September 15, 2008

Are you smarter than a vice presidential nominee?

Gov. Sarah Palin, in the dark, as usual.

All eyes were on Sarah Palin last week as she sat down for her first big girl interview with ABC's Charles Gibson. It was a big moment for both her fans and her detractors, and a chance for her to prove once and for all that she has the skillz to pay the vice presidential billz. How'd she do?

Well, not bad, unless you factor in her attempts to link Iraq to 9/11 (an idea that even President Bush abandoned) and her caribou-in-the-headlights reaction to a question about the Bush Doctrine, which she was unable to define.

OK, she's not bright, but neither are the Americans who have shifted their support to McCain because she joined his ticket. Are you one of them, or us? Take the Sarah Palin history quiz, and match each historical event to Palin's description of it.

1. The Louisiana Purchase
2. The Great Depression
3. Reconstruction era
4. Tennessee Valley Authority
5. Domino theory
6. Manhattan Project
7. Boxer Rebellion
8. Marshall Plan
9. Hiroshima and Nagasaki
10. SALT accords
11. Appomattox
12. Draft riots

a. Tanya Tucker's first band.
b. Track had to get this removed before it ruptured.
c. Get a $10 coupon when you spend $100 in this department store's "petites" section.
d. How New York Jews control the banking system.
e. Postpartum suffering after I had Willow.
f. A brief and difficult time in history when Todd decided he preferred "free-balling."
g. When the local pub decided to go low-sodium on their mooseburgers.
h. What happened when the local pub ran out of Coors Light on tap to wash down our low-sodium mooseburgers.
i. Two hurricanes at Pat O'Brien's and a fistful of Mardis Gras beads. Whoooo!
j. Your pizza is delivered in 30 minutes or it's free.
k. Botox and neck lipo... shhh, it's my little secret.
l. Not sure. I don't really like sushi.

Answers: 1-i, 2-e, 3-k, 4-a, 5-j, 6-d, 7-f, 8-c, 9-l, 10-g, 11-b, 12-h

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