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Quiz: Test your political I.Q.

1. At which Democratic National Convention was a platform plank condemning the Ku Klux Klan defeated?
a) 1936 in Philadelphia
b) 1928 in Houston
c) 1924 in New York
d) 1916 in St. Louis

2. He was speaker of the House longer than any other man in history:
a) Tip O'Neill
b) John McCormack
c) Champ Clark
d) Sam Rayburn

3. Franklin Roosevelt declared this man "the Happy Warrior of the political battlefield" in nominating him for president in 1924:
a) John Davis
b) Al Smith
c) Woodrow Wilson
d) Burton K. Wheeler

4. This president appointed Associate Justice Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American to be named to the Supreme Court:
a) Franklin Roosevelt
b) Harry Truman
c) John Kennedy
d) Lyndon Johnson

5. The first of Sen. Joseph Lieberman's five books, "The Power Broker," is a biography of this former Democratic National Committee chairman:
a) Larry O'Brien
b) Ed Flynn
c) John Bailey
d) Jim Farley

6. He declared, "I am not a member of any organized party. I'm a Democrat."
a) Al Smith
b) Will Rogers
c) Eugene McCarthy
d) Morris Udall