Can you name the losing* Vice Presidential tickets since 1900?

Year	VP Candidate	Presidential Candidate
1900		William Jennings Bryan
1904		Alton Parker
1908		William Jennings Bryan
1912		Theodore Roosevelt
1916		Charles Evans Hughes
1920		James M. Cox
1924		John W. Davis
1928		Alfred E. Smith
1932		Herbert Hoover
1936		Alf Landon
1940		Wendell Willkie
1944		Thomas Dewey
1948		Thomas Dewey
1952		Adlai E. Stevenson II

Year	VP Candidate	Presidential Candidate
1956		Adlai E. Stevenson II
1960		Richard Nixon
1964		Barry Goldwater
1968		Hubert H. Humphrey
1972		George McGovern
1976		Gerald Ford
1980		Jimmy Carter
1984		Walter Mondale
1988		Michael S. Dukakis
1992		George Bush
1996		Robert Dole
2000		Al Gore
2004		John Kerry
2008		John McCain

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Losing U.S. Vice Presidents Quiz

by Danimal23

Created Sep 23, 2009 in History
Featured Apr 27, 2010
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	Poque:	Apr 27th, 2010 at 22:18 GMT	3 points
	At the moment, the Presidential candidate for 1976 says "Gergald Ford." Reminds me of some sort of Sesame Street caricature.

	Craig_Hodges:	Apr 27th, 2010 at 23:21 GMT	6 points
	No love for Admiral Stockdale?

	rk559:	Apr 27th, 2010 at 23:22 GMT	7 points
	I really did go through and type all the candidates last names, just to increase my score... Sporcle, you've gotten to me.

	jefe_:	Apr 27th, 2010 at 23:45 GMT	11 points
	Hopefully this is the only time Palin will ever be the most guessed answer in a Sporcle quiz.

	exackerly:	Apr 27th, 2010 at 23:47 GMT	2 points
	Hmm, well Teddy Roosevelt was a 3rd party candidate in 1912 -- Taft was the Republican candidate.

	exackerly:	Apr 27th, 2010 at 23:47 GMT	2 points
	Oops, nemmind, I see you were going for the 2nd place.

	1906cubs:	Apr 28th, 2010 at 01:26 GMT	-4 points
	last time i checked the gore ticket didn't get 2nd place? 3rd election screwed by the college

	mininimi:	Apr 28th, 2010 at 01:44 GMT	-2 points
	thats what i did to get a 87 percentile rk559

	theatredude49:	Apr 28th, 2010 at 02:25 GMT	1 point
	about that tagline that went with the quiz...mondale got 13 votes, not 3

	dxman:	Apr 28th, 2010 at 03:17 GMT	-3 points
	I tried Bob Dole as a wild guess and didn't know he was an answer. Was he really that prominent back then? And why did Rockefeller not want to run again?

	quent1979:	Apr 28th, 2010 at 04:02 GMT	7 points
	I just realized how close we came to having that wonderful human being John Edwards in the White House.

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	BobMillahhh:	Apr 28th, 2010 at 05:53 GMT	1 point
	SARGENT SHRIVER!!! my schools campus center is named after him and i still forgot it.

	JohnJF:	Apr 28th, 2010 at 14:09 GMT	3 points
	@quent1979: The option for 2004 was Edwards or Dick Cheney. Oh, we as a country can sure pick out winners for our highest offices, can't we?

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	davidr:	Apr 28th, 2010 at 17:44 GMT	5 points
	Well, I'm glad I hit on the lame tactic of typing in the surnames of the failed Presidential candidates, which about doubled my rather miserable score... sigh

	cheezguyty:	Apr 28th, 2010 at 18:19 GMT	-3 points
	Quayle, Edwards, and Palin: losers in more than one sense of the word.

	Fillmore:	Apr 28th, 2010 at 18:38 GMT	3 points
	Thomas Eagleton should be a bonus.

	Cailin:	Apr 28th, 2010 at 22:21 GMT	-2 points
	@jefe_: Agreed - unless it's Michael Palin.

	dxman:	Apr 29th, 2010 at 01:29 GMT	3 points
	@Fillmore: Eagleton is an acceptable answer for 1972.

jaymc:

Apr 29th, 2010 at 04:40 GMT

8 points

Yes, and a good thing b/c I could only remember him and not Shriver. @Craig_Hodges: If the quiz included Stockdale, people would be asking, "Who is he? Why is he here?" ;-)

	Cordramir_Schort:	May 1st, 2010 at 05:56 GMT	3 points
	Once there was a poor widow with two sons. One of them went away to sea, and the other became Vice President of the United States. Neither was ever heard of again. dxman: Rockefeller was acceptable as a fill-in VP; he had no interest in being VP for another term, when he'd repeatedly sought the Presidential nomination and failed. Plus he was from a wing of the party that was in eclipse. Dole wasn't especially well known, but he was a prominent Senator and a safe choice.

	JoeyJoeJoe:	Jun 5th, 2010 at 16:26 GMT	3 points
	Landon almost chose New Hampshire Senator Styles Bridges as his running mate; he was rejected because the GOP was worried that Dems would taunt the ticket with chants of "Landon Bridges falling down"

	sobdennis:	Jun 15th, 2010 at 18:29 GMT	2 points
	I got 24. I remembered Stevenson's grandfather had been VP under Cleveland and vaguely remembered he ran again under Bryan. I forgot that Bryan's brother had run. I think Taft's, Wallace's, and Thurmond's running mates should be bonuses at least. Certainly Taft since he was the GOP candidate.

	DPA727:	Jun 17th, 2010 at 01:21 GMT	2 points
	Had Kerry won in '04, Edwards' lovechild would have been the First Bastard

	QuintFan:	Jul 31st, 2010 at 02:04 GMT	2 points
	I feel good with 86/% for only 10 answers. I'm 32, so I could remember everyone's VP back to Carter, but I'll never forget now that Dole ran with Ford in 76! And I never knew FDR had an unsuccessful bid for VP. This is an educational quiz, well done.

	crdimitri:	Jan 26th, 2011 at 20:25 GMT	2 points
	Very interesting that typing in four of the losing Presidential candidate names gets you four additional answers on this quiz - none of which are the same person.