Presidents and First Ladies Trivia

[Eva Elisabeth]

(There's also a state capital named after another top politician.)

[RJNorton]

Hint#1 - Think north and south for the remaining two.

Madison, Wisconsin.
Jackson, Mississippi.

[Eva Elisabeth]

(There's also a state capital named after another top politician.)

...and a herring, too, is named after him.

[L Verge]

Jackson(ville?)?

Skip the "ville" and give me the state whose capital is Jackson. After that, one more to go.

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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.

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(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.

[Eva Elisabeth]

Very good, Laurie. Here's the herring history:
http://www.bismarckhering.com/informatio...-language/
(Bismarck herring rolls are the most popular fast food over here.)

[L Verge]

Very good, Laurie. Here's the herring history:
http://www.bismarckhering.com/informatio...-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!

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When told that this President was dead, the writer Dorothy Parker quipped, "How can you tell?" To which President was she referring?

[Eva Elisabeth]

Yes, herrings and sardines are of the same family.

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As for Dorothy Parker - JFK would be the only logical guess to me?!

[L Verge]

Yes, herrings and sardines are of the same family.

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As for Dorothy Parker - JFK would be the only logical guess to me?!

Sorry, not JFK. Think a generation before.

[J. Beckert]

Calvin Coolidge. Did I win something?

[L Verge]

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..."?

[RJNorton]

Election of 1824?

[L Verge]

Election of 1824?

Sorry, it came later than that.

[RJNorton]

Election of 1876?

[Eva Elisabeth]

Did it come with (involve) Grant?

[L Verge]

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.

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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?