A Binder Full of Romney Trivia Quiz

Answer: Detroit, Michigan

Mitt Romney's siblings include two sisters named Margo and Jane and one brother named George. Outside of his work with American Motors Corporation, Mitt's father George was also Governor of Michigan from 1963 to 1969 and Secretary of Housing and Urban Development from 1969 to 1973.

Answer: Brigham Young University

In addition to his Mormon faith, another big factor in Romney's decision to attend BYU was that the love of his life, Ann Davies, was enrolled there. Romney actually started his college education at Stanford University before he engaged in his missionary work.

Answer: Vietnam

Interestingly during Romney's time at Stanford and while doing his missionary work in France he was actually involved in counter-protest movements regarding Vietnam seeming to show support for U.S. involvement. Romney obtained both a student deferment and a ministerial deferment that exempted him from being drafted to serve in Vietnam.

Answer: They had five children and all were boys.

Their children include Taggart in 1970, Matthew in 1971, Joshua in 1975, Benjamin in 1978, and Craig in 1981. Similar to his father, Taggart also attended Brigham Young University for undergraduate studies and Harvard for graduate school.

Answer: Boston Consulting Group (BCG)

The growth-share matrix is often called the BCG-matrix and as its name implies groups companies based on their growth rate and market share. Companies with high growth rates and high market shares are stars, companies with high growth rates and low market shares are question marks, companies with low growth rates and high market shares are cash cows, and companies with low growth rates and low market shares are dogs.

Answer: Bain Capital

Bain Capital's namesake, Bill Bain, founded the management consulting firm Bain & Company in 1973 and assisted Romney in starting Bain Capital in 1984. Bain Capital was instrumental in financially backing Staples, Inc. in 1986, and their return on investment for this venture was almost 700%. Controversy regarding Romney's time at Bain Capital came about when it was unclear when exactly Romney stopped being actively 'involved' in the operations of the company.

Answer: 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City

Mitt Romney is very candid about his decision to accept the leadership role for the 2002 Olympics and Paralympics was heavily motivated by his wife Ann's encouragement who herself had been battling multiple sclerosis. One big challenge for the games was to ensure that proper security measures were taken as the nation was still on edge from the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

Answer: Health care reform legislation that promoted universal health insurance by way of state subsidies and individual mandates to purchase insurance.

The Massachusetts health reform law came into effect in 2006 and was commonly called Romneycare. This law was the first of its kind in the nation effectively paving the way for full health coverage in the state. Many Republicans took issue with Romney backing this legislation, particularly after it became a key policy position for Barack Obama.

Answer: Arnold Schwarzenegger & Rick Perry

As of February 6th, 2008, McCain had a total of 680 delegates to Romney's 270. McCain went on to face Barack Obama in the 2008 U.S. presidential election where he lost receiving 45.7% of the popular vote and 173 of 538 electoral votes.

Answer: 1

Barack Obama won the following big states with their electoral votes in parentheses: California (55), New York (29), Florida (29), Pennsylvania (20), Illinois (20), Ohio (18). Romney's big state pickup was in Texas with its 38 electoral votes. Romney's inability to win swing states like Florida and Ohio paved the way for Obama's re-election.

In total Barack Obama won 26 states as well as the District of Columbia while Mitt Romney won 24 states.