Quiz: How Well Do You Know the 2014 Midterm Elections?

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True or false: There is an election happening tomorrow. If you answered true, you’re well on your way to outscoring many of your fellow Americans in our 2014 midterm election quiz.

Recent polls show that interest in the election is actually waning as November 4 draws closer, but now you have the opportunity to prove that you’re one of the few who know which fellow Republican Chris Christie is publicly mocking, and why candidates are shooting various objects in campaign ads. Don’t get anything wrong, or you’ll have to do whatever these people say for the next few years. (Just kidding, that’s happening either way.)

1Which of these Scotts is not running in the midterms?

Scott Walker Tim Scott Rick Scott They’re all running

2The Sopranos’ Vincent Pastore mocked a candidate for refusing to participate in a one-on-one televised debate with his opponent. Who did he call the real “Big Pussy”?

Chris Christie Rob Astorino Cory Booker Andrew Cuomo

3Though he’s head of the Republican Governor’s Association, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has refused to campaign for New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s opponent. Which fellow Republican did Christie call a “lost cause”?

Zephyr Teachout Howie Hawkins Rob Astorino Eric Schneiderman

4Why is Louisiana Representative Vance McAllister called the “Kissing Congressman”?

Photos surfaced of McAllister at a bar, kissing and groping a woman who is not his fiancée He shared an uncomfortably long and sloppy kiss with his wife before taking the podium at a campaign rally A surveillance camera caught the married congressman kissing a staffer in his office He declared that he’ll “kiss as many babies as he has to” in a creepy campaign ad

5Wendy Davis, who rose to fame during her 11-hour filibuster to protect abortion rights, is running for governor of Texas. Who is her Republican opponent?

Mike Beebe Rick Perry Jan Brewer Greg Abbott

6Former senator Scott Brown may make history in New Hampshire. Why?

If elected, he will become the youngest Republican member of the Senate If he wins, he will be the first person elected to the Senate from two different states If defeated, he will be the first Senate candidate to lose two races to women All of the above

7Why is this electric fan famous?

Mitch McConnell tripped over the cord at the beginning of a debate Wendy Davis switched it on in a campaign ad, saying Texas is “too full of hot air” Charlie Crist must have it with him at campaign events because he hates to sweat At a debate, Scott Walker refused to take the stage without it

8Why did Kentucky Democratic Senate candidate Alison Lundergan Grimes shoot a gun in a campaign ad?

She’ll take “dead aim" at the cap and trade bill Now that “millions of dollars of negative ads are flooding into Kentucky, paid for by Washington special interests,” many Kentuckians want to shoot their TVs Once she sets her sights on Obamacare, “Alison’s gonna unload” She is not Barack Obama, and disagrees with him “on guns, coal, and the EPA”

9Sean Eldridge, husband of Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes, is running for a House seat in which state?

New York California New Jersey Massachusetts

10Republican Senate candidate Joni Earnst famously declared in a TV spot that she “grew up castrating hogs on an Iowa farm.” Which of the following has she not done in a campaign ad?

Visit a shooting range Ride a motorcycle Accuse her opponent of having “electile dysfunction” Explain that fat is the key to making a great biscuit

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