Political Trivia

1. Moveon.org was started by which two Silicon Valley entrepreneurs?

2. What is the name of the rhetorical device in which words are repeated in transposed order?
e.g., John Kennedy's famous line "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country."

3. What is John McCain's full name?

4. Which candidate did Gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson endorse in a Rolling Stone article?

5. Ulysses S. Grant's presidency was seriously undermined by his first scandal involving what commodity?

6. Who was the first president to have a phone in the Oval Office?

7. Who was the second president to live in the White House?

8. What first lady started the White House Library?

9. What is Mother Jones's real name?


Answers:

1. Joan Blades and Wes Boyd
2. antimetabole
3. John Sidney McCain III
4. Jimmy Carter. The article appeared June 3rd 1976.
5. Gold
6. Herbert Hoover had a phone installed in the Oval Office on March 27th 1929.
7. Thomas Jefferson
8. Abigail Fillmore
9. Mary Harris Jones


8-9: Political Genius
4-7: At least you watch Jon Stewart
0-3: Bill O'Reilly Fan Club Founder