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We're away today on a reporting assignment; back to normal tomorrow. In the meantime, here's a moderately difficult presidential trivia quiz. We'll announce the answers sometime soon, but if you know them, write us at opinionjournal@wsj.com. The first reader to get all 10 right wins a year's subscription to WSJ.com (and a mention in the column). If you need help, try "Presidential Leadership: Rating the Best and the Worst in the White House," which is available from the OpinionJournal bookstore.
1. Who was the only major-party presidential nominee whose last name rhymed with the name of his home state?
2. In what order are the following presidents listed?
- Wilson
- Reagan
- George W. Bush
- Grant
- Truman
- Ford
- John Quincy Adams
- Nixon
- Polk
- Clinton
- Taft
- George H.W. Bush
- William Henry Harrison
- Cleveland
- Harding
- Kennedy
- Carter
- Franklin Roosevelt
- Eisenhower
- Hoover
- Coolidge
- Hayes
- Lyndon Johnson
- Arthur
- Garfield
3. Twelve presidents have served exactly one full term in office. One of them served a different number of days than the other 11. Who and why?
4. In what order are the following presidents listed?
- Wilson
- Lyndon Johnson
- Washington
- Andrew Johnson
- McKinley
- Jackson
- Taft
- Jackson (again)
- Kennedy
5. If ___ lives past Veterans Day, he will become ___.
6. What is it?
- John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Barry Goldwater, Gerald Ford, Walter Mondale,
Michael Dukakis and Bob Dole did it.
- Hubert Humphrey, George McGovern and John Kerry failed to do it.
- Thomas Dewey did it once and failed once.
- Dwight Eisenhower, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton did it
twice.
- Abraham Lincoln, Adlai Stevenson, George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush failed
twice.
- Grover Cleveland and Richard Nixon did it three times.
- William Jennings Bryan failed three times.
7. If it's Friday and the post office is closed, which president's birthday is it?
8. In what order are the following presidents listed?
- Nixon
- Jackson
- Taft
- Ford
- Lyndon Johnson
- Grant and McKinley
- Coolidge
- Fillmore
- Madison
- Cleveland
- Arthur
- Theodore Roosevelt
- Truman
- Andrew Johnson
- Tyler
- Pierce
9. Eleven presidents have served exactly two full terms in office. One of them served a different number of days than the other 10. Who and why?
10. If Ted Kennedy had been elected president in 1980, he and George Washington would have had in common something that only two actual presidents do. What and who?
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