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Introduction:
"A quiz about political TV appearances, debates and campaign commercials."


1. A famous television commercial for this candidate showed a little girl picking daisies, then abruptly cut to a massive nuclear explosion.
    Walter Mondale
    Lyndon Johnson
    Barry Goldwater
    Ronald Reagan


2. While it is now a regular part of every presidential campaign for candidates to do the rounds of late night talk shows and comedy variety shows, it was novel in 1968 when this candidate appeared on 'Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In'.
    Robert Kennedy
    Hubert Humphrey
    Richard Nixon
    George Wallace


3. Who was the first president to appear on 'Saturday Night Live'?
    George H. W. Bush
    Jimmy Carter
    George W. Bush
    Gerald Ford


4. During his campaign for president, Bill Clinton appeared on this television talk show playing saxophone with the band.
    Late Night with David Letterman
    The Arsenio Hall Show
    The Tonight Show
    The Tom Green Show


5. In 1988, George H. W. Bush aired a controversial campaign ad accusing his opponent, Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis, of being soft on crime. Which recidivist criminal was the focus of the commercial?
    Jeffrey Dahmer
    Willie Horton
    O. J. Simpson
    Charles Manson


6. After the first 1960 presidential debate between Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy, national polls showed that people who saw the debate on television thought that Kennedy had won, while people who heard the debate on radio thought Nixon had won.
    True
    False


7. After the 1960 Kennedy/Nixon debates, when was the next televised presidential debate?
    1972
    1964
    1976
    1968


8. Who was the first non-major party candidate to appear in a televised presidential debate?
    Ross Perot
    John Anderson
    Ralph Nader
    George Wallace


9. In what year did the first political campaign commercial appear on television?
    1948
    1956
    1952
    1950


10. In 1991, former two-time Democratic presidential candidate Jesse Jackson appeared on Saturday Night Live and read this Dr. Seuss book:
    The Sneetches
    The Cat in the Hat
    How the Grinch Stole Christmas
    Green Eggs and Ham


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