Political Trivia!

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Who ran for President of the United States with the campaign slogan "A chicken in every pot and a car in every garage"?

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1. What U.S. President refused to use the telephone while in office?

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9. Choose Your Answer...

A: Herbert Hoover
B: Richard Nixon
C: Calvin Coolidge
D: Warren G. Harding

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30. Collidge?

I'm not sure on this one.

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34. absolutely!

Calvin Coolidge refused to use the telephone while he was President. A man of few words, he once said, "If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it."

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2. What political theorist wrote,

"Freedom of the press, freedom of association, the inviolability of domicile, and all the rest of the rights of man are respected so long as no one tries to use them against the privileged class. On the day they are launched against the privileged they are overthrown"?

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12. Two Guesses

Just to take a guess--maybe Upton Sinclair or Eugene V. Debs?

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15. sorry! We now move to the Multiple Choice round...

A: Karl Marx
B: Peter Kropotkin
C: Malcolm X
D: Ralph Nader

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17. B. Russian anarchist Prince

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19. Correct!

Peter Kropotkin, one of Russia's foremost political thinkers and an advocate of what he called "anarchist communism", wrote "Freedom of the press, freedom of association, the inviolability of domicile, and all the rest of the rights of man are respected so long as no one tries to use them against the privileged class. On the day they are launched against the privileged they are overthrown." Known as "the Anarchist Prince", Kropotkin left behind many books and pamphlets on his political beliefs, the most prominent being The Conquest of Bread and Fields, Factories and Workshops.

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3. What new economic program did China's Mao Zedong announce in 1958?

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10. Great Leap Forward

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13. That's right!

In 1958, Mao Zedong, chairman of the central government council of the newly established People's Republic of China, announced a new economic program aimed at quickly increasing industrial and agricultural production and revitalizing all sectors of the ailing Chinese economy. Known as "The Great Leap Forward", Mao's plan was intended to communize industry by, for instance, building thousands of backyard steel furnaces to replace large steel mills. The concept turned out to be completely unrealistic. More than 20 million people starved to death, and Mao was temporarily forced to turn control of the government over to Liu Shaoqi and Deng Xiaoping.

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4. Attributed to Herbert Hoover but he never actually said that exact phrase, I think

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6. It's trivia - answer does not have to be technically correct.

you win!



In 1928, Herbert Hoover ran for President of the United States with the campaign slogan "A chicken in every pot and a car in every garage". Hoover carried 58.2 percent of the vote, easily defeating Democratic candidate Alfred E. Smith.


Care to try your luck at the other questions?

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5. What political activist organized the famous "March of the Mill Children"

from Philadelphia to President Theodore Roosevelt's summer home in 1903?

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16. Choose Your Answer...

A: Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
B: Emma Goldman
C: Helen Keller
D: Mary Harris Jones

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31. I'll guess

it was Mary Harris Jones, though I don't know for sure.

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33. Correctamundo!

Two correct! You get the special dance :)



In 1903, Mary Harris Jones organized the famous "March of the Mill Children" to demand an end of child labor. Mother Jones (as she came to be called) and several dozen children, some of them crippled by machinery in the textile mills, marched from Philadelphia to President Theodore Roosevelt's summer home on Long Island. She wrote, "I went to Kensington, Pennsylvania, where seventy-five thousand textile workers were on strike. Of this number at least ten thousand were little children. The workers were striking for more pay and shorter hours. Every day little children came into the Union Headquarters, some with their hands off, some with the thumb missing, some with their fingers off at the knuckle. They were stooped little things, round shouldered and skinny.... I asked some of the parents if they would let me have their little boys and girls for a week or ten days, promising to bring them back safe and sound.... a few men and women went with me.... One little fellow had a drum and another had a fife.... We carried banners that said: "We want time to play."" When the children reached Roosevelt's house, he refused to see them. But their march had drawn national attention to the problem of child labor.

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36. What a pretty little girl

:eyes:

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7. Hoover or Roosevelt

can't remember which one.

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11. Hoover... Minnesota Lib beat you to it...

However, there are 4 other questions to try your luck at...

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8. Herbert Hoover in 1928 and he bet Al Smith....

....the catholic democratic candidate

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24. some people say Al Smith said it.

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14. Was he a good friend of Henry Ford?

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18. good question!

:rofl:

actually no. He was in business with Alexander Graham Bell. :P :rofl:

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20. Who Said These Things?

Who is the author of these two quotes:

1) "No business which depends for existence by paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country."
2) "The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic State itself. That, in its essence, is Fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any controlling private power."

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21. My favorite Prez...

FDR


:patriot:

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23. A Winner

Yay! Right on all counts--the Greatest.

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26. I admit... I googled the first one, to make sure I remembered right.

sometimes my brain just gets so full, things fall out. :shrug:


:)

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37. TAPE IT UP MAYBE?

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38. Masking, Packing, or Duct?

so many choices! lol.

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22. My Dad always said it was Hoover , and within a year, we didn't

have pot to piss in or a window to throw it out of.

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25. Was Hoover the scapegoat?

discuss. :popcorn:

Disaster in the Making
As early as 1925, then-Secretary of Commerce Hoover had warned President Coolidge that stock market speculation was getting out of hand. Yet in his final State of the Union Address, Coolidge saw no reason for alarm. "No Congress...ever assembled has met with a more pleasing prospect than that which appears at the present time"...said Coolidge early in 1929. "In the domestic field there is tranquility and contentment...and the highest record of prosperity in years."

Al Smith's campaign manager, General Motors executive John J. Raskob, agreed. In an article entitled "Everybody Ought to be Rich" Raskob declared, "Prosperity is in the nature of an endless chain and we can break it only by refusing to see what it is." President-elect Hoover disagreed. Even before his inauguration he urged the Federal Reserve to halt "crazy and dangerous" gambling on Wall Street by increasing the discount rate the Fed charged banks for speculative loans. He asked magazines and newspapers to run stories warning of the dangers of rampant speculation.

Once in the office, the new president ordered a reluctant Andrew Mellon, his holdover secretary of the treasury, to promote the purchase of bonds instead of stocks. He sent his friend Henry Robinson, a Los Angeles banker, to convey a cautionary message to the financiers of Wall Street--and received in return a long, scoffing memorandum from Thomas W. Lamont of J.P. Morgan and Company. When the Federal Reserve Board that August did take steps to check the flow of speculative credit, New York bankers defied Washington, the National City Bank alone promising $100 million in fresh loans. An angry Hoover let the president of the New York Stock Exchange know that he was thinking of regulatory steps to curb stock manipulation and other excesses. Yet he undercut his own threat by placing ultimate responsibility for such measures on New York State's new governor, Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Presidents in 1929 were not supposed to regulate Wall Street, or even talk about the gyrating market for fear of inadvertently setting off a panic. Hoover had his own reasons for keeping quiet. His conscience was pained after a friend took his advice to buy an issue that later nosedived. "To clear myself," the president told intimates, "I just bought it back and I have never advised anybody since."

http://hoover.archives.gov/exhibits/Hooverstory/gallery06/gallery06.html

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29. Hoover was Rich and Oblivious

Hoover said, during a campaign speech, "In America, today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than in any land." This was October, 1928, almost exactly one year before the stock market crash and the total, nationwide, devastating Depression. Hoover was a tax-cutting, deregulating, no Government programs kind of President, and this is what you get--disaster.

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35. "Rich and Oblivious" hmmmmm.....

sounds like someone else we know...

:)

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27. #1 and #5 are still looking for an answer people!

step right up and try your luck!

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32. I did

but as a reply to each question-

1. Coolidge

2. Jones

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28. Herbert Hoover, I believe

the slogan was mocked as he did little to stop the slide into Depression after the 1929 Crash.