Pretty close. I’ll give it to you in its statutory form, without a comma: Director of Central Intelligence.
I didn’t know that answer. But if it’s correct, I’ll answer the second part of the question: he’d have been named after the heroic leader of the uprising aboard the slave ship Amistad.
I’m pretty sure Cinque is right, as sure as I am of this one:
- Patty Hearst was famously kidnapped by the aforementioned SLA, what was the name of her boyfriend? He has a somewhat distinctive last name.
You are correct
Actuallly he identified himself as Field Marshall Cinque, but full credit.
- Stephen Weed.
Here are some more for your delectation. What were the middle names of these famous Americans:
- Edison, the inventor
- Cleveland, the President
- Hay, McKinley’s Secretary of State
- Stanton, Lincoln’s Secretary of War
- Rehnquist, the Chief Justice
- Alva
- Harry Truman’s midle name
Correct.
- He had none. The “S.” didn’t stand for any particular word (although the names of Shippe and Solomon ran in his family). Sometimes he dotted it, sometimes he didn’t.
- Cleveland, the President
It’s a trick question, Grover was his middle name, Stephen his first.
I was always under the impression that the “S” never was accompanied with a period but you could easuily be correct. I had a political science teacher in college who was (in)famous for marking the answer wrong if the period was used when writing Truman’s full name.
I was always under the impression that the “S” never was accompanied with a period but you could easily be correct. I had a political science teacher in college who was (in)famous for marking the answer wrong if the period was used when writing Truman’s full name.
Correct.
A year or so back, I saw on the Truman Presidential Library website an article on this very point. The Wikipedia article on him also has some info on that, IIRC (but don’t look now, while the quiz is underway!). Truman often, but not always, dotted the “S.” Your poli sci teacher was overreacting, I’d say.
Someone post some more questions. I’ve got two good ones, but I can’t ask them until I’ve answered one.
I’ve read through the thread, and all the ones I knew have already been answered.
And one other request, when you post an answer, please quote the question. It’s annoying to see
and then have to scroll back to see remember what the question was.
Ok, 207. In what town in Illinois was Church of Latter Days Saints founder Joseph Smith lynched?
and here are some more, Nicknames
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Wizard of Menlo Park?
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Wild Horse of the Osage?
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Boy Orator of the Platte?
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Great Compromisor?
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Father of the Constitution?
Thomas Edison.
Correct, fire away. . . er throw away.
That was just a gimme to get me into the thread, wasn’t it?
But I’ll take it.
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Where was Alexander Hamilton born?
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On what current ship in the U.S. military did Adolph Hitler once sleep?