Q 01/05

In July 2025, Harris ended months of speculation by ruling out a 2026 run for which office?

A) Governor of California

B) Mayor of Los Angeles

C) U.S. senator from California

D) Mayor of San Francisco

Answer · why

A) Governor of California

Governor of California. She had been the heavy favourite for the 2026 race, but said her public service would not be in elected office 'for now', whic...

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

Oakland. She came back to launch her first presidential campaign there, in a downtown plaza, before a crowd police put 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

Endocrinology. She arrived at 19, earned her PhD in 1964, the year Kamala was born, and broke with her family's custom of arranged matches by marrying...

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

Stanford. He had come from Jamaica in 1961 as a Berkeley graduate student, and met Kamala's mother there through the civil rights movement.

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

Chennai. Her grandfather, a retired civil servant, took her along on his walks with old colleagues, and she has credited their arguments about democra...