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Famous Speakers of the House - Statistics
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- This quiz has been taken 11 times
- The average score is 8 of 15
Answer Stats
| Speakership | Home State | Clue | Speaker | % Correct |
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| 2007-2011, 2019-present | California | Current Speaker and first female Speaker; passed Affordable Care Act and Dodd-Frank; impeached Trump | Nancy Pelosi | 100%
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| 1995-1999 | Georgia | First Republican Speaker in 40 years; architect of the "Contract With America"; undermined political decorum | Newt Gingrich | 91%
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| 2015-2019 | Wisconsin | Mitt Romney's running mate; passed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act | Paul Ryan | 91%
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| 2011-2015 | Ohio | Contributed to the 2013 government shutdown due to opposition to funding the Affordable Care Act; resigned due to conservative opposition | John Boehner | 82%
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| 1811-1814, 1815-1820, 1823-1825 | Kentucky | Unsuccesfully ran for president 3 times; member of the "Great Triumvirate" | Henry Clay | 55%
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| 1977-1987 | Massachusetts | Reagan said he and this man were friends "after 6 pm" | Tip O'Neill | 55%
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| 1835-1839 | Tennessee | Only Speaker to be elected president | James K. Polk | 45%
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| 1931-1933 | Texas | Franklin D. Roosevelt's 2-term Vice President | John Nance Garner | 45%
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| 1863-1869 | Indiana | Grant's first Vice President; involved in the Crédit Mobilier scandal | Schuyler Colfax | 45%
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| 1989-1995 | Washington | Passed the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Family and Medical Leave Act, the Brady Bill, and NAFTA implementation; only Speaker to be defeated in a re-election campaign | Tom Foley | 45%
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| 1999-2007 | Illinois | Imprisoned for molesting children as a high school wrestling coach | Dennis Hastert | 36%
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| 1869-1875 | Maine | Leader of the Half-Breeds who lost the 1884 election to Cleveland, when he was called the "continental liar from the state of Maine" | James G. Blaine | 36%
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| 1834-1835 | Tennessee | Ran for president on the Constitutional Union ticket in 1860 | John Bell | 36%
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| 1940-1947, 1949-1953,1955-1961 | Texas | Longest-serving Speaker; mentor to LBJ who helped pass some Civil Rights legislation | Sam Rayburn | 27%
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| 1789-1791, 1793-1795 | Pennsylvania | First Speaker | Frederick Muhlenberg | 9%
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