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486. Horace Greely?
Ex-President Taft?
Edmund Muskie.
Here are a couple more I thought of:
Who was the last president born in a log cabin?
Who was the first president born in a hospital?
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Right. It’s “Greeley,” though, I think.
Wrong.
Right.
My guesses:
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486. Right. It’s “Greeley,” though, I think.
488. Wrong.
490. Right.
My guesses:
Abraham Lincoln.
Jimmy Carter.
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Incorrect.
Correct. Actually, way back when, I’d heard Carter was the only president to have been born in a hospital, but we may have had one or two more since him.
And yes, it IS spelled Greeley, come to think of it.
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487. This candidate cried when she announced she was withdrawing from the 1988 race.
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This candidate cried when she announced she was withdrawing from the 1988 race.
Patricia Schroeder
This 1916 GOP nominee narrowly lost to Wilson, and later went on to serve as Chief Justice.
Charles Evans Hughes??
Wilson defeated WH Taft in 1912. So there’s a great trivia question: Which President defeated TWO futures Chief Justices?
This vainglorious general was defeated by Lincoln in 1864, but went on to serve as governor of New Jersey.
George Brinston McCllelan
Who was the last president born in a log cabin?
Benjamin Harrison??
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491. Who was the last president born in a log cabin?
Benjamin Harrison??
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And yes, I think #487 IS Patricia schroeder. I remember it now.
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5 time, why was John Dean hanging out with Earl Butz? That would have been after Watergate.
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IIRC, they just happened to be on a commercial plane together. I think Dean was writing for Rolling Stone at the time and wrote about it. There were comments at the time that John Dean was the last person Butz should have told those jokes in front of.
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487. This candidate cried when she announced she was withdrawing from the 1988 race.
Patricia Schroeder
This 1916 GOP nominee narrowly lost to Wilson, and later went on to serve as Chief Justice.
Charles Evans Hughes??
Wilson defeated WH Taft in 1912. So there’s a great trivia question: Which President defeated TWO futures Chief Justices?
This vainglorious general was defeated by Lincoln in 1864, but went on to serve as governor of New Jersey.
George Brinston McCllelan
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All correct (and it’s “George Brinton McClellan,” not that spelling counts 
).
Sorry, good thing we’re not playing Jeopardy!, TMI would have made my answer wrong!
How 'bout some famous American treaties…?
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Treaty of Ghent.
Shoot. It was on an aircraft carrier. The Lexington?
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This treaty, negotiated in part by Adams and Franklin, ended the Revolutionary War.
Treaty of Paris
What is distinctive about the group portrait intended to mark the occasion?
I’m guessing that the British & Americans signed it in separate ceremonies
President Wilson helped negotiate this treaty, which ended World War I.
Treaty of Versailles
Japanese diplomats signed the treaty ending WW2… where, exactly?
Hmm- the President then was the Man from Independence [MO] Harry Truman-- the deck of the Battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay
Four terms, four questions about Franklin Delano Rossevelt.
[Wow, 500 questions in this thread!]
500. From where did FDR say the planes in the Doolittle Raid on Tokyo were launched?
Who was FDR’s “Assistant President”?
This actor portrayed FDR in a one-man show.
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493. This treaty, negotiated in part by Adams and Franklin, ended the Revolutionary War.
Treaty of Paris
What is distinctive about the group portrait intended to mark the occasion?
I’m guessing that the British & Americans signed it in separate ceremonies
President Wilson helped negotiate this treaty, which ended World War I.
Treaty of Versailles
Japanese diplomats signed the treaty ending WW2… where, exactly?
Hmm- the President then was the Man from Independence [MO] Harry Truman-- the deck of the Battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay
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Correct.
Close, but no cigar.
Correct.
Correct.
kidchameleon, correct about the Treaty of Ghent and the War of 1812.
pravnik, no research please, per the OP.
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[Wow, 500 questions in this thread!]
500. From where did FDR say the planes in the Doolittle Raid on Tokyo were launched?
Who was FDR’s “Assistant President”?
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Shangri-La. And then, later in the war, this phrase was commemorated when the Essex-class carrier, the Shangri-La was commissioned.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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498. What is the last year that American males were drafted into the armed services?
Four terms, four questions about Franklin Delano Rossevelt.
[Wow, 500 questions in this thread!]
500. From where did FDR say the planes in the Doolittle Raid on Tokyo were launched?
Who was FDR’s “Assistant President”?
This actor portrayed FDR in a one-man show.
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1971, I think.
Ooo, I know this. Tip of my tongue! Damn.
The Shangri-La (and a carrier was later named just that, after the novel - by James Hilton, IIRC).
Harry Hopkins.
James Whitmore?
Huzzah for us passing the 500 mark!
Just popped into my head…
Nope
Said in FDR’s disdainful, patrician tones "Mahtin, Bahtin & Fiiisshh
Yes
Right
No, that is the answer to another good question.
BTW: The Battleship Missouri is now docked permanently at Pearl Harbor and open to the public, for a price. A bit steep, I thought, at $20! If I remember the price correctly.
Still no other answers for my #491, last president to be born in a log cabin? Well, let’s see. A hint is that, if memory serves me, the first elevator was installed in the White House while he was there.