HOW'S YOUR POLITICAL I.Q.?

1. March 23 was the 30th anniversary of Ronald Reagan's dramatic upset of President Gerald Ford in the North Carolina 1976 Republican presidential primary. Before that, when was the last time a challenger had defeated a sitting President in a primary?

2. On May 1, Reagan again defeated Ford in a primary and won all the convention delegates. Where was that primary held?

3. Later that year, Reagan made an unprecedented move by announcing his vice presidential running mate before the national convention had selected a nominee for President. Who was his choice for a running mate?

4. Reagan supporters at the convention tried unsuccessfully to implement a rules change that would have required all candidates for nomination as President to name a running mate before the balloting. What was the name of the rule this famous proposal planned to change?

5. After the Reagan-Ford primary battles, when was the next time a sitting President was defeated by a challenger in a primary?

1. In 1952, when Tennessee Democratic Sen. Estes Kefauver defeated President Harry Truman in the New Hampshire primary. (Truman subsequently announced he would not seek re-election.)

2. In Texas.

3. Sen. Richard Schweiker of Pennsylvania.

4. Rule 16-c.

5. On March 4, 1980, when Sen. Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts won his home state's presidential primary over then-President Jimmy Carter.

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