QUESTIONS:
1. Jimmy Carter has just been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. What two past Presidents won the same prize?
2. Three years ago, a congressional committee chaired by Rep. Christopher Cox (R.-Calif.) probed Red Chinese espionage in the U.S. But 40 years earlier, another congressional panel known as the Cox Committee was also making headlines. What did the first Cox Committee probe?
3. Former Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D.-N.J.) has been approved to run for the Senate seat in his state other than the seat he formerly held. Who was the last former senator to win his state’s other Senate seat?
4. Excluding present senators who formerly served as governors of their states, how many former governors are major party nominees for the U.S. Senate this year?
5. How many African-Americans are major party nominees for the Senate this year?
ANSWERS:
1. Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson
2. Headed by Rep. Eugene Cox (D.-Ga.)l, the 1942 Cox Committee investigated the operations of the Federal Communications Commission and recommended to the full House that it be defunded and abolished.
3. Republican Slade Gorton of Washington State, who was defeated for re-election in 1986 and won his state’s other Senate seat in 1988.
4. Three: Democrats Jeanne Shaheen (N.H.) and David Walters (Okla.) and Republican Lamar Alexander (Tenn.).
5. One: Democrat Ron Kirk in Texas.
