April 05, 2004

The West Wing Quiz

Cec and I held a West Wing dinner party at our place on Saturday night (I got the DVDs from Amazon.co.uk a few weeks ago). It was fun, I've been so busy lately, and it's been a while since I've been able to host a party. I handed everyone a pop quiz just before we started the video, and said the winner would get first pick of the door prizes (a stack of mostly downtempo CDs). Here's the questions:

  1. Who was President Clinton’s first press secretary, who is now a consultant on the West Wing TV show?
    1. John Ehrlichman
    2. Nancy Pelosi
    3. Dee Dee Myers
  2. President Clinton was the second American President to be impeached. Who was the first?
    1. Andrew Johnson
    2. Richard Nixon
    3. Aaron Burr
  3. George Bush Senior was the chairman of the Republican Party during whose administration?
    1. Richard Nixon
    2. Ronald Reagan
    3. Lyndon B. Johnson
  4. What was the Whitewater scandal based on?
    1. Bill Clinton caused the collapse of the Savings and Loan industry in the US in the 1980s by underwriting loans he knew to be worthless when he was Governor of Arkansas
    2. The man who managed a piece of real estate for the Clintons turned out to have defrauded other individuals and the government, in unrelated financial dealings in the 1980s
    3. Bill Clinton secretly sold high-tech American weapons to Iran in defiance of Congress, then used the money to fund right wing death squads in Central America throughout the 1980s
  5. Who was the Attorney General (Minister of Justice) under Clinton, just before John Ashcroft was brought in by Baby Bush?
    1. Al Gore
    2. G. Gordon Liddy
    3. Janet Reno
  6. Which important position did Daddy Bush hold before becoming Vice President and then President of the US?
    1. Director of the CIA
    2. Chairman of the Federal Reserve
    3. Secretary of State
  7. Who was Bill Clinton’s opponent in the 1996 Presidential race?
    1. Daddy Bush
    2. John Ashcroft
    3. Bob Dole
  8. Which country did Bill Clinton NOT attack while he was President?
    1. Serbia
    2. Somalia
    3. Panama
  9. Which country did Daddy Bush NOT attack while he was President
    1. Iraq
    2. Guatemala
    3. Panama
Go here for answers. Posted by case at April 5, 2004 09:53 PM
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