|
|
|
|
|
||
Answers
-- Fun, Facts, and Trivia
September 2004 Issue
The Dirksen Center wants to help teachers teach better by giving them the opportunity to use technology to create, customize, and share online learning activities in their classrooms. The Center wants to help students learn more by bringing educational resources together in one place that provide new ways to learn about Congress interactively.
Introduce a little on-line fun to your students to help them better understand the candidates and national conventions. Have them read the text found at: http://www.congressforkids.net/Elections_candidatesatcon.htm and then click Show What You Know next to the red star. Have them complete the interactive quiz, Conventions: The Delegate and Candidates. Want more? Click the Conventions: The Delegates and Candidates, Part 2 button at the bottom of the page to play an online matching quiz.
** NOMINATING NONSENSE **
1. What United States Senator quoted Alfred Lord Tennyson in his speech
to the 1980 Democratic National Convention in New York City after losing
his bid for the presidential nomination?
Answer: Senator Edward M. Kennedy
2. Who was the last Democratic presidential candidate to require more than
one ballot to receive the nomination? At what convention did this event
take place?
Answer: Adlai Stevenson at the 1952 Democratic National Convention
in Chicago, Illinois
3. Who were the Republican and Democratic nominees for president and vice
president in 1960 and 1988?
Answer:
1960
Democrats - John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson
Republicans - Richard M. Nixon and Henry Cabot Lodge
1988
Democrats - Michael Dukakis and Lloyd Bentsen
Republicans - George Bush and Dan Quayle
Answers to the August issue of Fun, Facts, and Trivia: http://www.webcommunicator.org/funfactstrivia0804ans.htm.
Do you have or know of an online activity you would like The Dirksen Congressional Center to feature on its new Web site for students -- Congress for Kids? The Center is currently seeking online activities that provide new ways to learn about Congress and the workings of the federal government interactively.
If you have questions or suggestions for online activities, contact Cindy Koeppel.
|
|