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Politics and elections trivia questions
“Campaigns, votes and the White House” is how Rewind’s picker describes Politics and elections, a Now branch with 18 questions. 10 of them are tied to a year (1868 to 2020), and the other 8 are not about a moment in time.
Years covered by Politics and elections
The dates fall in 8 decades. Here is how many questions sit in each:
- 1860s: 1 question
- 1920s: 1 question
- 1960s: 1 question
- 1970s: 1 question
- 1980s: 2 questions
- 2000s: 1 question
- 2010s: 2 questions
- 2020s: 1 question
The shape of a Politics and elections question
Each card has four answers and one right one. 6 start with “Which”, 5 start with “Who”, 4 start with “How”. A one-line fact follows every answer, and the longest of them is 18 words.
Every question was checked against a written source, and the source is kept with it.
Try these Politics and elections questions
Here are two questions from the Politics and elections bank, taken from the older end of the branch and clear of the daily ten for the weeks around the day this page was built.
Question (2016): Who was the first woman to win a major party's nomination for US president?
Answer: Hillary Clinton. She had been a senator from New York and secretary of state before the 2016 run.
The wrong choices on the card were Shirley Chisholm, Elizabeth Dole, and Michele Bachmann.
Checked against Hillary Clinton (Wikipedia).
Question: How many voting members sit in the US House of Representatives?
Answer: 435. A majority is 218, and every one of the 435 seats is up for election every two years.
The wrong choices on the card were 100, 270, and 538.
Checked against United States House of Representatives (Wikipedia).
How to choose Politics and elections in the game
Rewind lets you narrow the day to what you like. Here that means opening Branches, ticking Politics and elections with the other Now branches, and pressing Play these. A day needs ten questions in the selection, and this branch has 18 of its own.
Scoring and the clock are in How to play Rewind.
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