--- title: Kimmel Had People Name a Member of Congress For a Cookie description: Jimmy Kimmel had a lot of cookies left at the end of the quiz canonical: https://time.com/4931353/jimmy-kimmel-asked-people-to-name-a-member-of-congress/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-09-07T14:16:29.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:47:03.791Z og:title: Kimmel Proved No One on the Street Knows Who's in Congress og:description: "Sean Spicer?" og:url: https://time.com/4931353/jimmy-kimmel-asked-people-to-name-a-member-of-congress/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Kimmel Proved No One on the Street Knows Who's in Congress twitter:description: "Sean Spicer?" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Jimmy Kimmel Asked People to Name a Member of Congress. Predictably Everyone Was Clueless. by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Sep 7, 2017 2:16 PM UTC by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Sep 7, 2017 2:16 PM UTC Americans love to complain about Congress. They also love cookies. So Jimmy Kimmel came up with a game and sent his team out onto the streets of Los Angeles to play a few rounds of “Name A Member of Congress for a Cookie”. The results were aired on Wednesday night’s episode of _Jimmy Kimmel Live!_ and were pretty much what anyone who has sat through a [high school](http://time.com/4931206/iowa-high-school-students-kkk-hoods-confederate-flag/) civics class would expect. While some of the erstwhile contestants were clearly watching the news and could name drop people like [Sean Spicer](http://time.com/4868671/best-sean-spicer-memes/) and Reince Priebus, they didn’t seem to realize that people who used to work in Donald Trump’s White House were not actually members of Congress. Similarly, Trump himself is also not a member of Congress nor is Barbara Walters for that matter. People fared much better when they were asked to name [Vin Diesel movies](http://time.com/4639335/watch-vin-diesel-audition-for-james-cordens-carpool-karaoke/), “adult websites”, or the little guys shilling Rice Krispies. Apparently we need Vin Diesel and Snap, Crackle, or Pop to run for Congress. Kimmel Had People Name a Member of Congress For a Cookie ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4931353/jimmy-kimmel-asked-people-to-name-a-member-of-congress/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4931353/jimmy-kimmel-asked-people-to-name-a-member-of-congress/"},"headline":"Jimmy Kimmel Asked People to Name a Member of Congress. Predictably Everyone Was Clueless.","datePublished":"2017-09-07T14:16:29.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:47:03.791Z","description":"Jimmy Kimmel had a lot of cookies left at the end of the quiz","url":"https://time.com/4931353/jimmy-kimmel-asked-people-to-name-a-member-of-congress/","keywords":["Newsfeed","politics","Jimmy Kimmel","jimmy kimmel live","Late Night Television"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4931353/jimmy-kimmel-asked-people-to-name-a-member-of-congress/","name":"Jimmy Kimmel Asked People to Name a Member of Congress. Predictably Everyone Was Clueless."}}]}] ```