#ThanksObama by BruceM

Champion(s):

DreyfusB


Runner(s)-Up:

AdelmanM


Quiz Description

Answer these questions about our 44th president, now that he is no longer in office.

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Questions:

When is Barack Obama's birthday? (Month and day, please.)

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August 4

Two answers required. Name both colleges, one in Los Angeles and one in New York, that gave Obama his undergraduate education. (He started at the former in 1979 and transferred to the latter as a junior.)

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Occidental; Columbia

To which Harvard Law School professor did Obama serve as a research assistant? This author of American Constitutional Law was part of Al Gore's 2000 election legal team, along with David Boies, and is mentioned in question #12.

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Laurence Tribe

Which member of Congress did Obama run against in the 2000 Democratic primary? This former Black Panther is the only politician ever to beat Obama in an election.

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Bobby Rush

Which maverick Republican defeated Carol Moseley Braun in the 1998 Illinois senate election? This predecessor to Obama chose not to seek a second term, and now chairs a bank based in northern Virginia.

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Peter Fitzgerald

What three-word phrase fills in the blanks in this excerpt from Obama's 2004 Democratic Convention keynote address?

"The [BLANK] [BLANK] [BLANK]! In the end, that is God's greatest gift to us, the bedrock of this nation. A belief in things not seen. A belief that there are better days ahead."

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audacity of hope

What pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ (Obama's former church) gave the controversial sermons that Obama criticized in the March 2008 "A More Perfect Union" speech?

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Jeremiah Wright

Which former employee of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company was the namesake of the Fair Pay Act of 2009, the first bill Obama signed into law? (That law relaxed the statute of limitations for some lawsuits.)

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Lilly Ledbetter

Two answers required. Which two sitting Supreme Court justices are Obama appointees from 2009 and 2010?

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Sonia Sotomayor; Elena Kagan

Two answers required. Who were Obama's two Secretaries of Health and Human Services? One had previously been governor of Kansas, one had previously directed the Office of Management and Budget, and both were named respondents in key Supreme Court cases over the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act.

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Kathleen Sebelius; Sylvia Burwell

What two-word phrase fills in the blanks from this August 2012 speech about Syria?

"We have communicated in no uncertain terms with every player in the region that that's a [BLANK] [BLANK] for us and that there would be enormous consequences if we start seeing movement on the chemical weapons front or the use of chemical weapons."

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red line

What policy (we want either a specific phrase or the associated acronym) was announced by Obama in August 2015 but subsequently blocked by litigation? The law professor from question #3 filed a brief on behalf of Peabody Energy against EPA implementation of this.

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Clean Power Plan (or CPP)