"WW" - "Arctic Radar" I Trivia Quiz

Answer: failure to follow an order

Hilton was having an affair with a subordinate officer, and didn't stop when ordered to. Because she disobeyed the order, she faced two years jail time.

Answer: false

After Bartlet thanked them for their hard work over his first term, he left the room. Leo then added his thanks and asked for their resignations. C.J. later explained to the press corps that, as a formal courtesy, the cabinet resigned to give Bartlet the option of hiring them or not rather than firing them or not.

Answer: banner and stapler

Toby seemed to want to argue, pointing out that Southern California had no dearth of LA Lakers banners and that whoever would be using the office might need the stapler.

Answer: "Wow. I'm definitely not gonna do that."

Donna told him that she was doing him a favor, so now he'd have to do her one. Josh replied, "You're almost there, but you're not quite getting it. When-- When it's something you're paid to do, that's not a favor. But whaddya got?" Donna told him, "Nancy McNally has a new military aide named Jack Reese, and we've talked a few times and I want you to ask him if he likes me." Josh seemed to actually contemplate the proposition for a moment before responding in complete seriousness, "Wow. I'm definitely not gonna do that."

Answer: "Evidently, you did too."

Amy was accusing him of forgetting the importance of the women's vote in getting Bartlet reelected. He repeated her line and tried to stifle laughter until Amy said, "I met her last night. This is a special girl. I want to speak up for her." Josh seemed to get that Amy was serious and agreed to talk with her about it.

Answer: Leo

At that point, Amy and Josh were just going back and forth with "shut up" and "you shut up" and Leo, always down to business, passed through and expressed his irritation.

Answer: Nice

He told Sam he was going to stay in a villa to which he had family connections.

Answer: his shoelaces were untied

Sam told him he wouldn't ask him to postpone his vacation unless it was important. When Will noted that Sam hadn't asked him to postpone his vacation, Sam said that he was about to. Hearing that, Will said, "Okay, well then, your shoelaces are untied and I'm hauling ass."

Answer: Inaugural Address

Though resisting the idea, Will asked, "When is the speech?" When Sam told him it was January 20th, Will asked, "The President is giving two speeches on the 20th?" Sam confirmed what Will must have suspected: "No. Just the inauguration."

Answer: integrity

After Trumble used the explanation of "Star Trek" values to insult Josh, he concluded she was one of the "special people" and settled to be content that she'd taken off the pin.

Answer: Jackie Robinson

He was noting all of the "firsts" Hilton had accomplished. When he concluded that Fitz didn't need to hear Hilton's resume, Fitz agreed, saying, "No, but could you tell me more about Jackie Robinson and breaking barriers?" This didn't help the tense feel of the meeting any! Robinson, of course, was a hugely successful black baseball player in the 1950s, whose success helped to shatter the sport's color barrier.

Answer: garbage can

Will pointed it out to him and Toby took a small fire extinguisher off a shelf and put the fire out. It seemed this was not a first for Toby!

Answer: metaphors

Will was trying to defend his competence by giving Toby a bit of his resume. Toby said he'd read the Stanford Club speech but went on to critique it: "Call and response isn't gonna to work in front of a Joint Session. You're alliteration happy: 'guardians of gridlock', 'protectors of privilege', I needed an avalanche of Advil. And when you use pop culture references, your speech has a shelf life of 12 minutes. You don't mind constructive criticism, do you?" Will countered by suggesting that Sam saw problems in Toby's speeches: "Maybe he thought that your speeches were obscurantist policy tracts lost in a cul-de-sac of their own internal self-righteousness and groaning from the weight of statistics. I'm just speculating; I can't say for sure." After a moment, Toby offered Will a legal pad and told him to come back the next day with 500 words on "American leadership in a globally interdependent age."

Answer: FEMA

Toby had written the remarks for the Better Housing conferences himself because they were short staffed. It should have read "FHA-insured home loans". Leo called him on it, and brought up the question of replacing Sam while he'd be in California.

Answer: Ilie Nastase

Josh told Jack Reese about that, the time she left her underpants at an art opening, and when she caused a terminal in Belarus to be shut down because she was trying to bring back scented candles. Nastase was a Romanian tennis star, whom Donna might have had a brief crush on.