| Question |
Answer |
Wrong Answers |
| This man's Green Party bid contributed to the closeness of the 2000 presidential election: |
Ralph Nader | | 79.9% |
| Ross Perot | | 9% |
| John Anderson | | 2.6% |
| Gary Johnson | | 4.4% |
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| This former general is the only person ever unanimously elected to the office: |
George Washington | | 79.6% |
| Ulysses S. Grant | | 9.7% |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | | 8% |
| Andrew Jackson | | 1.9% |
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| This man is the only one ever elected to two non-consecutive terms as president: |
Grover Cleveland | | 79.3% |
| Benjamin Harrison | | 5.2% |
| George W. Bush | | 1.8% |
| John Adams | | 6.1% |
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| No Republican candidate has ever won the presidency without carrying this state: |
Ohio | | 62.5% |
| Texas | | 21.2% |
| North Dakota | | 2.4% |
| Alaska | | 2.4% |
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| The election of this President was the first in which citizens of Alaska and Hawaii got to vote: |
John F. Kennedy | | 59.2% |
| Dwight Eisenhower | | 28.7% |
| Calvin Coolidge | | 5.3% |
| Lyndon B. Johnson | | 6.6% |
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| Receiving only 40.6% of the popular vote, he was the last major-party candidate to carry only one state in a presidential election: |
Walter Mondale | | 51.4% |
| Hubert Humphrey | | 10.3% |
| Mike Dukakis | | 22.8% |
| Adlai Stevenson | | 6.6% |
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| This man was the last 3rd party candidate to carry a state in a presidential election: |
George Wallace | | 48.3% |
| Robert LaFollette | | 6.3% |
| Ross Perot | | 37.3% |
| Robert Byrd | | 4.8% |
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| This election was the only one in which a 3rd party candidate carried more states and got more electoral votes than a major party candidate: |
1912 | | 47.7% |
| 1924 | | 12.3% |
| 1948 | | 9% |
| 1892 | | 22.9% |
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| He remains the only person to have run as a candidate of one of the current major parties three times and lose them all: |
William Jennings Bryan | | 42.7% |
| Adlai Stevenson | | 22.3% |
| George McGovern | | 12.5% |
| Thomas Dewey | | 13.2% |
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| This man, in 1852, was the first to carry an electoral vote from west of the Rocky Mountains: |
Franklin Pierce | | 41.3% |
| Winfield Scott | | 10.8% |
| James Buchanan | | 31.8% |
| Lewis Cass | | 5.6% |
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| This man was the first elected to the office as a member of the Whig Party: |
William H. Harrison | | 38.2% |
| James K. Polk | | 18% |
| Zachary Taylor | | 25% |
| Millard Fillmore | | 16.6% |
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| This candidate is the only major party entrant to have ever died between election day and the vote of the Electoral College: |
Horace Greeley | | 38.1% |
| James Weaver | | 11.9% |
| Samuel Tilden | | 26.2% |
| Horatio Seymour | | 16.4% |
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| This election was the only one to be decided by the US House of Representatives under the terms of the 12th Amendment: |
1824 | | 38% |
| 2000 | | 21.5% |
| 1876 | | 22.2% |
| 1789 | | 7% |
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| This man took office following the only election ever decided by an extra-Constitutional election commission: |
Rutherford B. Hayes | | 36.2% |
| John Quincy Adams | | 31.5% |
| Andrew Jackson | | 18.6% |
| Franklin Pierce | | 8.4% |
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| This person was the first to earn 50,000,000 votes in a single US Presidential election: |
Ronald Reagan | | 35.9% |
| George W. Bush | | 12.4% |
| Barack Obama | | 28.7% |
| Richard Nixon | | 12.4% |
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| This election was the only one contested by candidates who were all from the same political party: |
1824 | | 34% |
| 1789 | | 35.5% |
| 1860 | | 15.1% |
| 1900 | | 9.4% |
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| This man ran eight times for President, once under the Labor Party and seven times as a Democrat, including one run while incarcerated: |
Lyndon LaRouche | | 31.8% |
| Eugene Debs | | 39.4% |
| Pat Paulsen | | 9.6% |
| Ralph Nader | | 9.7% |
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| This man was the only presidential candidate from the first Anti-Masonic party: |
William Wirt | | 23.9% |
| Henry Clay | | 41.9% |
| Hugh White | | 12.3% |
| James Birney | | 15.2% |
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| This was the last election in which the winning candidate carried more than 60% of the popular vote: |
1972 | | 21.3% |
| 1984 | | 53.4% |
| 1936 | | 12.1% |
| 1908 | | 3.3% |
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| Thanks to a faithless elector, this woman was the first to ever receive an electoral vote (in this case for Vice President): |
Theodora Nathan | | 9.4% |
| Geraldine Ferraro | | 49.6% |
| Elizabeth Dole | | 14.8% |
| Victoria Woodhull | | 17.8% |
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