Losing U.S. VP Candidates 1964-2000 Quiz

Answer: Sen. Joe Lieberman (CT)

Al Gore was the fourth Presidential candidate in U.S. history to win the popular vote but lose the Electoral College vote.

Answer: former Rep. Jack Kemp (NY)

In the 1996 election, Texas businessman H. Ross Perot ran on the Reform Party ticket and won 8.4 percent of the popular vote but no electoral votes.

Answer: former Sen. Dan Quayle (IN)

In the 1992 election TV debates, the viewing public saw three Presidential candidates on the stage together. In addition to President George Bush and Democratic challenger Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton, Independent Texas businessman H. Ross Perot (who later formed the Reform Party) was included. In the election, Perot won 19 percent of the popular vote but no electoral votes.

Answer: Sen. Lloyd Bentsen (TX)

In the Vice Presidential debate (Lloyd Bentsen vs. Dan Quayle), Bentsen had this famous line: 'Senator, I served with Jack Kennedy, I knew Jack Kennedy, Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you are no Jack Kennedy.'

Answer: Rep. Geraldine Ferraro (NY)

Ferraro was the first woman VP candidate on a major-party ticket. In the Presidential debate, Ronald Reagan had this great line: 'I will not make age an issue in this campaign. I am not going to exploit for political purposes my opponent's youth and inexperience.'

Answer: Former Senator Walter Mondale (MN)

In the Presidential debate, Reagan used this line several times when Carter would raise a point: 'There you go again.'

Answer: Sen. Bob Dole (KS)

Nelson Rockefeller served in the office of VP during Ford's finishing out Nixon's term, but was forced off the ticket in the 1976 election (in favor of Bob Dole) to placate conservatives. Ford pardoned Nixon because the Watergate crimes issue was taking so much of his time, but that probably cost him the election.

Answer: Peace Corp Director R. Sargent Shriver, Jr.

In the 1972 election the initial Democratic VP candidate, Thomas Eagleton, admitted having received shock treatments at a mental hospital and was replaced with Sargent Shriver by Democratic Presidential candidate George McGovern. Another first in the 1972 election: The first Electoral College vote won by a woman was cast for Tonie Nathan (VP candidate of the Libertarian Party). Nixon's VP Spiro Agnew (first elected in 1968) was accused of taking bribes while in office and resigned in 1973 after pleading nolo contendre (no contest) to the charge. Gerald Ford was appointed by Nixon to take his place as VP.

After the Watergate scandal broke in 1973, Nixon resigned and VP Ford was elevated to the Presidency. During the election George Wallace survived an assassination attempt that left him partially paralyzed while campaigning for the Democratic Presidential nomination.

In 1968, Wallace was the presidential candidate of the American Independent Party.

Answer: Sen. Edmund Muskie (ME)

1968 was a tumultuous year. Major events included riots at the Chicago Democratic convention, the assassinations of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King, and LBJ choosing not to run (he could have) because of protests against his handling of the Vietnam War. In LBJ's announcement he said: 'I will not seek nor will I accept my party's nomination for President'

Answer: Congressman William Miller (NY)

The 1964 election featured one showing of the controversial 'daisy ad' on television: The viewer first sees the image of a little girl picking off and counting the petals of a daisy. In the background a voice counts down . 'Ten . . . nine . . . eight . . .

As the camera moves in closer and closer on the girl's face, an atomic bomb explodes and the viewer sees a reflection of a mushroom cloud in her eye. Although Goldwater was never named in the ad, the implication was he might use atomic weapons.

The ad was shown only once during the campaign after it generated many bipartisan protests. (It has been shown many times since.) Goldwater's campaign slogan was 'In your heart you know he's right.' Johnson countered with 'In your guts you know he's nuts!'