POP QUIZ (Primary concerns)

A look at early presidential contestants.

1. In 1952, when Dwight Eisenhower won New Hampshire with 50 percent of the vote, back in the pack was another World War II hero, with 3 percent.
a) Omar Bradley
b) Douglas MacArthur
c) George S. Patton
d) George C. Marshall
2. President Harry S. Truman actually lost in 1952 to this man.
a) Adlai E. Stevenson
b) Earl Warren
c) John F. Kennedy
d) Estes Kefauver
3. True or False : Neither John F. Kennedy nor Richard M. Nixon won in New Hampshire in 1960.
4. Eventual Republican nominee Barry Goldwater lost New Hampshire in 1964 to this canidate.
a) Nelson Rockefeller
b) Ronald Reagan
c) Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.
d) Richard Nixon
5. George Romney, father of Mitt, came in last in New Hampshire in 1968.  What Republican won that year?
a) Richard Nixon
b) Nelson Rockefeller
c) Ronald Reagan
d) Gerald Ford
6. True or False : President Lyndon Johnson lost the '68 primary to Eugene McCarthy.
7. What Democrat beat George McGovern in New Hampshire in 1972?
a) Hubert Humphrey
b) Edmund Muskie
c) Eugene McCarthy
d) George Wallace
8. In 1980, while one Californian, Ronald Reagan, was winning the GOP contest, another Californian was losing to Democrat President Jimmy Carter.  Name that man.
9. True or False : Four of the five primaries from 1988 to 2004 included a George Bush on the ballot, with Bush winning each time.
10. Who won the Democratic primary in 2008?
a) Joe Biden
b) Hillary Rodham Clinton
c) Barack Obama
d) John Edwards


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Answers : 1. b  ; 2. d  ; 3. False  ; 4. c  ; 5. a  ; 6. False  ; 7. b  ; 8. Jerry Brown  ; 9. False  ; 10. b