# What do the following have in common? (game) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 15, 2005, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-the-following-have-in-common-game/303927 "2005-05-15T12:31:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2005, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-the-following-have-in-common-game/303927/81 "2005-05-17T17:58:16Z")
No one’s even tried my George Lazenby one, but I’ll post another. **Charles de Gaulle** , **George V** , **Franklin D. Roosevelt** , **Clemenceau** (in that order) ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2005, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-the-following-have-in-common-game/303927/82 "2005-05-17T18:05:29Z")
> [@Robot Arm](#): > > No one’s even tried my George Lazenby one, but I’ll post another. > > **Charles de Gaulle** , **George V** , **Franklin D. Roosevelt** , **Clemenceau** (in that order) Does it have to do with WWI? ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2005, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-the-following-have-in-common-game/303927/83 "2005-05-17T18:11:45Z")
WWI? No. ---
**Author:** ![Scuba\_Ben](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@Scuba\_Ben](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scuba_Ben)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2005, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-the-following-have-in-common-game/303927/84 "2005-05-17T18:44:52Z")
Jeffrey Hunter, James Doohan, and Tom Hanks. (Besides the fact that they’re all actors.) ---
**Author:** ![Dunderman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecb155/32.png) [@Dunderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunderman)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2005, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-the-following-have-in-common-game/303927/85 "2005-05-17T18:46:00Z")
That’s James Doohan’s third appearance in this thread. That’s one guy with a lot of trivia hanging around him. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2005, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-the-following-have-in-common-game/303927/86 "2005-05-17T18:55:27Z")
James Dean, Judi Dench, George Cadbury (chocolatier), Ben Kingsley, Richard Nixon. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2005, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-the-following-have-in-common-game/303927/87 "2005-05-17T19:15:51Z")
> [@Scuba\_Ben](#): > > Jeffrey Hunter, James Doohan, and Tom Hanks. (Besides the fact that they’re all actors.) They all had sex with James Doohan’s wife? ---
**Author:** ![Scuba\_Ben](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@Scuba\_Ben](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scuba_Ben)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2005, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-the-following-have-in-common-game/303927/88 "2005-05-17T19:18:03Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > They all had sex with James Doohan’s wife? Not that I’m aware of. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2005, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-the-following-have-in-common-game/303927/89 "2005-05-17T22:53:23Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > James Dean, Judi Dench, George Cadbury (chocolatier), Ben Kingsley, Richard Nixon. Since you’ve revealed you attended a Quaker school, I’m guessing these people all are or were members of the Society of Friends (I know Nixon was). Grover Cleveland, Woodrow Wilson, Calvin Coolidge, and Ulysses Grant were all presidents of the United States, but I’m thinking of something much more specific that they had in common. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2005, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-the-following-have-in-common-game/303927/90 "2005-05-17T23:22:38Z")
> [@Scuba\_Ben](#): > > Jeffrey Hunter, James Doohan, and Tom Hanks. (Besides the fact that they’re all actors.) I don’t know if this is the answer, but it’s true nonetheless: they all had four sons (as did Lincoln, whose maternal uncle is an ancestor of Tom Hanks). I’m guessing that’s not it, though. Nevertheless, just to bring James Doohan in a fourth time: James Doohan, Charles Durning, Yogi Berra, Art Carney ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2005, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-the-following-have-in-common-game/303927/91 "2005-05-17T23:40:09Z")
**Sampiro James Doohan, Charles Durning, Yogi Berra, Art Carney** They are definitely WW2 veterans. Yogi Berra and Art Carney were in the D-Day invasion. (Not sure about James Doohan or Charles Durning). How many unaswered questions do we have on this thread? Anyone feel like coordinating these? ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2005, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-the-following-have-in-common-game/303927/92 "2005-05-17T23:46:19Z")
> [@wolf\_meister](#): > > **Sampiro > James Doohan, Charles Durning, Yogi Berra, Art Carney** > > They are definitely WW2 veterans. Yogi Berra and Art Carney were in the D-Day invasion. (Not sure about James Doohan or Charles Durning). Yes- specifically they were all D-Day veterans. (That’s where Doohan lost his finger.) ---
**Author:** ![Random](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/57b2e6/32.png) [@Random](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Random)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2005, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-the-following-have-in-common-game/303927/93 "2005-05-17T23:46:21Z")
> [@Robot Arm](#): > > No one’s even tried my George Lazenby one, but I’ll post another. > > **Charles de Gaulle** , **George V** , **Franklin D. Roosevelt** , **Clemenceau** (in that order) Hmm… 3 of the four have been aircraft carriers, but not George V (that was a battleship), and the order is wrong, anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Random](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/57b2e6/32.png) [@Random](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Random)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2005, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-the-following-have-in-common-game/303927/94 "2005-05-18T00:06:21Z")
> [@Robot Arm](#): > > No one’s even tried my George Lazenby one, but I’ll post another. > > **Charles de Gaulle** , **George V** , **Franklin D. Roosevelt** , **Clemenceau** (in that order) Paris metro stations. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2005, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-the-following-have-in-common-game/303927/95 "2005-05-18T00:07:05Z")
> [@Sternvogel](#): > > Since you’ve revealed you attended a Quaker school, I’m guessing these people all are or were members of the Society of Friends (I know Nixon was). Correctimundo. (James Dean was raised Quaker by relatives in Indiana after his father’s death.) ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2005, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-the-following-have-in-common-game/303927/96 "2005-05-18T04:05:28Z")
Charles de Gaulle, George V, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Clemenceau > [@Random](#): > > Paris metro stations. Yes; excellent job. Did you know that one, or did you find it on a web search? (Specfically, those are the stations on the Paris Metro, line 1, along the Champs Elysees, from the Arc de Triomphe going toward Place de la Concorde ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2005, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-the-following-have-in-common-game/303927/97 "2005-05-18T07:02:33Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > Correctimundo. (James Dean was raised Quaker by relatives in Indiana after his father’s death.) I thought Dean’s father outlived him by many years. Speaking of Quakers, James Michener was raised one, which adds another foursome: James Michener, Melissa Gilbert, Moses, Nicole Ritchie, Andrew Jackson Jr. ---
**Author:** ![Trillionaire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/aeb1de/32.png) [@Trillionaire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trillionaire)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2005, 7:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-the-following-have-in-common-game/303927/98 "2005-05-18T07:28:59Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > James Michener, Melissa Gilbert, Moses, Nicole Ritchie, Andrew Jackson Jr. Ooh! Ooh! Ooh! All adopted? I’ll repost mine from before: John Lennon, John F Kennedy, Leonardo da Vinci, Charles de Gaulle. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2005, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-the-following-have-in-common-game/303927/99 "2005-05-18T07:33:09Z")
> [@Trillionaire](#): > > Ooh! Ooh! Ooh! All adopted? Dang, that one didn’t last long. (Right answer.) > [@](#): > > John Lennon, John F Kennedy, Leonardo da Vinci, Charles de Gaulle. Other than both were Catholic (more or less), I’m having trouble just coming up wiht a JFK/Leonardo connection. ---
**Author:** ![Dunderman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecb155/32.png) [@Dunderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunderman)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2005, 7:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-the-following-have-in-common-game/303927/100 "2005-05-18T07:34:54Z")
> [@Trillionaire](#): > > John Lennon, John F Kennedy, Leonardo da Vinci, Charles de Gaulle. They all have airports named after them? I’ll repost mine too: Elvis Presley, Vin Diesel, Linda Hamilton, Philip K Dick. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-the-following-have-in-common-game/303927.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-the-following-have-in-common-game/303927.md?page=6)