1. Less than 18-27 years old
   Between 25 and 40 years
2. Between 40 and 60 years old
   More 60-85 years old.

Ted Cruz turned 45 on December 22, 1970.

1. Edward
   Rafael
2. Theodore
   Ricardo

Ted Cruz's full name is Rafael Edward Cruz.

1. Two sons
   Two daughters
2. 11 children, with a 12th child due in November.
   Cruz has no children.

He has two daughters Carloine (7) and Catherine (4) with his wife Heidi Nelson, whom he married in 2001.

1. Because Mr. Cruz's parents are Hispanic.
   Because Mr. Cruz is much younger than Mr. Trump.
2. Because Mr. Cruz was born in Canada.
   Because Mr. Cruz is not as good looking as Mr. Trump.

Mr. Cruz was born in Alberta, Canada, to a Canadian father and US mother. His mother was born in Delaware and his father became a naturalized US citizen in 2005. Since the President of the US must be a natural born US citizen, Mr. Trump and others have claimed that he is not eligible to be the president of the US.

1. He was never a Canadian citizen.
   He still holds Canadian citizenship.
2. He renounced his Canadian citizenship in 2014.
   He renounced his Canadian citizenship soon after he left Canada in 1974.

Mr. Cruz claimed that he had assumed he did not hold Canadian citizenship since he did not file for it. However, after the 'Dallas Morning News' pointed out that he had dual Canadian-American citizenship, he formally applied to renounce his Canadian citizenship and ceased to be a citizen of Canada on May 14, 2014.

1. Half Italian and half Hispanic.
   Half Irish and half Hispanic.
2. Both his parents came from Cuba.
   Both his parents came from Mexico

Mr. Cruz's mother, Eleanor Elizabeth Wilson, is 3/4 Irish and 1/4 Italian. His father Rafael Bienvenido Cruz emigrated from Cuba. He came to the US on a student visa in 1957 and obtained political asylum when his Visa expired. His father became a Canadian citizen in 1973 and a naturalized US citizen in 2005.

1. Mr Cruz did not attend any college.
   Princeton and Harvard.
2. College of the Holy Cross
   Catholic University of America

Cruz graduated cum laude from Princeton University with a BA in public policy in 1992 and magna cum laude from Harvard Law School with a JD in 1995.

1. Jailed as a teen when he participated in an anti-abortion demonstration that became unruly.
   Was a nationally recognized debater.
2. Was involved in theater and voted most likely to be on Hollywood Walk of Fame in high school.
   All of the above

Even though Mr. Cruz was involved in theater in high school, he chose not to pursue an acting career as he felt he did not have the talent to succeed. He is not noted for participating in sports or protests, but he was recognized for many academic accomplishments, especially as a debater. He was named the US National Speaker of the Year in 1992 and reached the semi-finals of the World Debating Championship in 1995. Princeton's debate team named their annual novice championship after Cruz.

1. This was Mr. Cruz's Hip-Hop song when he was a teen, before he courted Evangelicals.
   It is the title of his senior thesis at Princeton.
2. It is the title of Mr. Cruz's favorite movie.
   All of the above.

It is the title of this senior thesis at Princeton addressing separation of powers in government. In this thesis, Cruz argued that the drafters of the Constitution intended to protect the rights of their constituents from an all-powerful state.

1. He was on its board of advisors.
   He was a primary editor.
2. He categorized it as a dumb journal for the liberals.
   He was the founding editor.

Mr. Cruz was the primary editor of Harvard Law Review, the executive editor of the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, and the founding editor of Harvard Latino Law Review while attending Harvard law school.

1. Sandra Day O' Connor
   William Rehnquist
2. Ronald Reagan
   Antonin Scalia

As the law clerk for Justice William Rehnquist in 1995, Cruz was the first Hispanic to clerk for a Chief Justice.

1. He initiated the impeachment proceedings against President Clinton.
   He opposed the proceedings as they were a total waste of tax payer dollars.
2. He helped prepare the testimony for the proceedings.
   He paid Monica Lewinsky to testify against President Clinton.

As a member of the law firm Cooper, Carvin, and Rosenthal, Cruz helped prepare the testimony for the impeachment proceedings against President Clinton.

1. Princeton University
   Harvard Law School
2. University of Texas at Austin
   George Washington University

Mr. Cruz taught as an adjunct professor of law at the University of Texas school of Law in Austin from 2004 to 2009.

1. 2008
   2010
2. 2012
   2014

Cruz won the seat vacated by Kay Bailey Hutchinson in the November 2012 general election.

1. Carly Fiorina
   Jeb Bush
2. Rick Santorum
   Mike Huckabee

Rick Santorum and Rand Paul were among the many conservative, tea party, and libertarian leaders who endorsed Cruz's senatorial bid in 2012.

1. Michele Bachman
   Herman Cain
2. Sarah Palin
   Tom McClintock

Sarah Palin's endorsement of Trump came as a surprise to many conservatives. Michele, Tom, and Herman have not publicly endorsed any of the candidates yet.

1. Governor Terry thinks Cruz is too young to be the president.
   Governor Terry thinks Trump is more handsome than Cruz.
2. Governor Terry does not like Cruz's stand on the ethanol mandate.
   Cruz is a Southern Baptist whereas Terry is a Roman Catholic.

Mr. Cruz has always opposed ethanol subsidies and is vocal in his opposition to federal ethanol mandates. In contrast, Mr. Trump called for higher ethanol mandate. Governor Terry of Iowa, a 'corn company' is obviously not very happy with Cruz.

1. Bob Dole
   Hillary Clinton
2. Mike Huckabee
   John McCain

Bob Dole, a former Republican nominee for the US Presidency, said that he would rather vote for Mr. Trump than Mr. Cruz.

1. Bob Dole resents Cruz for categorizing him, McCain, and Romney as liberals.
   Bob Dole thinks that Cruz is not a traditional Republican conservative.
2. Bob Dole resents Cruz for calling his friend Mitch McConnell a liar on the senate floor.
   All of the above.

Bob Dole believes that Cruz is not a traditional republican and dislikes his positions and actions so much as to prefer Hillary Clinton over Cruz.

1. President Obama is openly desirous to destroy the Constitution and this Republic.
   The 2015 International Nuclear Agreement with Iran will make the Obama administration the world's leading financier of radical Islamic terrorism.
   What we saw today was an absolute demonstration that what he told every Republican senator was a simple lie.
2. Boehner may have cut a deal with Nancy Pelosi to fund the Obama administration for the rest of its tenure.
   All of the above.

Despite his credentials as a great debater, he is well known for his incendiary statements that have alienated many within his own party.

1. Bob Dole
   John McCain
2. George Bush
   Herman Cain

John McCain is reported to especially dislike Cruz for his incendiary rhetoric and extreme positions.

1. Ted Cruz: For God and Country
   Liar Liar Cruz on Fire: Exposing the biggest fraud in US political history
2. A Time for Truth: Reigniting the Promise of America
   A Time for Action: Empowering the Faithful to Reclaim America

'A Time for Truth' was on Amazon and Harper's bestseller lists but was omitted by NYT because of 'bulk sales'.

1. A manifestation of the failures of the Obama-Clinton-Kerry foreign policy.
   Another sign of a feckless foreign policy of leading from behind.
2. The worst deal ever made in the country, the most incompetent deal...
   Long overdue. The Obama administration is leading from behind.

Cruz is a staunch critic of the the Obama administration's foreign policy.

1. The video shows Cruz cursing in a debate.
   The video shows Cruz doing drugs (without inhaling).
2. The video shows a lighthearted response of Cruz when asked about his aspirations.
   The video shows Cruz in a bar fight.

Although his detractors would like to point to this video as a sign of Cruz' ambitions, Cruz was clearly jesting with the videographer.

1. Cruz proposes to abolish the income tax and replace it with a flat sales tax.
   Cruz proposes a flat tax "where the average American can file returns on a postcard."
2. Cruz proposes to keep the current tiered tax system, but lower the highest tax rates.
   Cruz proposes reducing the taxes for all tiers and cutting all subsidies to balance the budget.

Cruz is a strong believer in a flat tax. However, as with all other candidates, his tax plan lacks details on how the budget shortfalls will be addressed.

1. Cruz doesn't believe in the science. He says "God made oil for us to burn. If it is harmful to life, he wouldn't have made it."
   Cruz believes that there is insufficient evidence for global warming. He believes that "global warming" is a slogan of the liberals to create fear and gain more control.
2. Cruz believes that global warming is not necessarily bad for us.
   Cruz believes that global temperatures have actually been dropping in the last 18 years.

Cruz reacts strongly to being dubbed the "denier". According to him that is not the language of science. He has cited satellite temperature measurements to back his position that there has been no significant rise in global temperatures in the last 18 years.

1. A government paid basic healthcare system for those who cannot afford private health insurance.
   Letting churches manage the healthcare needs of their congregations.
2. Letting the market drive the plans and people bear the consequences of not having health care.
   Cruz has not articulated an alternative.

Cruz has no alternative to Obamacare other than to repeal "every word of Obamacare" and the slogan "make health care personal, portable, and affordable."

1. Hillary Clinton
   Rand Paul
2. Donald Trump
   Bernie Sanders

Rand Paul and Cruz are the first candidates to openly oppose ethanol subsidies. Although Hillary Clinton voted against ethanol mandates 17 times, saying "it is impossible to understand why any pro-consumer, pro-health, pro-environment, anti-government could vote for ethanol mandates," she reversed her position after announcing her candidacy for the white house in 2007.

1. An alliance of five countries to target radical Islam and ISIS in particular.
   A new senate committee with foreign policy expertise to find solutions to the immigration problem.
2. A plan to eliminate certain federal departments and reduce government.
   All of the above.

It is his proposal to eliminate five federal departments: IRS, Department of Education, Department of Energy, Department of Commerce, and HUD (the Department of Housing and Urban Development).

1. A system of laws governing transactions in dollars to stabilize the dollar.
   A set of rules to penalize banks who take too much risk.
2. A penal code that imposes financial penalties in proportion to the wealth of the criminal.
   None of the above.

It is Cruz' solution to stabilize the dollar. However, nobody knows what he means by this slogan or how he will accomplish his objective, since the strength of the dollar relative to the other currencies is driven as much by the actions and policies of the other governments and their economic strength.