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Current Questions!
Join us at the Capitol City Brewery in Shirlington tonight (Tuesday, June 23rd) to find out the answers and to meet former Maryland Lt. Governor and current Chairman of GOPAC Micheal Steele!
Questions from June 19th Newsletter:
1) How many electoral votes must a candidate win to become the President?
281
2) What is the least number of states a candidate could carry and still win the Presidency?
11 states
3) What was the first political party to hold nominating convention for a presidential candidate? Where was it held and who did they nominate?
Anti-Masons; Baltimore, MD; William Wirt
4) Who was the first man to orbit the Earth in space? (hint: he is mentioned in the movie "Hunt for Red October")
Yuri Gagarin
5) Who was quoted as saying "As long as you're going to be thinking anyway, think big"?
Donald Trump
Questions from June 10th Newsletter:
1) Who stated "If you are scared, keep going; if you are hungry, keep going; if you want to taste freedom, keep going."
Harriet Tubman
2) Who was the first president born in the United States of America?
Martin Van Buren
3) Who was quoted as saying "I never missed a single opportunity to remove obstacles in the way of unity"?
Mahatma Gandhi
4) For which vice president is the term "gerrymandering" named?
Elbridge Gerry (Vice President to James Madison)
5) Who was quoted as saying "It took me seventeen years to get 3,000 hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course."
Hank Aaron
Questions from June 2 Newsletter
1) Where is it inscribed "Proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof"
the Liberty Bell
2) Who said "It's kind of fun to do the impossible"?
Walt Disney
3) Where is the plaque that states "We came in peace for all mankind"?
on the moon
4) "Slump? I ain't in no slump . . . I just ain't hitting" - Who said this?
Yogi Berra
5) Who was quoted as saying "The nose of the bulldog has been slanted backwards so that he can breathe without letting go"?
Winston Churchill
Questions from May 27, 2008 Newsletter
1) What Vice President won the Nobel Peace Prize the same year he was elected to office?
Charles Dawes. The Dawes Plan helped stabilize Germany's economy after WWI.
2) What Congressman and Vice President helped found the Republican Party in Indiana?
Schuyler Colfax
3) Which First Lady did Will Rogers refer to as "public female favorite number one"?
Grace Coolidge
4) Who swore Calvin Coolidge into office after President Harding died?
Coolidge's father who he was visiting in Vermont. He was a notary public and therefore able to swear his son in as President of the United States on August 3, 1923.
5) The song "A Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight" was used during which eventual President's campaign in 1904?
Theodore Roosevelt
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