2.17 "The Stackhouse Filibuster" Quiz

Answer: William Duffy

Duffy guest starred in this episode as Larry. He played the part for a total of forty seven episodes of "The West Wing." He has also had guest starring stints on the TV series', "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip", "Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman" and "Law & Order."

Answer: Cara DeLizia

DeLizia, born on April 10th, 1984 in Silver Spring, Maryland guest starred as Winifred Hooper in this episode. She starred as Winifred for just this episode. She has also guest starred on the TV shows, "Just Shoot Me!", "NYPD Blue" and "ER."

Answer: C.J. Cregg

C.J. was in the opening scene, typing an email to her father about her feelings about a recent filibuster which neither the Senate leadership nor herself saw coming. She wrote down that she understood if people were angry at her. She then said she would try to explain herself to everybody as soon as she could.

Answer: Josh Lyman

Josh saw C.J. walking down a hallway so he went over to talk to her about how he was going to Port St. Lucie. Josh mentioned he was going down there to witness the Spring training season for the New York Mets. C.J. mentioned he could watch the New York Jets on T.V. so Josh corrected her by saying Port St. Lucie was where the New York Mets played their Spring training.

Answer: True

C.J. was on her way to give a press conference and she spoke with a reporter named Mark who talked about his girlfriend. He said he was supposed to have dinner with his girlfriend that Friday but he had to work. When Mark informed her he had been dating the girlfriend for three weeks, C.J. instructed him to cut his losses and dump her.

Answer: The Family Wellness Act

As C.J. continued to write about this experience with the filibuster, she wrote down some of the rules to a filibuster, such as you were not allowed to leave the Senate chamber for a restroom break and you could not lean on anyone. She mentioned the bill being filibustered was called The Family Wellness Act.

She then talked about how Josh had lead staffers from the Legislative Liaison Office in negotiations with a conference chairman for some time.

Answer: Leo McGarry

Josh went into Leo's office to speak to him about a conference he held and he asked him how he felt on spending six billion dollars over healthcare. Josh mentioned how much better he would feel if it meant going to a doctor without filling out something on a clipboard. Josh said there was nothing else so Leo excused him from his office.

Answer: C.J. Cregg

C.J. saw Charlie and asked him if she could call him "Chip" but Charlie said no so then she asked about "Chipper" or "Gillian" but Charlie said he disliked those names as well. Charlie mentioned someone named Hassan Ali was coming to the White House that week and C.J. mentioned that he was the guy who had 38 wives. Charlie mentioned how President Bartlet went to Cairo and Ali gave him a ceramic statue.

Answer: Sam Seaborn

C.J. went to go visit Sam while he was playing Solitaire so she asked him who his favorite writer was, to which Sam said Toby was the writer he admired the most. She then asked him about his favorite fiction writer and Sam replied it was Charles Dickens. C.J. changed the subject and told Sam she was sorry about his father.

Answer: Josh Lyman

Josh was doing a voice over in this episode when he explained the origins of the term "filibuster." He mentioned that it came from the Dutch word "vrijbuiter", which meant "freebooter." He said that they meant it should translate to "buccaneer" instead of "freebooter." There was one scene in the episode in which President Bartlet realized that a grandfather's love drove the filibuster.