Presidential Trivia

Submit your answers (or guesses) to the following questions in the comment section.  I'll post the actual answers this evening.

1. Which president adopted a pet raccoon while in office?
2. Who was the first vice president to have an actual office in the White House?
3. Which Republican ticket was dubbed "Bozo and the Pineapple" by the media?
4. How many U.S. Presidents did not attend college, and who was the most recent?
5. What famous singer advised Vice President Spiro Agnew not to resign and promised to loan him the money to pay his back taxes?
6. What future president received one electoral vote in the 1976 election?
7. Name the three Democrats to be re-elected to a second term of office in the 20th century.
8. Who was the first incumbent president to lose an election?
9. Name the first political party to hold a nominating convention for a presidential candidate.
10. What election marked the first time a party officially nominated a candidate for president?

Comments

[Eric Parks]

Whew! Tough questions.

1. Jefferson
2. Johnson
3. Ford/Dole
4. 3; Truman
5. Pat Boone
6. Reagan
7. Truman/FDR/Clinton
8. John Adams
9. Democrats
10. Jackson

Ooooo, I wanted to use the internet and peek! But I didn't.

[Laura Ebke]

I’ll post the answers in a few hours—we’ll see if anyone else wants to take a shot at them this afternoon. You got some of them right, but I bet you’ll be surprised at some of the ones you didn’t.