QUESTIONS:
1. The recall election in California October 7 is attracting worldwide attention. How many states have a recall provision for office-holders in their respective constitutions?
2. Republican gubernatorial hopefuls Tom McClintock and Bill Simon have both been defeated for office before, as has Democratic Gov. Gray Davis. Who was the last Democratic governor of California who had never been defeated before he won the office?
3. Who was the last Republican governor who had never been defeated before he won the office?
4. Prior to his election as governor in 1998, Gray Davis was lieutenant governor. Who was the last lieutenant governor of California to go on to become governor?
5. Ronald Reagan was in television before he became governor of California. What California governor went into television after he left office?
ANSWERS:
1. Eighteen.
2. Edmund "Jerry" Brown, Jr. in 1974.
3. Ronald Reagan in 1966.
4. Republican Goodwin Knight, who moved up to the governorship in 1953 when fellow Republican Earl Warren resigned to become chief justice of the United States.
5. Knight, who went on to do weekly television commentary after leaving office in 1958.
