Facts You Didn't Know About US Presidential Election! Trivia Quiz
This trivia quiz has Facts You Didn't Know About US Presidential Election! It catches the eyes of the whole world as they admire the democratic process. Do you know what is expected of you as a voter and how the whole process is structured? Well do take this quiz and get to see what more you might actually learn. All the best!
- 1.The three kinds of elections in the U.S. are
- A.
Primary elections, general elections, and elections on specific policy questions
- B.
Primary elections, secondary elections, and tertiary elections
- C.
Primary elections, ancillary elections, corollary elections
- D.
Primary elections, general elections, and competitive elections
- E.
Primary elections, competitive elections, and noncompetitive elections
- 2.The initiative is put on the ballot as a result of
- A.
The governor's order
- B.
A Supreme Court ruling
- C.
A petition signed by a certain percentage of the voters
- D.
Public opinion polls showing strong support for a certain measure not acted upon by the legislature
- E.
A special, legally constituted convention voting to place it there
- 3.Which of the following does NOT characterize presidential elections around 1800?
- A.
The candidates barnstormed the country campaigning and giving speeches
- B.
Most of the campaigning was done by state and local party organizations
- C.
Campaigns were directed at state legislators, not the voters
- D.
Newspaper coverage of the campaign was extremely biased and dishonest
- E.
All of these describe the pathetic, sordid, sorry state of early American elections—we've come a long way, baby!
- 4.The presidential election of 1800 was
- A.
The first use of direct primaries in the United States
- B.
Decided by the House of Representatives after a tie in the electoral college
- C.
Notable for the importance of key convention speeches to swing the votes in the Electoral College
- D.
The first transition of power between parties accomplished by voters' ballots in the history of the world
- E.
Influenced by media intent on forcing the incumbent out of office
- 5.In the original constitutional system,
- A.
Each presidential elector cast two ballots and the top vote-getter was named president and the runner-up became vice president
- B.
The Senate elected the president and the House of Representatives elected the vice president
- C.
Each presidential elector cast one ballot for one of the president/vice president teams running
- D.
The state legislatures elected the president and vice president, with the candidate getting the second most votes becoming vice president
- E.
The president, once elected by the Electoral College, chose the vice president
- 6.In the Electoral College vote in the election of 1800, there was a tie between
- A.
Thomas Jefferson and John Adams
- B.
John Adams and James Madison
- C.
John Adams and Aaron Burr
- D.
Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr
- 7.The issue of free silver (to increase the amount of currency in circulation) was championed in the election of 1896 by ________, whose most famous oration was his "Cross of Gold" speech at the Democratic national convention.
- A.
Grover Cleveland
- B.
William McKinley
- C.
William Jennings Bryan
- D.
Theodore Roosevelt
- 8.The election of 2000 hinged on who had won
- A.
New York
- B.
Texas
- C.
Florida
- D.
Ohio
- 9.In Bush v. Gore (2000), the United States Supreme Court ruled that
- A.
The Florida Supreme Court did not have jurisdiction over the presidential election legal issues
- B.
Although a recount was legal, the same (or more precise) standards for evaluating ballots would have to be applied in all counties
- C.
The butterfly ballot was unconstitutional
- D.
The time used to recount ballots could extend past December 12, when the Florida electors would meet
- 10.The greater one's sense of political efficacy, the
- A.
Less likely one is to vote
- B.
More likely one is to vote
- C.
Greater one's chance of being defeated in an election
- D.
Less likely one is to view the election process in the United States as legitimate
- 11.The impact of the Motor Voter Act of 1993 was evidenced in
- A.
Higher registration and higher turnout in 1996 and 2000
- B.
Higher registration and lower turnout in 1996 and 2000
- C.
No changes in either registration or turnout in 1996 and 2000
- D.
Lower registration and higher turnout in 1996 and 2000
- 12.When President Herbert Hoover and the Republicans were crushed in the election of 1932, voters were responding to the severity of the Great Depression under Hoover's presidency by
- A.
Retrospective voting
- B.
Indirect primary voting
- C.
Direct primary voting
- D.
Initiative
- 13.The Electoral College was originally established in order to
- A.
Provide direct election of the president by the people, although its operation has had the opposite effect
- B.
Merely certify the results of the people's choice for president and vice president
- C.
Give the nation's elite the power to choose the president and vice president rather than the people directly
- D.
Insure high voter turnouts in elections throughout the country
- E.
Give legitimacy to the presidency, which was regarded suspiciously by most people as another potential monarchy
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