From: sunder@altair.crhc.uiuc.edu (Srinivas Sunder)
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
Subject: Political Trivia :Answers
Date: 13 Apr 1992 15:43:59 GMT
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Below are the results of the quiz on Political Trivia. Only 7 people responded,
which I expected to be about the number. Nobody got everything right, though
there were only one or two questions that NOBODY answered. I might post a
second quiz sometime in the near future, but don't count on it.
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i) Name the President who became President by beating TWO other ex-Presidents
in the General election. Also name the year, the parties involved, their
final positions in the balloting (i.e. 1st, 2nd and 3rd), and of course, the
3 Presidents involved. (3 pts)
A) Woodrow Wilson, in 1912, defeated Teddy Roosevelt (Bull Moose Party) and 
incumbent William Taft (Republican). Wilson, obviously, was a Democrat. The
order of finishers was Wilson, Roosevelt, Taft.
[Lots of people got this right in parts. My own sources tell me that Teddy
Roosevelt came in second, though most responses claimed that Taft did.]



ii) Complete this trio: Raymond K. Price, William Safire, ...
(1 pt)
A) Patrick J. Buchanan!! (All three were Nixon's speechwriters)
[Again, lotsa folks got this `un right too]


iii) Name the only British Prime Minister to have been assassinated
(Note: I said this was about Politics, not ONLY American Politics)
(3 pts)
A) Spencer Perceval (about 1810)
[only 1 person got this one]


iv) Strom Thurmond, in addition to being the oldest member of the US Congress,
also holds another record to his name; something specifically related to the
process of passage of legislation. What record?
(2 pts)
A) Longest filibuster ever (24 hours and change), over the 1957 Civil Rights
Act (which I am sure, must have been terribly liberal (:-:)).



v) In the New York Mayoral election of 1965, there were only 3 major candidates-
ex-Rep. John Lindsay representing the Republican Party, (forgotten first-name)
Beame representing the Democrats, and a third candidate who wound up getting 17%
of the vote, thus making it posible for Lindsay to win by a plurality. Who was
the candidate and what Party? (3 pts)
(Kloo: This guy's brother was later US Senator from NY)
A) William F. Buckley, Jr, conservative columnist, Blackford Oakes series
spy novelist and founder of the National Review. He represented the Conservative
Party, a party that he had a hand in creating. Some memorable quotes from
that election: When asked what he would do if he won, he replied,"Demand a 
recount", and in reply to a reporter who asked him how many votes he expected
to win conservatively, he replied, "Conservatively, one." His brother who was
later US Senator was Jim Buckley, who lost to Daniel Patrick Moynihan later.  


vi) This Senator will go down in History as the guy who defended one of Nixon's
SC nominees saying that since there were a lot of mediocre people around who
deserved representation on the SC, the Senate should confirm this nominee, who
was criticized as being mediocre. The Judge in question was Carswell, who must
have been humiliated after he was rejected. Who was the Senator, and what State?
(2 pts). BONUS: Name the person who was ultimately confirmed for that position
on the SC. (1 pt) 
A) Roman Hruska (R-Nebraska). The guy who was ultimately confirmed to that SC
seat was William Rehnquist, now CJ. Legend has it that Nixon nominated Carswell
despite his mediocrity only to spite the Senate for having rejected his first
choice, Clement Haynesworth.


vii) An easy one: This African dictator was at one time the personal guest of
Libya's Col. Muammar Al-Qadhafy, and is now supposedly in Saudi Arabia. Name
him and his country. (1 pt)
A) Self-styled Field Marshal Idi Amin of Uganda.


viii) Name the US Secy. of State during the Suez Crisis (fairly easy).
(2 pts)
A) John Foster Dulles (Wash. DC's Dulles Airport is named after him, not his
brother Allen Dulles, who was Director of the CIA).


ix) Back to British Politics. What political party does Gerry Adams represent
in the House of Commons? (2 pts)
A) The Sinn Fein, the political arm of the IRA (this is now outdated, since
Gerry Adams lost his West Belfast (N. Ireland) seat to Jim Hendron of a party
that also seeks Irish independence from Britain, but advocates non-violent
means)


x) An easy one, again. Name the American political family that has produced
prominent state- and nation-wide politicians from states as diverse as NY,
W. Va., and Arkansas. (2 pts)
BONUS: Name the three people involved.
A) Rockefeller, of course. Nelson was NY Gov. and Ford's VP. Jay is W. Va.'s
Junior Senator, and Winthrop Rockefeller was Governor of Arkansas sometime in
the late 1960's.



Scores:
beb@pt.com (Bruce Buck)				:  12.5
jdm42241@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Doug Mraz)           :  12.5
mmalervy@sdcc13.UCSD.EDU (Michael J. Malervy IV):  12.25
mathew@pram.cs.ucla.edu (???)                   :  7.50
rapp@freezer.cns.udel.edu (Brian Rapp)          :  6.00
kenneth@ducvax.auburn.edu (Ken)			:  3.00
tmm@cs.brown.edu (T.M. Murali)			:  3.00