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Richard Warren Field
What is your THIRD PARTY I.Q.?
Test Your Knowledge of Third Party and Third Alternative Candidate Trivia
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Question One:
Who was the last third party candidate to receive an electoral vote?
1. John Hospers, Libertarian
2. George Wallace, American Independent
3. Ross Perot, Reform
4. John Anderson, Independent
5. Henry A. Wallace, Progressive
Question Two:
Which of the following political leaders never ran as a third party
candidate?
1. Theodore Roosevelt
2. Henry A. Wallace
3. Eugene McCarthy
4. William Jennings Bryant
5. George Wallace
Question Three:
In what year did a third party candidate first win electoral votes?
1. 1824
2. 1832
3. 1912
4. 1924
5. 1860
Question Four:
What third party candidate won the most electoral votes?
1. George Wallace
2. Robert LaFollette
3. Eugene V. Debs
4. Ross Perot
5. Theodore Roosevelt
Question Five:
Which one of these political parties has won at least one electoral
vote?
1. Reform Party
2. Prohibition Party
3. American or “Know-Nothing” Party
4. Greenback Party
5. Socialist Party
Question Six:
Which of these five American political figures never received a vote
in the Electoral College from a defecting elector?
1. Lloyd Bentsen
2. Theodore Roosevelt
3. Ronald Reagan
4. Harry F. Byrd
5. Walter B. Jones
Question Seven:
All of these candidates received electoral votes as third party candidates.
Who was the first to receive an electoral vote as a third party candidate?
1. Millard Fillmore
2. John Bell
3. Robert LaFollette
4. James G. Weaver
5. Theodore Roosevelt
Question Eight:
Which of the following third party candidates was never in the Republican
Party?
1. Henry A. Wallace
2. Robert LaFollette
3. John Anderson
4. George Wallace
5. Strom Thurmond
Question Nine:
Which of the following Presidents won his election without a major
third party candidate participating?
1. John Kennedy in 1960
2. Richard Nixon in 1968
3. Calvin Coolidge in 1924
4. Harry Truman in 1948
5. Grover Cleveland in 1892
Question Ten:
Which of these third party candidates was never Vice President of the
United States?
1. Theodore Roosevelt, Progressive or “Bull Moose” Party, 1912
2. Henry A. Wallace, Progressive Party, 1948
3. Millard Fillmore, American or “Know-Nothing” Party, 1856
4. Robert LaFollette, Progressive Party, 1924
5. Martin Van Buren, Free Soil Party, 1848
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