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RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia - Eva Elisabeth - 02-25-2017 03:27 AM
(There's also a state capital named after another top politician.)
RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia - RJNorton - 02-25-2017 04:44 AM
(02-24-2017 07:24 PM)L Verge Wrote: Hint#1 - Think north and south for the remaining two.
Madison, Wisconsin.
Jackson, Mississippi.
RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia - Eva Elisabeth - 02-25-2017 05:54 AM
(02-25-2017 03:27 AM)Eva Elisabeth Wrote: (There's also a state capital named after another top politician.)...and a herring, too, is named after him.
RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia - L Verge - 02-25-2017 02:35 PM
(02-24-2017 09:04 PM)Eva Elisabeth Wrote: Jackson(ville?)?
Skip the "ville" and give me the state whose capital is Jackson. After that, one more to go.
(02-25-2017 04:44 AM)RJNorton Wrote:(02-24-2017 07:24 PM)L Verge Wrote: Hint#1 - Think north and south for the remaining two.
Madison, Wisconsin.
Jackson, Mississippi.
Stop the presses! Roger named the other two. Congratulations to both he and Eva for knowing some basic geography.
(02-25-2017 05:54 AM)Eva Elisabeth Wrote:(02-25-2017 03:27 AM)Eva Elisabeth Wrote: (There's also a state capital named after another top politician.)...and a herring, too, is named after him.
Don't know if a herring is named after this Prussian politician, but I'm thinking of Bismarck, North Dakota as the U.S. capital city.
RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia - Eva Elisabeth - 02-25-2017 06:51 PM
Very good, Laurie. Here's the herring history:
http://www.bismarckhering.com/information-in-english-language/
(Bismarck herring rolls are the most popular fast food over here.)
RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia - L Verge - 02-25-2017 07:06 PM
(02-25-2017 06:51 PM)Eva Elisabeth Wrote: Very good, Laurie. Here's the herring history:
http://www.bismarckhering.com/information-in-english-language/
(Bismarck herring rolls are the most popular fast food over here.)
Interesting history. I am not a fish fan unless it comes in a shell, but are herring larger varieties of what we call a sardine?
When I was a child, many of the elderly black men of the area would gather around the pot-belly stove at my uncle's store and tell stories, catch up on gossip, and especially talk baseball. They would be chewing tobacco; spitting against the hot stove (I can hear the sizzle now); and, when they got hungry, they would buy cans of sardines and sit around eating. The smell of those sardines mixed with the spittle sizzle did me in!
When told that this President was dead, the writer Dorothy Parker quipped, "How can you tell?" To which President was she referring?
RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia - Eva Elisabeth - 02-25-2017 07:19 PM
Yes, herrings and sardines are of the same family.
As for Dorothy Parker - JFK would be the only logical guess to me?!
RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia - L Verge - 02-25-2017 07:38 PM
(02-25-2017 07:19 PM)Eva Elisabeth Wrote: Yes, herrings and sardines are of the same family.
As for Dorothy Parker - JFK would be the only logical guess to me?!
Sorry, not JFK. Think a generation before.
RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia - J. Beckert - 02-25-2017 08:01 PM
Calvin Coolidge. Did I win something?
RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia - L Verge - 02-26-2017 12:17 PM
(02-25-2017 08:01 PM)J. Beckert Wrote: Calvin Coolidge. Did I win something?
A+ Mr. Beckert. It was indeed Silent Cal Coolidge. I'll buy you a drink at the Surratt Conference next month, but you have to stand in the bar line.
BTW, speaking of the Coolidges: Mrs. Coolidge is known as The First Lady of Baseball, but I cannot find out why. Does anyone know the answer?
Let's try this trivia question: Before the 2016 political circus, which Presidential campaign was dubbed the "Ugliest, Most Contentious Presidential Campaign Ever..."?
RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia - RJNorton - 02-26-2017 01:59 PM
Election of 1824?
RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia - L Verge - 02-26-2017 05:10 PM
(02-26-2017 01:59 PM)RJNorton Wrote: Election of 1824?
Sorry, it came later than that.
RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia - RJNorton - 02-26-2017 05:13 PM
Election of 1876?
RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia - Eva Elisabeth - 02-26-2017 05:15 PM
Did it come with (involve) Grant?
RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia - L Verge - 02-26-2017 06:50 PM
(02-26-2017 05:15 PM)Eva Elisabeth Wrote: Did it come with (involve) Grant?
The old history teacher got it! It was indeed the 1876 campaign between Rutherford B. Hayes and Samuel Tilden, with a third party candidate thrown in and a tricky electoral college maneuver.
Eva, you are correct in thinking that Grant played a factor. I believe that, at one point, he was considering a third term, but was talked out of it. The corruption that had been exposed during his Presidency didn't help his case either.
READY FOR ANOTHER ONE? Which President had most of his official papers destroyed by Union soldiers when they ransacked his Confederate son's home in Louisiana?