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RE: Extra Credit Questions - L Verge - 11-11-2017 01:50 PM

(11-11-2017 01:26 PM)Gene C Wrote:  Hillary?

The last time I checked, Gene, Hillary lost the election (god bless the Electoral College!).

Jerry, does strawberry blonde count? Both Washington and Jefferson qualify if it does, but the sources I googled seemed to be guessing that it was either Van Buren on Benjamin Harrison.


RE: Extra Credit Questions - JMadonna - 11-11-2017 02:02 PM

No strawberry blondes need apply. I was looking for Van Buren


RE: Extra Credit Questions - Eva Elisabeth - 11-11-2017 02:43 PM

I was just going to guess van Buren (read the question earlier this day but couldn't post) because he was Dutch... (meeting the cliché of Frau Antje who has advertised Dutch dairies for decades...
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=70OQ_5VdPLA )


RE: Extra Credit Questions - Steve - 11-11-2017 03:22 PM

If Van Buren had been a blonde, is this actually a portrait of Van Buren as a younger man or not?

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Francis_Alexander_-_Martin_Van_Buren_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg

(This isn't meant as a trivia question, I'm honestly confused about the portrait.)


RE: Extra Credit Questions - Eva Elisabeth - 11-11-2017 03:25 PM

Well, I've seen all shades of brown being declared as blonde by the hair "owners" (all female). (Nope, doesn't look blonde to me either!)


RE: Extra Credit Questions - Gene C - 11-11-2017 04:18 PM

Maybe the hair that used to be there was blonde?


RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 11-17-2017 06:47 AM

Who slept in this bed?

[Image: abed.jpg]



RE: Extra Credit Questions - Steve - 11-17-2017 11:32 AM

Mary Lincoln


RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 11-17-2017 02:56 PM

Excellent, Steve. Yes, this is Mary Lincoln's bed. It was in her room when she was at Bellevue Place in 1875. Nowadays it's at the Depot Museum in Batavia, Illinois.

http://www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/sites/bellevue.htm


RE: Extra Credit Questions - L Verge - 11-17-2017 03:58 PM

I knew it wasn't the death room at the Petersen House, but the furniture arrangement reminded me of it.


RE: Extra Credit Questions - JMadonna - 11-18-2017 08:47 PM

Four Universities can boast that among their graduates is a President and a Superbowl winning quarterback. Can you name any of them?


RE: Extra Credit Questions - Rogerm - 11-19-2017 12:42 AM

Stanford University graduate, Herbert Hoover, was a very unpopular president because his economic policies are blamed for the Great Depression. Also, Stanford grad, John Elway, quarterbacked the Denver Broncos to two Superbowl championships.


RE: Extra Credit Questions - JMadonna - 11-19-2017 10:22 AM

(11-19-2017 12:42 AM)Rogerm Wrote:  Stanford University graduate, Herbert Hoover, was a very unpopular president because his economic policies are blamed for the Great Depression. Also, Stanford grad, John Elway, quarterbacked the Denver Broncos to two Superbowl championships.

Bingo - That was one of the difficult ones since Hoover was forgettable.


RE: Extra Credit Questions - L Verge - 11-19-2017 11:51 AM

(11-19-2017 10:22 AM)JMadonna Wrote:  
(11-19-2017 12:42 AM)Rogerm Wrote:  Stanford University graduate, Herbert Hoover, was a very unpopular president because his economic policies are blamed for the Great Depression. Also, Stanford grad, John Elway, quarterbacked the Denver Broncos to two Superbowl championships.

Bingo - That was one of the difficult ones since Hoover was forgettable.

I want to know who the other three are!


RE: Extra Credit Questions - JMadonna - 11-19-2017 09:59 PM

(11-19-2017 11:51 AM)L Verge Wrote:  I want to know who the other three are!

OK they are Michigan, Navy and University of Miami Ohio.

Can you now fill in the rest?