"The Newsroom": Season Two Trivia Quiz

Answer: Don sees a YouTube video of Maggie's rant where she acknowledges her feelings for Jim.

Predictably, a person on the "Sex and the City" tour bus recorded Maggie's rant using her phone. This person has a blog in which she reports her own life events in "the voice" of "Sex and the City" characters. She puts Maggie's speech on YouTube and Maggie's cousin, who doesn't like Maggie but does like Don, sends the link to him. End of Maggie and Don.

Answer: Occupy Wall Street

Neal has a bit of a reputation for becoming passionate about topics that are a little off the beaten path for a news program-his earlier preoccupation with Bigfoot, for instance. He learns online of Occupy Wall Street, but the movement is in its infancy and doesn't impress anyone else on the news team; still, Mackenzie gives him permission to look into the group a bit more.

He does, and the OWS story becomes a second story line of the season.

Answer: To get some distance from Maggie and Don

The ACN reporter assigned to the Romney campaign got drunk, jumped from the second floor of his hotel to the hotel pool, missed the pool, and broke his ankle in two places. Jim hears this, goes to Mackenzie and offers-insistently-to cover for the injured reporter.

She attempts to dissuade him until he comes clean and says he needs to get away from Maggie and Don for a while. Then she relents, although it's highly unusual for a senior producer with no political reporting experience to take a step like this.

A Washington, D.C., ACN producer named Jerry Dantana comes to the New York newsroom to cover for Jim during his absence.

Answer: Because of a little African boy who died

Maggie and a colleague, improbably named Gary Cooper, go to Uganda to cover unrest in the region and the American presence there. Part of their itinerary is a stop at an orphanage where American soldiers are building a school. One of the boys takes a shine to Maggie because of her long white-blonde hair, a color he has never seen; he gets her to read his one storybook over and over for most of the afternoon.

There is later a mixup about their departure and Maggie and Gary end up at the orphanage overnight.

In the night a group of rebels (known as cattle raiders because in addition to wreaking carnage on the civilian populace, they steal cattle) approaches and the orphanage has to be evacuated under fire. Maggie is carrying the boy out to the bus when they are shot at.

The child is hit and dies in her arms. Wracked with horror, grief and guilt, when Maggie returns to the States, she hacks off her blonde tresses and dyes the remaining hair flaming red.

Answer: That the US used sarin gas on Pakistani villages while trying to rescue American military personnel, in violation of international law

Jerry Dantana is offered the story first by a political commentator who wanted to curry favor with ACN. He advocates with passion that they follow up on the story and heads a team of reporters who dig into it. Over time, they find several sources that corroborate that sarin gas had been used against civilians.

Answer: Marine General Stomtonovich

Stomtonovich is a retired three-star Marine general. He agrees to the interview on condition of anonymity, including having his face in shadow and voice altered. It's arranged that Jerry Dantana will do the interview. When Jerry shows up with Maggie in tow as his producer, the general objects to her presence because he has had Jerry investigated but not Maggie. Maggie then exits the room for the duration of the interview.

Answer: Jerry Dantana

From the moment he enters the NYC newsroom to fill in for Jim, it's apparent Jerry intends to do all he can to make a name for himself. He spearheads the Genoa story because even though the news team is having trouble getting enough confirmation that chemical weapons were used, he believes it happened and must be reported.

When his interview with the final source fails to get confirmation of the story, he edits the video to make it appear that the source states sarin gas was used during Genoa.

Answer: The time on the shot clock of a basketball game on TV in the background jumped ahead and back during the video.

The editing of the video is very good, but the basketball game playing in the background shows the time on the shot clock jumping around rather than counting down as it should be.

Answer: False

The person responsible sues ACN for wrongful termination, prompting a series of depositions from staff about the course of the Genoa story's development. The same individual later sues Don Keefer because Keefer calls the culprit a sociopath when a prospective new employer calls ACN for a job reference.

The situation has an Alice-in-Wonderland feel akin to situations in which a burglar sues the homeowner who shot him...

Answer: Will and MacKenzie

During a break in election coverage, Will has an epiphany: his anger and resentment of MacKenzie's long-ago infidelity is preventing them from being happy today. He realizes that other than the one thing she did wrong, she did everything right, and he runs to grab the ring he never returned, tracks her down, and proposes to her, and she accepts.

The news team breaks into applause when they announce their engagement, and the show concludes to Pete Townshend's rendition of "Let My Love Open the Door" as they celebrate: Leona and Ross are neither firing nor accepting resignations from Charlie, Will or MacKenzie for Genoa; Will and McKenzie are getting married; and election night coverage went well (despite a premature calling of one race in Michigan). You can almost hear the collective sigh of relief rushing through the newsroom.