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To: Peter Dierks who wrote (9456)	6/22/2006 6:02:16 PM
From: Peter Dierks	Respond to of 71588

The Answers BY JAMES TARANTO Thursday, June 22, 2006 6:00 p.m. EDT Here are the answers to last week's presidential trivia quiz. Congratulations to Brian Kalt, the only reader to answer all 12 question correctly. 1. Born west of the Mississippi. 2. None; states carried in the given year by a candidate who failed to carry all bordering states. Homer nods: We omitted Connecticut in 1988 and Maine in 2000; the question has been corrected. 3. Inaugurated on two different calendar dates. Washington's first inauguration took place April 30, before the March 4 date was standardized; Monroe's and Wilson's second inaugurations took place on March 5 because March 4 was a Sunday; Theodore Roosevelt's, Coolidge's, Truman's and Lyndon Johnson's first inaugurations all occurred in the middle of a presidential term; and Franklin Roosevelt's first inauguration was March 4 but his second through fourth were Jan. 20, per the 20th Amendment. 4. It was pre-empted for a special report on the death of President Eisenhower. 5. Born in a state before its entry into the union. 6. How recently a third-party candidate has finished second. Ross Perot in 1992, George Wallace in 1968, Strom Thurmond in 1948, Robert LaFollette in 1924, Theodore Roosevelt in 1912, James Weaver in 1892, John Breckinridge or John Bell in 1860, Martin Van Buren in 1848. 7. Life span after leaving office. 8. Their names end with a letter other than N. 9. Number of electoral votes received, for either president or vice president, before being elected president. 10. A capital of a state or country is named after them. Washington, D.C.; Jefferson City, Mo.; Madison, Wis.; Monrovia, Liberia; Jackson, Miss.; Lincoln, Neb. A reader points out that these also were the only presidents elected to two terms before 1868; or, as another reader puts it, "while the three-fifths rule for counting slaves was in effect." We would have accepted either version had one of these readers gotten the other 11 answers right. 11. Date of issue of the first U.S. postage stamp to bear their likeness. 12. Carter; 1981. Although Wilson began the modern tradition of delivering the State of the Union orally in 1913, several presidents since have deviated from it