QUESTIONS:
1. John Kerry is the fourth Massachusetts Democrat since 1980 to lose nomination or election for the presidency. Can you name the previous three?
2. Former Sen. John Danforth (R.-Mo.) has just resigned as UN ambassador. Prior to him, who was the last former senator to serve as UN ambassador?
3. UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has been under fire lately. Since the UN was founded in 1945, two secretary generals have been vetoed for second terms following opposition from a major world power. Can you name them?
4. When the UN charter was ratified in 1945, only two U.S. senators cast votes against it. Can you name them?
5. Rumor had it that Ambassador Danforth was disappointed because he wasn??¢â???¬â???¢t appointed secretary of State. Who was the last UN ambassador to become secretary of State?
ANSWERS:
1. Edward Kennedy (who lost the nomination in 1980), Michael Dukakis (who lost the general election in 1988), and Paul Tsongas (who lost the nomination in 1992).
2. Henry Cabot Lodge, former senator from Massachusetts, who was UN ambassador from 1952-60.
3. Trygve Lie, secretary general from 1946-52, vetoed by the Soviet Union for another term, and Boutros-Boutros Ghali, secretary general from 1990-96, vetoed for another term by the United States.
4. Republicans William Langer (N.D.) and Henrik Shipstead (Minn.).
5. Madeleine Albright, ambassador from 1992-96, and secretary of State from 1996-2000.
