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Political Quiz

August 12, 1996

eady to test your knowledge of the trivia of presidential (and other) politics? Here's a set of questions culled from the Pop Quiz that's a regular feature of the ``Public Affairs Report'' published by the Institute of Governmental Studies of the University of California (Berkeley). Click on your guess to see if you're as smart as you think you are. - , , or - , , or - , , or - , , or - , , or - , , or - , , or - or - or - or - or - or - or - or , , or , , or

August 23, 1996

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Think You're A Political Know-It-All?

THE PRESIDENT'S MAN

Each of these Members of Congress had a President among his constituents. Name the President.
Hastings KeithKennedy McKinley F.D.R.
Homer ThornberryKennedy Johnson Nixon
Elliot LevitasCarter Ford Reagan
Hamilton FishEisenhower Coolidge F.D.R.
J.J. PickleHoover Johnson Truman
Bill ArcherClinton Reagan Bush
Richard BollingTruman Hoover Eisenhower

SILVER SCREEN

Name the actors who played the following political characters on screen.
The Boss in The Great McGintyAkim Tamiroff Al Pacino
Willie Stark in All the King's MenJason Robards Broderick Crawford
The candidate in The CandidateRobert Redford Richard Gere
Sen. Seabright in Advise and ConsentCharles Laughton Harvey Keitel
The mayor of Boston in The Last HurrahHumphrey Bogart Spencer Tracy
The political boss in Citizen KaneRay Collins Gary Cooper
The President in Dr. StrangelovePeter Sellers Mel Brooks

PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY

Which President was later elected to the Confederate House of Representatives?
Pierce Fillmore Tyler

Name the two Presidents who never voted in a presidential election until they voted for themselves.
Clinton and Bush, Eisenhower and Taylor, or Kennedy and Nixon

Which President appointed Mormon leader Brigham Young as territorial governor of Utah?
Pierce, Fillmore, or Tyler

Name the two Presidents who died in office in a single decade.
McKinley and Taft, Garfield and McKinley, or William Henry Harrison and Taylor

Two Presidents in a row failed to get their party's renomination for a second term. Who were they?
Pierce and Fillmore, T. Roosevelt and Taft, or Coolidge and Hoover

THE VEEPS

Which Vice President had refused to sign the Constitution and gave as one of his reasons his opposition to the creation of the vice presidency?
Elbridge Gerry Thomas Jefferson John Adams

Which Vice President was second in command in a military raid on Washington?
John C. Breckenridge, Thomas A. Hendricks, or William A. Wheeler

Which Vice President posed for Lucky Strike cigarette advertisements while he was in office?
Henry Wilson, Chester Arthur, or Charles Curtis

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