QUESTIONS:
1. John Kerry recently joked that he was the only senator first elected in 1984 who had not run for President so far. Aside from Kerry, three other Democrats in the Senate "Class of '84" ran for President. How many can you name?
2. Who was the only Republican in the Senate "Class of '84" to have run for President?
3. Supporters of a ballot initiative in Colorado this year that would divide its electoral votes among congressional districts rather than "winner take all" statewide point out that two other states deliver their electoral votes this way. Can you name them?
4. Chief Justice William Rehnquist, who was recently hospitalized, became only the second chief justice to have celebrated his 80th birthday while on the Supreme Court. Who was the first?
5. How many of the present Supreme Court justices are older than Rehnquist?
ANSWERS:
1. Senators. Tom Harkin (Iowa), who sought the Democratic nomination in 1992, Paul Simon (Ill.), who ran in '88, and Al Gore (Tenn.), who sought the nomination in '88 and won it in 2000.
2. Sen. Phil Gramm (Tex.), who sought the GOP nomination in 1996.
3. Maine and Nebraska.
4. Roger Brooke Taney, chief justice from 1836 until his death in 1864.
5. One. Justice John Paul Stevens, 84.
