This week's quiz features a theme of Cabinet offices over the decades.

1. What Cabinet department was originally designated as the National Military Establishment?

2. The attorney general heads which Cabinet department?

3. Name the first woman to serve as attorney general.

4. What Cabinet department was originally known as the Department of Foreign Affairs?

5. What future president served as secretary of state in George Washington's administration?

6. Created in 1903, what department was divided in 1937?

7. What future president served as secretary of war?

8. What was the newest Cabinet position created during the George W. Bush administration?

9. Name the two African-Americans who served consecutive terms as secretary of state.

10. What military-oriented Cabinet department was created during the Reagan administration in 1989?

Answers

1. The NME became the Department of Defense in 1947.

2. The attorney general heads the Department of Justice.

3. Janet Reno served as the first female attorney general.

4. The Department of Foreign Affairs is now called the Department of State.

5. Thomas Jefferson, our third president, was Washington's secretary of state.

6. The Department of Commerce and Labor became two separate departments — Department of Commerce and Department of Labor.

7. William Howard Taft, our 27th president, chaired the War Department before moving to the White House.

8. The secretary of the Department of Homeland Security was created as a result of the 9/11 tragedy.

9. Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice were the back-to-back secretary of state officials.

10. During the Reagan administration, the Veterans Administration became the Department of Veterans Affairs.

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