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Last Week's Quiz

Created by Eli Robinson
Edited by Jonpaul Guinn

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  • Submit your answers by 12:39pm ET 11/9/26
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  • No negative points for incorrect responses (so guess to your heart's content)
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Midterm election day is this week, which means that America will quickly become obsessed with the candidates who emerge victorious!

However, there have been far more folks who have lost a midterm election than won one.



Here are some of our favorite midterm losers…it turned out alright for most of ‘em!

MISCELLANEOUS Q1. Trash Talk: Cincinnati news anchor. Former Cincinnati mayor. Third place in Ohio's 1982 Democratic primary for governor. That's a quick background on what king of chair-throwing '90s trash talk shows?



SPORTS & GAMES Q2. Penn People: The first wide receiver ever named Super Bowl MVP, Lynn Swann lost the race for governor of Pennsylvania in 2006. It made sense he would run in the state, as he brought home MVP with what team?



SOCIAL STUDIES Q3. Isolated Issues: His party had exactly one plank, his debate answer had exactly one line, and his beard could have held a coat rack: in the 2010 New York governor's race, Jimmy McMillan insisted that the WHAT “Is Too Damn High”?



SOCIAL STUDIES Q4. Notable Nicknames: Helen Gahagan Douglas, a Broadway star and opera singer turned congresswoman, lost a 1950 California Senate race to a young Richard Nixon but got the last word by popularizing what two-word nickname that followed him for the rest of his career?



MISCELLANEOUS Q5. Sitcom Stars: He lost a 1998 run for governor of New York, but Al Lewis will always be Grandpa, the vampire in the basement lab on what 1960s sitcom starring Fred Gwynne as a Frankenstein's-monster dad named Herman?



POP CULTURE Q6. Idol Icons: He lost the second season of “American Idol” to Ruben Studdard by 134,000 votes, then lost a North Carolina congressional race in 2014. Who is he?



POP CULTURE Q7. ABC Actors: Fred Grandy gave up his Iowa congressional seat in 1994 to run for governor and lost the primary. He wouldn't soon make another run, despite his years as Burl "Gopher" Smith aboard the Pacific Princess on what ABC series that sailed as “El crucero del amor” in Latin America?



SOCIAL STUDIES Q8. Midwest Men: The first American to orbit the Earth and the country’s first astronaut-politician, John Glenn lost his first senatorial bid in what Midwest “Mother of Presidents” battleground state?



POP CULTURE Q9. Notable Nixons: After an unsuccessful New York gubernatorial primary bid in 2018, Cynthia Nixon stumped for Mamdani when she wasn’t playing Miranda Hobbes in a sequel to what HBO show?



MISCELLANEOUS Q10. Counterculture Candidates: “Better Than Sex” recounts the fear and loathing of what journalist’s almost successful run for sheriff of Colorado’s Pitkin County? He shaved his head so he could call his crew-cut opponent “long-haired,” proposed renaming Aspen “Fat City,” and got 44% of the vote.


TIEBREAKER Tepid Turnout: Midterms always draw fewer voters than presidential years. In the 2022 midterms, what percentage of the voting-eligible population actually cast a ballot for the House?

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