On December 19th, 1998, President Bill Clinton was impeached. See how much you know about that and some other impeachments from US history with these trivia questions...

Fill in the Blank: Judge John Pickering Was Convicted for ________ and Unlawful Rulings. The US Senate during the impeachment hearings for Bill Clinton. Impeachments aren't just for presidents. Other officials have been impeached too. The first was Senator William Blount of Tennessee for trying to help the British seize key territories from Spain. But it was Judge John Pickering of New Hampshire who had the honor of being the first official to not only be impeached but then also convicted. He was charged with drunkenness and unlawful rulings. Which is fair, because who wants to have a drunk judge presiding over their trial?

Who is the Only President Other Than Bill Clinton to Be Impeached? If the defendant would please stop making the room spin I could settle this entire case right now. Only two US presidents have been impeached: Clinton and Andrew Johnson. Andrew Johnson was impeached by a Republican congress that most people now agree was acting out of partisan politics to get rid of a president they felt had gone too soft on the south during the reunification process. Side note: impeachment does not mean you are kicked out of office. It means you go on trial before the Senate and it then takes a two-thirds vote to be removed. And Andrew Johnson survived that vote by exactly one senator. Republican Edmund Ross crossed party lines to keep the president in office, a move that earned him a nod in John F. Kennedy's book Profiles in Courage and plenty of praise from people over the years who framed his actions as valiant and selfless.

On What Charges Was Bill Clinton Impeached? We've been using that expression for years and still don't know what it means. Do teeth have skin? Is that a thing? If you think Bill Clinton was impeached for committing acts of infidelity, well that's not quite accurate. The problem was not so much that Clinton had an affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky as that he lied about it afterwards. When he was impeached it was on charges of grand jury perjury and obstruction of justice. Again politicians broke party lines at the risk of keeping a political foe in office. 10 republicans voted against impeachment on the perjury charges (had they all voted in favor of the charges, Clinton would have narrowly dodged the two thirds vote by the skin of his teeth) and five against the obstruction of justice charge.

Why Was Richard Nixon Never Impeached? And we'll finish with the guy who should have been impeached but never was. To be clear, Richard Nixon was going to be impeached. The House Judiciary Committee issued articles of impeachment and charged him with a laundry list of crimes, but he decided to resign before it could happen. From a legal perspective, Nixon was never punished for his crimes as he was granted a full pardon by President Gerald Ford.