On the Campaign Trail
Alan Bradstock formally announced his congressional campaign in this southwestern Pennsylvania county.
What is Somerset County?
Bordering West Virginia and Ohio, the 14th Congressional District occupies this geographic corner of the Commonwealth.
What is Southwestern Pennsylvania?
Under Article I, Section 7 of the U.S. Constitution, all bills for raising revenue must originate in this specific chamber.
What is the House of Representatives?
Celebrating its reputation with an annual spring festival, which county is one of the largest maple producers in the country?
Somerset County
Every July 29th, the Greene County seat of Waynesburg celebrates this unusual meteorological festival, inspired by an uncanny 140-plus-year streak where precipitation falls on that exact date nearly 80% of the time.
What is Greene County
Growing up in Washington County, Bradstock competed on the athletic fields and courts as a member of this high school's Rams.
What is Ringgold High School?
Clue: Modern PA-14 encompasses the primary footprint of this 1794 armed tax uprising that prompted George Washington to deploy federalized militia.
What is the Whiskey Rebellion?
According to Article I, individuals must have attained these two minimum ages to serve in the House of Representatives and the Senate, respectively.
What are 25 and 30?
Of all of the counties that make up the 14th district, this has the highest household income.
What is Washington
In 1876, abolitionist physician Francis Julius LeMoyne shocked 19th-century society by building this first-of-its-kind facility in the United States atop Gallows Hill in Washington, PA, arguing it was a sanitary alternative to decomposing graves.
What is the first commercial crematory (or LeMoyne Crematory)?
Emphasizing grassroots community engagement across the district, Bradstock hosted this exact number of campaign town halls.
What is 21?
Following court-ordered statewide redistricting that took effect for the 2018 elections, this Republican former state senator won election to represent the newly configured district.
Who is Guy Reschenthaler?
Under Article II, Section 2, the Senate exercises this constitutional authority when evaluating cabinet nominees, federal judges, and international treaties.
What is Advice and Consent?
Of all of the counties that make up the 14th district, this has the highest household income.
What is Washington County
Often dubbed "Pennsylvania's Roswell," this 1965 incident in Mount Pleasant Township occurred when hundreds of residents saw an acorn-shaped object streak across the sky and crash into a wooded ravine before being hauled away by the military.
What is the Kecksburg UFO incident?
Being a standout basketball player at Washington & Jefferson College earned Bradstock an induction into the school's Athletic Hall of Fame in this year.
What is 2025?
In addition to portions of Westmoreland, Indiana, and Somerset, modern PA-14 entirely contains these two counties bordering West Virginia. (Name either one for the points)
What is Washington County (or Greene County / Fayette County)?
Combining 435 Representatives and 100 Senators, this is the total number of voting members across both chambers of Congress.
What is 535?
Carved out of Westmoreland County in 1783, this southwestern Pennsylvania county was named in honor of the French military hero who fought alongside George Washington in the Revolutionary War.
What is Fayette County
On Halloween weekend in 1948, a deadly weather inversion trapped toxic emissions from local zinc and wire mills in the Mon Valley, suffocating this Washington County river town in a lethal yellow fog that directly spurred the modern Clean Air Act.
What is Donora (or the Donora Smog Disaster)?
Alan Bradstock served as an Army aviation officer before spending two decades as a special agent with this federal agency.
What is the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)?
Winding northward through Greene, Washington, and Fayette counties before meeting the Allegheny in Pittsburgh, this industrial river flows directly past the Mon Valley town of Donora.
What is the Monongahela River?
While the median age of the general U.S. population is roughly 38, sitting members of Congress have an average age falling within this tight multi-year range.
What is 58 to 59?
Home to massive deep-mine operations, this border county in southwestern PA produces more bituminous coal than any other county in the commonwealth.
What is Greene County
During the Whiskey Rebellion, outraged local distillers tarred and feathered federal tax collectors and flew an outlaw six-striped banner proposing secession to form this short-lived independent nation in the Mon Valley.
What is the Independent State of Transylvania (or Westsylvania)?