Meet Your 2008 Presidential Candidates Quiz

Answer: Ron Paul

Ron Paul, a Republican congressman from Texas, was the 1988 Libertarian nominee for president. The lone anti-war candidate in the Republican field, he opposes the Iraq War based on his libertarian principles.

Answer: Dennis Kucinich

Kucinich served as Cleveland mayor from 1977 to 1979. He is currently a congressman from the Cleveland area. This is his second presidential campaign, having run in the 2004 Democratic primary as well.

Answer: Joe Biden

Joe Biden was elected U.S. Senator from Delaware in 1972. He turned 30, the minimum age to serve in the Senate, a few weeks after the election. He previously ran for president in the 1988 Democratic primary.

Barak Obama was elected to the U.S. Senate from Illinois in 2004 at age 42. John McCain was elected to the U.S. Senate from Arizona in 1986 at age 50.

Answer: Mitt Romney

Mitt Romney's father, George, served as governor of Michigan and ran for the Republican nomination in 1968. Chris Dodd's father was a U.S. senator from Connecticut, but he never ran for president.

Answer: Hillary Clinton

Hillary Clinton has twice been elected to the U.S. Senate from New York, the only office she has stood for. Rudy Giuliani lost his first race for Mayor of New York City in 1989. Barack Obama lost a primary challenge to Chicago Congressman Bobby Rush in 2000. Mitt Romney lost his candidacy for U.S. Senator from Massachusetts to Ted Kennedy in 1994.

Answer: Mike Huckabee

Huckabee, a former two term governor of Arkansas, was President of the Arkansas Baptist State Convention. San Brownback and Alan Keyes are Catholic. Hillary Clinton is a Methodist.

Answer: Hillary Clinton

Hillary Clinton grew up in a conservative family and did campaign work for Goldwater's 1964 presidential campaign while she was in high school. While in college and confronted with issues such as civil rights and the Vietnam War, she became more liberal and eventually, became a Democrat.

Answer: Alan Keyes

Alan Keyes has run for U.S. Senate three times (1988 and 1992 in Maryland and 2004 in Illinois) and this is his third run for president (1996, 2000), but he has never won an election. He previously served as an ambassador.

Ron Paul and Duncan Hunter are congressmen. Mike Gravel served as U.S. senator from Alaska.

Answer: Rudy Giuliani

The New York Liberal Party, a fusion party (a party which endorses candidates of other parties) which grew out of the old Socialist Party, endorsed Giuliani in his three campaigns for mayor of New York City. Hillary Clinton also received the Liberal Party endorsement in her 2000 U.S. Senate campaign.

Answer: Fred Thompson

Actor and former Tennessee Senator Fred Thompson played New York City D.A. Arthur Branch in the NBC crime drama Law and Order. Thompson is, in fact, a real life attorney.

In the 1980s, Giuliani served as United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, where he became known for prosecuting mobsters and white collar criminals. Prior to his election to the Senate, John Edwards was a North Carolina trial attorney. Kansas Senator Sam Brownback is also an attorney.