Answers revealed in the comments.
GAME 1
The longest-serving woman in the history of the U.S. congress represented which Mid-Atlantic state for 40 years, from 1977-1987 in the House and from 1987-2017 in the Senate?
GAME 2
The 2003 album So Long, Astoria by The Ataris is a reference to what film released almost 20 years earlier?
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game one answer: Maryland
Game two answer: The Goonies