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Trivia Quiz - Presidential Candidates that Lost the Election


Everyone knows our presidents of the U.S. Do you remember who ran against them?

Quiz Number: 3137
Date Submitted: May 27, 2009
Quiz Categories: American History
Quiz Type: General Quiz
Author: zeppy73
Average Score: 66.3 percent
Times Taken: 43 times
Taken by Registered Users: 8

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Presidential Candidates that Lost the Election
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1. In 1804, Thomas Jefferson won his reelection bid. Who did he defeat ?
  A.   George Clinton
  B.   Oliver Ellsworth
  C.   Charles Cotesworth Pinckney
  D.   Rufus King

2. Who did Andrew Jackson defeat in 1828?
  A.   John Quincy Adams
  B.   Rufus King
  C.   DeWitt Clinton
  D.   Daniel Webster

3. William Henry Harrison defeated this man in 1840:
  A.   Hugh Lawson White
  B.   James G. Birney
  C.   Lewis Cass
  D.   Martin Van Buren

4. Republican Warren G. Harding defeated this Democratic candidate in 1920:
  A.   Allen Benson
  B.   James Cox
  C.   John Davis
  D.   James Hanly

5. Who did Franklin Roosevelt defeat in 1932?
  A.   Herbert Hoover
  B.   Al Smith
  C.   John Davis
  D.   Henry Wallace

6. Who did Franklin Roosevelt defeat in 1944?
  A.   Henry Wallace
  B.   Strom Thurmond
  C.   Thomas Dewey
  D.   John Davis

7. What Republican did Harry Truman defeat in 1948?
  A.   Wendell Willkie
  B.   Alf Landon
  C.   Thomas Dewey
  D.   Herbert Hoover

8. Dwight Eisenhower defeated this man in 1952 and 1956:
  A.   Harry Truman
  B.   Strom Thurmond
  C.   John Kennedy
  D.   Adlai Stevenson

9. Lyndon Johnson defeated this Republican in 1964:
  A.   Richard Nixon
  B.   Barry Goldwater
  C.   George Wallace
  D.   Al Smith

10. Bill Clinton was reelected in 1996. What Republican did he defeat?
  A.   Bob Dole
  B.   George Bush
  C.   Michael Dukakis
  D.   John Kerry
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