The Iowa Caucuses Trivia Quiz

Answer: Republican

Huckabee, the former Arkansas Governor, earned nearly 35 percent of the vote while finishing first among the six Republican candidates.

He would lose the nomination to John McCain. Barack Obama would ultimately win the overall race and become president.

Answer: Bill Clinton

Clinton, who would serve 8 years as president, finished fourth in Iowa that year with just 2 percent of the vote.

Harkin had been a Senator from Iowa since 1985 and was well liked in the state. He retired from the Senate in 2015. Harkin also served in the House of Representatives from 1975 to 1985.

Eventually Harkin bowed out of the 1992 race for president before all of the primaries had taken place. He put his support behind Clinton once he had suspended his own campaign.

Answer: Bob Dole

While eventual vice president Dan Quayle is more remembered for his spelling issues, 1988 candidate Bob Dole wasn't much better.

Dole misspelled the names of the cities, a sports team and two high profile supports in a release during his second attempt at becoming president in 1996.

Dole did win Iowa in 1988 before bowing to then-vice president George H.W. Bush for the Republican nomination.

Answer: Dick Gephardt

It was a battle to find a viable candidate to replace the term limited Ronald Reagan. Dukakis won the eventual nomination, but fell to George H.W. Bush for the presidency.

That year Iowa falsely picked both nominees for president, picking Bob Dole on the GOP side.

Answer: George H.W. Bush

Bush won the 1980 Iowa race, but few other states. Reagan agreed to pick him as his running mate and the two went on to win the presidency in both 1980 and 1984.

Bush would later become president in 1988, only after losing the Iowa Caucus that year.

Answer: No candidate actually won, the Caucus was "uncommitted" both years.

Iowa uses a caucus rather than a traditional primary. Because of this, people who vote can choose "uncommitted", essentially casting their vote for none of the above.

In 1972 there were a few hundred more uncommitted voters than who chose for George McGovern, though both got about 36 percent of the the vote.

In 1976 there were 37 percent uncommitted voters and eventual president Jimmy Carter had 26 percent.

Answer: Yes

Rand Paul ran as a Republican in 2016, as did Ron Paul in both 2008 and 2012. Neither won the Iowa Caucus.

Ron Paul also ran as a member of the Libertarian Party in 1988.

Answer: 0

Both George H.W. Bush (1980, 1988, 1992) and George W. Bush (2000, 2004) won the Iowa Caucus multiple times. But neither won as a member of the Democratic Party.

They won a combined five times all as members of the Republican Party. Between them they served three terms as U.S. President.

Answer: Mitt Romney

Romney, the former Massachusetts governor and son of the former Michigan governor (George Romney) was unsuccessful in both of his bids for the Presidency. In 2008 he lost the party nomination to John McCain.

In 2012 he won the Republican nomination, but failed to oust incumbent president Barack Obama.

In 2008 Mike Huckabee won the Caucus, McCain finished fourth. In 2012 Rick Santorum won the nomination by a narrow margin over Romney.

Answer: No

Gephardt served as a U.S. Representative from 1977 to 2005. He represented Missouri.

In 1988 he won the Iowa Caucus but later lost the nomination to Michael Dukakis. In 2004 he placed fourth in Iowa and never truly contended with eventual nominee John Kerry.