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A) Harper's B) The Progressive C) The Nation D) The Atlantic
A) Boss Tweed B) Richard Daley C) Ed Flynn D) Frank Hague
A) 600 to 550 B) 700 to 500 C) 500 to 400 D) 651 1/2 to 582 1/2
A) Henry A. Wallace B) Thomas E. Dewey C) Harry S. Truman D) Strom Thurmond
A) The Great Communicator B) The Lion of the Senate C) The Lone Ranger D) The Happy Warrior
A) January 3, 1949 B) November 5, 1949 C) January 1, 1948 D) December 29, 1950
A) Richard Russell Jr. B) Lyndon B. Johnson C) Joseph H. Ball D) Paul Douglas
A) Civil Rights Act B) Medicare Act C) Peace Corps Act D) Humane Slaughter Act
A) OTC Regulation Act B) Prescription Drug Safety Act C) Durham-Humphrey Amendment D) Pure Food and Drug Act
A) Lyndon B. Johnson B) Harry S. Truman C) John F. Kennedy D) Everett Dirksen
A) Minority leader B) Committee chair C) Majority whip D) Majority leader
A) Joseph H. Ball B) Thomas E. Dewey C) Strom Thurmond D) James M. Shields
A) 1961 B) 1955 C) 1957 D) 1960
A) Reducing federal taxes B) Expanding states' rights C) Ending the Cold War D) Aggressive opposition to racial segregation
A) A rising star B) A minnow C) A workhorse D) A whale
A) 38th vice president of the United States B) Governor of Minnesota C) Senate Majority Leader D) Secretary of State
A) Wisconsin B) North Dakota C) South Dakota D) Minnesota
A) Liberal Republican Party B) Green Party C) Progressive Party D) Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party
A) Students for a Democratic Society B) The Peace Corps C) Democratic Leadership Council D) Americans for Democratic Action
A) Duluth B) Minneapolis C) St. Paul D) Huron
A) 1964 B) 1944 C) 1952 D) 1948
A) Pharmacist B) Lawyer C) Journalist D) Architect
A) Capitol College of Pharmacy B) University of Minnesota C) Macalester College D) Louisiana State University
A) George McGovern B) Lyndon B. Johnson C) Edmund Muskie D) Orville Freeman
A) Humphrey's Sniffles B) Humphrey's Chest Oil C) Humphrey's Mineral Salt D) Humphrey's BTV
A) Louisiana State University B) Macalester College C) University of Minnesota D) Harvard University
A) About 1,000 B) About 11,000 C) About 5,000 D) About 600
A) Orville Freeman B) Richard Nixon C) Malcolm Moos D) Lyndon B. Johnson
A) National Education Association B) American Federation of Teachers C) Democratic National Committee D) American Medical Association
A) Edmund Muskie B) George McGovern C) Richard Nixon D) Lyndon B. Johnson
A) Environmental Protection Agency B) Peace Corps C) United Nations D) Works Progress Administration
A) 1944 B) 1934 C) 1942 D) 1936
A) Three B) Four C) Five D) Two
A) Double hernia B) Calcification of the lungs C) Age requirements D) Color blindness
A) 1942 B) 1945 C) 1944 D) 1943
A) Vision impairment due to cataracts B) Heart murmur C) High blood pressure D) Double hernia
A) He dropped out B) He lost C) He won D) The election was cancelled
A) Over 51% B) Under 40% C) Exactly 45% D) Over 47%
A) State legislator B) Military officer C) News commentator D) Lawyer
A) Arlington, Virginia B) Washington D.C. proper C) Chevy Chase, Maryland D) Minneapolis, Minnesota
A) Invested in real estate B) Consulted for private corporations C) Took paid outside speaking engagements D) Wrote syndicated newspaper columns
A) 50 years B) Nearly 42 years C) 30 years D) 35 years
A) 45% B) 51% C) 71% D) 61%
A) Edwin Ryan B) Hubert Humphrey C) Melvin G. Holli D) Theodore H. White
A) 1945 B) 1948 C) 1946 D) 1947
A) Crime capital B) Corruption capital C) Discrimination capital D) Antisemitism capital
A) Americans for Democratic Action B) Council on Human Relations C) Labor Union Reform Board D) Fair Employment Practice Committee
A) Edwin Ryan B) Americans for Democratic Action C) Melvin G. Holli D) Theodore H. White
A) 1952 B) 1960 C) 1964 D) 1956
A) 74 B) 26 C) 134 D) 41
A) South Dakota B) Wisconsin C) District of Columbia D) West Virginia
A) An independent merchant competing against a chain store B) A small boat against a cruise ship C) A local farm against a corporate conglomerate D) A lone soldier against an army
A) Frank Sinatra B) Dean Martin C) Peter Lawford D) Elvis Presley
A) Roman Catholic B) Baptist C) Methodist D) Congregationalist
A) Peter Lawford B) Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. C) Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. D) Robert F. Kennedy
A) 75.2% B) 51.5% C) 45.0% D) 60.8%
A) 26 B) 134 C) 74 D) 41
A) The death of a political mentor B) His resignation from the Senate C) His defeat in the primaries D) His election to the Senate
A) Thomas Dodd, Eugene McCarthy, and Hubert Humphrey B) Barry Goldwater, Thomas Dodd, and Hubert Humphrey C) Lyndon Johnson, Thomas Dodd, and Eugene McCarthy D) Eugene McCarthy, Walter Jenkins, and Hubert Humphrey
A) Goldwater must go! B) But not Senator Goldwater! C) Shame on Senator Goldwater! D) Down with Senator Goldwater!
A) Divide America so they may conquer B) Increase taxes on the poor C) Reduce the size of the military D) Create a unified national identity
A) An election fraud scandal B) A security leak scandal C) A financial bribery scandal D) A foreign interference scandal
A) The White House B) Washington D.C. C) LBJ ranch D) The Virgin Islands
A) Lyndon B. Johnson B) John F. Kennedy C) Walter Mondale D) George Reed
A) Jakarta B) Pleiku C) Saigon D) Da Nang
A) Johnny Carson B) Frank Sinatra C) Dean Martin D) Tom Lehrer
A) Walter Mondale B) Tom Lehrer C) Johnny Carson D) Dean Martin
A) Indonesia B) Japan C) Thailand D) Malaysia
A) Suharto B) Carson C) Johnson D) Oswald
A) Lee C. White B) Nicholas Katzenbach C) Wiley A. Branton D) Joseph Califano
A) US$1,000,000 B) US$100,000 C) US$289,000 D) US$500,000
A) The Watts riots B) Humphrey's European tour C) The presidential election D) The passage of a civil rights bill
A) A Great Society update B) A New Deal C) A Marshall Plan D) An urban renewal program
A) Harold Wilson B) Lee C. White C) George Christian D) Giulio Stocchi
A) Italy B) Japan C) Belgium D) Africa
A) June 4 B) April 27 C) February 15 D) March 31
A) Five B) Zero C) Seven D) Thirteen
A) The White House B) The Capitol building C) International Amphitheatre D) Grant Park
A) The Cold War B) The Vietnam War C) The economy D) The Cambodian Campaign
A) The death of Martin Luther King Jr. B) The resignation of Eugene McCarthy C) Nixon's Cambodian Campaign D) The AFL-CIO convention
A) It is deeply flawed B) It requires total reform C) It has worked its will D) It is controlled by special interests
A) It was amended by the delegates B) It was rejected C) It was tabled indefinitely D) It was passed unanimously
A) Top-down stimulation. B) Percolate up. C) Middle-out economics. D) Bottom-heavy growth.
A) Eliminating a school milk program. B) Reducing the federal budget for education. C) Privatizing the national postal service. D) Cutting funding for rural hospitals.
A) Philadelphia B) New Jersey C) New Hampshire D) Miami Beach
A) Indiana B) New Hampshire C) Pennsylvania D) Ohio
A) Florida B) California C) New Hampshire D) Ohio
A) Harmonizer B) Opposition leader C) Party whip D) Primary challenger
A) McGovern withdrew from the race B) The effort failed C) The credentials were split evenly D) The effort succeeded
A) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania B) Manchester, New Hampshire C) Miami Beach, Florida D) Newark, New Jersey
A) April 22, 1974 B) December 12, 1975 C) November 17, 1976 D) April 12, 1976
A) Jimmy Carter B) James P. Dugan C) Walter Mondale D) Ted Kennedy
A) Democratic National Convention B) Senate Caucus Room C) New Jersey State Capitol D) The White House
A) Hubert Humphrey B) Ted Kennedy C) Walter Mondale D) Jimmy Carter
A) Severe pneumonia B) Chronic fatigue C) Terminal cancer D) Heart disease
A) April 22, 1974 B) April 29, 1976 C) December 1, 1975 D) November 17, 1976
A) Soaring health costs B) A neutron bomb detonation C) Governmental shutdown D) High unemployment
A) Augustus Hawkins B) Jimmy Carter C) The Federal Reserve Board D) Robert Byrd
A) October 23, 1977 B) May 3, 1977 C) August 16, 1977 D) November 3, 1977
A) The sick B) The children C) The workers D) The elderly |