QUESTIONS:
1. Should Arkansas's Gov. Mike Huckabee be elected U.S. Senator next year, his fellow Republican Winthrop P. Rockefeller would become governor. How many Rockefeller family members have been state governors?
2. How many Rockefellers have been defeated for governorships?
3. How many Rockefellers have been elected to the U.S. Senate?
4. Nelson Rockefeller was placed in nomination for President at Republican conventions in 1964 and '68. What other Rockefeller was nominated for President at a national party convention?
5. Two of the Democrats Nelson Rockefeller defeated in his four winning races for governor of New York had the distinction of being portrayed by actors-one in a motion picture, the other in a television series. Can you name them?
ANSWERS:
1. Three. Republicans Nelson of New York, governor from 1958-73, and Winthrop, Sr. of Arkansas, governor from 1966-70, and Democrat Jay of West Virginia, governor from 1976-84.
2. Two. Winthrop, who lost a bid for governor of Arkansas in 1964 and was defeated for re-election in 1970, and Jay, who was beaten in his first race for governor of West Virginia in 1972.
3. One. Jay, who won his Senate seat from West Virginia in 1984 and was re-elected to his fourth term last year.
4. Winthrop, who was Arkansas' favorite son for President at the 1968 Republican convention.
5. Robert Morgenthau, Rockefeller's Democratic opponent in 1962 (later Manhattan's District Attorney), was portrayed on NBC's "Law and Order" by Steven Hill. Frank O'Connor, Democratic nominee in 1966 (a one-time Queens District Attorney), was portrayed by Anthony Quayle in Alfred Hitchcock's 1956 film The Wrong Man.
