Welcome to the Vice Presidents Trivia Quiz!

1. Which V.P. was indicted for murder while in office, and was tried for treason after leaving office?

John C. Calhoun Spiro T. Agnew Aaron Burr Richard M. Nixon

2. Which two veeps held the office under two different presidents?

John C. Calhoun Adlai E. Stevenson George Clinton Henry A. Wallace

3. Which president had two veeps die in office during his administration?

Thomas Jefferson James Madison Andrew Jackson Franklin D. Roosevelt

4. Besides Agnew, which other V.P. resigned the office?

Elbridge Gerry John C. Calhoun John C. Breckinridge John Nance Garner

5. Which veep scandalized Washington society by taking three slave "wives"?

John C. Calhoun Richard M. Johnson John Tyler William R. King

6. Who was the only V.P. to be elected by the Senate because he failed to receive a majority of the electoral votes?

Aaron Burr Daniel D. Tompkins Richard M. Johnson Gerald R. Ford

7. Which veep had fifteen children, the last when he was 70 years old?

John Adams Thomas Jefferson John Tyler Andrew Johnson

8. How many vice presidents have gone on to become President?

Ten Twelve Fourteen Sixteen

9. Who is the only V.P. to have been sworn in outside the U.S. and to have never set foot in Washington during his term?

Aaron Burr George M. Dallas William R. King Garret A. Hobart

10. Which veep is rumored to have been a homosexual, and may have had an affair with a man who later became president?

William R. King Hannibal Hamlin Charles G. Dawes Richard M. Nixon

11. Which V.P. later became Secretary of War of the Confederacy?

John C. Calhoun George M. Dallas John C. Breckinridge Andrew Johnson

12. Who, upon learning that he was to be nominated for the veepship by his party, made the statement "Vice President is higher than I ever expected to rise"?

Chester A. Arthur Harry S Truman Spiro T. Agnew Dan Quayle

13. Who was the first veep to be nominated for a second consecutive term to the office by a major political party? (Hint: it didn't happen until the 20th century!)

Theodore Roosevelt James S. Sherman Charles G. Dawes Henry A. Wallace

14. Which veep received 3.5 million votes for the office, after his death?

Levi P. Morton Charles W. Fairbanks James S. Sherman Alben W. Barkley

15. Who, when informed that his party had nominated him for V.P., replied: "I suppose I'll have to take it"?

Calvin Coolidge John Nance Garner Harry S Truman Nelson Rockefeller

16. Which veep won the Nobel Peace Prize while he was Vice President?

Theodore Roosevelt Charles G. Dawes Calvin Coolidge Henry A. Wallace

17. Who said of his decision to become V.P. that it was the "worst damn fool mistake I ever made"?

Aaron Burr Calvin Coolidge John Nance Garner Nelson Rockefeller

18. Which veep was a strong believer in socialism and Stalinism, characterized capitalists as "midget Hitlers", and once dispatched a religious fanatic to Mongolia to search for proof that Christ had visited Asia before beginning his teachings in the Middle East?

John Nance Garner Henry A. Wallace Hubert H. Humphrey Walter F. Mondale

19. Which 71-year-old veep married his 38-year-old girlfriend, thus becoming the only V.P. to enter into matrimony while in the office?

Martin Van Buren Schuyler Colfax Charles Curtis Alben W. Barkley

20. Which of the these veeps were not elected to the office?

Andrew Johnson Hubert H. Humphrey Gerald R. Ford Nelson Rockefeller

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