This Week in Political Trivia: Oct. 7
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| Q.1) | Paint Creek in Haskell County, Texas, the boyhood home of Texas Gov. Rick Perry, is located in the congressional district of what member of Congress? |
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| Q.2) | In what state did Democrat John F. Kennedy beat Hubert Humphrey with 61% of the vote in the 1960 presidential primary, proving that a Catholic could win in a virtually all-Protestant state? |
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| Q.3) | What U.S. senator, the son of a country-store owner, recalls walking to school barefoot? |
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| Q.4) | Upon being elected to Congress in 1988, what member said “I was elected to put the federal government on a diet”? |
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| Q.5) | In the United States, what source of electricity is expected to rise 25 percent in usage from 2009 to 2035? |
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