That's Weird
Boston Politics
The 80's
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Who said it?
100
After the Clemson Tigers won the College Football Playoff National Championship, this president famously served them a feast of McDonald’s, Wendy’s, and pizza at the White House.
Donald Trump
100
This is the current mayor of Boston, who made history for being the city's first woman and person of color to be in office.
Michelle Wu
100
What year did the Berlin Wall fall?
1989
100
After nearly two years of war, Israel launched another ground offensive this week targeting what city?
A. Beirut
B. Tehran
C. Gaza City
C. Gaza City
100
“So, taking Tylenol is not good, alright? I’ll say it. It’s not good.”
Donald Trump
200
This senator has repeatedly denied being the Zodiac Killer, a serial murderer whose crimes took place before he was even born.
Ted Cruz
200
Harvard is suing the Trump administration over actions including a multi-billion-dollar freeze in federal research grants and a policy that would prevent international students from enrolling. Name one Boston college other than Harvard that is formally supporting this legal fight.
Acceptable answer: BU, MIT, Tufts
200
This economic policy, associated with Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan, emphasized deregulation, lower taxes, and free-market principles.
Acceptable answers: Reaganomics, neoliberalism, supply-side economics, trickle-down economics.
200
ABC suspended Jimmy Kimmel’s late night show temporarily over comments he made about the Charlie Kirk shooting, after the head of which agency threatened to take action against the network?
Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
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200
“There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on... shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again.”
George W Bush
300
In a conversation with Rosanne Barre, this politician admitted to leaving a dead black bear in Central Park, solving a mystery that puzzled New Yorkers for months.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
300
This massive Boston construction project in the 90's rerouted Interstate 93 into a tunnel and cost over $15 billion dollars.
The Big Dig
300
This 1980s political scandal involved secretly selling arms to Iran and using the profits to fund Contra rebels in Nicaragua, despite a congressional ban.
Iran-Contra Affair
300
This past summer, Donald Trump reintroduced the Presidential Fitness Test, a program discontinued in 2013 where kids were tested on strength and endurance in gym class. His new appointees to the Presidential Fitness Council are mostly professional athletes. Who are two members of this council?
Acceptable answers: Harrison Butker, Lawrence Taylor, Bryson Dechambeau, Tua Tagovailoa, Wayne Gretzky
300
“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.”
Martin Luther King Jr. 
400
This Republican Governor sold "Let's Go Brandon" wrapping paper for Christmas in 2023.
Ron Desantis
400
This Boston Celtics legend was a leader in the civil rights movement and served as a goodwill ambassador for the U.S. State Department on a basketball tour of Africa in 1959.
Bill Russell
400
This artist was the best-selling musician of the 1980s.
Madonna
400
Two weeks ago, immigration authorities arrested hundreds of South Korean workers at a construction site for a battery plant for which car company?
Hyundai
400
“The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: ‘I’m from the government, and I’m here to help.’”
Ronald Reagan
500
To celebrate Great Britain's first gold medal in the 2012 summer Olympics held in London, this British Politician rode a zipline in Victoria Park, waving two Union Jacks, only to get stuck mid-air for over five minutes.
Boris Johnson
500
This Boston neighborhood became the epicenter of the 1970s “Busing Crisis,” where violent protests erupted over federally mandated school desegregation.
South Boston or "Southie"
500
The UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter saw its first combat deployment in 1983 during this U.S. military operation to oust a Marxist government on a small Caribbean island. Name the country and the operation.
Operation Urgent Fury in Grenada
500
These three Sahel countries recently withdrew from the International Criminal Court, claiming it is a tool of "neocolonial repression". Name two of these countries.
Burkina Faso, Niger, Mali
500
“You don’t have to be straight to be in the military; you just have to be able to shoot straight.”
Barry Goldwater