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A New Cabinet Member
1. What did economist Robert Clifton Weaver bring to the presidential Cabinet in 1966? For Bragging Rights, in what Cabinet department did Weaver serve as secretary?
2. In what war did those in service first become tagged as GIs?
3. What does GI …Read more.
Missing Days
1. How many months have 30 days or less? For Bragging Rights, name those months.
2. Who said, "We have met the enemy and they are ours"?
3. In what battle was the preceding quote heard and remembered?
4. Name the first pope.
5. In Greek …Read more.
Capital Change
1. Montgomery, Ala., was the early capital city of the Confederate States of America (CSA). What city became the capital on July 20, 1861?
2. Six states established the CSA at a meeting in Montgomery on Feb. 4, 1861. Can you name the states?
3. Name …Read more.
Off to Moscow
1. Who was the first president to visit Moscow?
2. Name the six categories for the Nobel Prizes.
3. Which U.S. president vetoed the most bills sent to the White House by Congress? For bragging rights, can you say how many vetoes went to this …Read more.
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The New Name1. What was the name of the government of the Southern states that seceded from the Union in the Civil War? 2. Who was the president of the Confederate States of America? 3. What was the first attack on the Union ordered by the CSA president? 4. Judy Garland was one of the most famous movie stars ever. What was her original name? 5. What presidential candidate in an election contest raked in 525 electoral votes while his opponent took in only 13? 6. Only one state's electoral votes were not won by Ronald Reagan in the 1984 presidential election. Name the Democratic candidate and the one state that went his way. 7. What U.S. senator ran as a third-party candidate in the 1948 presidential election and took in 39 electoral votes from four states? 8. Name the first first lady of the United States. 9. Who was the first African-American Supreme Court justice? For Bragging Rights, name the president who nominated him to serve on the court. 10. What African-American justice was appointed to serve on the Supreme Court to replace the first African-American justice, who was retiring? For Bragging Rights, name the president who nominated this justice. Answers 1. 2. It was Jefferson Davis, who was a Mississippi senator born in Kentucky. 3. Davis ordered the April 12, 1861, military attack on Fort Sumter, S.C., which launched the Civil War. 4. Judy Garland was born Frances Gumm. 5. Ronald Reagan won a 525-13 electoral presidential race, in 1984. 6. In that presidential race, Walter Mondale won only the electoral votes of his home state, Minnesota. Reagan swept all of the others. 7. Sen. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina ran as a third-party candidate in the 1948 presidential election, which was won by the incumbent, Harry Truman. 8. Martha Custis Washington, George Washington's wife, was the first first lady. 9. Thurgood Marshall was nominated by Lyndon Johnson, in 1967. 10. Clarence Thomas was nominated to the Supreme Court by George Herbert Walker Bush, in 1991. Take "The Answer Man" to work or to school. Challenge your friends for "Bragging Rights." Send your questions and answers to: The Answer Man, Andy Seamans, Horizon House #603, 1300 Army Navy Dr., Arlington, VA 22202. COPYRIGHT 2009 CREATORS.COM
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