Trivia Time

Q: Who introduced the elephant as the symbol for the Republican party?
A: Cartoonist and illustrator Thomas Nast in 1874.

Q: Who was the last person not on a major-party ticket to receive an electoral vote in the general election?
A: Ronald Reagan got one vote in 1976 from a Washington state elector.

Q: Which newscaster received one vote for the vice presidential nomination at the 1972 Republican convention?
A: David Brinkley of NBC News

Q: Who was the first GOP vice presidential nominee to be renominated?
A: James Sherman, who ran with William Taft in 1908 and 1912.

Q: How many national party chairs have become president?
A: Only one. George Bush was the RNC chair in 1973-74.

Q: Alf Landon, the 1936 GOP presidential nominee, was the father of which retiring U.S. senator?
A: Sen. Nancy Kassebaum of Kansas

Related Trivia Links

• U.S. Political Posters From 1832-1989 - For political propaganda junkies only -- this online exhibit from the Verlangieri Gallery has posters and flyers spanning 150 years of electoral history. Check out Barry Goldwater's tan.
  
  
• Johnston & Murphy: Presidential Footnotes, Campaign '96 - Even the cobblers for the last 30 commanders-in-chief have something to say about politics. The site's trivia and political humor are worth checking out, even if the foot and shoe entendres are predictable.