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4941

Presidential “Other Women” (name the woman and the president)

  1. Nan Britton/Warren G. Harding
  2. Monica Lewinsky/Bill Clinton
  3. Marilyn Monroe/John Kennedy
  4. Sally Hemings - Thomas Jefferson
  5. Kay Summersby- Dwight Eisenhower
  6. Lucy Page Mercer Rutherfurd - Franklin Delano Roosevelt*
  7. Maria Halpin - Grover Cleveland
  8. Miss Lehand- Franklin Delano Roosevelt*
  9. Mary Allen Hulbert – Woodrow Wilson
  10. Mary Pinchot Meyer - John F Kennedy
4942

Presidential “Other Women” (name the woman and the president)

  1. Nan Britton/Warren G. Harding
  2. Monica Lewinsky/Bill Clinton
  3. Marilyn Monroe/John Kennedy
  4. Sally Hemings - Thomas Jefferson
  5. Kay Summersby- Dwight Eisenhower
  6. Lucy Page Mercer Rutherfurd - Franklin Delano Roosevelt*
  7. Maria Halpin - Grover Cleveland
  8. Miss Lehand- Franklin Delano Roosevelt*
  9. Mary Allen Hulbert – Woodrow Wilson
  10. Mary Pinchot Meyer - John F Kennedy
  11. Maria Cosway- Thomas Jefferson
4943

Presidential “Other Women” (name the woman and the president)

  1. Nan Britton/Warren G. Harding
  2. Monica Lewinsky/Bill Clinton
  3. Marilyn Monroe/John Kennedy
  4. Sally Hemings - Thomas Jefferson
  5. Kay Summersby- Dwight Eisenhower
  6. Lucy Page Mercer Rutherfurd - Franklin Delano Roosevelt*
  7. Maria Halpin - Grover Cleveland
  8. Miss Lehand- Franklin Delano Roosevelt*
  9. Mary Allen Hulbert – Woodrow Wilson
  10. Mary Pinchot Meyer - John F. Kennedy
  11. Maria Cosway- Thomas Jefferson
  12. Judith Campbell Exner - John F. Kennedy
4944

Presidential “Other Women” (name the woman and the president)

  1. Nan Britton/Warren G. Harding
  2. Monica Lewinsky/Bill Clinton
  3. Marilyn Monroe/John Kennedy
  4. Sally Hemings - Thomas Jefferson
  5. Kay Summersby- Dwight Eisenhower
  6. Lucy Page Mercer Rutherfurd - Franklin Delano Roosevelt*
  7. Maria Halpin - Grover Cleveland
  8. Miss Lehand- Franklin Delano Roosevelt*
  9. Mary Allen Hulbert – Woodrow Wilson
  10. Mary Pinchot Meyer - John F. Kennedy
  11. Maria Cosway- Thomas Jefferson
  12. Judith Campbell Exner - John F. Kennedy
  13. Sally Fairfax- George Washington

Right to name new category passed to first taker.

4945

Interesting names for a Group of Animals

  1. Parliament of Owls
4946

Interesting names for a Group of Animals

  1. Parliament of Owls
  2. murder of crows
4947

Interesting names for a Group of Animals

  1. Parliament of Owls
  2. murder of crows
  3. An Unkindness of Ravens.

I thought it was ‘Parliament of Rooks’ - never heard it used for Owls.

4948

Interesting names for a Group of Animals

  1. Parliament of Owls
  2. Murder of Crows
  3. An Unkindness of Ravens.
  4. A Prickle of Porcupines
    (IIRC it is a Building of Rooks)
4949

Interesting names for a Group of Animals

  1. Parliament of Owls
  2. Murder of Crows
  3. An Unkindness of Ravens.
  4. A Prickle of Porcupines
  5. An exaltation of larks

BTW, George Washington flirted with Sally Fairfax, but there’s no evidence to show that she was ever his mistress (as most if not all of the other women mentioned in that round were, for their respective Presidents).

4950

Interesting names for a Group of Animals

  1. Parliament of Owls
  2. Murder of Crows
  3. An Unkindness of Ravens.
  4. A Prickle of Porcupines
  5. An exaltation of larks
  6. A Rhumba of Rattlesnakes
4951

Interesting names for a Group of Animals

  1. Parliament of Owls
  2. Murder of Crows
  3. An Unkindness of Ravens.
  4. A Prickle of Porcupines
  5. An Exaltation of larks
  6. A Rhumba of Rattlesnakes
  7. A Siege of Bitterns
4952

Interesting names for a Group of Animals

  1. Parliament of Owls
  2. A Murder of Crows
  3. An Unkindness of Ravens.
  4. A Prickle of Porcupines
  5. An Exaltation of larks
  6. A Rhumba of Rattlesnakes
  7. A Siege of Bitterns
  8. A Smack of Jellyfish
4953

Interesting names for a Group of Animals

  1. Parliament of Owls
  2. A Murder of Crows
  3. An Unkindness of Ravens.
  4. A Prickle of Porcupines
  5. An Exaltation of larks
  6. A Rhumba of Rattlesnakes
  7. A Siege of Bitterns
  8. A Smack of Jellyfish
  9. A Tower of Giraffes
4954

Interesting names for a Group of Animals

  1. Parliament of Owls
  2. A Murder of Crows
  3. An Unkindness of Ravens.
  4. A Prickle of Porcupines
  5. An Exaltation of larks
  6. A Rhumba of Rattlesnakes
  7. A Siege of Bitterns
  8. A Smack of Jellyfish
  9. A Tower of Giraffes
  10. A Pride of Lions

According to Wiki - Collective nouns for rooks include building, parliament, clamour and storytelling. I did not know that.

4955

Interesting names for a Group of Animals

  1. Parliament of Owls
  2. A Murder of Crows
  3. An Unkindness of Ravens.
  4. A Prickle of Porcupines
  5. An Exaltation of larks
  6. A Rhumba of Rattlesnakes
  7. A Siege of Bitterns
  8. A Smack of Jellyfish
  9. A Tower of Giraffes
  10. A Pride of Lions
  11. A Pod of Whales
4956

Interesting names for a Group of Animals

  1. Parliament of Owls
  2. A Murder of Crows
  3. An Unkindness of Ravens.
  4. A Prickle of Porcupines
  5. An Exaltation of larks
  6. A Rhumba of Rattlesnakes
  7. A Siege of Bitterns
  8. A Smack of Jellyfish
  9. A Tower of Giraffes
  10. A Pride of Lions
  11. A Pod of Whales
  12. Implausibility of Gnus
4957

Interesting names for a Group of Animals

  1. Parliament of Owls
  2. A Murder of Crows
  3. An Unkindness of Ravens.
  4. A Prickle of Porcupines
  5. An Exaltation of larks
  6. A Rhumba of Rattlesnakes
  7. A Siege of Bitterns
  8. A Smack of Jellyfish
  9. A Tower of Giraffes
  10. A Pride of Lions
  11. A Pod of Whales
  12. Implausibility of Gnus
  13. A Bellowing of Bulfinches

New List: Favorite Lines from Obscure Novels

  1. “I’ll squck yur thrug till all yu can whupple is geep!” - James Thurber - The Wonderful O
4958

Favorite Lines from Obscure Novels

  1. “I’ll squck yur thrug till all yu can whupple is geep!” - James Thurber - The Wonderful O
  2. “He was in the next room mixing my favourite drink; I call it ‘the top shelf in a pail’.” - Paul Quarrington - The Life of Hope.
4959

Favorite Lines from Obscure Novels

  1. “I’ll squck yur thrug till all yu can whupple is geep!” - James Thurber - The Wonderful O
  2. “He was in the next room mixing my favourite drink; I call it ‘the top shelf in a pail’.” - Paul Quarrington - The Life of Hope.
  3. His dear mother in Boston had given him the middle name of Jellicle, after the Jellicle Cats in T.S. Elliot’s Old Possum’s Book of Practcal Cats, which she’d read long before Andrew Lloyd Webber was even a gillmer in an Englishman’s eye. - Ed McBain - Downtown
4960

Favorite Lines from Obscure Novels

  1. “I’ll squck yur thrug till all yu can whupple is geep!” - James Thurber - The Wonderful O
  2. “He was in the next room mixing my favourite drink; I call it ‘the top shelf in a pail’.” - Paul Quarrington - The Life of Hope.
  3. His dear mother in Boston had given him the middle name of Jellicle, after the Jellicle Cats in T.S. Elliot’s Old Possum’s Book of Practcal Cats, which she’d read long before Andrew Lloyd Webber was even a gillmer in an Englishman’s eye. - Ed McBain - Downtown
  4. “The water is singing the Hallelujah Chorus.” Sex & Sunsets, Tim Sandlin