Sunday, 18 October 2009

Question for Oct 18, 2009

The following list is ordered, but not exhaustive. Identify the blanks.

Joe Biden, _______, Robert Byrd, _______, Timothy Geithner, Robert Gates, Eric Holder.

7 comments:

Ankur said...

Is this a list of Obama's Team in order of importance of post after him?

One of the blanks is Hillary Clinton (Sec of State). No clue about the second blank (is it one of the Indians on his team?)

Gaurav Kane said...

Is that the order of the people who become President of the USA if something happens to Barack and so on?

Taking that as my basis, the blank spots must be Hillary Clinton and Nancy Pelosi (I am not sure of the 2nd person and am reasonably confident its not right)

Kiran Vyakaranam said...

I have two guesses.
1.These are Obama's cabinet appointments in the order of their appointment. The missing blanks are Rahm Emmanuel and Hillary Clinton. Although I have a feeling Robert Byrd does not have a cabinet appointment at least not a major one that I heard of...but I think either he or Harry Reid is the Dem. party majority leader
OR
2. These are the people that would become the President in case Obama goes kaput. In that case the blanks would be Nancy Pelosi (Speaker) and Hillary Clinton. Again I don't know how Robert Byrd fits in here without a cabinet position and how the supreme court judge isn't higher up in the line...

2. These are

Nikhil said...

Successors to the throne... People who will become President if Obama dies.

The 1st blank should be the Speaker of the house (Nancy Pelosi). The 2nd blank is probably Hillary Clinton.

Rahul said...

It is the chain of command in the United States after President Obama.

Nancy Pelosi, the speaker of the house would be the first blank. Not sure of the second, maybe chief justice John Roberts?

Dev said...

Rahm Emanuel and Hilary Clinton?

The Answer said...

The first blank is Nancy Pelosi, and the second one is Hilary Clinton. This list is the United States presidential line of succession.

Congrats to Gaurav, Nikhil and Rahul for the funda, though only Nikhil got the right names in the correct order. Sorry VJ, only first guess counts!