instruction:
You will be given a trivia clue, and the category it belongs to. You should answer with the best answer that belongs in the category and is described by the clue. For simplicity, answers should be in all lower cased letters.
question:
Category: WORDS IN THE NEWS 
Clue: This word for one who hangs around the corridors of power refers back to the corridors themselves
answer:
lobbyist


question:
Category: U.S. GOVERNMENT 
Clue: This group that first met in 1942 didn't get a permanent chairman until 1949
answer:
the joint chiefs of staff


question:
Category: TERMS FROM THE BIBLE 
Clue: In 2010 we heard of the discovery of the fossil of a 12 million-year-old giant sperm whale given this Biblical name by its finders
answer:

leviathan