This week's quiz, last week's answers
Last week’s questions (U.S. presidents)
1. Who first lived in the White House?
2. Who skinny-dipped in the Potomac River?
3. Who served two non-consecutive terms?
4. Who said "Give me a one-armed economist?"
Last week's answers
1. John Adams, the second president, moved in in November 1800. The seat of government during the term of George Washington, the first president, was in New York City.
2. John Quincy Adams, the son of John Adams. I read about the incident years ago, the source of which I can’t find. As I recall it, while Adams was in the water someone stole his clothes from where he had left them on the river bank; when he discovered them missing, he called to a young boy who was passing by to go to the White House and bring him some more clothes.
However, I did run across a somewhat different version of the story: A widow of an army veteran of the Revolutionary War, one Anne Royall, had been seeking a pension for her husband’s service by presenting her case to various government officials in Washington, without success; then, one day she happened on Adams doing his dip and sat by his clothes until he listened to her petition. Twenty-some years later, Congress passed a pension law under which a pension was granted for her late husband’s military service, but his family received most of it. Rather than being angered by her confrontation with him, Adams invited Mrs. Royall to the White house and introduced her to his wife. (Source: The Free Dictionary)
3. Grover Cleveland. A Democrat, he won the 1884 election and served from 1885-89. Seeking reelection in 1888, he beat his Republication candidate, Benjamin Harrison, in the popular vote by a mere 476 votes out of almost a total 11 million cast; however, he lost the electoral vote (as Samuel Tilden did in 1876 and Al Gore in 2000). But, four years later, running against the incumbent Harrison, he won the popular vote by 381,000 and also the electoral vote and served from 1893-97.
4. Harry Truman, Franklin Roosevelt’s vice president who succeeded to the presidency following Roosevelt’s death in 1945 and then won a full term in 1948 and served from 1949-53. Having grown tired of hearing "on the one hand..., but on the other hand..." from his economic advisers, he made that famous comment.
Congratulations to Anonymous in Tustin, CA, who answered all four questions correctly. Good luck to him/her on future quizzes.
This week’s questions (African republics, former colonies)
1. Prior to the first World War, Germany had five colonies in Africa. Following her defeat in that war, those colonies were put under the mandate of either Britain or France (one of them was split geographically between those two countries) or South Africa. During the mid 20th Century all became independent republics.
Name two of those (for those who changed their names when they became independent, give either their colonial or their present names) and tell which European countries had them as colonies during the period following World War I until independence.
2. Ghana was the first former sub-Saharan colony to become independent (from Britain) in 1957, at which time it changed its name. What was its former name?
3. Two former French colonies, Senegal and French Soudan, both gained their independence in 1959 and joined together to form a republic to which they gave a new name. However, the marriage lasted only a few months, following which Senegal split and took back its former name. The former French Soudan kept the new name for itself and has it today. What was that new name?
4. Three European countries besides Britain and France had colonies in Africa until the independence movement swept that continent in the latter half of the 20th Century. Name two of the three European countries and name one of the colonies of each (using the colonial name).
Answers next week
Next week's questions (U.S. states)
1. Who first lived in the White House?
2. Who skinny-dipped in the Potomac River?
3. Who served two non-consecutive terms?
4. Who said "Give me a one-armed economist?"
Last week's answers
1. John Adams, the second president, moved in in November 1800. The seat of government during the term of George Washington, the first president, was in New York City.
2. John Quincy Adams, the son of John Adams. I read about the incident years ago, the source of which I can’t find. As I recall it, while Adams was in the water someone stole his clothes from where he had left them on the river bank; when he discovered them missing, he called to a young boy who was passing by to go to the White House and bring him some more clothes.
However, I did run across a somewhat different version of the story: A widow of an army veteran of the Revolutionary War, one Anne Royall, had been seeking a pension for her husband’s service by presenting her case to various government officials in Washington, without success; then, one day she happened on Adams doing his dip and sat by his clothes until he listened to her petition. Twenty-some years later, Congress passed a pension law under which a pension was granted for her late husband’s military service, but his family received most of it. Rather than being angered by her confrontation with him, Adams invited Mrs. Royall to the White house and introduced her to his wife. (Source: The Free Dictionary)
3. Grover Cleveland. A Democrat, he won the 1884 election and served from 1885-89. Seeking reelection in 1888, he beat his Republication candidate, Benjamin Harrison, in the popular vote by a mere 476 votes out of almost a total 11 million cast; however, he lost the electoral vote (as Samuel Tilden did in 1876 and Al Gore in 2000). But, four years later, running against the incumbent Harrison, he won the popular vote by 381,000 and also the electoral vote and served from 1893-97.
4. Harry Truman, Franklin Roosevelt’s vice president who succeeded to the presidency following Roosevelt’s death in 1945 and then won a full term in 1948 and served from 1949-53. Having grown tired of hearing "on the one hand..., but on the other hand..." from his economic advisers, he made that famous comment.
Congratulations to Anonymous in Tustin, CA, who answered all four questions correctly. Good luck to him/her on future quizzes.
This week’s questions (African republics, former colonies)
1. Prior to the first World War, Germany had five colonies in Africa. Following her defeat in that war, those colonies were put under the mandate of either Britain or France (one of them was split geographically between those two countries) or South Africa. During the mid 20th Century all became independent republics.
Name two of those (for those who changed their names when they became independent, give either their colonial or their present names) and tell which European countries had them as colonies during the period following World War I until independence.
2. Ghana was the first former sub-Saharan colony to become independent (from Britain) in 1957, at which time it changed its name. What was its former name?
3. Two former French colonies, Senegal and French Soudan, both gained their independence in 1959 and joined together to form a republic to which they gave a new name. However, the marriage lasted only a few months, following which Senegal split and took back its former name. The former French Soudan kept the new name for itself and has it today. What was that new name?
4. Three European countries besides Britain and France had colonies in Africa until the independence movement swept that continent in the latter half of the 20th Century. Name two of the three European countries and name one of the colonies of each (using the colonial name).
Answers next week
Next week's questions (U.S. states)
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Come on Mr. "Owner of Many Winters"...no kudos for the anonymous blogger who correctly answered all of the questions on your last quiz? Show one of your loyal readers a little internet love!
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