07-23-2008, 08:53 AM
Question 1: In a piece of CBS interview footage left on the cutting room floor, John McCain erroneously said that it's "just a matter of history" that the surge created the Anbar Awakening in Iraq. In making the gaffe McCain emulated which U.S. president more than the others?
a) William Howard Taft
b) George W. Bush
c) Richard Nixon
d) Franklin Pierce
Question 2: Barack Obama flies several thousand miles to visit U.S. troops in Iraq, Kuwait and Afghanistan, where he is greeted with wild cheers. At the same time, John McCain is driven by former President George H.W. Bush several hundred feet in a golf cart to hobnob with rich Republicans in Kennebunkport, where he is greeted with polite applause. A senior strategist from which party greeted the contrasting photo ops with, "We're ******"?
a) The Republican party
b) The Democratic party
c) The Libertarian party
Question 3: John McCain has gone on the record as being both for and against stem cell research. What is his actual position?
a) For stem cell research
b) Against stem cell research
c) All of the above
Question 4: In the sentence, "The McCain campaign called America a 'nation of whiners' and John McCain violated security rules by revealing when Barack Obama would be flying to Iraq and the Iraqi prime minister approved of Barack Obama's withdrawal plan for Iraq," what part of speech is the word "and"?
a) Noun
b) Verb
c) 9/11
d) Conjunction
Question 5: In terms of internet usage, when does John McCain say he'll master the process of "getting on myself"?
a) A week
b) A month
c) Fairly soon
d) Never
Question 6: For how long did John McCain pause in a confused panic before trying to answer a question about insurance coverage for Viagra versus insurance coverage for birth control?
a) Nine seconds
b) Three seconds
c) Five seconds
d) One second
Question 7: How many times has Senator Jack Reed or Senator Chuck Hagel had to whisper a correction in Barack Obama's ear because he embarrassed America by saying something ignorant and false?
a) One
b) Zero
c) Six
Question 8: Who horrified medical professionals when he made a pledge in a major televised speech to "deliver bottled hot water to dehydrated babies"?
a) Jack Kevorkian
b) Barack Obama
c) John McCain
d) Emeril Lagasse
Question 9: How many reporters greeted John McCain when he flew into Manchester, New Hampshire Monday night?
a) 1
b) 4
c) 10
d) 13
Question 10: Who exercised sound judgment in October, 2002 with this remark: "I don't oppose all wars. And I know that in this crowd today, there is no shortage of patriots, or of patriotism. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war. A war based not on reason but on passion, not on principle but on politics."
a) Trent Lott
b) Barack Obama
c) Joe Lieberman
d) John McCain
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Answers: 1. b 2. a 3. c 4. d 5. c 6. a 7. b 8. c 9. a 10. b
a) William Howard Taft
b) George W. Bush
c) Richard Nixon
d) Franklin Pierce
Question 2: Barack Obama flies several thousand miles to visit U.S. troops in Iraq, Kuwait and Afghanistan, where he is greeted with wild cheers. At the same time, John McCain is driven by former President George H.W. Bush several hundred feet in a golf cart to hobnob with rich Republicans in Kennebunkport, where he is greeted with polite applause. A senior strategist from which party greeted the contrasting photo ops with, "We're ******"?
a) The Republican party
b) The Democratic party
c) The Libertarian party
Question 3: John McCain has gone on the record as being both for and against stem cell research. What is his actual position?
a) For stem cell research
b) Against stem cell research
c) All of the above
Question 4: In the sentence, "The McCain campaign called America a 'nation of whiners' and John McCain violated security rules by revealing when Barack Obama would be flying to Iraq and the Iraqi prime minister approved of Barack Obama's withdrawal plan for Iraq," what part of speech is the word "and"?
a) Noun
b) Verb
c) 9/11
d) Conjunction
Question 5: In terms of internet usage, when does John McCain say he'll master the process of "getting on myself"?
a) A week
b) A month
c) Fairly soon
d) Never
Question 6: For how long did John McCain pause in a confused panic before trying to answer a question about insurance coverage for Viagra versus insurance coverage for birth control?
a) Nine seconds
b) Three seconds
c) Five seconds
d) One second
Question 7: How many times has Senator Jack Reed or Senator Chuck Hagel had to whisper a correction in Barack Obama's ear because he embarrassed America by saying something ignorant and false?
a) One
b) Zero
c) Six
Question 8: Who horrified medical professionals when he made a pledge in a major televised speech to "deliver bottled hot water to dehydrated babies"?
a) Jack Kevorkian
b) Barack Obama
c) John McCain
d) Emeril Lagasse
Question 9: How many reporters greeted John McCain when he flew into Manchester, New Hampshire Monday night?
a) 1
b) 4
c) 10
d) 13
Question 10: Who exercised sound judgment in October, 2002 with this remark: "I don't oppose all wars. And I know that in this crowd today, there is no shortage of patriots, or of patriotism. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war. A war based not on reason but on passion, not on principle but on politics."
a) Trent Lott
b) Barack Obama
c) Joe Lieberman
d) John McCain
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Answers: 1. b 2. a 3. c 4. d 5. c 6. a 7. b 8. c 9. a 10. b

