Just a Quiz

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The answers are below.

1. What is the source of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's middle name?

2. Which first lady was the first to have graduated from college?

3. Which first lady was the last one born in the 19th century?

4. Name the leader of the Huns.

5. "Gone With the Wind" captured numerous Academy Awards. How many of the four Oscars for Actor, Actress, Supporting Actor and Supporting Actress went to stars in that classic film? For Bragging Rights, how many of these performers can you name?

6. Ulysses Simpson Grant was the name given to our future president when he was appointed to West Point by a member of Congress. What was his prior name, which had been given at birth?

7. What famed movie star put on 10 pounds to meet the U.S. military service requirements and serve in the U.S. Army Air Corps in World War II? He moved up from private to colonel during that war.

8. Name the only representative at the Continental Congress in 1775 to refuse to sign the Declaration of Independence on grounds of conscience.

9. Who was the only left-handed signer of the Declaration of Independence?

10. In a highly unusual performance, the character Elvis Presley played in his first film died. What was that first Elvis movie?


ANSWERS

1. Roosevelt's mother Sara's maiden name was Delano.

2. It was Lucy Ware Webb Hayes, the wife of our 19th president, Rutherford Hayes.

3. It was Mamie Eisenhower, who was born in 1896 and passed away in 1979.

4. Attila was the king of the Huns.

5. "Gone With the Wind" only took two of those four: Best Actress -- Vivien Leigh -- and Best Supporting Actress -- Hattie McDaniel.

6. Grant's birth name was Hiram Ulysses Grant. After going to West Point, he used Ulysses Simpson Grant for the rest of his life.

7. Jimmy Stewart was the war hero, flying many bombing missions.

8. Dundee, N.Y., Answer Man-er John Seymour tells us it was John Dickinson, a Pennsylvania representative, who later served in the Colonial military under Gen. Washington.

9. Benjamin Franklin was the Revolutionary lefty.

10. Elvis' role ended at the close of "Love Me Tender."

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What about Susan Hayward and Clark Gable ?? Didn't they win something??

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You get extra credit if you can tell us what they won.