100% left with 3:08 left. What is sad is that the average is only 19/50. Although even sadder that the quiz hasn't been updated with the new senators, as has been pointed out repeatedly below.
Assuming these are ordered roughly by difficulty, I think Lindsey Graham should be much closer to the top. He's pretty famous and it's impossible to not know where he is from given the accent. I would also put Schumer/Gillibrand higher, and Reid/Heller up slightly as well. Virginia was easy for me but that might be because I'm from there. I know that each senator has had some controversy but I don't think it was big national news.
Briefly famous. Generally, failed VP candidates return to their pre-election obscurity - I believe Senator Kaine is close to that point now. Heck, even successful VP candidates fade away from memory pretty quickly. Nobody seems to remember Agnew or Mondale very well, despite the fact that they served within living memory for a good number of quizzers.
People remember Agnew and Mondale a hell of a lot better than they remember John Tower, Howard Metzenbaum, or Scoop Jackson, and they were all relatively well known at the time. And Gore, Palin and Ryan are a fairly well known now, and John Edwards' moment lasted for 4 years.
Well, Gore and Ryan did a lot more than just be obscure politicians and VP candidates: Ryan's been Speaker of the House for quite some time now (which is a almost a higher-profile position than even VP). Al Gore went on to run for president himself, in the closest, most legislatively contentious presidential election ever, and then had a whole post-political career in environmentalism. John Edwards is more memorable for his affair and resultant campaign finance controversy than anything else at all, it seems, and as for Sarah Palin… WELL, we're all still trying to forget.
Can't tell you how many different ways I spelled "Massachusetts." Not sure what happened; I thought I was just wrong. I usually have no trouble--I guess all the accepted variations are just making me lazy when it comes to spelling.
With another minute I know I could finish. I blow through nearly the entire left column right away and when I have to start thinking about them a little more I start forgetting which states are already entered.
Martha McSally has now replaced John Kyl as Arizona's Senator, filling John McCain's seat. Not bad, though. 3:47 left. A few typos and I could get it under 4:00 left
Hatch and Romney never served together. Hatch is leaving, Romney is coming. The other Utah senator is Mike Lee, who co-wrote the bi-partisan Yemen resolution.
So Tommy Tuberville, replaced Doug Jones, Mark Kelly beat Martha McSally, and Hickenlooper beat that other republican senator whose name I forgot. And at the current state of play, looks like ossoff will beat Perdue, and Warnock Will beat Loefller.
Arizona's Mark Kelly took office already and Georgia's Kelly Loeffler has been in office for awhile now. Should just wait until January to update all the other Senators at the same time.
Quick note, Cynthia Lummis (the former statewide representative) has been elected as the junior senator from Wyoming, taking Mike Enzi's seat after the 2020 election cycle (he announced his retirement back in 2019 I believe).
I feel like the fact that I got 100% on this quiz is probably a testament to me paying attention to the news a *bit* too much in the past few months. Granted, I still had to guess on quite a few and some states I only recognized the name of 1 of the senators... but even so, 19 in July 2019 to 50 in January 2020 is a pretty big jump. Thanks 2020.
Despite him not being the trademark definition of "Democrat", Its amazing how Manchin keeps winning in a state that usually goes republican by a 2/3 majority
i might be misunderstanding but shouldn't the title be 'States by Senators'? most other quizzes with 'by' seem to be that way round, like 'African Countries by Flag', meaning that you're naming the former thing 'by' using the latter as a hint. it's not super important but might give a better impression to people deciding whether to click on the quiz?
Neato!
/s for those that are oblivious.