Posted on 05/09/2006 12:07:19 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
We're away today on a reporting assignment; back to normal tomorrow. In the meantime, here's a moderately difficult presidential trivia quiz. We'll announce the answers somtime soon, but if you know them, write us at opinionjournal@wsj.com. The first reader to get all 10 right wins a year's subscription to WSJ.com (and a mention in the column). If you need help, try "Presidential Leadership: Rating the Best and the Worst in the White House," which is avilable from the OpinionJournal bookstore.
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I didn't know he was there until my third trip. I was looking up at the stained glass and nearly walked into him.
Oops.
Helen Keller is interred there too.
I disagree. Not trying to pick a fight just a semantics issue.
The day after Thanksgiving doesn't make sense, because you would have TWO possibilities, Zachary Taylor (Nov. 23) and Franklin Pierce (Nov. 24). Yes, I had to look it up and check it against a perpetual calendar.
The question is not phrased as though there is a choice, so it must be something else.
What is the place where the soldiers are forever guarding? I know I went there once and it wasn't in NY.
I think you are probably thinking of Arlington National Cemetery, but that's in Virginia, across the river.
Poorly phrased, semantically, you're quite right.
Must be July 4 then, because no President has ever had his birthday on Christmas Day (or New Year's Day, either).
Who does that make it? Coolidge?
The post office question must be Calvin Coolidge, since he was born on July 4th, and the post office will be closed that day whatever day of the week it falls on.
agreed!
Good point. Must be the 4th, then. See #66 to HEY4QDEMS.
Great! Another one down.
I really don't think the question implies it's a Friday of every year. It just says "...it's Friday and the post office is closed."
BTTT
I believe the answer to number 6 has to do with winning the state they were born in.
Exactly; I think the Friday part is extraneous information that just confuses things. :)
The key point in the question is that BOTH Goldwater and Johnson did it. They ran against each other. What can both the winning candidate and the losing candidate do in the SAME election.
Got me stumped (for now), and boy that's annoying!
Never mind the California thing, I misread the beginning of the Q!
George Walker Bush was born in Midland, TX, was he not?
Post office isn't closed on the day after Thanksgiving. Veteran's day (Nov 11) is observed on the actual day rather than Monday, so November 11 is the day you're looking for.
Maybe the "it" is something non-presidential in nature.
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