QUESTIONS:
1. The President not long ago lit the national Christmas tree. In the first Christmas tree lighting after World War II began, what other world leader joined President Franklin D. Roosevelt for the ceremony?
2. There have been recent rumors that, should Chief Justice William Rehnquist soon retire, the President will name Associate Justice Antonin Scalia to replace him. At 69, Scalia would tie the record for oldest man to be appointed chief justice. Who holds that distinction now?
3. Who was the second-oldest person appointed chief justice?
4. Who was the last former governor of a Southern state to be elected mayor after leaving the statehouse?
5. Rep. Phil Crane (R.-Ill.), who lost his House seat this November, was first elected to Congress in a nationally watched special election in 1969. What other nationally known conservative leader lost a special election for the state senate from Wisconsin on the same day Crane was elected to Congress?
ANSWERS:
1. Prime Minister Winston Churchill of Great Britain
2. Harlan Fiske Stone, chief justice from 1941 until his death in 1946.
3. Charles Evans Hughes, appointed chief justice in 1030 at age 68.
4. Democrat Douglas Wilder, governor of Virginia from 1989-93, who was elected mayor of Richmond, Va., last November.
5. David Keene, chairman of the American Conservative Union since 1984.
