Ep. 181.5: The Best of Politics Special

Go Fact Yourself

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Comedy, Podcast, Arts, Trivia, Angel City, Game Show, Quiz, Helen Hong, J. Keith Van Straaten

4.6 • 786 Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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It’s time to go to the polls with Go Fact Yourself! It’s a collection of some of our favorite trivia segments that feature politicians as experts. Plus, contestants like Matt Rogers and Kitty Felde.

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0:00.0	I'm Helen Hong.
0:06.8	And I'm Jay Keith Van Stratton.
0:08.4	Welcome to another best-of edition of GoFact Yourself, where we compile some of our favorite trivia moments, guests, and experts all around one central theme.
0:17.6	It's November, and that means here in the United States, the ballots are out for local
0:22.3	elections of public officials and propositions. Now, we know politics can be divisive, especially
0:28.1	these days, but this episode isn't about taking sides. It's about taking on trivia. Yeah, so let's get
0:34.3	out the vote with some of our favorite trivia that featured politics or politicians as the topics and experts.
0:40.5	And to begin, a treat for all of you public radio trivia show fans, a special crossover segment.
0:46.3	It's from episode 45 recorded in Chicago in 2019 with guest Peter Sagle, host of Wait Wait, Don't Tell Me.
0:54.7	He faced off against Pulitzer Prize finalist, author Rebecca Mackay.
0:58.9	Rebecca's area of expertise was The State of Vermont, and there's a good reason why her
1:03.5	expert is an expert.
1:05.8	Today we want to quiz you about the state of Vermont.
1:08.2	Oh, God.
1:09.4	Okay.
1:10.0	Do you have a favorite part of Vermont? I do. I like the western side of the state, Middlebury, and there's some lakes near there that we love. Why do you go to read? I met my husband there in grad school. We really loved it. And we just, we needed to buy a house somewhere and we didn't like Wisconsin. So we went back. Bear down. All right. Well, just ahead, we're going to enlist the help of a bona fide expert in the state of Vermont to test your mastery in the subject with our expert level question worth up to three points. By the way, Peter, how much do you know about the state of Vermont? Bernie Sanders. All right. He's from New York. Yeah, really. I'm from the area of New York called New Jersey.
1:47.2	Let's see how you do on this one, question number five.
1:49.5	We're sure you know Vermont's state song, state flower, and state bird.
1:53.2	But please tell us, what is Vermont's state marine fossil, which are also known as the Canaries of the Sea?
2:00.7	Okay. Okay.
2:05.3	Um, yeah.
2:07.4	Um,
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