Question: Which Nixon Vice President served prior to Vice President #40?
Answer(s):
answer: Spiro Agnew

SPARQL query:
PREFIX ns: <http://rdf.freebase.com/ns/>
SELECT DISTINCT ?x
WHERE {
FILTER (?x != ns:m.06c97)
FILTER (!isLiteral(?x) OR lang(?x) = '' OR langMatches(lang(?x), 'en'))
ns:m.06c97 ns:government.us_president.vice_president ?x .
?x ns:government.us_vice_president.vice_president_number ?num .
FILTER (xsd:integer(?num) < 40) . 
}