Congress and its members
This member of Congress is currently second in line to the presidency.
Who is Mike Johnson (Speaker of the House)?
This president was the first to get out of his motorcade and walk to the White House after his inauguration, on a cold day in 1977.
Who is Jimmy Carter?
This document was signed on July 4, 1776.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
Who is Ruth Bader Ginsburg?
This future governor and president played the leading man in The Voice of the Turtle (1947) opposite Eleanor Parker, who also played Captain Von Trapp's fiancé in The Sound of Music.
Who is Ronald Reagan?
This House Speaker rose to power in 1994 by promising a certain agenda if his party received a majority, thus encouraging people to vote not for an individual candidate, but for the party at large.
Who is Newt Gingrich?
This president was the first to be impeached, and was nearly convicted in the Senate; a Republican senator from Maine changed his mind and saved him.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
This passageway, which opened in 1914, allowed sailors to go from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean, and vice versa, without going to the tip of South America.
What is the Panama Canal?
This Supreme Court decision was overturned by Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization (2022).
What is Roe v. Wade?
This senator was introduced to his wife by then-Senator Joe Biden, whose ticket later opposed him in the 2008 election.
Who is John McCain?
This Senator's papers are housed at UMaine!
Who is William Cohen?
This president famously chose not to shoot a bear on a hunting trip, which is why his name is now used as a term for a stuffed bear.
Who is Theodore (Teddy) Roosevelt?
This is the newest federal holiday (i.e., most recently established).
What is Juneteenth?
This Supreme Court decision established the right to interracial marriage in 1967.
What is Loving v. Virginia?
This press secretary was injured in the 1981 attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan, and his name was lent to the White House press briefing room and a 1994 gun control bill.
Who is James Brady?
This scion of the Senate, who died in 2010 and was the youngest of his generation of a political dynasty, gifted Portuguese water dogs Bo and Sunny to the Obama family.
Who is Ted Kennedy?
This room of the White House famously has a ramp (which the Bush and Obama children learned to use as a slide).
What is the Solarium?
Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address begins, "Four score and seven years ago," noting that this many years had passed since the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
What is 87? (Score = 20)
This president also served as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, from 1921 to 1930.
Who is William Howard Taft?
This Maine senator was the first woman to seek the nomination of a major party for president, in 1964.
Who is Margaret Chase Smith?
This senator attempted (unsuccessfully) to filibuster the Civil Rights Act by speaking for 24 hours straight, with only very brief pauses.
Who is Strom Thurmond?
This Democratic vice president first ran for president in 1988. (There are two answers, and I will accept either!)
Who are Al Gore and Joe Biden?
This war—the first and only time that the Commander in Chief physically led an army into battle—broke out when the government proposed a tax on a common alcoholic beverage.
What is the Whiskey Rebellion?
This Supreme Court justice replaced Thurgood Marshall upon his retirement in 1991.
Who is Clarence Thomas?
This future president was first noticed by his wife in law school when she overheard his passionate conversation about his home state's prolific watermelon industry.
Who is Bill Clinton?