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Yeah, post 1002 is a stumper.
I’ll make a guess on 642: tea service?..
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Incorrect.
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654: The only one I can think of was the Brooklyn, I believe, which at the time of its demise was the Argentine Navy’s Belgrano
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I believe that the Belgrano was the former USS Phoenix, actually. And now I’m hitting myself for not thinking of this sooner.
Chamber pots?
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Chamber pots?
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Presuming this is another guess as to question 642, no. “Utensils”? :dubious:
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DeSoto.
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Ens. George Gay, sole survivor of the doomed torpedo squadron
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Seems too easy, but… the Liberty?No, the WWII Liberty ships were not a class, as I understand it. They were more a style, not sure how you Navy guys would classify them.
Correct, welcome aboard and fire away movingfinger
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I believe that the Belgrano was the former USS Phoenix, actually. And now I’m hitting myself for not thinking of this sooner.
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That’s correct.
And 668 was the Seven Cities of Cibola, was it not?
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And 668 was the Seven Cities of Cibola, was it not?
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:smack: Yes, I thought I confirmed that.
Maybe I should not post from work. 
Some political lore.
- Lee Fisher, now lieutenant governor of Ohio, won his only election as Ohio attorney general by this easy-to-remember majority.
- A McGovern campaign staffer wrote this popular folk song in 1972.
- “Hail to the Chief” is the customary march of the President. What’s the Vice President’s?
- What common first name did Abraham Lincoln’s top two aides share?
- Other than Ah-nuld, what foreign-born state governor could run for President if the Constitution were amended?
What is the name of Captain Crunch’s ship? 
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Some political lore.
676. Other than Ah-nuld, what foreign-born state governor could run for President if the Constitution were amended?
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Jennifer Granholm, the Canadian-born Governor of Michigan
- “Hail to the Chief” is the customary march of the President. What’s the Vice President’s?
Imperial March from Star Wars?
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675. What common first name did Abraham Lincoln’s top two aides share?
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John — Hay and Nicolay, to be precise.
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What is the name of Captain Crunch’s ship? 
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Quiet, you! 
Julius Henry and Governor Quinn, both correct. 5 time champ, very funny. 
Great Debates
677. Who participated in the “Kitchen Debate”?
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The Freeport Doctrine came from these debates.
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Besides being the first Presidential Debates since 1960, the debate between Gerald Ford & Jimmy Carter was notable for this?
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“I knew Jack kennedy, I worked with Jack Kennedy, Jack Kennedy was my friend. You’re no Jack Kennedy” Who said it about whom?
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Two small islands were a big topic of the Nixon-Kennedy Debates.
Bonus question: Within 50, how many Presidential Debates will there be in the 08 Presidential Race?
Who said it, and why?
- “Now look - that damned cowboy is President!”
- “I have grown gray in the service of our country, and now it seems that I have grown blind.”
- “Strike the tent.”
- “If you can’t drink their booze, eat their food, screw their women and then vote against them, you shouldn’t even be here.”
- “He serves his party best who serves his country best.”
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Great Debates
677. Who participated in the “Kitchen Debate”?
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The Freeport Doctrine came from these debates.
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Besides being the first Presidential Debates since 1960, the debate between Gerald Ford & Jimmy Carter was notable for this?
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“I knew Jack kennedy, I worked with Jack Kennedy, Jack Kennedy was my friend. You’re no Jack Kennedy” Who said it about whom?
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Two small islands were a big topic of the Nixon-Kennedy Debates.
[682.] Bonus question: Within 50, how many Presidential Debates will there be in the 08 Presidential Race?
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- Richard Nixon, then VP, and Soviet leader Nikita Khruschev, during a trade show in Moscow.
… - A prolonged failure of the audio feed, and Ford’s gaffe that Poland was not under Soviet domination.
- Lloyd Bentsen to Dan Quayle, 1988 VP debate.
- Quemoy and Matsu, off the coast of China.
- Don’t know, but I’ve numbered it for later reference.
- “Strike the tent.”
U.S Grant - “If you can’t drink their booze, eat their food, screw their women and then vote against them, you shouldn’t even be here.”
LBJ
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685. “Strike the tent.”
U.S Grant
686. “If you can’t drink their booze, eat their food, screw their women and then vote against them, you shouldn’t even be here.”
LBJ
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Sorry. Both incorrect.
Answers to more expired questions:
- Author’s Row, in Concord, MA, refers to what?
Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Louisa May Alcott are all buried in close proximity to each other within Concord’s cemetery. I can’t recall if they’re all in a row, as the name implies, but they’re all very close to each other.
- What was recently (5 year window, here) recovered off the wreck of a ship similar to that referenced in 651?
A 48 star flag was recovered from one of the gunships sunk off the Korean coast.
- A sister ship of the vessel in 663 was refitted in the post WWI years to become the USS Langley. What was her pre-refit name?
USS Jupiter.
- What USN WWII vessel had a couple of nicknames that were forbidden, on pain of being kicked off the crew, by that vessel’s captain?
USS Sailfish
- Why did the captain in 665. care so much about these nicknames?
Well, he was serving on the only USN sub to continue service after failing to make it’s surface to dive ratio equal one. The USS Sailfish was what the USS Squalus was renamed after she sank and killed half her crew. The two nicknames I’m aware of that her captain objected to were “Squalus,” and “Squailfish.”