I still remember Bush’s 2000 campaign, in which some newsie asked him to point out the locations of a number of geographic hot spots, IIRC. When Mr. Bush couldn’t do that for all of them, everybody went bonkers.
At one point a radio interviewer gave Bush a snap quiz on fairly obscure world leaders (such as the leader of Chechnya, which isn’t even independent) and he only could name one of the four. Of course no one pulled a similar stunt on Gore.