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RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 11-02-2024 07:04 PM
Robert Lincoln loved to play golf. In 1901 he entered the Ekwanok President's Cup golf tournament.
Where did Robert finish?
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Rob Wick - 11-03-2024 09:03 AM
Last?
Best
Rob
RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 11-03-2024 11:11 AM
Good job, Rob. Close enough. Robert beat only one golfer and finished second to last.
Here is a photo of Robert on the golf course:
![[Image: robert22.jpg]](https://rogerjnorton.com/photos/robert22.jpg)
Source: Lincoln Collection, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library
President William Howard Taft putting with Robert and caddie in the foreground.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 11-11-2024 10:14 AM
No googling please.
What country was the very first outside the United States to have a city named after Abraham Lincoln?
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Rob Wick - 11-11-2024 11:52 AM
Wild guess, but Brazil?
Best
Rob
RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 11-11-2024 01:02 PM
That is an excellent guess, Rob, but it wasn't Brazil.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Gene C - 11-11-2024 01:11 PM
Great Brittan ?
RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 11-11-2024 01:30 PM
Nope, not Great Britain.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Anita - 11-11-2024 01:36 PM
Argentina? I know they have a city they named Lincoln in 1865 after the assassination. but don't know if it's the earliest.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - AussieMick - 11-11-2024 02:08 PM
Congo?
RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 11-11-2024 03:31 PM
Kudos, Anita! Argentina it is!
I came across this information in the Spring 2019 edition of the Lincoln Forum Bulletin:
"A 30-inch high, original bronze bust of Lincoln - the work of New York sculptor Frank R. Porcu - has been gifted by the Forum to the South American township of Lincoln, Argentina.
The town - some four hours northwest of Buenos Aires - is believed to be the first municipality outside the United States named for Abraham Lincoln. The designation was ordered by Argentinian president Domingo Faustino Sarmiento (1811-1888), a passionate admirer of the American president. Sarmiento went on to write and publish a Spanish language Lincoln biography."
RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 11-17-2024 12:38 PM
No googling please. Thank you.
During the early part of the 20th century Germany operated a large steamer named the President Lincoln. On one of its voyages to America it was transporting an animal in a cage. The cage was located on the deck forward of the bridge. One day, as the President Lincoln was traveling across the Atlantic, one of the ship's cooks took a break and was sitting on the ship's rail. Suddenly the animal in the cage let out with a mighty sneeze. The cook, relaxing on the rail, was startled by the huge sneeze, and he fell overboard into the Atlantic. Others on the ship saw what happened and lowered a lifeboat. The astounded cook was saved.
What kind of animal sneezed loudly in his cage aboard the President Lincoln?
RE: Extra Credit Questions - AussieMick - 11-17-2024 02:52 PM
Elephant? I'll leave that.... I know the US was sent one, but I thought it was from an Asian country.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Rob Wick - 11-17-2024 07:42 PM
I'm going to guess gorilla.
Best
Rob
RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 11-18-2024 05:13 AM
Nope, it wasn't an elephant or a gorilla.