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Brian Lehrer: It's The Brian Lehrer Show on WNYC. Good morning again, everyone. This week during our membership drive, we're having our latest quiz series. It's 100 Years of 100 Things quiz series, questions drawn from our 100 Years of 100 Things history series. Today it's 100 years of Republican candidates for president, and today get two in a row right and win a can of the WNYC centennial blend coffee, berries, cashews, chocolate, so good, from the Brooklyn Roasting Company that we're offering as a membership drive thank you gift. Who wants to play? 212-433-WNYC. 100 years of Republican presidential nominees.

We're going to start with Matt in Newburgh on line 1. Hi, Matt. Ready to play?

Matt: Hey, Brian. How you doing?

Brian Lehrer: Good, thanks. 100 years ago in 1924, the Republican nominee won in a landslide. Who was the Republican elected president 100 years ago in 1924?

Matt: Coolidge.

Brian Lehrer: Calvin Coolidge is right. One more for the coffee. Another Republican won the next election in 1928. Can you name him?

Matt: Hoover.

Brian Lehrer: Hoover is right. [fanfare] We're going to take your address, Matt in Newburgh, and send you a can of coffee up there. Yes, as WNYC was born, they were electing Republican presidents.

Dave in Edison, you're on WNYC. Ready to play?

Dave: Hi, Brian. Yes, and go Liberty, and go Yankees.

Brian Lehrer: Absolutely. Yes, maybe we'll have another parade to cover, right? Dave-- oh, you're Dave in Edison. The answer to the last question was Herbert Hoover won the presidential election in 1928. True or false, Hoover was then reelected in 1932.

Dave: He ran again, but it's false.

Brian Lehrer: It's false. FDR won the presidency. It was his first of four elections in a row. For the coffee, can you name any one of the other three Republicans he beat after Hoover, any one of them?

Dave: Alf Landon, Wendell Willkie-- [crosstalk] I'm sorry, you only wanted one.

Brian Lehrer: Yes, very good. I did. Oh, you want to try for the third one? We're not sending you extra coffee, but [crosstalk]--

Dave: Oh, yes, Dewey.

Brian Lehrer: Yes, Dewey. You said it. Yes, just like FDR-- [fanfare] Awesome. Just like FDR, before he became president, Dewey was the Governor of New York trying to become president. We had Democratic and Republican governors back then. Dave, we'll take your address. Hang on.

Phil in Manhattan on line 3. Hi, Phil. Ready to play?

Phil: Hi, Brian. Yes, I am.

Brian Lehrer: What Republican nominee lost in 1960 and told the press that they wouldn't have him to "kick around anymore"?

Phil: That was Richard Nixon. I think he didn't say that until when he lost the California governor's, right?

Brian Lehrer: That's very, very right. It was 1962 when he actually said, "I want you to know, just think how much you're going to be missing. You don't have Nixon to kick around anymore because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference." Of course, he did go on to run and win two times in 1968 and '72. Who was Nixon's vice presidential running mate on those winning tickets for the coffee?

Phil: Oh, I hate to say it, but Spiro Agnew.

Brian Lehrer: Spiro Agnew is right. [fanfare] Yes. We'll take your address and send you the coffee, Phil. Thank you very much. After Nixon was elected, Spiro Agnew-- remember, Spiro Agnew had to resign first and then Nixon also had to resign. Let's go next to Kathy in the Bronx. Ready to play? Hi, Kathy.

Kathy: Hi. I am.

Brian Lehrer: Okay. After Nixon resigned, he was succeeded by his new vice president, Gerald Ford. True or false, Ford only went on to win one presidential election after that before being defeated by Jimmy Carter in 1976.

Kathy: False.

Brian Lehrer: False is right because--

Kathy: Because Ford became president in '74, and the next presidential election was '76 and he lost to Carter.

Brian Lehrer: Exactly. He didn't win any presidential elections. All right, for the coffee. Here's a clip of the former Democratic Party Governor of Texas, Ann Richards, at a certain year's Democratic Convention. Who is the Republican candidate for president she's talking about here?

Former Governor Ann Richards: Poor George. [laughter] He can't help it. [laughter] He was born with a silver foot in his mouth. [laughter]

Brian Lehrer: Do you know, Kathy?

Kathy: Yes, it's George H. W. Bush.

Brian Lehrer: That's right. That was the trick in that question, and you got it right. It was, which George Bush was Ann Richards talking about? Kathy, hang on. We're going to take your address off the air, [fanfare and send you a can of coffee too.

Okay, we are nearing the end of this quiz. We have a couple of questions left. Let's see if Katherine in Manhattan can also win a can of the Brooklyn Roasting Company WNYC centennial blend coffee. Hi, Katherine.

Katherine: Hello, Brian.

Brian Lehrer: Now when Bill Clinton was elected president in 1992 and '96, obviously he defeated the Republican candidates. What Republicans did he beat? You need to name both.

Katherine: Yikes. Okay. First one was George H. W. Bush, and the second one is-- Oh my God, I don't know. Let's see. I don't know, Brian, I'll be honest [crosstalk]--

Brian Lehrer: Okay, Katherine. Thanks for trying. Let's give Ilsa in Brooklyn a shot at that one. Hi, Ilsa. You're on WNYC. Did you hear the question? Who did Bill Clinton defeat? What Republican nominee in 1996? Do we have Ilsa in Brooklyn? Am I saying your name right? Is it Lisa in Brooklyn? I guess not there. Let's try Jesse in Manhattan. Jesse, are you there?

Jesse: Yes.

Brian Lehrer: Did you hear the question?

Jesse: Bob Dole.

Brian Lehrer: Bob Dole is right. Okay, so for the coffee, and this is the last question in the quiz, what Republican nominee said this on the campaign trail, we're going to play a clip, in a losing bid for the White House? A supporter at an event he was at had just told him she was afraid of the Democratic nominee.

Former Senator John McCain: First of all, I want to be president of the United States, and obviously I do not want Senator Obama to be. But I have to tell you, I have to tell you he is a decent person and a person that you do not have to be scared as president of the United States.

Brian Lehrer: A little different from [crosstalk]--

Jesse: Senator John McCain.

Brian Lehrer: Senator John McCain is right, and you win a can of Brooklyn Roasting Company WNYC centennial blend coffee. [fanfare] I thought the trumpeters went home, but they were there. Congratulations. How different from the way somebody's running today, right? Jesse, thank you very much. Hang on. We're going to take your address off the air. That's today's 100 Years of 100 Things history quiz. We're going to keep doing them for the next three days, all through this All the Money and Half the Time membership drive through Friday. Thanks for playing, everybody.

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