ANSWERS

1. Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr. The fix was the 12th Amendment.

2. Henry Clay

3. Richard Mentor Johnson. Virginia's electors refused to vote for him (in the 1836 election).

4. John Quincy Adams

5. "Tippecanoe and Tyler too"

6. Many voters were farmers who had to travel a long way to vote. Monday would have meant travelling on Sunday, the Sabbath. Wednesday was often market day, so Tuesday was the practical choice.

7. Victoria Woodhull. Her running mate was Frederick Douglass.

8. Horace Greeley, who founded the New-York Tribune

9. Rutherford B. Hayes (1876) and Benjamin Harrison (1888)

10. Grover Cleveland (22nd and 24th) and Donald Trump (45th and 47th)

11. Theodore Roosevelt came second, ahead of William Howard Taft. Taft won only Utah and Vermont.

12. The Literary Digest. Landon won only Maine and Vermont.

13. The Chicago Daily Tribune

14. George Wallace

15. McGovern won Massachusetts. Mondale won Minnesota.

16. Wyoming

17. The 23rd Amendment. DC has 3 electoral votes.

18. Maine and Nebraska

19. 537 votes. The case was Bush v. Gore.

20. Colin Powell