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Wednesday, March 13

If you were an 18th-century U.S. president, you really didn't want to have Robert Todd Lincoln anywhere within a mile of you. Naturally, he was at his father's bedside when Abraham Lincoln died. It was his dad after all. But he was also at the train station where Charles Guiteau shot James Garfield, by which time he was Garfield's war secretary. And in 1901, he was in Buffalo to show his children the president when William McKinley was shot, although he didn't see this one.

In what song did Otis Redding start whistling, apparently because he forgot some lyrics?

A) "The Dock of the Bay"

B) "Mr.

Pitiful"

C) "These Arms of Mine"

D) "Try a Little Tenderness"

Previous answer: "The Simpsons" embiggens your vocabulary.

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