Shoeless Trivia: Episode 5 (2017 News)

All the cool kids are doing it… Here’s the obligatory round of end-of-2017 trivia.

1. What Obama-era deputy attorney general served as acting AG in the early days of the Trump administration? She was fired for ordering the Justice Department not to enforce the Muslim travel ban.
2. “Baily’s beads”, “diamond ring”, and “cookie bite” are all terms associated with what 2017 event?
3. What product, produced by Wisconsin-based company Lamplight Farms, played a tangential role in a major August 2017 news story?
4. Name both founding members of Steely Dan, one of whom died in September of this year.
5. Shortly after he was appointed press secretary, a number of tweets resurfaced revealing a longstanding one-sided beef between Sean Spicer and a certain ice cream company. Which one?

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1. Sally Yates
2. (total) solar eclipse
3. tiki torches
4. Donald Fagen, Walter Becker
5. Dippin’ Dots