| Match Day | Question | Answer | Total% | A% | B% | C% | Def |
| LL42 MD20 | Perhaps hardest hit by the late 2000s economic recession has been this European country, which saw its three largest banks go into receivership. The market capitalization of its major stock exchange dropped by more than 90%, and its external debt owed to foreign creditors reached a level over seven times its annual GDP (compare to USA, where foreign debt is 1/3 of GDP). There are more foreign depositors who have had their accounts in this country's banks frozen than there are residents of the country itself. | ICELAND | 63 | 80 | 64 | 48 | 1.2 |
| LL41 MD23 | What law school was attended by Sonia Sotomayor, as well as current U.S. Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito? | YALE LAW SCHOOL | 65 | 84 | 71 | 41 | 0.9 |
| LL41 MD12 | Louis Caldera recently resigned as Director of the White House Military Office amid the furor over a controversy surrounding what? | AIR FORCE ONE PHOTO OP | 56 | 79 | 63 | 37 | 0.8 |
| LL40 MD15 | Who replaced Michael Chertoff as U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security in January of 2009? | JANET NAPOLITANO | 53 | 74 | 53 | 32 | 0.9 |
| LL39 MD18 | This South Dakotan is reported to become President Obama's nominee as Secretary of Health and Human Services, once Mr. Obama takes office in January. | TOM DASCHLE | 64 | 83 | 67 | 36 | 1.0 |
| LL39 MD12 | The financial crisis and ensuing bank failures and consolidations have left an oligopoly of three major superbanks, which now control a third of U.S. deposits. Name these three banks. | BANK OF AMERICA, WELLS FARGO, JPMORGAN CHASE | 12 | 18 | 12 | 2 | 1.2 |
| LL37 MD14 | Correctly spell the first name of the current United States Secretary of State. | CONDOLEEZZA | 39 | 61 | 47 | 20 | 1.1 |
| LL37 MD2 | Walter Reed National Army Medical Center is located in Washington, DC; where is the National Naval Medical Center located? | BETHESDA, MARYLAND | 43 | 69 | 47 | 22 | 1.2 |
| LL36 MD20 | The Democratic National Committee stripped these two states of all of their delegates in the current presidential primary, after the two states violated the national party's calendar in holding primary elections earlier than the national party allows. | FLORIDA, MICHIGAN | 78 | 92 | 83 | 60 | 0.4 |
| LL36 MD1 | From 1967 to 1971, a young Barack Obama lived and attended elementary school in what foreign country? | INDONESIA | 54 | 73 | 47 | 37 | 0.6 |
