Posted on 02/26/2016 2:41:55 AM PST by nikos1121
Fort Worth, Texas
Friday, February 26, 2016: GOP Presidential candidate Donald Trump will hold a campaign rally in Fort Worth, TX at the Fort Worth Convention Center. The event is scheduled to begin at 12:00 pm (CST).
According to Wikipedia:
Fort Worth is the 16th-largest city in the United States and the fifth-largest city in the state of Texas. The city is located in North Central Texas and covers nearly 350 square miles (910 km2) in Tarrant, Denton, Parker, and Wise counties-serving as the seat for Tarrant County. According to the 2014 census estimates, Fort Worth has a population of 812,238. The city is the second-largest in the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington metropolitan area (the "DFW Metroplex").
The city was established in 1849 as an Army outpost on a bluff overlooking the Trinity River. Today Fort Worth still embraces its Western heritage and traditional architecture and design.
Fort Worth Convention Center
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Friday, February 26, 2016: GOP Presidential candidate Donald Trump will hold a campaign rally in Oklahoma City, OK at Cox Convention Center 6 pm (CST).
According to Wikipedia:
Oklahoma City is the capital and largest city of the state of Oklahoma. The county seat of Oklahoma County,the city ranks 27th among United States cities in population.
The population grew following the 2010 Census, with the population estimated to have increased to 620,602 as of July 2014. As of 2014, the Oklahoma City metropolitan area had a population of 1,322,429, and the Oklahoma City-Shawnee Combined Statistical Area had a population of 1,459,758 (Chamber of Commerce) residents, making it Oklahoma's largest metropolitan area.
Cox Convention Center
With flailing Kasich on one side, (I think he broke his record, by mentioning his Dad was a mailman in the first sentence), narcoleptic Ben on the other, and two Cabana Boys flanking Donald in the middle, who swatted their snarky comments away like a Swahili Chieftain swatting them away with his fly swatter.
And Trump is all ready to go at it again at two rallies today. Please join us.
Today's Trivia
Just for fun try answering these without peeking.
1. Name this president. 10pts.
He struggled with alcohol throughout his life. He had no political experience before becoming president. He was responsible for dismantling the KKK during Reconstruction. Mark Twain published his memoirs that brought in $200,000 royalties paid to his wife after his death.
2. Name this president. 25pts
Started Formal Education at Eighteen and graduated from Univ of North Carolina just five years later with honors.
He said the following:
"No President who performs his duties faithfully and conscientiously can have any leisure."
"Foreign powers do not seem to appreciate the true character of our government."
"There is more selfishness and less principle among members of Congress...than I had any conception of, before I became President of the U.S."
3. Name these Oklahoma City, OK notables. 12pts each
(Hint: A boxer)
4.
5. (Hint: wrote The Invisible Man)
6.
Name these Fort Worth, TX notables. 12pts each
7.
8.
(Hint: a film critic)
9.
10.
Fess Parker
Another fun day ahead, and evening. Additional Live Threads will be posted, but you can always click on the red The Right Side URL and find it on their side bar.
All these people bring give me joyful memories, but especially him... :-)
Thank you.
5. Lon Chaney Jr.
No pics of my supper, but these fruit pics were taken for New Years. It's a Filipino custom to have at least 10 ROUND fruits on the table so you will be prosperous!
Van Cliburn
No. 1: Ullysses S. Grant
yep!
No 2 is hard. Love his quotes.
yep
I had only 8 fruits on my table last night... but once the debate started, I found the remaining 2 fruits in Rubio and Cruz.
yep
Fruits and nuts were displayed on stage!!
1. U.S. Grant
4. Lon Chaney
6. James Garner
7. Van Cliburn
8. Rex Reed
9. Fess Parker
10. Roger Miller
Bonus Trivia Question 1/2pt (correction 1/4pt)
11. What did John Kasich’s daddy do for a living?
2. James K. Polk
84pts!?
High score.
Lon Chaney, Jr of course.
2. Considered one of the best one term presidents of all time.
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