Last week marked the fourth anniversary of the death of former Seven Days political columnist Peter Freyne. Coverage of Vermont’s political scene hasn’t been the same without Inside Track, not least because of Freyne’s infamous roll call of nicknames for the state’s movers and shakers. Below, we’ve listed 19 monikers Freyne coined — see how many you can correctly guess and find out your score at the end.

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Tyler Machado was the digital media manager at Seven Days. He mostly worked behind the scenes making sure the website, email newsletters and social media feeds stayed in tip-top shape.

3 replies on “The Peter Freyne Name Game”

  1. I would’nt have failed if I could have spelled Marselis’ name correctly. I did think I’d do better than 63.

  2. Bad contest if you got one letter wrong in the spelling of a name you got an incorrect. Who can remember how to spell all our dumb politicians names.

  3. Thanks for the memorial quiz. It was fun to see how fast most of those nicknames came bubbling to to the surface. Bummed that I lots points for referring to our former senator as James Jeffords instead of “Jim”.

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