Question

To which does the term “Teapot Dome” refer?

Answer 1

the scandals of selling government oil reserves to people who sold them back to the government.

Answer 2

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The noun TEAPOT DOME has 1 sense:

A government scandal involving a former United States Navy oil reserve in Wyoming that was secretly leased to a private oil company in 1921; became symbolic of the scandals of the Harding administration

TEAPOT DOME used as a noun is very rare.