The 2013 Pop Quiz by Gail Collins : Test your New Year's knowledge

[Mira]

The 2013 Pop Quiz
By GAIL COLLINS
O.K., people, we are really in 2013. It took a few days, but now we’ve settled in. Test your New Year’s knowledge.

1Michele Bachmann announced she had introduced the first bill of the 113th Congress, a proposal to:
A) Revisit her Light Bulb Freedom of Choice Act.
B) Repeal Obamacare.
C) Require the media to explain that when she says people should be “armed,” she means “armed with knowledge.”
D) Rename the National Institutes of Health in honor of any one of the “hundreds and hundreds of scientists, many of them holding Nobel Prizes, who believe in intelligent design.”

2John Boehner began the new year by staving off a right-wing rebellion and getting re-elected to his awful job as speaker of the House. Which of these recent John Boehner statements was in his first address to the new Congress?
A) “Listen, I was born with a glass half full.”
B) “Ifs and ands and buts are like candy and nuts. If that were the case, every day would be Christmas.”
C) “We meet again at democracy’s great port of call.”
D) “We got some of the smartest people in the country who serve here, and some of the dumbest.”

3Over in the Senate, the No. 2 Republican, John Cornyn of Texas, celebrated by announcing that:
A) “Now that I think about it, we really did go overboard on that filibuster thing.”
B) “It may be necessary to partially shut down the government in order to secure the long-term fiscal well being of our country.”
C) It was time to “stop obsessing about Obamacare.”
D) He was really sorry he once compared gay marriage to having a neighbor who “marries a box turtle.”

4One of the stars of the action-packed new year’s week in Congress was Vice President Joe Biden, who seemed to be everywhere. However Biden did NOT:
A) Say he sold a fiscal-cliff-ending deal to suspicious Senate Democrats by telling them: “This is Joe Biden, and I’m your buddy.”
B) Confuse the husband of an incoming senator during a swearing-in picture-taking by telling him, “Spread your legs. You’re going to be frisked.”
C) Tell Mitch McConnell he looked like a “cute little old hoot owl.”
D) Greet a muscular soldier with: “If you need any help on your pecs, let me know.”


5The biggest special election in the new year will be the one for the Senate in Massachusetts, presuming that John Kerry leaves to become secretary of state. Scott Brown could wind up running for the Senate four times in five years! Brown has already:
A) Announced that his truck now has 300,000 miles on it.
B) Questioned whether the Democratic favorite, Representative Edward Markey, actually lives in Massachusetts.
C) Told reporters that he was a Republican “only when it comes to money.”
D) Signed up to do a repeat of his 1982 Cosmo nude photo as “America’s Sexiest Middle-Aged Man.”

6In a dramatic end-of-the-year sports moment, boxer Juan Manuel Marquez knocked down his longtime rival Manny Pacquiao. Just before the match, Pacquiao was visited in his dressing room by a prominent Republican who said:
A) “Hi Manny, I’m Rick Santorum, and I want to tell you about a plot against our families by the United Nations. Also, I can do 50 push-ups.”
B) “Hi Manny, I’m Herman Cain. Do you enjoy pizza?”
C) “Hi Manny, I’m Newt Gingrich and this is my current wife, Callista.”
D) “Hi Manny. I’m Mitt Romney. I ran for president. I lost.”

8And there’s an upcoming reality TV series about:
A) An 85-year-old former governor of Louisiana and his 34-year-old wife, who he met as a pen pal while he was serving a prison term for bribery and extortion.
B) Those people in Kansas who are preparing for a zombie invasion.
C) The adventures of outgoing Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner’s return to the private sector. In the first episode, Geithner and Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel take a road trip to the World Economic Forum in Davos.
D) Joe Biden just being Joe Biden.

link for the quiz:

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/01/05/opinion/05-gail-collins-quiz.html?ref=opinion

I took this quiz once and got 4 out of 4.
It's laughable that these happenings especially of course the ones I did not get right really happened.



Edited to add:
I messed up posting this. I had no idea the quiz would not re-set and it showed my answers in the link. I had to stand on my head pretending to be electric to fix this. I hope I did. And other than a bit of fun, it's not worth much anyway.
Sorry.
Better post next time.

[DollarBillHines]

1. I got 7/8

I screwed up the Biden one because I sneezed when I clicked.

If I can get that many right, I am spending too much time on this machine that is sitting in front of me.