QUIZ: In honor of the pending presidential election, we’re sharing some of 61 questions that Britannica featured in a presidential election quiz on its website. Interesting stuff.

1. When was the last time a third-party candidate won any electoral votes?

2. Whom did George W. Bush defeat in the 2004 U.S. presidential election?

3. Who was the first president to achieve a popular majority since the 1872 U.S. presidential election?

4. Which presidential candidate delivered the “Cross of Gold” speech?

5. The only U.S. president who served both as president and vice president without being elected was:

The answers:

1. 1968, when George Wallace won five Southern states for a total of 46 electoral votes. Although Ross Perot in 1992 won a greater share of the popular vote than Wallace had in 1968, Perot failed to win a single state.

2. Democrat John Kerry, a U.S senator from Massachusetts and the Democratic Party’s nominee for the United States presidential election of 2004.

3. William McKinley ran on a Republican platform emphasizing maintenance of the gold standard, while his opponent—William Jennings Bryan, candidate of both the Democratic and Populist parties—called for a bimetallic standard of gold and silver.

4. William Jennings Bryan was a Democratic and Populist leader and a magnetic orator who ran unsuccessfully three times for the U.S. presidency (1896, 1900, and 1908).

5. Gerald Ford, 38th president of the United States from 1974–77, succeeded to the presidency on the resignation of President Richard Nixon, under the process decreed by the Twenty-fifth Amendment to the Constitution, and become the only chief executive who had not been elected either president or vice president.