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A Famous Also-Ran

1. Name the South Carolina governor who ran for president on a third-party ticket in 1948.

2. This candidate ran for three different parties during his career. Name the political parties.

3. What Democratic candidate won the 1948 presidential contest?

4. In what famous situations do you hear the music of "To Anacreon in Heaven"?

5. Name the American Indian leader who used guerilla warfare to try to block the moving of tribes from Florida to Oklahoma. For Bragging Rights, name his tribe.

6. In what city was the first passenger elevator installed in 1856? For Bragging Rights, name the inventor.

7. What TV show was the Nielsen Media Research's highest rated and all-time most watched show?

8. What president was born in Brookline, Mass.?

9. Why was May 8, 1945, labeled as V-E Day?

10. Name the first woman appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court. And for Bragging Rights, what U.S. president appointed her?

Answers

1. Strom Thurmond ran as a third party hopeful in 1948.

2. Strom Thurmond headed tickets as a Democrat, ran as a Dixiecrat Party candidate for president in '48, and served as a Republican in the Senate at the end of his political career.

Thurmond lost to the Democratic Party's incumbent President Harry Truman. The South Carolina would-be president carried 39 electoral votes.

4. This is the source of music used in "The Star-Spangled Banner," our national anthem.

5. Osceola died in prison. He was captured while leading the Second Seminole War in 1837.

6. Elisha Graves Otis' elevator went up and down for the first time in New York City.

7. The highest rated TV show was the final episode of "M*A*S*H."

8. Brookline, Mass., is the birthplace of our 35th president, John F. Kennedy, who is buried in Arlington National Cemetery, overlooking Washington, D.C.

9. V-E Day, which stands for Victory in Europe, marked a major win in World War II.

10. In 1981, President Ronald Reagan appointed Sandra Day O'Connor to the Supreme Court.

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