Q 01/05

Kamala Harris served as vice president under which president?

A) Joe Biden

B) Barack Obama

C) Bill Clinton

D) Donald Trump

Answer · why

A) Joe Biden

She was the 49th vice president, serving from 2021 to 2025.

Q 02/05

Harris was born in 1964 in which California city?

A) San Francisco

B) Los Angeles

C) Oakland

D) Sacramento

Answer · why

C) Oakland

She launched her 2019 presidential campaign there in front of a crowd police estimated at more than 20,000.

Q 03/05

Harris's mother Shyamala Gopalan came to the U.S. from India in 1958 to study which subject at Berkeley?

A) Astrophysics

B) Endocrinology

C) Economics

D) Linguistics

Answer · why

B) Endocrinology

Her 40-year research career on the progesterone receptor gene advanced breast cancer research.

Q 04/05

Donald Harris, Kamala Harris's father, was the first Black scholar tenured in which university's economics department?

A) Berkeley

B) Harvard

C) Chicago

D) Stanford

Answer · why

D) Stanford

Kamala and her sister Maya spent weekends at his Palo Alto house after their parents divorced.

Q 05/05

As a child Harris often visited her maternal grandfather in which Indian city?

A) Mumbai

B) Kolkata

C) Bangalore

D) Chennai

Answer · why

D) Chennai

She learned to wear traditional Indian dress and picked up a few phrases of Tamil.