Q 01/05

Clarence Thomas went a full decade on the Supreme Court bench without doing what?

A) Read an opinion aloud

B) Ask a question

C) Join the majority

D) Write a dissent

Answer · why

B) Ask a question

Ask a question is what he declined to do at oral arguments from February 2006 to February 2016; he has said he would rather listen and let the advocat...

Q 02/05

Clarence Thomas officiated at the wedding of which talk radio host, held in the justice's own home?

A) Rush Limbaugh

B) Sean Hannity

C) Glenn Beck

D) Laura Ingraham

Answer · why

A) Rush Limbaugh

Rush Limbaugh married Marta Fitzgerald at the Thomas house in May 1994, with the justice presiding; the couple had met on the online service CompuServ...

Q 03/05

Clarence Thomas, a summer RV traveler, has spent nights parked in which retailer's lots?

A) Costco

B) Home Depot

C) Walmart

D) Target

Answer · why

C) Walmart

Walmart lots were an occasional overnight stop for the 40-foot converted tour bus he and his wife have owned since 1999, when its battery had enough p...

Q 04/05

Which career did the teenage Clarence Thomas train for before classmates' racism drove him to quit?

A) Army officer

B) Physician

C) Schoolteacher

D) Priest

Answer · why

D) Priest

Priest was the goal he pursued at two seminaries; he left in 1968, convinced that his church was doing too little to fight racism.

Q 05/05

Which senator chaired the Judiciary Committee during Clarence Thomas's 1991 confirmation hearings?

A) Joe Biden

B) Ted Kennedy

C) Orrin Hatch

D) Strom Thurmond

Answer · why

A) Joe Biden

Joe Biden, then a senator from Delaware, had the FBI rather than committee investigators look into the harassment claims, hoping to avoid any appearan...