"Designated Survivor" - The Pilot Quiz

Answer: Housing and Urban Development Secretary

It was one of the lowest-level cabinet positions. He was the person chosen not to attend the State of the Union Address, and therefore became the president when the attack happened.

Answer: U.S. Capitol Building

Tom Kirkman and his wife were in an undisclosed location when it happened. Several secret service agents came into the room, then the TV announced an explosion. That's when Kirkman walked to the window to see the fires burning on the other side of town.

Answer: True

Kirkman found out the morning of the State of the Union that he was going to be offered the job as an ambassador in Canada. No one made the move official, and Kirkman was picked as the Designated Survivor. Later than night he was sworn in as acting president when everyone else was killed in the attack.

Answer: In a car

He was being driven to a safer location when his bodyguard, Mike Ritter, got a phone call to route them to the White House. Ritter turned to Tom Kirkman and told him that they were enacting continuity of government. "You are the new president," Mike said to him as he turned around from the front seat of the car.

Answer: A hooded sweatshirt and jeans

He was wearing a zip up hooded sweatshirt with "Cornell" emblazoned across it. As soon as he was sworn in, he was herded into a secret bunker.

Answer: Seth Wright

Wright was a speechwriter. He and Kirkman were both in bathroom stalls getting sick when he started to tell Kirkman what he thought of the new president. Wright couldn't even remember the new president's name at first. He called Kirkman a follower, not a leader and said he should step down.

Answer: Leo

The Kirkmans had two children. Leo and Penny. Leo told his parents he was going to a friend's house to help write a computer program to assist with a song. Instead Leo went to a club to sell drugs and have fun. He had no idea what had happened when the secret service arrived to pick him up.

Answer: No

He had three years experience as Housing and Urban Development Secretary, and before that he had been a college professor. The fact that he had never been elected was key fodder on the news within minutes of his appointment.

Answer: Ambassador from Iran

The man's name wasn't mentioned in the episode. He was only referred to as "Mr. Ambassador". Iran was moving war ships into the Strait of Hamoud. Pres. Kirkman met with the Iranian ambassador to make him move the ships before the U.S. took action to force the ships to move. Iran was not thought to have been responsible for the attacks, only to be trying to capitalize on the attack to benefit by stopping the flow of oil to the western hemisphere.

Answer: General

Harris Cochrane was a U.S. Army General and one of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He secretly starting planning to force Tom Kirkman out of office during the pilot.

He felt that Kirkman wasn't capable of leading the country, and they needed a military leader who could respond with force.

He was played by Kevin McNally.