Quiz: How much do you know about American vice presidents?

Things are a real mess over there so let’s do a quiz about it.

DONALD TRUMP HAS used the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee this week to announce his prospective pick for Vice President of the United States.

Having parted ways with Mike Pence after many Trump supporters decided that he was a traitor and started threatening his life, Trump has now landed on the Ohio senator JD Vance.

How much do you know about vice presidents of the USA?

(And yes, in case you’re wondering – we wrote this quiz before the bombshell news tonight about Joe Biden).

Who was the first Vice President of the United States?

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Thomas Jefferson

John Adams

Benjamin Franklin

James Madison

Who was the last person who be elected president immediately after serving as vice president?

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Gerald Ford

Ronald Reagan

George HW Bush

George W Bush

Who was John F Kennedy's vice president when he was assassinated in 1963?

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Richard Nixon

Robert McNamara

Robert Kennedy

Lyndon B Johnson

Which of these presidents never served in the role of vice president?

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Calvin Coolidge

Theodore Roosevelt

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Harry Truman

Joe Biden's vice president Kamala Harris was formerly a senator for which US state?

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Illinois

New York

California

Texas

Vice President Andrew B Johnson became president after the death of which sitting president?

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William Henry Harrison

James Garfield

William McKinley

Abraham Lincoln

Which eventual vice president was famously told: "Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy," in a vice presidential debate?

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Spiro T Agnew

Walter Mondale

Dan Quayle

Al Gore

Under which president was the office of Vice President last vacant?

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Richard Nixon

Gerald Ford

Bill Clinton

Donald Trump

Who was the only ever vice president to belong to the pro-slavery Nullifier Party?

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John C Calhoun

Elbridge Gerry

Aaron Burr

George Clinton

Which US political figure called the vice presidency "the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived"?

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George Washington

John Adams

Robert E Lee

Ulysses S Grant

Answer all the questions to see your result!

You scored out of !

You are the Vice President

Hey, remember Al Gore?

You scored out of !

You are Dick Cheney

I don't make the rules

You scored out of !

You have been forced to resign in disgrace

Ouch

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