First, last week’s answer — Sam Pierce — and the winning questions:

• “Deborah Gore Dean”: Who was Ronald Reagan’s Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, was Reagan’s only African American cabinet member, was the only one to serve in his post thoughout both of Reagan’s terms as President.and after leaving office he was investigated by the United States Office of the Independent Counsel?
• DADvocate: Whose executive assistant was convicted of three counts of conspiracy to defraud the federal government?
• Lee Annis: Which Cabinet member did Ronald Reagan call Mr. Mayor?
• Richard A: Who was recorded as America’s highest ranking soap opera fan in the 1980s?

Now, this week’s Extreme Trivia answer: “Hey Buddy, you’re liberal.”  What’s the question?

First, last week’s answer — Deborah Gore Dean — and the winning questions:

• Lee Annis:  Whose relationship with former Attorney General John Mitchell are we going to learn about in James Rosen’s forthcoming biography?
• Richarda: Who is the neice of the late MD State Senator and 1974 GOP gubernatorial nominee Louise Gore?

Good questions all.  But there’s one huge question left out.  So let’s deal with it this way:

This week’s Extreme Trivia answer: Sam Pierce.  What’s the question?

First, last week’s answer — Sen. Pat Geary — and the winning questions:

• Charles Lattan: In “The Godfather Part II,” who said to Michael Corleone, “I despise the way you pose yourself. You and your whole f—— family?” And to whom Corleone replied: “We’re both part of the same hypocrisy, senator, but never think it applies to my family. … My offer is this: nothing. Not even the $20,000 for the gaming license, which I would appreciate if you would put up personally”?
• RCGeist: What was the name of the fictional Nevada Senator who was in the pocket of the Corleone family in Godfather II played by actor G.D. Spradlin.
• Dr. Wong: Name the corrupt US Senator in Mario Puzo’s “The Godfather” who was loosely based on the late Nevada senator Pat McCarran?  ORr: Name the fictitious US Senator who disproved corrupt Louisiana Governor Edwin Edwards’ quip, “The only way I can lose this election is if I’m caught in bed with either a dead girl or a live boy.”
• Peter Roff: Who asks Fredo Corleone for a “red-haried Yolanda” instead of a Cuba Libre?

Now, this week’s Extreme Trivia answer: Deborah Gore Dean.  What’s the question?

First, last week’s answer — Sen. Howell Heflin — and the winning questions:

• Peter Roff: Name the last state Supreme Court Chief Justice to be elected to the United States Senate.
• Jeff DuFour: What late Alabama senator was famously lampooned by Chris Farley on Saturday Night Live for his role in the Clarence Thomas hearings?
• Quin: Who is the only person to be replaced as a U.S. senator by the man (Jeff Sessions) whose federal judicial nomination he personally torpedoed?

Now, this week’s Extreme Trivia answer: Sen. Pat Geary.  What’s the question?

First, last week’s answer — Sen. James Buckley — and the winning questions:

• Richarda: Who was the only person elected to the U.S. Senate (1970) in the second half of the 20th Century as a third-party (NOT independant)) candidate?
• Lee Annis: Name the only senator ever elected from the Conservative party and the only former senator now sitting on the federal bench.
• James Young: Name the United States Senator who unsuccessfully challenged Congress’ partial repeal of the First Amendment through the guise of campaign finance “reform.”
• Peter Roff: Name the retired jurist who got his start in politics only after his journalist-brother dragooned him into managing an ill-fated New York City mayoral campaign?
• Quin: Who, in retrospect, would have been a better appointment to the Supreme Court (despite then being 64) in 1987 than Anthony Kennedy was?

Good questions all.  But I was looking for one more: Name one of only three people who ran for U.S. Senate from more than one state.

Now, this week’s Extreme Trivia answer: Sen. Howell Heflin.  What’s the question?

First, last week’s answer — Nancy Landon Kassebaum — and the winning questions:

• Quinn: Whose father suffered the biggest loss by any presidential candidate after the final pre-election polls actually showed him likely to be a clear winner?
  Whose father set the standard for presidential campaigns that other Kansans, such as Dole and Specter, would try to emulate by losing badly?
  Whose father was a very decent guy who probably would have been a lot better for the country if he had won than FDR was?
  Who was herself a moderate but very decent, admirable senator from Kansas?
• Peter Roff: Connect former Sen. Nancy Landon Kassebaum to former GOP Senate Leader Everett McKinely Dirkson in six steps or less.
• DADVocate: What former senator from Kansas is married to a former senator from Tennessee?  (Answer this and you’ll be half way to the answer of Peter Roff’s question.)
• Lee Annis: By the way, when is Mortman going to start giving medals for right answers, say like the one Senator Kassebaum Baker is wearing?
• Joe: Who was the first woman to serve in the Senate witout either having first served in the House or been appointed on thje death of her husband?

Now, this week’s extreme trivia answer: Sen. James Buckley.  What’s the question?

First, last weeks answer — James Garfield — and the questions:

• Jeff Dufour: Which president, the fourth Ohioan to hold the office, served the second-shortest duration of any president, trailing only the first Ohioan president? 
• Craig: Name the only man to go directly from the House to the presidency. 
• William:  Who is the only person in US history to be a Congressman, Senator-elect, and President-elect at the same time?  What should have been the questions: Who was the only US President born in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, one of America’s great paradises (county seat: Cleveland)?  Who was one of two US President’s to serve on the Board of (what-would-become) Case Western Reserve University — the finest eductional institution in the free world? 
• Peter Roff: What reform Republican, the John McCain of his era, was forced to make a deal with the regular Republicans in order to win the White House? And what was the result of that deal? 
• Quin: What president donated his name to the New Orleans street on which I grew up. 
• BGP: What President could write in latin on one hand and greek on the other hand at the same time?  What President served as President to a college at aged 25? (Later became Hiram College)  What President was my highschool named after? (probably not).

Now, this week’s extreme trivia answer: Nancy Landon Kassebaum.  What’s the question?

First, the answer to last week’s question.  Name the last Democratic nominee for president who was also the losing Democratic nominee for president in the immediate prior cycle?

Many folks correctly — and quickly — said Adlai Stevenson, including Charles Lattan, Charlie (Colorado), Craig, Peter Roff, and Mike Maller.

Now, the next Extreme Trivia question.

But first, a public service announcement: To mark the one year anniversary of the Extreme Mortman blog, we’re changing the format.  Now, I give you the answer.  You pose the question.

This week’s Extreme trivia question: James Garfield.  Now, what’s the question?

First, the answer to last week’s question.  How many nude-dancing licenses does the Washington, DC government issue?

Following a spirited debate between Richarda and Peter Roff over present and past issuances, the answer remains 20.

Now, the next Extreme Trivia question.  Inspired by John Kerry’s decision against running for president in 2008. Name the last Democratic nominee for president who was also the losing Democratic nominee for president in the immediate prior cycle?

First, the answer to last week’s question.  How many times has control of the U.S. House changed hands and how many times has control of the U.S. Senate changed hands during Charlie Cook’s lifetime?

Lee Annis came closest to the correct answer, which is 3 times for the House and 7 times for the Senate.

Now, the next Extreme Trivia question.  How many nude-dancing licenses does the Washington, DC government issue?

(Judiciary Square photo courtesy naked washington)