Most everyone is saying Harrison for #2, which is who I thought of, but I don’t know why. Why might I have thought of him first?
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy
- William Henry Harrison
- 500,000
- 45
- 30
- Robert Gates.
- Hillary Rodham Clinton
- Yes, probably.
- Red
- Sasha
1 - 2: Not a very big scholar on inaugural addresses, but these are the two most notable. JFK for “Ask not …” and WHH for dying from his.
6 - We’ll see. A very conciliatory move - don’t think Obama would have tapped him if he was a mook.
7 - Natch. Moreso, I think she would have been wiser to turn it down.
8 - Kind of hoping he doesn’t. It’s a fine slogan, but he needs something fresh.
9 - Is that gauche? What do I know from fashion.
10 - I can’t really remember which one’s which - I think Sasha is the younger one.
He’s the cat who gave a two-hour speech in freezing wet weather without a coat or hat and then dropped dead of pneumonia about a month later.
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Kennedy
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George W. Bush
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250,000
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90
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60
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Hillary Clinton
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Hillary Clinton
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Yes it will
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Red
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Malia
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Going with the near-universal disdain for the man on this board
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Similar to the polls in the 1970’s in which Howard Cosell was routinely named both “best/favorite sportscaster” and “worst/least popular sportscaster”
- Kennedy
- William Henry Harrison
- 500,000
- 25
- 60
- Gates
- Clinton
- No
- Blue
- Malia
I thought the Park Service doesn’t do counts since the “million” man march thingy.
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John F. Kennedy
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William Henry Harrison
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1 million
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25
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60
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Hillary
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Hillary
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No
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Blue
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Sasha
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A classic
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Tooooo loooooooong, and ultimately fatal to him
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Most will say that; I personally think it’s Tom Vilsack at USDA
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Many will say this, too; I have no opinion as to the worst
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The younger (if you need a mnemonic, just remember their birth order is in alphabetical order - Malia before Sasha)
- lincoln
- g.w. bush
- 1.5 million
- 20 minutes
- 30 days
- treasury
- defense
- yes, it will
- blue
- sasha
I’ll sit this one out, but do want to say in response to
- Of 1, 30, 60 or 90 days, how long before a prominent Republican declares the Obama Administration a failure?
That they started at more than T -2 months, just a couple of days after the election.
- JFK
- Harrison
- One million
- 30 minutes
- 30
- Hillary Clinton
- Eric Holder
- Yes It Will
- Blue
- Malia
- Kennedy
- GWB
- two million
- about twenty minutes
- thirty days
- Clinton
- Gates
- Yes it will
- Black
- Sasha
- FDR 1933
- William Henry Harrison
- 2 million
- 35
- 60
- Gates
- Clinton
- No
- Red
- Neither.
- JFK
- GWB
- 4 million
- 36
- 90
- Rahm Emmanuel
- Hillary
- No
- Black
- Sasha
- JFK
- Bush
- 2 million
- 45
- 90
- Clinton
- Clinton
- No
- Red
- Malia (the younger one)
- JFK
- George W. Bush
- 2 million
- 20
- 90
- Hillary Clinton
- Geithner
- No
- Red
- Malia
So far we all missed Michelle’s coat color. Whodathunk yellow?
Yeah, it wasn’t even a normal yellow. I wonder how many people who jump in this Feud ex post facto will get the color right and the time of the speech right?
It was strange the bright lights of day made her red coat almost look yellow.
Well - I messed up when I gave the closing time as 4:00 today, so the thread is officially closed now.
I’ll go score it, and get an easy one up today.
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Which president gave the best inaugural address in history?
1. John F. Kennedy 20 -
Abraham Lincoln 6
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Franklin D. Roosevelt 2
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Andrew Jackson 1
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Which president gave the worst inaugural address in history?
2. William Henry Harrison 19 -
George W. Bush 8
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Jimmy Carter 1
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Rutherford B. Hayes 1
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What will be the official Park Service estimate of how many people actually show up to hear President Obama’s inaugural address?
3. 1 million 9 -
2 million 7
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500,000 4
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2.5 million 2
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3 million 2
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4 million 2
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1.5 million 1
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250,000 1
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300,000 1
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How many minutes will Obama’s address last?
**4. 20 6 -
30 6**
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45 5
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15 4
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35 3
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25 2
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36 1
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40 1
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90 1
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Of 1, 30, 60 or 90 days, how long before a prominent Republican declares the Obama Administration a failure?
5. 60 9 -
30 8
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90 7
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1 5
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Who’s Obama’s best Cabinet pick?
6. Hillary Clinton 15 -
Robert Gates 6
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Eric Holder 2
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Steven Chu 2
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Attorney General 1
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Joe Biden 1
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Rahm Emmanuel 1
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Treasury 1
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Who’s his worst Cabinet pick?
7. Hillary Clinton 19 -
Bill Richardson 2
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Geithner 2
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Timothy Geithner 2
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Defense 1
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Eric Holder 1
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Robert Gates 1
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Tom Vilsack 1
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Will the phrase “Yes we can” appear in the inaugural address?
8. Yes 16 -
No 13
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Mrs. Obama’s coat at the Inauguration will be what color?
9. Blue 11 -
Red 10
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Black 5
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White 3
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Who’s cuter, Malia or Sasha?
10. Sasha 19 -
Malia 8
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Neither 1
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Tie 1
And the [del]fix is in[/del] winner is ~drumroll~ Elendil’s Heir!!! Good job! ::flings tickertape:: Elendil’s Heir got 8/10 top answers. Excellent! Perfect score was 493.10.
Thanks for playing, everybody! And thank you Elendil’s Heir for a timely Feud.
New one up in a bit.
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