Debate Trivia

1. Who was Democratic Senator Lloyd Bentsen talking to when he said, "Senator, I served with Jack Kennedy. I knew Jack Kennedy. Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you are no Jack Kennedy."
   
   
2. What did Democratic Presidential Nominee Al Gore say he would put "in a lockbox" in a 2000 presidential debate?
   
   
3. Vice President Dick "Old Scratch" Cheney mistook factcheck.com for factcheck.org when telling people to verify information on Haliburton in a 2004 debate. What did factcheck.com lead to?
   
   
4. In a 1976 debate between Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford, what did Ford declare was not in Eastern Europe and never would be under a Ford administration?
   
   
5. When Ronald Reagan in a 1984 debate said, "I am not going to exploit for political purposes, my opponents youth and inexperience," who was he referring to?
   
   
6. In Bob Dole's first VP debate with Walter Mondale in 1976, what did he call the wars America fought in the 20th century?
   
   
7. In a 1992 debate, President H.W. Bush caught flak for doing what while Bill Clinton was speaking?
   
   
8. Which first general-election presidential debate was televised?
   
   
9. Ross Perot's running mate, retired Vice Adm James Stockdale, opened a 1992 debate with Democratic vice presidential candidates Dan Quayle and Al Gore by asking what?
   
   
10. In 1998, Democratic nominee Michael Dukakis saw his poll numbers plummet after a debate in which he gave a flat answer to a question about what topic?
    
    
11. Who asked the question?
    
    
12. What did Governor Sarah Palin say to Senator Joe Biden to break the ice before the first and only 2008 VP debate?
    
    
13. What two men participated in the first formal debate ever held between vice presidential candidates?

Answers:

1. Dan Quayle in the 1988 Vice Presidential debate.
2. Social Security
3. An anti-Bush site. (The site belonged to George Soros, billionaire Kerry support)
4. Soviet domination (In the following days, staffers said the president simply meant that the U.S. would never recognize Soviet control of Eastern Europe.)
5. Walter Mondale
6. Democrat wars (Dole continued, "If we added up the killed and wounded in the Democrat wars in this century, it would be about 1.6 million Americans, enough to fill the city of Detroit.")
7. Looking at his watch.
8. Kennedy/Nixon 1960
9. Who am I? Why am I here?
10. Capital punishment.
11. Moderator Bernard Shaw
12. Can I call you Joe?"
13. Walter Mondale and Bob Dole.

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