--- title: President Quiz: Do You Know Enough to Run? description: Presidential candidates misspeak all the time, so we made a quiz to test your knowledge against theirs. canonical: https://time.com/4485493/presidential-candidate-gaffes-quiz-aleppo/ author: Daniel White article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-09-09T18:15:22.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T00:30:11.277Z article:section: Politics og:title: Quiz: Do You Know Enough to Run for President? og:description: See if you can answer basic questions that tripped up the candidates og:url: https://time.com/4485493/presidential-candidate-gaffes-quiz-aleppo/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt599a9ae28154e9ff/6988a568cf40a8d9bfc44c07/quiz-donald-trump-hillary-clinton-presidency.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: US-VOTE-DEMOCRATS-CLINTON og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Quiz: Do You Know Enough to Run for President? twitter:description: See if you can answer basic questions that tripped up the candidates twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt599a9ae28154e9ff/6988a568cf40a8d9bfc44c07/quiz-donald-trump-hillary-clinton-presidency.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Quiz: Do You Know Enough to Run for President? by [Daniel White](https://time.com/author/daniel-white/) ## Daniel White Sep 9, 2016 6:15 PM UTC  Presidential Nominees Donald Trump, left, and Hillary Clinton. Presidential Nominees Donald Trump, left, and Hillary Clinton.AP;Getty Images by [Daniel White](https://time.com/author/daniel-white/) ## Daniel White Sep 9, 2016 6:15 PM UTC Everybody makes mistakes, even the people running for president. Most recently, Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson was tripped up by [a question about Syria](http://time.com/4483682/presidential-candidate-gary-johnson-asks-and-what-is-aleppo/) during an appearance on MSNBC’s Morning Joe on Thursday. Presidential contenders are asked questions about a wide range of topics on a daily basis, and they[ sometimes blank](http://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2015/12/17/what-is-nuclear-triad-debate-sot.cnn), making [gaffes](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/12/04/ben-carson-pronounces-hamas-like-hummus/) and [flubs](http://ftw.usatoday.com/2016/04/ted-cruz-basketball-ring-hoosiers-indiana-gop-primary) a common occurrence on the campaign trail. See if you could do better than some of the candidates who ran in this election cycle with the quiz below. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4485493/presidential-candidate-gaffes-quiz-aleppo/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4485493/presidential-candidate-gaffes-quiz-aleppo/"},"headline":"Quiz: Do You Know Enough to Run for President?","datePublished":"2016-09-09T18:15:22.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T00:30:11.277Z","description":"And what is Aleppo?","url":"https://time.com/4485493/presidential-candidate-gaffes-quiz-aleppo/","keywords":["2016 Election","Hillary Clinton","2016 Election topic","Syria","quiz","ted cruz","Donald Trump","Dr. Benjamin S. Carson","Aleppo","Gary Johnson"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt599a9ae28154e9ff/6988a568cf40a8d9bfc44c07/quiz-donald-trump-hillary-clinton-presidency.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Daniel White","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/daniel-white/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt599a9ae28154e9ff/6988a568cf40a8d9bfc44c07/quiz-donald-trump-hillary-clinton-presidency.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"US-VOTE-DEMOCRATS-CLINTON","caption":"Presidential Nominees Donald Trump, left, and Hillary Clinton.","creditText":"AP;Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/2016-election/","name":"2016 Election"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4485493/presidential-candidate-gaffes-quiz-aleppo/","name":"Quiz: Do You Know Enough to Run for President?"}}]}] ```