// For construction new question objects
function question(answer, question, a, b, c, d) {
this.answer = answer;
this.question = question;
this.a = a;
this.b = b;
this.c = c;
this.d = d;
return this;
}
// The array of (in order) correct answer, question, and four options
var units = new Array(
new question("d", "What state has produced the most vice presidents?", "New Jersey", "Masachusetts", "Virginia", "New York"),//1
new question("c", "Which vice president served as captain of the Yale baseball team?", "Nelson Rockefeller", "Walter Mondale", "George Bush", "Al Gore"),//2
new question("b", "Which vice president was married while in office?", "John Adams", "Alben Barkley", "Aaron Burr", "Calvin Coolidge"),//3
new question("a", "Which of the following vice presidents was not elected to the office?", "Gerald Ford", "Richard Nixon", "John Nance Garner", "Lyndon B. Johnson" ),//4
new question("c", "Which vice president won the Nobel Peace Prize while he was in office?", "Harry S Truman", "Nelson Rockefeller", "Charles Dawes", "Spiro Agnew" ),//5
new question("b", "Which vice president was one of the the first persons of Native-American ancestry to reach high office?", "George Clinton", "Charles Curtis", "Thomas Jefferson", "Millard Fillmore" ),//6
new question("d", "Who was the first vice president to be appointed by the Senate (due to a tie vote in the Electoral College)?", "Lyndon B. Johnson", "Hubert Humphrey", "Henry Wallace", "Richard Johnson" ),//7
new question("a", "How many vice presidents have gone on to be president?", "Fourteen", "Twelve", "Sixteen", "Ten" ),//8
new question("d", "Which vice president was indicted for murder while in office?", "John C. Calhoun", "Elbridge Gerry", "William King", "Aaron Burr" ),//9
new question("c", "Which vice president put the environment at the top of his agenda?", "Walter Mondale", "Gerald Ford", "Al Gore", "George Bush" ),//10
new question("b", "Which vice president was popularly known as "His Accidency"?", "Richard Johnson", "John Tyler", "Gerald Ford", "Martin Van Buren" ),//11
new question("c", "Which vice president gave the famous "Checkers" speech?", "Daniel Tompkins", "Hannibal Hamlin", "Richard Nixon", "Garret Hobart" ),//12
new question("d", "Which vice president was dubbed "Uncle" because of his friendliness?", "Thomas Hendricks", "James Sherman", "Charles Curtis", "Adlai Stevenson"),//13
new question("c", "Which vice president wrote Manual of Parlimentary Practice?", "John Adams", "Aaron Burr", "Thomas Jefferson", "George Clinton" ),//14
new question("b", "Who was the first vice president to resign from office in disgrace?", "Richard Nixon", "Spiro Agnew", "Nelson Rockefeller", "Hubert Humphrey" ),//15
new question("a", "Which vice president is remembered for misspelling potato as "potatoe"?", "Dan Quayle", "George Bush", "Al Gore", "Walter Mondale" ),//16
new question("d", "Who was the first woman to serve as vice president?", "Sandra Day O'Connor", "Elizabeth Dole", "Geraldine Ferraro", "None of the Above" ),//17
new question("d", "Which vice president was nicknamed "veep" during his tenure in the office?", "Daniel D. Tompkins", "William Wheeler", "Harry S Truman", "Alben W. Barkley" ),//18
new question("b", "Which vice president was an accomplished composer?", "Henry Wallace", "Charles G. Dawes", "Thomas Marshall", "Thomas Hendricks" ),//19
new question("a", "Which vice president received fewer than 12 months of formal schooling?", "Henry Wilson", "Chester Arthur", "James Sherman", "Aaron Burr" ),//20
new question("c", "Which vice president spent his childhood summers on the family farm in Tennessee?", "Theodore Roosevelt", "Hubert Humphrey", "Al Gore", "Martin Van Buren" ),//21
new question("a", "Which amendment clarifies that the vice president will become the president if the president should die, resign or be removed from office?", "25th Amendment", "26th Amendment", "24th Amendment", "23rd Amendment"),//22
new question("b", "Where does the vice president reside while in office?", "The White House", "On the grounds of the Naval Observatory", "Capitol Hill", "Arlington"),//23
new question("c", "Which vice president enjoyed success as a football player and earned the nickname "Crazy Legs" in high school?", "Lyndon B. Johnson", "Spiro Agnew", "Walter Mondale", "Hubert Humphrey"),//24
new question("b", "Which vice president started each staff meeting with a "joke of the day"?", "Alben Barkley", "George Bush", "Adlai Stevenson", "Theodore Roosevelt"),//25
new question("a", "Which vice president was sworn into the office in Havana, outside of the country?", "William King", "Millard Fillmore", "Andrew Johnson", "Henry Wilson"),//26
new question("d", "Who was the first vice president of the United States of America?", "George Washington", "Thomas Jefferson", "Alexander Hamilton", "John Adams" ),//27
new question("b", "Which of the following is not a political party in the U.S. today?", "Democrat", "Whig", "Republican", "Green"),//28
new question("d", "Which vice president drafted a plan to aid Europe after WWI?", "Thomas Marshall", "Calvin Coolidge", "James Sherman", "Charles Dawes"),//29
new question("a", "Which vice president rose to the presidency after John F. Kennedy's assassination?", "Lyndon B. Johnson", "Robert Kennedy", "Hubert Humphrey", "Walter Mondale"),//30
new question("a", "Which vice president is the only vice president raised in California?", "Richard Nixon", "George Bush", "Spiro Agnew", "Gerald Ford"),//31
new question( "c", "Which position is a nationally elected position?", "Supreme Court Justice", "Secretary of Defense", "Vice President", "Secretary of State"),//32
new question("b", "Which vice president was admitted to the prestigious Skull and Bones club at Yale?", "Al Gore", "George Bush", "Walter Mondale", "Nelson Rockefeller"),//33
new question("a", "How many vice presidents inherited the presidency (due to death of the president)?", "Eight", "Ten", "Twelve", "Fourteen"),//34
new question("d", "Which vice president first became the president upon the death of the president?", "Chester Arthur", "Theodore Roosevelt", "Andrew Johnson", "John Tyler"),//35
new question("c", "Which vice president of the 19th century was the only VP to be elected president?", "George M. Dallas", "Henry Wilson", "Martin Van Buren", "Schuyler Colfax"),//36
new question("a", "Which vice president was a "Rough Rider" before seeking public office?", "Theodore Roosevelt", "Garrett Hobart", "John Nance Garner", "Adlai Stevenson"),//37
new question("c", "Which items, displayed in the Senate, honor the country's vice presidents?", "Wax Figures", "Gold Plaques", "Marble Busts", "Oil Portraits"),//38
new question("d", "Which ticket included two centrist Democrats from the South?", "Truman - Barkley", "Kennedy - Johnson", "Carter - Mondale", "Clinton - Gore"),//39
new question("a", "When was the first nationally televised debate between political candidates?", "1960", "1956", "1964", "1968"),//40
new question("a", "Which vice president coined the widely used term "New Deal?"", "Alben Barkley", "John Nance Garner", "Henry Wallace", "Harry S Truman" ),//41
new question("c", "What vice president called his position "the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived"?", "Thomas Jefferson", "Charles Dawes", "John Adams", "Theodore Roosevelt"),//42
new question("b", "Which vice president said, "I never want to be vice president of anything," before accepting President Gerald R. Ford's offer of the vice presidency?", "Spiro Agnew", "Nelson Rockefeller", "Walter Mondale", "Hubert Humphrey"),//43
new question("a", "This president said in his book Congressional Government, "There is very little to be said about the vice president . . . His importance consists in the fact that he may cease to be vice president."", "Woodrow Wilson", "Ronald Reagan", "Franklin D. Roosevelt", "John F. Kennedy"),//44
new question("d", "How was the vice president chosen in the first two elections?", "He ran on a party ticket with the president.", "His peers nominated him for the position.", "He ran an individual campaign for the office.", "He was the presidential candidate with the second-most votes in the Electoral College."),//45
new question("d", "Which vice president entered William and Mary College at age 16?", "Martin Van Buren", "Hannibal Hamlin", "John C. Calhoun", "Thomas Jefferson"),//46
new question("b", "Which future president’s party nominated him for vice president in order to remove him from being governor and to attempt to prevent him from running for president?", "Adlai Stevenson", "Theodore Roosevelt", "Richrad Nixon", "Lyndon B. Johnson"),//47
new question("d", "What does Harry S. Truman's middle initial stand for?", "Stanton", "Samuel", "Scott", "Nothing"),//48
new question("a", "Which vice president was attacked (along with his wife) by an angry mob while visiting Venezuela?", "Richard Nixon", "Garret Hobart", "Thomas Hendricks", "James Sherman"),//49
new question("d", "Which vice president fought in the Revolutionary War and was tried for treason for his part in a plot to establish a new republic?", "John Adams", "Thomas Jefferson", "George Clinton", "Aaron Burr"),//50
new question("a", "Elbridge Gerry has the dubious honor of being the inspiration for which political term?", "Gerrymander", "Ad Hoc", "Pork Barrel Economics"),//51
new question("b", "Which obscure vice president was plagued by rumors of having cheated New York out of money only to find that the state owed him $94,000?", "Charles Fairbanks", "Daniel D. Tompkins", "William Wheeler", "James Sherman"),//52
new question("c", "Which vice president gained fame as the man thought to have killed Tecumseh?", "William King", "John Tyler", "Richard M. Johnson", "Andrew Johnson"),//53
new question("a", "Who was the only vice president to take the oath of office on foreign soil and die before ever serving?", "William King", "William Wheeler", "John Tyler", "Chester Arthur"),//54
new question("b", "Which man was one of two Centre College alumni to become vice president?", "Richard Johnson", "John C. Breckenridge", "Alben Barkley", "Millard Fillmore"),//55
new question("d", "This vice president once refused to leave for lunch in order to prevent his own party from taking advantage of his absence in presiding over the Senate.", "George Dallas", "Thomas Hendricks", "Schuyler Colfax", "Levi P. Morton"),//56
new question("b", "Which vice president was re-nominated for a second term, died six days before the election and still managed to garner three million votes?", "Theodore Roosevelt", "James Sherman", "Hannibal Hamlin", "John C. Calhoun"),//57
new question("a", "This vice president, while presiding over a Senate debate about the country's needs, quipped, "What this country needs is a good five-cent cigar."", "Thomas Marshall", "John Nance Garner", "Henry Wilson", "Calvin Coolidge"),//58
new question("c", "Which vice president won the Nobel Peace Price for his plan for the money Germany owed after its defeat in 1918?", "Charles Curtis", "James Sherman", "Charles Dawes", "Henry Wallace"),//59
new question("d", "This vice president was the great-grandson of a Kaw Indian chief.", "Thomas Hendricks", "Spiro Agnew", "George Bush", "Charles Curtis"),//60
new question("d", "Which vice president, upon being offered the position, remarked, "The vice-presidency is not worth a warm bucket of spit"?", "Harry Truman", "Richard Nixon", "Lyndon B. Johnson", "John Nance Garner" ),//61
new question("b", "This vice president developed his own hybrid corn and went on to advocate and organize many of the New Deal’s farm programs.", "Alben Barkley", "Henry Wallace", "Harry Truman", "Charles Curtis"),//62
new question("a", "This vice president had many firsts: the first vice president to marry while in office; the first vice president to make a cross-country campaign by airplane; and the first vice president to be called "Veep."", "Alben Barkley", "Schuyler Colfax", "Richard Nixon", "Hubert Humphrey"),//63
new question("b", "Which vice president was awarded the Bronze Star in World War II and was the only vice president forced to resign from the office?", "Gerald Ford", "Spiro Agnew", "Richard Nixon", "Walter Mondale"),//64
new question("c", "This vice president co-founded Zapata Off-Shore Company, the maker of the first off-shore drilling equipment.", "Al Gore", "Charles Dawes", "George Bush", "James Sherman"),//65
new question("d", "Who said, "I am vice president. In this I am nothing. But I may be everything."", "Thomas Jefferson", "Aaron Burr", "Elbridge Gerry", "John Adams" ),//66
new question("b", "Vice presidents never attended presidents' cabinet meetings until which war?", "World War II", "World War I", "Korean War", "Vietnam War"),//67
new question("a", "When Theodore Roosevelt was vice president, what suggestion did he make for the office?", "To Abolish It", "To Expand Responsibilities", "To Increase Pay", "To Increase Benefits"),//68
new question("d", "After taking the oath of office to become president, which vice president said, "Boys, if you ever pray, pray for me now. I don't know whether you fellows ever had a load of hay fall on you, but when they told me yesterday what had happened, I felt like the moon, the stars, and all the planets had fallen on me…."?", "Chester Arthur", "Gerald Ford", "Lyndon B. Johnson", "Harry S Truman"),//69
new question("c", "Walter Mondale, at the time a vice president himself, said this of which former vice president? -- "He taught us all how to hope and how to love, how to win and how to lose, he taught us how to live and, finally, he taught us how to die."", "Henry Wallace", "Harry S Truman", "Hubert Humphrey", "Alben Barkley" ),//70
new question("b", "Who said of the vice presidency, "Here is one instance in which it is the man who makes the office, not the office the man"?", "Al Gore", "Harry S Truman", "Walter Mondale", "Theodore Roosevelt"),//71
new question("b", "This vice president explained why the founding fathers created the vice presidency this way: "Having little use for kings, our founding fathers knew nonetheless that a monarch's main virtue is assured continuity."", "George Bush", "Gerald Ford", "Spiro Agnew", "Richard Nixon"),//72
new question("c", "Which vice president had 16 children?", "Millard Fillmore", "Martin Van Buren", "John Tyler", "George Dallas"),//73
new question("d", "Which vice president said in a speech, "I would rather be a servant in the House of the Lord than to sit in the seats of the mighty" just before dropping dead?", "Adlai Stevenson", "Daniel Tompkins", "Garret Hobart", "Alben Barkley"),//74
new question("a", "Why did Vice President Charles Dawes miss an important Senate vote that required his vote to break a tie?", "He Was Taking a Nap", "He Was Ill", "He was called out of the country on an important foreign mission", "He was called in (by the president) for expert advice on military affairs"),//75
new question("a", "How many former vice presidents are portrayed on Mt. Rushmore?", "Two", "Three", "One", "None"),//76
new question("b", "Which vice president was a loyal member of the New York "Tweed gang" political machine?", "Theodore Roosevelt", "Chester Arthur", "Levi P. Morton", "Charles Fairbanks" ),//77
new question("d", "What vice president, after losing his wife and mother in the same day, gave up politics (temporarily) and moved to his cattle ranches in the Dakota Territory?", "Charles Curtis", "Henry Wilson", "Schuyler Colfax", "Theodore Roosevelt" ),//78
new question("c", "Which vice president was the star of the University of Michigan's championship football team?", "Nelson Rockefeller", "Spiro Agnew", "Gerald Ford", "George Bush"),//79
new question("a", "Which vice president carried two loaded pistols whenever he presided over the Senate because of rumors of a plot to assassinate him?", "Martin Van Buren", "Richard Nixon", "John C. Calhoun", "Chester Arthur")//80
);