QUESTIONS:
1. There are six present U.S. senators who are themselves the children of former senators. How many can you name?
2. Four current female U.S. senators are the wives of former office-holders. How many can you name?
3. What is the only state in which both U.S. senators are the sons of former governors?
4. Two current U.S. senators have brothers presently serving in the House. Can you name them?
5. Who are the only brothers in the U.S. House of Representatives?
ANSWERS:
1. Democrats Mark Pryor (Ark.), son of former Sen. David Pryor (D.-Ark), Christopher Dodd (Conn.), son of the late Sen. Thomas J. Dodd (D.-Conn.), and Evan Bayh (Ind.), son of former Sen. Birch E. Bayh (D.-Ind.), and Republicans Lisa Murkowski (Alaska.), daughter of former Sen. and now Gov. Frank Murkowski (R.-Alaska), Lincoln Chafee (R.I.), son of the late Sen. John H. Chafee (R.-R.I.), and Robert F. Bennett (Utah), son of the late Sen. Wallace Bennett (R.-Utah).
2. Democratic Sen. Hillary Clinton (N.Y.), wife of former President Bill Clinton, and Republicans Olympia Snowe (Maine), wife of former Maine Gov. John McKernan, Elizabeth Dole (N.C.), wife of former Senate GOP Leader Bob Dole (Kan.), and Kay Bailey Hutchison (Tex.), wife of former Texas state Rep. Ray Hutchison.
3. New Hampshire Republican Senators Judd Gregg and John Sununu are, respectively, the sons of the late Gov. Hugh Gregg and former Gov. John Sununu, both Republicans.
4. Democratic Senators Carl Levin (Mich.) and Ken Salazar (Colo.), brothers of Democratic Representatives Sander Levin (Mich.) and John Salazar (Colo.).
5. Republican Representatives Lincoln Diaz-Balart and Mario Diaz-Balart, both of Florida.
