POP QUIZ (Senate seats)

In addition to the presidential race to be decided on Tuesday, there are three U.S. Senate races in the region:  Democratic Sen. Bob Casey faces Republican Tom Smith in Pennsylvania;  incumbent Bob Menendez, a Democratic representing New Jersey, against Joseph Kyrillos, a Republican state senator, and Delaware's Sen. Tom Carper, a Democratic, against Republican Kevin Wade.  Let's look at some previous occupants of those seats.

1. He's the only U.S. senator from Pennsylvania to become president.
a) James Polk
b) Millard Fillmore
c) James Buchanan
d) Franklin Pierce
2. He was a Democratic senator and a Republican one, and a cabinet member.
a) Arlen Specter
b) Simon Cameron
c) J. Donald Cameron
d) William Bigler
3. He was Pennsylvania's first Catholic U.S. senator.
a) Francis J. Myers
b) Rick Santorum
c) Joseph S. Clark
d) Hugh Scott
4. After leaving the Senate, he served as Ronald Reagan's secretary of health and human services.
a) Hugh Scott
b) Harris Wofford
c) John Heinz
d) Richard Schweiker
5. He was the third Frelinghuysen to serve as U.S. senator from New Jersey.
a) Frederick Frelinghuysen
b) Theodore Frelinghuysen
c) Joseph S. Frelinghuysen
d) Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen
6. His great-grandfather was a delegate to the Continental Congress and his great-nephew was Gov. Tom Kean.
a) John Kean
b) Hamilton Fish Kean
c) Frank Lautenberg
d) Robert Winthrop Kean
7. He served New Jersey in the U.S. Senate for three years, in between two of his three terms as governor.
a) James Florio
b) A. Harry Moore
c) Jon Corzine
d) William Warren Barbour
8. Three members of this family spent 36 years representing Deaware in the U.S. Senate.
a) DuPont
b) Bayard
c) Saulsbury
d) Clayton
9. This Delaware family had five men become U.S. senator.
a) DuPont
b) Bayard
c) Saulsbury
d) Clayton
10. He was the first U.S. senator from Delaware to become vice president.
a) Joe Biden
b) T. Coleman DuPont
c) John M. Clayton
d) Josiah O. Wolcott



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Answers : 1. c  ; 2. b  ; 3. a  ; 4. d  ; 5. d  ; 6. a  ; 7. b  ; 8. c  ; 9. b  ; 10. a