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Rrrandy’s Pre-Post Bush Era “Bad Governors Quiz”
By Rrrandy Wurst | December 13, 2008
This is a test of your gubernatorial (an odd locution which actually means governorly) knowledge. A perfect score of 15 makes you eligible for the governorship of whichever state you choose. If you get fewer than 10 correct, go straight to jail, no impeachment necessary.
1. What states have or had the two strongest governors? (Talking muscles, not governing ability.)
2. What state has twice elected a professional actor (Grade B-) to the governorship?
3. Who was “Governor Moonbeam?”
4. What governor had a major rock star as his “First Partner” while in office?
5. What state elected a professional wrestler to the governorship?
6. What state elected a “Robber Baron” to the governorship?
7. What state elected as governor the most far-sighted person in human history?
8. What state elected a governor who was assassinated in its State Capitol Building?
9. What state elected a governor whose name became, as a result of his behavior, an ambitransitive verb?
10. What state elected a governor whose name became an adverb synonymous with stupidity, greed, and arrogance?
11. What state elected a governor who armed his black employees with ax handles to keep black protesters out of his restaurant?
12. What other states elected openly racist governors?
13. Which state had a governor whose reputation was stained by a blue dress after he left office?
14. What state’s governor was forced to resign over hiring prostitutes after being elected for having broken up prostitute rings?
15. What state is said to be adding a “Governors’ Wing” to its state prison?
“FREE” BONUS QUESTION (as the answer is open for discussion and opinion):
Which public office is more prone to corruption, stupidity, self-aggrandizement, greed, arrogance, and general dirty-dealing? State governorship, U. S. Senator, U. S. Representative, or President of the United States?
+++++++++++++THE ANSWERS (but don’t peek!)++++++++++++++++
1. California (Arnold Schwarzenegger) and Minnesota (wrestler Jesse Ventura)
2. California (R. Reagan and Arnie S.)
3. California [again?] (Jerry Brown)
4. Governor Moonbeam (Linda Ronstadt)
5. Minnesota (Jesse Ventura, again)
6. CA (broken record) electing Leland Stanford, or maybe NY or WV with their Rockefellers.
7. Alaska, of course. Sarah Palin claimed she could see Vladdy Putin’s belly-button from her back porch.
8. Louisiana (Huey P. Long, the Kingfish)
9. Illinois (to Blagojevich, as in “Go Blagojevich yourself!” [tr.] or “Oh, Blagojevich!” [intr.])
10. Ditto Illinois. (As in, “She governed Blagojevichly.”)
11. Georgia (Good Ol’ Boy Lester Maddox at his Pickrick Restaurant)
12. Let’s start with Alabama (George Wallace) and Arkansas (Orville Faubus). Add your own.
13. Arkansas (Grinnin’ Bill Clinton)
14. New York (Salivatin’ Elliott Spitzer)
15. Illinois (Blagoyevich could be the 4th of the last 8 Illinois governors to find a home in prison.)
BONUS Q: We did not include federal judgeships on this list as the answer then would be obvious, given the life-time tenure of federal judgeships.
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