Quick Quiz: Nouns Score: Change category, Flip order Reset Incorrect! Try again. Noun: richard nixon Your choice? a canon in which the entrances of successive parts were indicated by cryptic symbols and devices (popular in the 15th and 16th centuries) a short whip with a thong at the end and a handle for opening gates   (Noun: riding crop) Vice President under Eisenhower and 37th President of the United States; resigned after the Watergate scandal in 1974 (1913-1994) (astronomy) the angular distance eastward along the celestial equator from the vernal equinox to the intersection of the hour circle that passes through the body; expressed in hours and minutes and second; used with declination to specify positions on the celestial sphere