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Trivia For October 6, 2026
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20th Century U.S. Politics
Question 1:
In the 1920s, the administration of Warren Harding became wracked by a scandal over the leasing of petroleum reserves in Wyoming. The scandal became known by what two-word phrase?
Albert B. Fall, then-Secretary of Interior, orchestrated the scandal by secretly leasing the reserves to private oil executives in exchange for roughly $400,000 in bribes (over $5 million today). Others were also implicated, but only Fall was convicted.
Question 2:
In 1913, the 17th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was passed. It mandated that these officeholders must be "elected by the people".
The original text of the Constitution mandated that Senators were to be chosen by the state legislature. Corruption and deadlocks in the state legistures led to calls for reform, eventually leading to the passage of the 17th Amendment.
Question 3:
In 1934, this father of a future U.S. president was appointed to be the first head of the Securities and Exchange Commission.
When asked why he nominated Kennedy to the position, FDR reportedly said of the notorious Wall Street investor, "It takes a thief to catch a thief."
Question 4:
This term for a beetle which feeds on cotton plants was also used to describe conservative, Southern Democrats in the mid- to late-20th century.
A bloc of conservative Democrats, mostly from the south, adopted the name of the boll weevil, a pest destructive to cotton crops, because of the difficulty of eradicating the weevil and the pest's range in the Southern United States.
Question 5:
Fill in the blank: In 1974, President Gerald Ford attempted to jumpstart a grassroots movement with the slogan Whip __ Now.
Ford took office in August 1974 amidst one of the worst economic crises in US history, marked by high unemployment and inflation at over 12%. Ford encouraged citizens to wear "WIN" buttons, but the effort was immediately ridiculed. The campaign was later described as "one of the biggest government public relations blunders ever".
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