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The winner of my Presidential trivia quiz is...........


With a hijillion bonus points.......


Elisabeth!

Presidential Trivia Quiz

In honor of today's inauguration, or perhaps because I needed blog fodder and I am a fan of presidential history and trivia in general, I bring you my first ever (and probably last ever), Presidential Trivia Quiz.

1. Which U.S. President is tied with Thomas Jefferson for being the third tallest all-time? Bill Clinton (Srah)
   
2. Which U.S. President approved "Seward's Folly"? Andrew Johnson (Elisabeth)
   
3. Which U.S. President used to bathe naked in the Potomac? John Quincy Adams (Aunt Pam)
4. Which U.S. President attended Miami University? Benjamin Harrison (Aunt Pam)
   
5. Which U.S. President was the only one unanimously elected to the office by the Electoral College? George Washington (Aunt Pam)
   
6. Which U.S. President had the shortest retirement between leaving office and death? James Polk (Elisabeth)
   
7. Which U.S. President ranks as ninth tallest all-time? Barack Obama (Srah)
   
8. Which U.S. President was the first to have a beard? Abraham Lincoln (Srah)
   
9. Which U.S. President holds the record for the most grandchildren and great-grandchildren of all of the U.S. Presidents?
10. Which U.S. President signed the order that awarded the posthumous title of "General of the Armies of the United States" on George Washington? Gerald R. Ford Jr. (Srah)
    
11. Which U.S. President was the first to visit Alaska (not necessarily the state)? Warren G. Harding (Aunt Pam)
    
12. Which U.S. President had a Vice-President who killed a man while in office? Thomas Jefferson (Srah)
    
13. Which U.S. President was in China during the Boxer Rebellion? Herbert Hoover (Srah)
    
14. Which U.S. President served on the Board of Trustees of the Ohio State University after his presidency, until his death? Rutherford B. Hayes (Srah)
    
15. Which U.S. President was born in New Jersey? Grover Cleveland (Aunt Pam)
    
16. Which U.S. President predicted that history would vindicate him, even though it has not to date? James Buchanan (Gary)
    
17. Which U.S. President was the first President to be born in the twentieth century (in order of election, later Presidents may have been older)? John F. Kennedy (Srah)
    
18. Which U.S. President is known for this statement: "I have only two regrets: I didn't shoot Henry Clay and I didn't hang John C. Calhoun."? Andrew Jackson (Elisabeth)
    
19. Which U.S. President did Harriet Beecher Stowe refer to as "the arch traitor"? Franklin Pierce (Aunt Pam)
    
20. Which U.S. President played in the first College World Series? George H.W. Bush (Srah)
    
21. Which U.S. President served as a defense attorney for the British soldiers involved in the Boston Massacre? John Adams (Aunt Pam)
    
22. Which U.S. President gave up alcohol in 1986? George W. Bush (Aunt Pam)
    
23. Which U.S. President is the only one to have held the office of President Pro Tempore of the Senate? John Tyler (Elisabeth)
    
24. Which U.S. President was given the oath of office by his father? Calvin Coolidge (Elisabeth)
    
25. Which U.S. President's memoirs, written while terminally ill and completed days before his death, earned the family over $450,000 at a time that the family was bankrupt? Ulysses S. Grant (Aunt Pam)
    
26. Which U.S. President served under Rutherford Hayes during the Civil War? William McKinley (Elisabeth)
    
27. Which U.S. President is the only one whose first language was not English? Martin Van Buren (Srah)
    
28. Which U.S. President is considered the "Father of the Constitution"? James Madison (Aunt Pam)
    
29. Which U.S. President used to do radio broadcasts of Iowa Hawkeye home football games? Ronald Reagan (Srah)
    
30. Which U.S. President was the first to travel in an airplane on official business? Franklin D. Roosevelt (Aunt Pam)
    
31. Which U.S. President has a capital of a foreign nation named after him? James Monroe (Srah)
    
32. Which U.S. President signed the Medicare bill and gave the first two Medicare cards to Harry and Bess Truman? Lyndon B. Johnson (Aunt Pam)
    
33. Which U.S. President served the nation in the highest office of both the executive and judicial branches of the federal government? William Howard Taft (Aunt Pam)
    
34. Which U.S. President was "attacked" by a swimming rabbit? Jimmy Carter (Aunt Pam)
    
35. Which U.S. President, at the time of his election, was a U.S. Representative, the only sitting member of the U.S. House of Representatives to be elected? James Garfield (Aunt Pam)
    
36. Which U.S. President was exempt from military service due to his religion, but joined anyway and became a lieutenant commander in the U.S. Navy? Richard M. Nixon (Srah)
    
37. Which U.S. President had a child that married a person who would later become the leader of a new government? Zachary Taylor (Srah)
    
38. Which U.S. President was the first to travel outside the United States during his presidency? Theodore Roosevelt (Srah)
    
39. Which U.S. President is the only President other than Grant to have achieved the rank of a five-star general, or General of the Army? Dwight David Eisenhower (Aunt Pam)
    
40. Which U.S. President signed the Fugitive Slave Act? Millard Fillmore (Elisabeth)
    
41. Which U.S. President was the first to attend the World Series? Woodrow Wilson (Elisabeth)
    
42. Which U.S. President was rumored to have been born in Canada, and would have therefore been ineligible for the office? Chester Alan Arthur (Aunt Pam)
    
43. Which U.S. President worked as a haberdasher before entering politics? Harry S. Truman (Aunt Pam)
    

Extra Credit (+5): Which U.S. President appears as the desktop on my computer? Gerald R. Ford, Jr. (Aunt Pam)
Extra Extra Credit (+10): Give me a link to my desktop image.

If you have physically seen my desktop, used my computer, etc., you are ineligible for the extra credit.

Aunt Pam - 17 + 5EC = 22
Srah - 15 + 1BP = 16
Elisabeth - 8 + 1BP = 9
Gary - 1

I am a big nerd

Presidential Portraits Score: 100% (10 out of 10)

I know The Simpsons!

The Simpsons Softball Quiz Score: 100% (9 out of 9)

Movie Quotes Meme

Via Dan and Srah and reposted from Facebook

1. Pick 15 of your favorite movies.
2. Go to IMDb and find a quote from each movie.
3. Post them here for everyone to guess.
4. Strike it out when someone guesses correctly, and put who guessed it and the movie.
5. NO GOOGLING/using IMDb search or other search functions

1. "Last night, I counted five thousand sheep in those three beds, so I had to have another bed to sleep in. You wouldn't want me to sleep with the sheep, would you?" A Night at the Opera, guessed by Srah

2. "He is not Judge Judy and Executioner!" Hot Fuzz, guessed by Srah

3. "Tea can do many things, Jane, but it can't bring back the dead." Death at a Funeral, guessed by Srah

4. "You blew the best thing you had going for you. You blew the element of surprise." The Italian Job, guessed by Jess

5. "Nobody messes with a dwarf in a red raincoat." Unconditional Love, guessed by my Mom

6. "Indeed it is. I encourage him to be in his garden as often as possible." Pride & Prejudice, guessed by Srah

7. "Oh, the English, and their STUPID sense of fair play!"

8. "Oh! It was the killer! I saw him... he was... horrible. He was a tall guy... short too. And he was wearing this really nice suit, though it was kinda shabby. And he, and he had blackish, brownish, reddish, blondish, kinda whitish hair. And, and he definitely went downstairs, or, or maybe it was up."

9. "Come on! If you don't drink your fatty drinks, you'll never really achieve quality cellulite." Sliding Doors, guessed by Srah

10. "For 90% of a given day, you're adjustin' your bollocks... scratchin' your bollocks... or otherwise playin' with your bollocks!" The Closer You Get/American Women, guessed by Srah

11. "Well, nobody's perfect." Some Like It Hot, guessed by Srah

12. "No. If you were your father, I doubt very much if I would have kissed you."

13. "If you fit into my pants I will kill myself." While You Were Sleeping, guessed by Srah

14. "Right, I'm regular, I am a regular man. I want... but that's not the point! The point is, who are YOU? WHO ARE YOU?" A Life Less Ordinary, guessed by Srah

15. "Croup. Of the croup, she died, leaving me and my mentally ill brother, 'ere, to fend for ourselves. Murdered, she was, in 'er bed by one of 'er johns. Y'see, sir, she sold 'erself to feed us. She compromised 'erself for oursakes, leaving us all alone and 'ungry and 'omeless and my poor brother needs a brain operation and my glaucoma's gettin' worse and sir... SIR!... SIR? I can't see you sir! I can't see you sir! AHH... AHH... I'M BLIND!... AHHHHHHH!" The Impostors, guessed by Srah

Revealed

I may be trying out for a role in The Pirates of Penzance next semester. This started me thinking about other plays/musicals/operettas that I would love to be in. Sorry for another list, but feel free to comment suggestions.

1. Pirates of Penzance
2. The Music Man
3. The Scarlet Pimpernel
4. Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
5. Jesus Christ Superstar
6. Annie Get Your Gun
7. My Fair Lady
8. Gigi
9. The Sound of Music
10. South Pacific
    
11. Brigadoon
    

Layout

I'm thinking of changing the layout. I've had this layout since Shrek 2 came out. That was in 2004, apparently. I have to look through the templates and see if there is one I prefer or if I want to use my awesome web design abilities to fix something up.

My progress on the AFI's (orginal) list of the Greatest 100 American films

I chose to use the list from 1998 because it didn't have Titanic on it.

1. Citizen Kane
2. Casablanca
3. The Godfather
4. Gone with the Wind
5. Lawrence of Arabia
6. The Wizard of Oz
7. The Graduate
8. On the Waterfront
9. Schindler's List
10. Singin' in the Rain
11. It's a Wonderful Life
12. Sunset Boulevard
13. The Bridge on the River Kwai
14. Some Like It Hot
15. Star Wars
16. All About Eve
17. The African Queen
18. Psycho
19. Chinatown
20. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
21. The Grapes of Wrath
22. 2001: A Space Odyssey
23. The Maltese Falcon
24. Raging Bull
25. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
26. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
27. Bonnie and Clyde
28. Apocalypse Now
29. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
30. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
31. Annie Hall
32. The Godfather Part II
33. High Noon
34. To Kill a Mockingbird
35. It Happened One Night
36. Midnight Cowboy
37. The Best Years of Our Lives
38. Double Indemnity
39. Doctor Zhivago
40. North by Northwest
41. West Side Story
42. Rear Window
43. King Kong
44. The Birth of a Nation
45. A Streetcar Named Desire
46. A Clockwork Orange
47. Taxi Driver
48. Jaws
49. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
50. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
51. The Philadelphia Story
52. From Here to Eternity
53. Amadeus
54. All Quiet on the Western Front
55. The Sound of Music
56. M*A*S*H
57. The Third Man
58. Fantasia
59. Rebel Without a Cause
60. Raiders of the Lost Ark
61. Vertigo
62. Tootsie
63. Stagecoach
64. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
65. The Silence of the Lambs
66. Network
67. The Manchurian Candidate
68. An American in Paris
69. Shane
70. The French Connection
71. Forrest Gump
72. Ben-Hur
73. Wuthering Heights
74. The Gold Rush
75. Dances with Wolves
76. City Lights
77. American Graffiti
78. Rocky
79. The Deer Hunter
80. The Wild Bunch
81. Modern Times
82. Giant
83. Platoon
84. Fargo
85. Duck Soup
86. Mutiny on the Bounty
87. Frankenstein
88. Easy Rider
89. Patton
90. The Jazz Singer
91. My Fair Lady
92. A Place in the Sun
93. The Apartment
94. Goodfellas
95. Pulp Fiction
96. The Searchers
97. Bringing Up Baby
98. Unforgiven
99. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
100. Yankee Doodle Dandy

Seen, but saw a long time ago so don't remember
Saw an edited version, please can I just leave it at that?
Watched

I don't know if I'll ever complete this list because there are a lot of movies on here that I have no interest in watching *cough* Shane *cough* The Grapes of Wrath *cough*.

What's that? I disappeared for months?

I'm trying to get into the Christmas spirit by watching Christmas movies, so I'm trying to make a list of all the movies to watch before the day (in no order, other than the order I think of them in).

1. The Muppet Christmas Carol (Michael Caine! Muppets!)
   
2. Elf
3. The Polar Express
4. Christmas in Connecticut (Mmmmmm, Dennis Morgan)
5. White Christmas (Danny Kaye! Dean Jagger is adorable! Mary Wickes! Dancing!)
6. Die Hard
7. Die Hard 2: Die Harder
8. A Blackadder Christmas Carol
9. Miracle on 34th Street
10. In the Good Old Summertime (I'm really sorry I thought you died thirty years ago, Van Johnson!)
11. Love Actually
12. Holiday Inn
13. While You Were Sleeping
14. The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
15. A Christmas Story (Blergh)
16. Scrooge
17. A Christmas Carol
18. Annie
19. The Bells of St. Mary
20. Going My Way
21. National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (Clearly this was intended as a joke, because Chevy Chase sucks.)
22. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
23. It's A Wonderful Life
24. The Man Who Came to Dinner (A fellow alum again! Penguins!)
25. Scrooged
26. Home Alone
27. Prancer (I've never heard of this.)
28. Bridget Jones's Diary
29. Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
    

Feel free to comment your suggestions.

Happy Birthday!

Happy would-have-been 101st birthday to you!

Wheeee!

I'm getting a book!

Since pretty much only people who know me read this anyway....

My best friend's older sister just had a baby at the end of November, so my mom and I made a quilt and an afghan for her baby girl. Since most of the people who read this saw the work in progress, here are the finished projects, which have been in my camera since December.

Guess what I'm learning!