Sunday, September 2, 2012

POP QUIZ (Getting on the GOP ballot)

On the eve of the Republican National Convention, see if you can match previous GOP candidates with the year each first became his party's nominee for president.

1. James G. Blaine                                          a) 1856
2. George H.W. Bush                                       b) 1860
3. George W. Bush                                          c) 1868
4. Calvin Coolidge                                           d) 1876
5. Thomas E. Dewey                                       e) 1880
6. Bob Dole                                                    f) 1884
7. Dwight D. Eisenhower                                  g) 1888
8. Gerald R. Ford                                            h) 1896
9. John C. Fremont                                          i)  1904
10. James A. Gerfield                                       j)  1908
11. Barry Goldwater                                        k) 1916
12. Ulysses S. Grant                                        l)  1920
13. Warren G. Harding                                    m) 1924
14. Benjamin Harrison                                     n) 1928
15. Rutherford B. Hayes                                  o) 1936
16. Herbert Hoover                                         p) 1940
17. Charles Evans Hughes                                q) 1944
18. Alf Landon                                                r) 1952
19. Abraham Lincoln                                        s) 1960
20. John McCain                                              t) 1964
21. William McKinley                                         u) 1976
22. Richard M. Nixon                                        v) 1980
23. Ronald Reagan                                           w) 1988
24. Theodore Roosevelt                                    x) 1996
25. William Howard Taft                                    y) 2000
26. Wendell Willkie                                           z) 2008



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Answers : 1. f  ;  2. w  ;  3. y  ; 4. m   ; 5. q   ; 6. x  ; 7. r   ; 8. u  ; 9. a  ; 10. e  ; 11. t  ; 12. c  ; 13. l  ; 14. g  ; 15. d  ; 16. n  ; 17. k  ; 18. o  ; 19. b  ; 20. z  ; 21. h  ; 22. s  ; 23. v  ; 24. i  ; 25. j  ; 26. p

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