Presidential Trivia

This being an election year, how could we resist checking your knowledge of Presidents, past and future?

1. The Campaign Trail

1. Why didn't Zachary Taylor know he'd been nominated for President?

2. Governor Horatio Seymour of New York was hustled out of the 1868 National Convention, sobbing and calling to a friend, "Pity me, Harry! Pity me!" Describe what had just happened.

3. "Newsweek" magazine was accused of being partisan after the public saw the layout of the March 21, 1988 issue. Give two juxtapositions which "Newsweek" disavowed as accidental, but appear to endorse Bush.

4. Dukakis used Neil Diamond. As George Bush walked onto the Platform at the Republican National Convention, what song did the band play?

5. The slogan most used by the Democrats in 1852 had two puns. What was the slogan?

2. So, you thought you wanted this job?

1. Archie Butt was a close assistant to both TR and Taft. When Taft finally gave the overworked assistant a vaction, where did he go?

2. After leaving a cabinet position, this person founded the "New York Post." Name him.

3. Who was the first President to ever pitch out the opening day ball and what two teams were playing that day?

4. What play was Lincoln watching on that fateful evening at the Ford Theater, and where was his bodyguard?

5. After the inauguration, Vice President Quayle and a majority of the principle officers of the executive department appear before both houses of Congress, and give a speech declaring President Bush unable to execute the duties of President. Until Bush makes a response, who is President?