Impeachment Quiz 1

1. Under the US Constitution, which chamber of Congress has the power to impeach a president?

2. Which chamber then holds the trial, and what majority is needed to convict and remove?

3. Who presides over the Senate trial when a president is impeached?

4. Complete the Constitution's grounds for impeachment: "Treason, Bribery, or other..."

5. How many US presidents have been impeached by the House of Representatives?

6. Who was the first US president to be impeached, in 1868?

7. That president was impeached mainly for breaking which law, by trying to dismiss his Secretary of War, Edwin Stanton?

8. By what margin was that president acquitted in the Senate?

9. Which president resigned in 1974 before the full House could vote on impeachment?

10. Who succeeded him and pardoned him a month later?

11. Bill Clinton was impeached in December 1998 on two charges. What were they?

12. Which president was the first to be impeached twice, in 2019 and 2021?

13. In February 2020, which senator was the only member of the president's own party to vote to convict him on one of the charges?

14. Who was the first person ever impeached by the US House, in 1797?

15. Which Secretary of War was impeached in 1876, after resigning, over a corruption scandal involving trading posts?

16. Most people impeached by the US House have held which kind of job?

17. In Britain, the former Governor-General of India was impeached in 1787. His trial lasted until 1795 and ended in acquittal. Who was he?

18. Which Brazilian president was impeached and removed from office in 2016?

19. Which South Korean president was impeached and then removed from office by the Constitutional Court in 2017?

20. The word "impeach" comes, through French, from a Latin word meaning what?

ANSWERS

1. The House of Representatives

2. The Senate; a two-thirds majority

3. The Chief Justice of the United States

4. "...high Crimes and Misdemeanors"

5. Three (Andrew Johnson, Bill Clinton and Donald Trump)

None was removed from office. Trump was impeached twice.

6. Andrew Johnson

7. The Tenure of Office Act

8. By one vote (35 to 19, one short of the two-thirds needed)

9. Richard Nixon

The House Judiciary Committee had approved three articles of impeachment in July 1974.

10. Gerald Ford

11. Perjury (lying under oath to a grand jury) and obstruction of justice

The charges arose from his testimony about his relationship with Monica Lewinsky. He was acquitted by the Senate in February 1999.

12. Donald Trump

The 2019 articles were abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. The 2021 article was incitement of insurrection. He was acquitted both times, and the second trial took place after he had left office.

13. Mitt Romney

14. William Blount (a US senator from Tennessee)

15. William Belknap

16. Federal judges

17. Warren Hastings

The prosecution was led by Edmund Burke. The last impeachment in Britain was of Henry Dundas, Viscount Melville, in 1806.

18. Dilma Rousseff

19. Park Geun-hye

20. To shackle or entangle (Latin "impedicare", from "pedica", a fetter)

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