Statistics for Election of 1912 - True or False?

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Question	Answer	% Correct
Eugene V. Debs received some electoral votes	False	100%
The Bull Moose Party received more votes than the Republican Party	True	100%
Conversely, Teddy Roosevelt could not be found on the ballot in Louisiana	False	86%
William Howard Taft received the fewest electoral votes of any Republican candidate, ever	True	86%
Roosevelt-supporting Republicans in South Dakota refused to put Taft on the ballot	True	86%
Teddy Roosevelt was shot and nearly killed while campaigning	True	86%
California was won by less than 100 votes	False	71%
Five unpledged electors from Pennsylvania are to thank for Wilson's victory	False	71%
A brawl between Roosevelt and Wilson supporters broke out three weeks before election day, resulting in two deaths	False	71%
Having failing to field a proper candidate, the Prohibition Party posthumously selected George Washington	False	71%
Wilson won South Carolina by a margin of over 95%	True	71%
This election marked Massachusetts's first time voting Democratic	True	71%
Taft's Vice President, James Sherman, died just a week before the election	True	71%
No county was fully Republican, but plenty were fully Democrat	True	71%
Eugene Debs was the only major candidate to have served in Congress	True	57%