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How presidential are you?

Ready to test your presidential trivia knowledge? Try answering these questions, derived from facts we found on the Internet at http://home.att.net /~jrhsc/prestriva.html.

1. Who was the first president to appear on a postage stamp?
2. What president had to borrow money to go to his own inauguration?
3. What two presidents signed the Declaration of Independence?
4. Where did the term “the big cheese” come from?
5. Who was the first president to wear trousers instead of knee breeches?
6. Who had the first pool table installed in the White House?
7. What did John Quincy Adams keep as pets?
8. Why was Andrew Jackson’s pet parrot removed from the president’s funeral?
9. Who was the first president to die in office?
10. How long did he last in office?
11. What was John Tyler doing when he learned he would be president?
12. What killed Franklin Pierce?
13. How tall was Abraham Lincoln?
14. What was Lincoln’s favorite sport?
15. Who once saved the life of Lincoln’s son, Robert?
16. What president was a tailor and made his own clothes?
17. What did Ulysses S. Grant eat for breakfast every morning?
18. What did Rutherford B. Hayes’s wife ban from the White House?
19. Who was our first left-handed president?
20. What candy bar was named after Grover Cleveland’s daughter?
21. Who was the first president to attend a baseball game, the Cincinnati Reds vs. the Washington Senators?
22. Who was the first president to ride in an airplane?
23. What president once got stuck in the White House bath tub?
24. An avid golfer, what color golf balls did Woodrow Wilson use while playing in the snow?
25. What was Warren G. Harding’s shoe size?
26. During Prohibition, why would Herbert Hoover visit the Belgian Embassy?
27. Who was the first president to appear on television?
28. What was Harry Truman’s favorite brand of bourbon?
29. What was Dwight Eisenhower’s favorite dessert?
30. Who was the first president to be a Boy Scout?
31. Who had the White House swimming pool filled in to give the press more standing room at White House events?
32. Who had a new White House swimming pool dug?
33. What did Jimmy Carter study at Annapolis?
34. Sales of what candy skyrocketed during Ronald Reagan’s terms in office?
35. What food could George H.W. Bush not abide?

Answers

1. George Washington
2. George Washington
3. John Adams and Thomas Jefferson
4. Jefferson was given a 1,235-pound cheese.
5. James Madison
6. John Quincy Adams
7. Silkworms
8. It kept swearing.
9. William Henry Harrison
10. Thirty-two days.
11. Playing marbles.
12. Cirrhosis of the liver from years of heavy drinking.
13. 6-feet-4
14. Wrestling
15. John Wilkes Booth’s brother, Edwin.
16. Andrew Johnson
17. A cucumber soaked in vinegar.
18. Alcohol, smoking and card playing.
19. James A. Garfield
20. Baby Ruth
21. Benjamin Harrison
22. Teddy Roosevelt
23. William Taft
24. Black
25. Size 14
26. To get a drink. It was legal there.
27. Franklin D. Roosevelt
28. I.W. Harper
29. Prune whip
30. John F. Kennedy
31. Richard Nixon
32. Gerald Ford
33. Nuclear physics
34. Jelly beans
35. Broccoli

Source: The Star Press, Feb. 16, 2009

 For twenty years now, my good buddy "Big Rod" in Honolulu has been hosting the Pro-bowl open Outdoor Racquetball Tournament right on the beach by his home.  Since this was the final year for the Pro Bowl to be held in Hawaii (they begin next year in Florida), they held an especially spectacular event.  Two of the players were multiple world racquetball champs Marty Hogan and Cliff Swain who eventually lost to my buddy and his partner.

This is a link to the slideshow: Pro-bowl "Out The Door" Outdoor Racquetball Tournament.

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I ended up with a double major because Computer Science was part of the Mathematics Department back then.  We were key-punching instruction cards to feed into the card reader, it's been that long ago.  My College roommate was originally a CS Major while I was GBA (undecided).  We ended up switching Majors and I graduated.  He didn't, but became very successful in his own business.  Once I took my first computer introductory course (basic 101), I knew that I found something more fruitful than 'GBA' as a Major.  In fact, I actually condensed my 4 year program into 6.

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