Name That Senator

[teapot37]

http://www.nationaljournal.com/s/120721 ... at-senator

Here's a game where they show you a photo of all 100 current senators and give you four names for each one. How many can you name? I got 91, but I have to admit there were a few people I didn't even know were senators.

[econgator]

http://www.nationaljournal.com/s/120721 ... at-senator

Here's a game where they show you a photo of all 100 current senators and give you four names for each one. How many can you name? I got 91, but I have to admit there were a few people I didn't even know were senators.

I'm impressed. I had to struggle for 67.

[RichmondJ]

Went into this thinking I might be able to get them all - but I missed three.

[9021amyers]

80/100. There are too many old white guys in Congress to tell them all apart.

[Volante]

I had to stop about 30 in when I swear they were reusing the same pic...not sure if that's real life or a result of my gin addled mind, but I'd rather stay ignorant to that.

[hbomb1947]

I got 66, and I'm blaming my prosopagnosia.

[Category 13]

I could only identify 44.

[Bamaman]

I got through about 20 or so and quit since I was guessing at half of them.

[Johnblue]

98.

[ZachTheRiah]

I got through about 20 or so and quit since I was guessing at half of them.

+1. This was my experience too.

[MarkBarrett]

45 for me determined to go through all 100 even though I only KNEW 13 of them for sure mostly thanks to the two from my state and the recent debates. Looking at the list of 100 I would estimate I only recognized the names of about 27 as being senators.

It's never been a good area for me since there are constant changes and I don't follow enough to care.

Thanks for the link as doing the exercise can only better my chances the next time a relevant J! clue appears.

[dhkendall]

For a person who is incredibly bad at these things, especially when J! asks about it, I think my 37 is a pretty darn good score. (I'm also at a disadvantage here in that I'm probably the only one here who took this, and one of the very few overall who took it, who doesn't have any of them as their senator). Plus, this was a good way to study for something that J! asks a lot of , so thanks again! (Although it's not multiple choice on J!

Although several of them (especially near the end) were deduced merely by the fact that the other three names were already done (or, in rare cases, two of the other names plus one of the handful (maybe 8?) I knew what they looked like. My wild guesses (usually along the lines of "Oh, he looks like he could be a James Lankford!"), however, rarely turned out correct. (Also one I recognized by the flag in the background - I wouldn't know John Hoeven if I met him in a dark alley, but I do know he's one of North Dakota's senators, living close to the state and getting some of my TV channels from there helped with that one.)

Thanks, hope I remember to go back to study when The Call comes, hopefully that comes before some of these are gone in the 2016 elections.

[Lefty]

49. I credit my "Concentration" skills for my success.

[Leander]

69 for me, but I will admit to using my SAT skills in narrowing a lot of the choices down to two, then guessing .

[JonathanHenke]

I couldn't tell all the old white guys apart, but my BF got 70. I keep telling him he should try out for Jeopardy!

[Johnblue]

Actually, 20 are women, 2 are black & at least 3 are Hispanic. And the old white guys are the ones who've been around so long & on those Sunday shows are easiest to know. It was the middle-aged guys from states in the Midwest who were tricky. One of my two incorrect answers was mistaking Debbie Stabenow for Jeanne Shaheen. The other was one of the Midwestern dudes.

[jjwaymee]

78 for me. I'd say 45 of them were "know it", 20 were "50/50 educated guess" and 13 were "all other options gone". I only made one mistake on the women.

[MDaunt]

57

Meh. This is really the list of the most powerful people in the most powerful country on earth? For shame.

[jjwaymee]

For a person who is incredibly bad at these things, especially when J! asks about it, I think my 37 is a pretty darn good score. (I'm also at a disadvantage here in that I'm probably the only one here who took this, and one of the very few overall who took it, who doesn't have any of them as their senator). Plus, this was a good way to study for something that J! asks a lot of , so thanks again! (Although it's not multiple choice on J!

I would say there is a maximum of 8-10 sitting senators that would ever be fodder for a Jeopardy clue. I'm sure they are all among the 37 you got correct.

[RichmondJ]

I was really surprised on November 4 when J! had a photo clue of Kirsten Gillibrand and it was a triple stumper. Maybe I'm biased because she was my law school classmate, but I don't think of her as among the low-profile ones!