Presidential trivia

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  1. caliente

    caliente Senior Member

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    How many of these can you get?

    1. Who is the only president to win a Grammy award?

    2. Which president was suspected of fathering an illegitimate child while in office?

    3. What former vice-president murdered the Secretary of the Treasury, was later arrested and tried on charges of treason, but was acquitted by the Supreme Court?

    4. Which president had a national lottery organized for him in order to pay off his personal debts? (the lottery was never actually held)

    5. Name the three presidents who were impeached by Congress, although none of the three were actually removed from office.

    6. Who was the only president later to be elected to the US Senate after leaving office?

    7. Which president went bankrupt after leaving office, and was so destitute that his burial had to be paid for by public donations?

    8. Which two presidents, despite receiving less popular votes than their opponent, were elected after gaining the disputed electoral votes of the state of Florida?

    I've got lots more of these :)
     
  2. caliente

    caliente Senior Member

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    Well, hell's bells ... I thought they were interesting!
     
  3. waukegan

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    1 carter....2. harding...3. burr....4.grant....5. nixon,clinton.andrew johnson....6.taft........7.coolidge.....8.one of the harrisons and one of the bushes
     
  4. caliente

    caliente Senior Member

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    1. nope
    2. correct
    3. correct
    4. nope ... good guess though
    5. correct
    6. nope
    7. nope
    8. half-correct

    You got 4 1/2, Waukegan :)
     
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    Gore and Carter,, Carter also won one for something.. Gore got that for his global warming stuff I think ..
     
  6. Deranged

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    reagan

    jefferson

    no clue. mcarthur?

    jackson's a wild guess

    clinton, nixon, hoover

    roosevelt? eisenhower(2nd guess)?

    no clue. gonna say jackson

    bush and bush?
     
  7. caliente

    caliente Senior Member

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    Nope.

    And please tell me you know that Gore was never president ...
     
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  9. caliente

    caliente Senior Member

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    You got partially correct answers on two.
     
  10. Deranged

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    damn. i suck. lol
     
  11. caliente

    caliente Senior Member

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    Although, of course, he should have been. Thus question #8.
     
  12. waukegan

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    reading grammy and president i remembered a record our family had by comedian vaughn meader called the first family. the impersonations of the kennedys was good and it seemed really funny at the time.probably about '62.meader's career took a downturn after kennedy's death.i remember it won a grammy for best comedy album.....so maybe kennedy?
     
  13. caliente

    caliente Senior Member

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    Funny you should mention that. I was listening to it on YouTube just last night.

    But nope, that's not it.

    I'm surprised you guys aren't getting the Grammy thing .. lol. The answer is obvious! It's staring you right in the face.
     
  14. odon

    odon Slightly Popular

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    can we cheat?
     
  15. caliente

    caliente Senior Member

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    Sure, why not?

    ps--what a weird painting!
     
  16. odon

    odon Slightly Popular

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    Jimmy Carter, Clinton and Obama.


    Grover Cleveland

    Aaron Burr, Jr
    Thomas jefferson
     
  18. caliente

    caliente Senior Member

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    1. Obama is correct.
    2. Nope.
    3. Correct.
    4. Correct.
     
  19. odon

    odon Slightly Popular

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    Agh, was two wrong because he wasn't president?


    I have to say though, I have read all three won Grammys.

    Jimmy Carter became the second former U.S. president to win a Grammy Award when he was honored in the spoken-word category for the audio-book version of his bestseller "Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis."

    Former President Bill Clinton won spoken-word Grammys in 2004 and 2005, as did his wife, U.S. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, in 1997 while she was still first lady.

    Barack Obama won a Grammy for the audio-book version of his book "Dreams From My Father."
     
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