Kaufmann quiz: Elections in Chicago
Photo: Barack Obama smiles after he voted in the 2008 presidential elections. Emmanuel Dunand/AFP via Getty Images
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Where did President Obama give his victory speech in 2008?
Correct answer: Grant Park
McCormick Place
Millennium Park
Grant Park
The Conrad Hilton
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According to the Chicago Daily Tribune's newspaper headline on the morning after election day in 1948, who beat Truman?
Correct answer: Dewey
Eisenhower
Dewey
Kennedy
Nixon
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Which Illinois politician won the state's Democratic primary for president in 1988?
Correct answer: Paul Simon
Hillary Clinton
Jesse Jackson
Paul Simon
Barack Obama
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Which two candidates had a "Beer Summit" at the Billy Goat Tavern the day after Election Day in 2010?
Correct answer: Mark Kirk & Alexi Giannoulias
Paul Simon & Sheila Simon
Dick Durbin & Roland Burris
Peter Fitzgerald & Carol Moseley Braun
Mark Kirk & Alexi Giannoulias
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On election night in 2001, which indicted Cicero town president allegedly locked reporters into the election party as an alleged sign of intimidation?
Correct answer: Betty Loren-Maltese
Bruce Rauner
Betty Loren-Maltese
Ed Olcyzk
Larry Dominick
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Who did a "Terminator" impression saying "I'll be back" at a unity breakfast for state Republicans in 2010?
Correct answer: Judy Baar Topinka
Rod Blagojevich
Judy Baar Topinka
Jim Edgar
Pate Philip
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On election night in 1960, Mayor Richard J. Daley famously said this when allegedly asked by Robert F. Kennedy, "How many votes do we have in Cook County?"
Correct answer: "How many do you need?"
"Politics ain't bean bag."
"Wudda had more if you ran a better campaign."
"How many do you need?"
"You'll have plenty."
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What Chicago Democratic voting strategy not only helped Bill Clinton win Illinois in 1996, but helped defeat almost every Republican candidate down ballot. It was outlawed by the state a year later.
Correct answer: Punch 10
Vote Early, Vote Often
Daley Double
Punch 10
Early Voting
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Which Republican candidate led supporters on a march to the Cook County Election office after losing on election night in 2006?
Correct answer: Anthony Peraica
Larry Dominick
Bob Fioretti
Jim Edgar
Anthony Peraica
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In 1928, Al Capone helped reelect "Big Bill" Thompson for Chicago mayor by dispatching his goons to not only to assail Thompson's rivals but to throw hand grenades into polling places. What does history call this?
Correct answer: The Pineapple Primary
The Pineapple Primary
Veto the Vote
Capone's Campaign
The Violent Vote
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