1.10 "In Excelsis Deo" Trivia Quiz

Answer: Dee Dee Myers

Myers, born on September 1st, 1961 in Providence, Rhode Island was credited, per the opening credits, with writing this episode of "The West Wing." She wrote a total of five episodes for the series. Writing episodes for "The West Wing" was her first writing credit for any primetime drama series.

Answer: Richard Schiff (Toby Ziegler)

Schiff won a Primetime Emmy for portraying Toby Ziegler on "The West Wing" and he won it at the 2000 Primetime Emmys by submitting this episode for consideration. He won in the category of Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series. At the 2000 Primetime Emmys, the other Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series nominees were Michael Badalucco for "The Practice", Steve Harris For "The Practice", Dominic Chianese for "The Sopranos", and John Spencer for "The West Wing." He received additional nominations, in the same category, in 2001 and 2002 but he lost both years.

In 2001, he lost to Bradley Whitford for "The West Wing." At the 2001 Primetime Emmys, the other Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series nominees were Dominic Chianese for "The Sopranos", Michael Imperioli for "The Sopranos", and John Spencer for "The West Wing." In 2002, he lost to John Spencer for "The West Wing." At the 2002 Primetime Emmys, the other Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series nominees were Victor Garber for "Alias", Freddy Rodriguez for "Six Feet Under", Dule Hill for "The West Wing", and Bradley Whitford for "The West Wing."

Answer: Korean

Toby got a call, from the Washington, D.C. police, to come and identify a homeless man that had just died. Toby identified the guy and realized he was a veteran from the Korean War. The reason why Toby was asked to identify the body was that the man was wearing one of Toby's coats that he had donated and his business card was in the pocket of the coat.

Answer: True

After Toby got done identifying the body, he started to become overwhelmed with the situation and he started to track down the next of kin of the man he identified. Toby managed to find a family member, of the homeless man, and he found the homeless man's brother. It turned out that his brother was also homeless.

Answer: Jed Bartlet

Toby started to become attached to the homeless man's brother so he came up with an idea to honor the deceased man by having a funeral for him at Arlington National Cemetery. He asked President Bartlet if they could hold a funeral, at Arlington, since the man was a Korean War veteran. President Bartlet reluctantly agreed but worried this would cause other deceased war veterans to have funerals at Arlington.

Answer: Charlie Young

Mrs. Landingham overheard Toby's request to have a funeral done for the deceased homeless man, at Arlington, and she told Charlie a personal story about loss in war. She mentioned, to him, that she lost two twin sons, in Vietnam, and she knew the pain never goes away. Mrs. Landingham accompanied Toby and the homeless man's brother at the funeral.

Answer: Sam Seaborn

Josh wanted to find a way to get Congressman Lillienfield off of Leo's back since he was the one who suggested that Leo once battled a drug addiction. He recalled Sam's scandal about sleeping with a call girl so he asked Sam if he could have the call girl dig up dirt on Congressman Lillienfield. Leo heard about the plan and told Josh not to resort to that tackiness.

Answer: Hate crimes

C.J. got personally involved with a story that saw a young homosexual man being beaten and this led to her crusading to push for a bill regarding hate crimes. Unfortunately for her, nobody else was really on board getting a bill drafted regarding this issue. Danny Concannon was also not interested in the bill but C.J. decided to use the opportunity to ask him out on a date to convince him to back hate crimes legislation. About a year prior to this episode, the real life story of Matthew Shepard's murder due to being gay sparked attention to amending the federal hate crimes law to include crimes committed over sexual orientation.

This story was based on Matthew Shepard's murder.

Answer: True

This episode was considered the show's holiday special of 1999 since it aired on December 15th, 1999 and Donna kept bothering Josh into getting her a Christmas gift. Josh decided to go with President Bartlet to a book store to get Donna a book. He found one that he believed she would like and gave it to her and she loved his gift.

Answer: Raynor Scheine

Scheine, born on January 19th, 1942 in Emporia, Virginia guest starred as the homeless man Toby met in this episode of "The West Wing." This was the only episode in which Scheine appeared in the series. Scheine has also had guest starring stints on the TV shows, "JAG", "ER", and "Deadwood." He also has starred in the films, "The Sentinel", "Transamerica", and "The New World."