How well do you know Donald Trump? – answers and explanations
Here are the answers to all 25 questions in the How well do you know Donald Trump? quiz, each with a short explanation. From Manhattan real estate to the White House – how well do you know Donald Trump? Haven't played yet? Take the quiz first and compare your score.
Play the quiz · 25 questions1. What was the first name of Donald Trump's father, a New York real estate developer?
Answer: Fred
Donald Trump's father was Fred Trump (Frederick Christ Trump), a real estate developer who built and ran thousands of middle-income apartments in Queens and Brooklyn. Donald joined his father's company, then called Elizabeth Trump & Son, in the early 1970s.
2. The USMCA trade deal signed under Trump replaced which agreement?
Answer: NAFTA
The United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) replaced the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which had been in force since 1994. The USMCA took effect on July 1, 2020.
3. How many times was Trump impeached by the House during his first term?
Answer: Twice
The House impeached Trump twice during his first term: in December 2019 over the Ukraine affair, and in January 2021 for incitement of insurrection after the Capitol attack. The Senate acquitted him both times.
4. What was the name of Trump's Palm Beach estate, raided by the FBI in 2022?
Answer: Mar-a-Lago
Mar-a-Lago is Donald Trump's home in Palm Beach, Florida. FBI agents searched it on August 8, 2022, under a warrant that covered classified documents.
5. Which 1987 book did Trump co-author about his business dealings?
Answer: The Art of the Deal
Trump: The Art of the Deal came out in 1987 and was the first book credited to Trump. Journalist Tony Schwartz, the credited co-author, wrote it as a ghostwriter, and it is part memoir and part business advice.
6. Who did Trump defeat to win the 2016 US presidential election?
Answer: Hillary Clinton
Donald Trump beat Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in the November 2016 presidential election. He won the Electoral College even though Clinton got more votes nationwide.
7. In which US state was Trump shot in the ear at a July 2024 campaign rally?
Answer: Pennsylvania
On July 13, 2024, a gunman shot Donald Trump in the right ear during a campaign rally at the Butler Farm Show in Butler, Pennsylvania. Secret Service agents killed the shooter.
8. Which catchphrase did Trump use to eliminate contestants on The Apprentice?
Answer: You're fired!
Donald Trump eliminated contestants on NBC's The Apprentice with the line "You're fired!" The show debuted in 2004 and made the phrase so famous that Trump still used it years later, including at a news conference as president-elect.
9. How does Donald Trump famously prefer his steak cooked?
Answer: Well-done, with ketchup
Donald Trump is known for ordering his steak well-done and eating it with ketchup. This got wide attention in 2017, when reports said he ate an aged New York strip that way at a dinner in Washington.
10. Trump graduated from which University of Pennsylvania business school?
Answer: Wharton School
Donald Trump earned a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School in 1968. He had moved there after two years at Fordham University.
11. Trump's 2024 New York conviction involved hush money paid to which adult film star?
Answer: Stormy Daniels
In May 2024 a Manhattan jury found Trump guilty on 34 counts of falsifying business records. The records hid his repayment to Michael Cohen for the $130,000 Cohen paid Stormy Daniels before the 2016 election.
12. Donald Trump was born in 1946 in which New York City borough?
Answer: Queens
Donald Trump was born on June 14, 1946, at Jamaica Hospital in Queens, New York City. He grew up in the Jamaica Estates neighborhood, where his father Fred Trump worked as a real estate developer.
13. Which international beauty pageant did Trump own from 1996 to 2015?
Answer: Miss Universe
Trump owned the Miss Universe Organization, which also ran Miss USA and Miss Teen USA, from 1996 to 2015. He sold it to WME/IMG in 2015 after NBC and Univision cut ties with him over his campaign remarks about Mexican immigrants.
14. In 2017, Trump announced the US would withdraw from which climate deal?
Answer: Paris Agreement
On June 1, 2017, Trump announced that the US would withdraw from the 2015 Paris climate agreement. The exit took effect in November 2020, and President Biden rejoined the agreement in 2021.
15. Which nickname did Trump repeatedly use for Hillary Clinton in 2016?
Answer: Crooked Hillary
In the 2016 campaign Trump called Hillary Clinton 'Crooked Hillary' again and again. He gave rivals other nicknames too, such as 'Lyin' Ted' Cruz, 'Little Marco' Rubio and 'Low Energy' Jeb Bush.
16. Trump has repeatedly expressed interest in acquiring Greenland from which country?
Answer: Denmark
Greenland is a self-governing territory within the Kingdom of Denmark. In August 2019, Trump called off a state visit to Denmark after Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen called his idea of buying the island "absurd."
17. What was the name of Trump's 2020 program to speed up COVID-19 vaccine development?
Answer: Operation Warp Speed
Operation Warp Speed was announced on May 15, 2020. It was a federal partnership that sped up COVID-19 vaccine development, and the first US vaccine doses were given on December 14, 2020.
18. What was the first name of Trump's first wife, a Czech-born former model?
Answer: Ivana
Donald Trump's first wife was Ivana Trump, born Ivana Zelníčková in 1949 in Gottwaldov, Czechoslovakia (now Zlín). She married him in 1977, and they had three children: Donald Jr., Ivanka and Eric.
19. Trump, a lifelong non-drinker, is famous for drinking which soft drink?
Answer: Diet Coke
Donald Trump, who avoids alcohol, is a famously heavy Diet Coke drinker. He keeps a red button on the Oval Office's Resolute Desk that he uses to have a Diet Coke brought to him.
20. Melania Trump, Donald Trump's third wife, was born in which country?
Answer: Slovenia
Melania Trump was born Melanija Knavs on April 26, 1970, in Novo Mesto, then part of Yugoslavia and now in Slovenia. She grew up in Sevnica and later studied design in Ljubljana before starting her modeling career.
21. Which Atlantic City casino did Trump open in 1990, calling it a wonder of the world?
Answer: Trump Taj Mahal
Donald Trump opened the Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City on April 2, 1990, and billed it as the "eighth wonder of the world." It cost more than $1 billion and was the city's largest casino, and Michael Jackson appeared at its opening festivities.
22. Which Trump daughter served as a senior White House adviser in his first term?
Answer: Ivanka Trump
Ivanka Trump, Donald Trump's eldest daughter, became an official, unpaid White House employee in March 2017 and served as Senior Advisor to the President during his first term, alongside her husband Jared Kushner.
23. During the 2024 campaign, Trump served fries at a drive-through of which chain?
Answer: McDonald's
On October 20, 2024, Donald Trump worked the fry station and served drive-through customers at a McDonald's in Feasterville-Trevose, Pennsylvania. The stunt took aim at Kamala Harris's claim that she had worked a summer job at McDonald's.
24. Which Fox News morning show is Trump well known for watching and praising?
Answer: Fox & Friends
Donald Trump often watched Fox & Friends and praised it on Twitter, for example in February 2018 when he thanked the Fox News morning program for "exposing the truth" and boasted about its ratings.
25. Which classic Orson Welles film has Trump named as one of his favorite movies?
Answer: Citizen Kane
Donald Trump has called Orson Welles's Citizen Kane his all-time favorite movie, both in 1992 and again on Fox News in 2016. In a 2002 interview with Errol Morris, he said the film shows that wealth can isolate a person.