Western US Senators: 111th Congress
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Author's Game Description
Locate the states represented in 2009 by the Senators given. If the junior senator has served more than one third as long as the senior senator, the (S) or (J) will follow the name indicating that status.
Category: People Games
Created by slaaty, 12 Jun, 2009
Tags: geoquiz, people, politics, senators, usa, wwpolitics, wwusgeo
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slaaty 4 months ago
slaaty 5 months ago
Too tough?
Ease in to this with Senators of Western USA, where one dot per state matches both Senators' names.
slaaty 5 months ago
More than a quarter of all currently serving Senators have been in office less than 3 years as of this writing. With so much turnover, there are more unfamiliar names there for even moderately politically aware Americans than in a long time.
Have a go - and see how many you know!
This quiz covers the states west of the Mississippi River, while the companion quiz covers states to the east.
Senior senators go in the upper dot, junior senators go in the lower dot. Use the hints where I give them.
Seniority is determined first by length of continuous service, but this Wikipedia article gives all the tie breaking rules, and some additional information about what seniority means, as well as the full list of all current Senators by seniority.
Quiz assumes that Al Franken will be seated as Minnesota's junior senator.
Today the question marks were removed from Minnesota's Senate delegation, as Amy Klobuchar is now officially the senior Senator and Norm Coleman conceded defeat to Al Franken, the newest United States Senator.