The TAPAS US political trivial quiz

For those who couldn’t make it, here is the trivia quiz from last night’s American Politics Appreciation Society. I’ll post answers later in the day – feel free to comment you answers below – but don’t cheat by looking them up.

The inaugural winner was Labour MP Darren Hughes – well done Darren. We had a five way tie of people who scored 12/16, but Darren got closest on the Florida question.

1 One State is missing a Senator as the election result is still being contested in the courts. Which state is it, and for bonus points who is leading and by how much?

State:
Name:
Lead:

2 Who replaced Barrack Obama as Junior Senator for Illinois?

Name:

3 What number President of the United States is Barack Obama?

Number:

4 Who is Barack Obama’s Chief of Staff?

Name:

5. What three states allow gay marriage?

States:

6. A famous US court case is called Roe vs Wade. What was it about?

Roe v Wade is about:

7 Which US presidential candidate cheated on his cancer battling wife, and tried to mitigate his actions by saying that the cheating only occurred once she was in remission!

Name:

8 Which US Senator recently defected from the Republicans to the Democrats, giving them a likely 60 vote filibuster proof majority in the Senate?

Name: State:

9. Which US President said ” My plan reduces the national debt, and fast. So fast, in fact, that economists worry that we’re going to run out of debt to retire.”

Name:

10 Who won Florida in 2008 – McCain or Obama?

Name:
Margin: