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Quiz about Vice Presidents They Try Harder

Vice Presidents -- They Try Harder! Quiz

Presidents get all the glory. To go down in history, veeps have to do something memorable.

A multiple-choice quiz by peterfar. Estimated time: 4 mins.

Author
peterfar

Time
4 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
283,163

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Average

Avg Score
6 / 10

Plays
600

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Question 1 of 10

1. Whose vice president shot the founder of the "New York Post"? Hint

Thomas Jefferson

James Madison

George W. Bush

John Adams

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Question 2 of 10

2. What veep said: "What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is."?
Hint

Spiro Agnew

Dan Quayle

Earl Butts

Gerald Ford

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Question 3 of 10

3. Who is the spouse of Mondale's vice presidential choice? Hint

John Zaccaro

Mario Ferraro

Kitty Dukakis

Beryl Ann Bentsen

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Question 4 of 10

4. Who became vice president by being appointed by a president who was not elected president? Hint

Nelson Rockefeller

Spiro Agnew

Gerald Ford

Andrew Johnson

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Question 5 of 10

5. John C. Calhoun was veep under John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson. Which other vice president served under two different presidents? Hint

George Clinton

George Harrison

George Bush

George Dallas

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Question 6 of 10

6. Two vice presidents resigned before the end of their terms-- other than to become president. Spiro Agnew was one, who was the other? Hint

John C. Calhoun

William Howard Taft

Andrew Jackson

Andrew Johnson

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Question 7 of 10

7. He ran for president and did not get the nomination in 1960; he ran and got the presidential nomination but lost the election in 1968. In between, who became veep in the 1964 elections? Hint

Hubert Humphrey

Lyndon Johnson

Richard Nixon

Walter Mondale

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Question 8 of 10

8. Adlai Stevenson II ran twice for president in the 1950s. However, his grandfather was a vice president under whose administration? Hint

James Garfield

Rutherford B. Hayes

Benjamin Harrison

Grover Cleveland

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Question 9 of 10

9. Which of the following vice presidents was elected president on his own --- i.e. without first becoming president after the death or resignation in office of the president he served? Hint

Theodore Roosevelt

Harry Truman

John Kennedy

Richard Nixon

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Question 10 of 10

10. Which vice president won the Nobel Prize when he while he was vice president? Hint

Richard Nixon

George Marshall

Al Gore

Charles Dawes

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. Whose vice president shot the founder of the "New York Post"?

Answer: Thomas Jefferson

Aaron Burr, Jefferson's veep, shot and killed Alexander Hamilton in New Jersey. Hamilton founded the New-York Evening Post in 1801.

2. What veep said: "What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is."?

Answer: Dan Quayle

George H.W. Bush's veep's had a way with words. Dan Quayle managed to mangle the United Negro College Fund's slogan.

3. Who is the spouse of Mondale's vice presidential choice?

Answer: John Zaccaro

Walter Mondale broke ground when he chose Geraldine Ferraro to be his vice predidential candidate. She was the first woman receive a major party nomination as vice president. John Zaccaro, her spouse ran into a lot of flack for failing to release his tax returns.

4. Who became vice president by being appointed by a president who was not elected president?

Answer: Nelson Rockefeller

President Nixon appointed Gerald Ford as Vice President. When Nixon resigned, he appointed Rockefeller. Therefore, neither president nor vice president actually won a national election.

5. John C. Calhoun was veep under John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson. Which other vice president served under two different presidents?

Answer: George Clinton

George Clinton was vice president under Jefferson and Madison. George Dallas served James Polk. George Bush served Ronald Reagan. George Harrison served the Beatles.

6. Two vice presidents resigned before the end of their terms-- other than to become president. Spiro Agnew was one, who was the other?

Answer: John C. Calhoun

Calhoun resigned in December, 1832 to become a senator three months prior to the end of his term. Except for a short period as Secretary of War, Calhoun served in the Senate representing South Carolina for the next 18 years.

7. He ran for president and did not get the nomination in 1960; he ran and got the presidential nomination but lost the election in 1968. In between, who became veep in the 1964 elections?

Answer: Hubert Humphrey

HHH, the Happy Warrior, ran again in 1972. He lost the Democratic nomination to McGovern.

8. Adlai Stevenson II ran twice for president in the 1950s. However, his grandfather was a vice president under whose administration?

Answer: Grover Cleveland

Adlai Stevenson I was vice president from 1893-1897 in Grover Cleveland's second administration. Stevenson's father, Lewis, was also considered a vice presidential candidate in 1928 but did not win the Democratic nomination.

9. Which of the following vice presidents was elected president on his own --- i.e. without first becoming president after the death or resignation in office of the president he served?

Answer: Richard Nixon

Only Jefferson, John Adams, Nixon, Van Buren and George H.W. Bush were elected on their own. Vice President Gore found out how difficult it is to run for president when vice president.

10. Which vice president won the Nobel Prize when he while he was vice president?

Answer: Charles Dawes

Dawes won the Peace Prize for his plan to rebuild Europe after World War I. Inconveniently, Gore's Nobel came after he left office.

Source: Author peterfar

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