Historical Histronics
What is I Like Ike?
This state is the only one in the U.S. where governors are prohibited from running for consecutive terms.
What is Virginia?
This modern day (relatively) President was the first to be sworn in by his nickname.
Who was Jimmy Carter?
This Senator is the first double amputee to serve after the helicopter she was piloting was attacked during the Iraq war.
Who is Tammy Duckworth?
What is the 19th Amendment?
This Progressive Party was formed in 1912 after this Theodore Roosevelt lost the Republican presidential nomination to his former protégé William Howard Taft. The new party was nicknamed after an animal because Roosevelt boasted that he felt "strong as” this animal
What is a Bull Moose?
This person was first African-American female major-party gubernatorial nominee in the United States, during the 2018 election.
Who is Stacey Abrams?
The 2000 U.S. presidential election was officially decided by a controversial Supreme Court decision following a recount of votes in this state. The recount determined that George W. Bush had defeated Al Gore in that state by a mere 537 votes.
What is Florida?
This gentleman from West Virginia as the longest-serving US Senator.
Who was Robert Byrd?
Maine is one of two states that do not apportion their electoral votes in a “winner-takes-all” format.This is the other state
What is Nebraska?
Elections are held on a Tuesday because...
The 2003 California gubernatorial recall election resulted in the replacement of Gray Davis with this movie star
Who was Arnold Schwarzenegger?
Since the 1950s this percent of eligible voters cast ballots in presidential elections
What is 50-60%?In 2016 it was over 60%.
This President served in Congress after his time in office, and suffered a fatal stroke on the house floor.
Who is John Quincy Adams?
This expression gained notoriety during the 2000 US Presidential election, and these tidbits were the focus of the recount in Florida.
What are hanging chads?
This gentleman served as chief justice of the Supreme Court at the time the controversial Supreme Court decision "Bush v. Gore," was handed down on December 12, 2000
Who was William Rehnquist?
This individual is the only person to have been elected governor of two different US States - Texas and Tennessee.
Who was Sam Houston?
During the 'era of good feelings' this president ran unopposed, thereby winning every electoral college vote (except one) and garnering 80% of the popular vote.
Who was James Monroe?
Requiring 60 votes to proceed, this "C" word means a Senate procedure that limits further consideration of a pending proposal to 30 hours to avoid filibuster
What is Cloture?
The Nineteenth Amendment, which granted women the right to vote in the U.S., was passed more than 40 shameful years after the U.S. Supreme Court had ruled explicitly against early women suffragettes. This person was president when the Nineteenth Amendment passed
Who was Woodrow Wilson?
Adventurer Phileas Fogg is shocked by the kerfuffle over a San Francisco election for a justice of the peace that he encounters on his global travels in this Jules Verne novel.
What is Around the World in Eight Days?
This current governor has a best-selling book to his credit and he is the third African American man elected governor in US history.
Who is Wes Moore?
Taking 525 electoral votes to his opponents 13, this president won re-election in one of the biggest landslides in American history
Who was Ronald Reagan?
This senator, first elected in the 1974 senatorial elections, is the only Democrat to ever be a senator from Vermont
Who is Patrick Leahy?
Instant-runoff voting and single transferable vote are the two specific types of this more general voting system that is used in various jurisdictions in the United States. For example, Maine uses this voting system in all state primary, congressional, and presidential elections.
What is ranked-choice voting?