author
BullsGold
Time
4 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
423,821
Updated
Aug 26 26
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Very Easy
Avg Score
9 / 10
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51
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Question 1 of 10
1. Jack Niocholson has two small roles in the movie "Mars Attacks!". He plays the American President who quickly gets killed off during a negotiation with the aliens, and as casino developer Art Land. Who does Nicholson play as the president?
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Question 2 of 10
2. President James Marshall is the commander in chief in the box office hit "Air Force One". He single-handedly takes care of all the Kazakh terrorists who hijack the plane. Who plays President Marshall? Hint


Question 3 of 10
3. "Deep Impact" is a 1998 science fiction world destruction film about a rogue comet with the potential of making contact with the Earth. Morgan Freeman plays the American president who works with the team of the Messiah - a spacecraft filled with nuclear warheads. What is this president's name? Hint


Question 4 of 10
4. "Independence Day" movie president Thomas J. Whitmore fought in Operation Desert Storm as an American fighter jet pilot. Who plays President Whitmore in the film? Hint


Question 5 of 10
5. An American president has a major stroke as a result of a precarious situation he has put himself in while having an affair. In comes Dave Kovic who runs a temporary employment agency, who is a look-alike ringer of President Mitchell. What is the name of this movie? Hint


Question 6 of 10
6. Initially, President Janie Orlean (Meryl Streep) hears about a planet killer comet heading toward the Earth but dismisses the notion as rubbish. She changes her mind when front page news comes out about an affair she is having. What movie does this take place in? Hint


Question 7 of 10
7. Leslie Harrison McCloud is the first female American president. She and her husband Thad (Fred MacMurray) and kids move into the White House. The plot has Doris, a former classmate of theirs, who is a successful international businesswoman, trying to lure Thad back to her. Name the movie. Hint


Question 8 of 10
8. Around the year 2505, Dwayne Camacho is the American President. Joe Bauer is named the Secretary of the Interior since doing well on an aptitude test. He has one week to correct issues of dust storms, crops that can't produce, and a stagnant economy. Who plays President Camacho in "Idiocracy"? Hint


Question 9 of 10
9. Gene Hackman plays Alan Richmond, a morally corrupt President of the United States. Richmond has an affair with a billionaire's wife who he gets sexually aggressive with. She defends herself, but the Secret Service come in and shoot her. A cover-up is staged to make it look like a burglary. Name the movie.
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Question 10 of 10
10. This English actor plays three characters in this cold war parody. He plays American President Merkin Muffley, a British RAF exchange office (Lionel Mandrake), and Dr. Strangelove, who, at the end of the movie, walks from his wheelchair. Please name the actor. Hint



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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. Jack Niocholson has two small roles in the movie "Mars Attacks!". He plays the American President who quickly gets killed off during a negotiation with the aliens, and as casino developer Art Land. Who does Nicholson play as the president?

Answer: James Dale

President Dale gets quickly killed off in a bunker after his "negotiation" fails. He is blasted by a mechanical spear-like object through the belly. His famous quote after a third of the government branches has fallen: "I want the people to know that they still have two out of three branches of the government working for them, and that ain't bad."

Nicholson plays another part in the movie, as casino developer Art Land. His wife was Marsha, while his daughter is named Taffy.
2. President James Marshall is the commander in chief in the box office hit "Air Force One". He single-handedly takes care of all the Kazakh terrorists who hijack the plane. Who plays President Marshall?

Answer: Harrison Ford

In the movie he is a recipient of the Medal of Honor. He is on the third year of his first presidential term. In the novel it tells of his political opposition being from the Speaker of the House, who, at the time, is Franklin Danforth. Glenn Close plays vice-president Kathyrn Bennett.

At first co-producer Wolfgang Petersen was denied access to Air Force One. One call from Harrison Ford changed all that.
3. "Deep Impact" is a 1998 science fiction world destruction film about a rogue comet with the potential of making contact with the Earth. Morgan Freeman plays the American president who works with the team of the Messiah - a spacecraft filled with nuclear warheads. What is this president's name?

Answer: Tom Beck

The pop culture entertainment review company Looper had a fan poll about who was the best film president ever and Tom Beck was voted for 37% of the time. The movie got some heat because it had chosen black actor Morgan Freeman for the role. Who wouldn't want Morgan Freeman as the U.S. President? In the movie he decides to freeze the country's wages and prices due to the the hoarding that is going to eventually take place.

At a high school's astronomy club party, student Leo Biederman observes an unidentified object coming towards the earth. He reaches a friend named Marcus Wolf, an astronomer friend to show him his evidence. Wolf is so excited he wrecks his car and dies. Almost a full year later MSNBC reporter Jenny Learner delves into a story concerning U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, Alan Rittenhouse who tells her about 'Ellie'. Learner thinks Ellie is someone Rittenhouse is having an affair with, but instead it is the acronym 'ELE', which stands for Extinction-Level Event.
4. "Independence Day" movie president Thomas J. Whitmore fought in Operation Desert Storm as an American fighter jet pilot. Who plays President Whitmore in the film?

Answer: Bill Pullman

Whitmore served his full two terms from 1992 until 2000. He has one daughter from his wife, Marilyn, named Patricia. Two days before the invasion he is voted one of the sexiest men of the year. He dies 16 years later in Area 51 blowing up himself and an alien queen while they were inside her ship.

Pullman plays former American president Thomas J. Whitmore in "Independence Day: Resurgence". He also appeared in space in the comedy "Space Balls". He was the sixth child in a family of seven children. He taught at Montana State University.
5. An American president has a major stroke as a result of a precarious situation he has put himself in while having an affair. In comes Dave Kovic who runs a temporary employment agency, who is a look-alike ringer of President Mitchell. What is the name of this movie?

Answer: Dave

Randi is the woman President Mitchell has an affair with. Kevin Kline plays dual roles as Dave Kovic and President Mitchell. Secret Service agent Duane Stevenson is the one who pushes Dave for the job of covering up for the president. Kovic's place of employment is at Kovic Temps, an employment agency he owns in Washington D.C.
6. Initially, President Janie Orlean (Meryl Streep) hears about a planet killer comet heading toward the Earth but dismisses the notion as rubbish. She changes her mind when front page news comes out about an affair she is having. What movie does this take place in?

Answer: Don't Look Up

A previously unknown comet is heading toward the Earth. Dr. Randall Mindy is told about this potentially world killer comet coming, tracks it, and learns that it will hit the Earth in six months. The current president doesn't seem too concerned, except when the country needs to see something more important than the affair she is having.

The United States now is working on a mission to destroy the comet, or, at least divert it, but President Orlean gets manipulated again, and decides to kill the mission because it is found that the comet contains trillions of dollars of rare minerals.
7. Leslie Harrison McCloud is the first female American president. She and her husband Thad (Fred MacMurray) and kids move into the White House. The plot has Doris, a former classmate of theirs, who is a successful international businesswoman, trying to lure Thad back to her. Name the movie.

Answer: Kisses For My President

Polly Bergen plays the President. Doris Reid Weaver is a former girlfriend of Thad's and Leslie's classmate at Radcliffe. Doris heads a successful cosmetic company and wants Thad to be its vice-president. Thad comes home with Doris's perfume on him and the President confronts him about it. Nothing comes of it. Thad obviously is totally in love with his president wife.

The President gets pregnant, quits her job and decides to devote herself full time to her family.
8. Around the year 2505, Dwayne Camacho is the American President. Joe Bauer is named the Secretary of the Interior since doing well on an aptitude test. He has one week to correct issues of dust storms, crops that can't produce, and a stagnant economy. Who plays President Camacho in "Idiocracy"?

Answer: Terry Crews

Joe Bauer is U.S. Army librarian. He, along with Rita, a prostitute, are chosen by the government for a suspended animation experiment to find how the most average people in the army act. In a strange fate, the base is closed forever by the government, and Joe and Rita are forgotten. Five hundred years later, an avalanche of mountain trash and waste fall down upon them causing them to wake up. Terry Crews plays American President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho.

According to Crews, Twentieth Century Fox thought that the movie would draw a large cult following eventually, which it did. Crews played the defensive end and linebacker positions in the NFL. For a while he did commercials for Old Spice.
9. Gene Hackman plays Alan Richmond, a morally corrupt President of the United States. Richmond has an affair with a billionaire's wife who he gets sexually aggressive with. She defends herself, but the Secret Service come in and shoot her. A cover-up is staged to make it look like a burglary. Name the movie.

Answer: Absolute Power

"Absolute Power" came out in 1997, and was directed by and starred Clint Eastwood. He plays a master jewel thief (Luther Whitney) who witnesses a murder from behind a one-way mirror in a billionaire's home he was stealing from. Richmond is having an affair with the billionaire's wife. Whitney gets away with millions of dollars in stolen jewelry as well as the letter opener she stabbed the President with that may have blood and finger prints on it.
10. This English actor plays three characters in this cold war parody. He plays American President Merkin Muffley, a British RAF exchange office (Lionel Mandrake), and Dr. Strangelove, who, at the end of the movie, walks from his wheelchair. Please name the actor.

Answer: Peter Sellers

As the movie ends you can hear the song "We'll Meet Again", signifying a likely nuclear war in the future. Muffley parodies Adlai Stevenson II who, at the time, was the United States Ambassador to the United Nations, and nearly an American president in the future. The entire title of the 1964 film is "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb".

Sellers is most known for his film roles playing Chief Inspector Clouseau in "The Pink Panther" series.
Source: Author BullsGold

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