onigame ([info]onigame) wrote,
@ 2008-02-04 10:16:00
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Super Tuesday Trivia
Okay, a bit early, but what the heck.

(1) In this year's Democratic primary, the three front-runners are all U.S. Senators. None of the front-runners have ever held any high-level executive position -- by which I mean State Governor, Vice President, or President.

Before this election, when was the last time this happened?

(2) If you look at all the jobs that each of our prior 42 presidents held prior to becoming President, you'll see a lot of public service jobs, unsurprisingly. In a few cases, you'll see some private job (e.g., Lincoln was a lawyer before running for President) but go back a bit further and you'll see a public service job (Lincoln was a Representative from Illinois before going into private practice). Match the numbers with the jobs:

14 of them were ___.
10 of them were ___.
5 of them were ___.
5 of them were ___.
4 of them were ___.
2 of them were ___.
2 of them were ___.

Cabinet Secretaries
Diplomats
Generals
Governors
Representatives
Senators
Vice Presidents



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[info]tigupine
2008-02-04 10:29 pm UTC (link)
2 of them were Grover Cleveland.

(OK, I'll give the questions some actual thought later...)

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[info]lahosken [ca.us]
2008-02-05 03:57 am UTC (link)
I am not so much for the trivia. I could get behind some wordplay, though. I would totally vote for a candidate whose name was an anagram for something like "OUR MOST NATIONAL BOSS". If a candidate's name was palindromic, I'd vote for them twice, backwards and forwards.

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[info]onigame
2008-02-07 09:45 am UTC (link)
Hm. Don't know any candidates like that, but you could vote for an IMMORAL NERDLY TWIT or a HELLION DANDY-LION MATRIARCH, I hear.

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[info]darcydodo
2008-02-05 05:25 am UTC (link)
You mean First Lady doesn't count? :P

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[info]onigame
2008-02-07 09:23 am UTC (link)
Sorry, I meant high-level elected executive position. So no, First Lady doesn't count, and neither does Secretary of State.

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[info]darcydodo
2008-02-07 03:59 pm UTC (link)
I know, I was joking. :)

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