Answers for Baron Dave's Ultra-Duper Trivia for 12/21/07
D. All of these Presidents were Vice Presidents first, except Hoover.
A: Richard Nixon
B: Calvin Coolidge
C: John Tyler
D: Herbert Hoover
E: Thomas Jefferson
Dave was first, and correct, writing:
Hoover was the only one who was never a Vice President.
DanD was second:
That's kinda' easy, "A" is the only one of the five to resign under
duress from the office of the President.
Tom C was right with:
The answer is D: Herbert Hoover was never vice president.
S. Bennett observed:
The answer is The Criminal Richard Nixon.
While all the choices were President, Nixon was the only felon. And for the record, that sack of shit should have died in prison.
Kevin K responded:
I would say it's Thomas Jefferson. He is the only one of the five named who was elected to, and served completely, two terms as president.
The others were one-termers, or took over as VPs to dead presidents, or resigned before completing a second term.
Joe ("If you kill one person, you get death. If you kill a group of people, due to a white collar crime, you get a pathetic little fine! If you kill millions, you get a national holiday!"
---ALINA MORELLI) nailed it:
The answer is D: Herbert Hoover, not because he was dumber than a cob and all the rest were smarter than a cob, though not by much. No. Hoover was never a vice-president and all the others were.
And, so did Buzzcook:
Hoover was the only one that didn't serve as VP first so D.
Thanks to Baron Dave for the Utra-Duper Question and Buzzcook for the Trivia Question.
CBS opens the night with the movie 'Elf', followed by '48 Hours'.
NBC starts the night with a RERUN'Chuck', followed by a RERUN'30 Rock', then 'Saturday Night Live - Best of 2006-07'.
Of course, 'SNL' is a RERUN, with Steve Martin hosting, music by James Taylor.
ABC begins the night with the movie 'Lemony Snicket's A Series Of Unforturnate Events', followed by a RERUN'Women's Murder Club'.
The CW fills the night with old 'Friends', 'Raymond', and 'Family Guy'.
Faux has the traditional 'Cops', 'Cops', and 'America's Most Wanted'.
MY fills the night with the movie 'The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou'.
A&E has 'American Justice', followed by the movie 'Erin Brockovich'.
AMC offers the movie 'Waterworld', followed by the movie 'Mission: Imppossible', then the movie 'Black Dog'.
BBC -
[12:00 PM] You Are What You Eat - Episode 16;
[12:30 PM] You Are What You Eat - Episode 15;
[1:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 5 Sandgate;
[2:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 6 Clubway 41;
[3:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 7 Oscars;
[4:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 5;
[5:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 4;
[6:00 PM] Doctor Who - Ep 4 The Girl In The Fireplace;
[7:00 PM] Doctor Who - Ep 5 Rise Of The Cybermen;
[8:00 PM] Torchwood - Ep 5 Small Worlds;
[9:00 PM] Torchwood - Ep 6 Countrycide;
[10:00 PM] The Graham Norton Show - Ep 12 Lindsay Lohan, Lorraine Kelly, Bob Strombe;
[11:00 PM] Torchwood - Ep 5 Small Worlds;
[12:00 AM] Torchwood - Ep 6 Countrycide;
[1:00 AM] The Graham Norton Show - Ep 12 Lindsay Lohan, Lorraine Kelly, Bob Strombe;
[2:00 AM] Doctor Who - Ep 5 Rise Of The Cybermen;
[3:00 AM] Changing Rooms - Ep.16 Germany;
[3:30 AM] Changing Rooms - Ep. 17 Essex;
[4:00 AM] Bargain Hunt - Ep. 8 Newark 7;
[4:30 AM] Bargain Hunt - Ep. 10 Detling 24;
[5:00 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep. 38 Jones;
[5:30 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep. 39 Brown;
[6:00 AM] BBC World News. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has the movie 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off', followed by the movie 'Never Been Kissed', then the movie 'Never Been Kissed', again.
Comedy Central has 'Scrubs', another 'Scrubs', still another 'Scrubs', yet another 'Scrubs', and the movie 'Coming To America'.
FX has the movie 'Home Alone', followed by the movie 'Are We There Yet?', then the movie 'The Animal'.
History has 'Modern Marvels', 'The True Story Of Charlie Wilson', and 'Banned From The Bible II'.
IFC -
[06:50 AM] Media Lab Results;
[07:00 AM] Chop Socky: Cinema Hong Kong;
[08:00 AM] Kill!;
[10:00 AM] Casa de los Babys;
[11:40 AM] Private Fears in Public Places;
[01:45 PM] Double Happiness;
[03:15 PM] Casa de los Babys;
[04:55 PM] IFC News Special;
[05:05 PM] Private Fears in Public Places;
[07:15 PM] Igby Goes Down;
[09:00 PM] Havoc;
[10:30 PM] Summer Fling;
[12:15 AM] Sugar;
[01:35 AM] Havoc;
[03:05 AM] Summer Fling;
[04:55 AM] Private Fears in Public Places. (ALL TIMES EST)
SciFi has the movie 'From Dusk To Dawn 3: The Hangman's Daughter', followed by the movie 'Hallowed Ground'.
Sundance -
[06:00 AM] Tony Takitani;
[07:30 AM] The Day of the Jackal;
[10:00 AM] 10th District Court;
[12:00 PM] Silence of the North;
[01:35 PM] Heavy Metal Jr.;
[02:00 PM] Mike Myers + Deepak Chopra;
[03:00 PM] Episode 1;
[03:30 PM] Episode 2;
[04:00 PM] Episode 3;
[04:30 PM] Episode 4;
[05:00 PM] Episode 5;
[05:30 PM] Episode 6;
[06:00 PM] Episode 7;
[06:30 PM] Episode 8;
[07:00 PM] Oyster Farmer;
[08:30 PM] Breathless (1960);
[10:00 PM] The Day of the Jackal;
[12:30 AM] Topsy-Turvy;
[03:15 AM] Happy Campers;
[05:00 AM] Eileen Gray: Invitation to a Voyage. (ALL TIMES EST)
Brazilian painter Candido Portinari's oil painting 'The Coffee Worker' is seen in this handout photograph released by the Sao Paulo Museum of Art on December 20, 2007. Thieves broke into Sao Paulo's leading art museum early Thursday and stole two oil paintings, Picasso's 'Portait of Suzane Bloch' and 'The Coffee Worker'.
Robin Williams and Lance Armstrong took a swipe at the French, Kid Rock strummed "Sweet Home Alabama," comedian Lewis Black grumbled about the falling snow, and Miss USA told the troops to keep "kicking butt."
Some 500 American soldiers watched an all-star USO cast perform under a steady snowstorm at a U.S. base in Kabul late Thursday. The stop was part of a six-day, 14-show tour that saw the entertainers begin their day with a performance in Iraq.
Williams, a USO veteran making his fourth trip to Afghanistan, told the soldiers he woke up on Thursday in the desert sands of Iraq and closed out his day with snow in Kabul. "From sand to snow, mother nature is having hot flashes."
Wayne Newton, head of talent recruitment for the USO, says the USO has had trouble recruiting entertainers for trips overseas. But John Hanson, USO spokesman, said that wasn't the case, noting the all-star cast now on tour. He said there have been 52 USO tours in 2007 that performed more than 300 shows.
Willie Nelson hasn't forgotten the town that knew him before he was famous.
The 74-year-old country singer has donated $40,000 to Vancouver, the southwestern Washington city where he sold some of his first records a half-century ago.
In the late 1950s, Nelson worked as a disc jockey for Vancouver station KVAN. He financed and recorded the single "No Place for Me" and sold it to some of his listeners.
Vancouver received the $40,000 check three weeks ago. On Wednesday, the city gave $15,000 to the Humane Society of Washington and $15,000 to the Boys and Girls Club.
This image provided by General Motors Corporation shows the 2009 Corvette ZR1, the fastest, most powerful automobile ever produced by General Motors Thursday, Dec. 20, 2007 in Detroit, Michigan. The Corvette ZR1 features an all-new LS9 supercharged 6.2L V-8 engine targeted to produce 620 horsepower and approximately 595 lb.-ft. of torque. The ZR1 is expected to be the first production Corvette to achieve a top speed of at least 200 mph. The Corvette's chief engineer, Tadge Juechter , says the 2009 Corvette ZR1 may be the last in a long tradition of Detroit performance cars, endangered by stronger federal fuel economy regulations and limits on carbon dioxide emissions.
Actor Rainn Wilson, who plays tyrannical salesman Dwight Schrute in "The Office," will host the Spirit Awards, the art-house world's version of the Oscars, on February 23.
The event, which takes place on Santa Monica beach the day before the Academy Awards, will go ahead with the blessing of the striking Writers Guild of America (WGA). The union granted the event's organizer, Film Independent, a waiver to hire writers for the ceremony. Wilson, a WGA member, will contribute as a writer for the event, which will be broadcast live by the Independent Film Channel.
The WGA has also granted a waiver to the Screen Actors Guild for its awards show, but rejected requests from the organizers of both the Golden Globes and the Oscars.
The Spirit Awards waiver raises the possibility that the ceremony could upstage the Oscars if the strike is not resolved by late February. The walkout is now nearing the end of its seventh week, with no resolution in sight.
David Letterman doesn't even need writers to have fun with this one. The late-night comic's representatives met with striking writers on Friday in an attempt to reach a deal that will allow the "Late Show" to return to the air with its writing staff.
All the Writers Guild of America would say about the meeting: "A lively exchange of information took place." It was reminiscent of diplomat-speak for argumentative talks between hostile countries: "A frank exchange of views."
Absent a deal, the CBS show's goal of returning to the air with live episodes on Jan. 2 is still up in the air.
Letterman's hope to bring his writers back stemmed from the union's announcement last weekend that it was open to reaching contract agreements with separate production companies. Letterman's Worldwide Pants owns his show and CBS' talk show with Craig Ferguson.
Former President Clinton has donated the saxophone he played at his inauguration to the American Jazz Museum.
The attraction is part of the historic 18th and Vine district, where musicians often play into the early morning at an old union hall called the Mutual Musicians Foundation.
The saxophone, which is expected to be handed over in a public ceremony Friday, had been in the collection of Clinton's presidential library in Little Rock, Ark.
Pablo Picasso's oil painting, 'Portrait of Suzanne Bloch', is seen in this handout photograph released by the Sao Paulo Museum of Art on December 20, 2007. Thieves broke into Sao Paulo's leading art museum early Thursday and stole two oil paintings, the museum said, 'Portait of Suzane Bloch' and Brazilian painter Candido Portinari's 'The Coffee Worker'.
A painting by the celebrated Spanish artist Joan Miro sold for a record 11.6 million euros (16.7 million dollars) in Paris Friday -- the highest price ever for one of his works, the auctioneers Drouot said.
The 1927 painting "Blue Star" had been estimated at between five to seven million euros, and was considered by Miro himself as the key work of his output.
The sale was part of an auction of ten works, including pieces by Picasso, Juan Gris, Leger, and Laurens which sold for a total of 21.8 million euros.
"Bird", another work by Miro, went for 6.2 million euros after being valued at between 2.5 to 3.5 million euros. Juan Gris's oil-painting "The Guitar Player" from 1918 was sold for 2.17 million euros, a record in France for the artist.
Leonardo da Vinci's Codex Atlanticus, the largest collection of drawings and writings by the Renaissance master, has been infiltrated by mold, officials said Friday.
The extent of any damage is not yet known to the roughly 1,120-page Codex containing his drawings and writings from 1478-1519 on topics ranging from flying machines to weapons, mathematics to botany.
But officials say any conservation measures will be very expensive and there are no funds for the work.
The Codex is kept in a vault at the Biblioteca Ambrosiana, where temperature and humidity are constantly monitored.
A group of retireed winter swimmers dressed in Santa caps and tutus rehearse for a show ahead of Christmas along the icy waters in Shenyang, northeastern China's Liaoning province Sunday Dec. 16, 2007.
Borat is dead. Sacha Baron Cohen tells The Daily Telegraph that he's retiring the clueless Kazakh journalist, as well as his alter ego, aspiring rapper Ali G.
"When I was being Ali G and Borat I was in character sometimes 14 hours a day and I came to love them, so admitting I am never going to play them again is quite a sad thing," the 36-year-old actor-comedian says in the British newspaper's Friday edition.
"It is like saying goodbye to a loved one. It is hard, and the problem with success, although it's fantastic, is that every new person who sees the Borat movie is one less person I `get' with Borat again, so it's a kind of self-defeating form, really."
A federal judge says Stonewall Jackson may pursue claims of age discrimination against the Grand Ole Opry.
The 75-year-old country singer filed a federal lawsuit in January against Gaylord Entertainment Co. and Opry General Manager Pete Fisher, claiming age discrimination, breach of contract and retaliation.
Gaylord has argued the singer wasn't an employee of the Grand Ole Opry and he shouldn't be able to pursue his claims.
Jackson has been a member of the long-running country music radio show since 1956. He had a string of hits in the 1950s and '60s, including "Waterloo" and "B.J. the D.J."
Republican strategist Karl "Turdblossom" Rove has agreed to write about his years as an adviser to resident George W. Bush in a deal worth more than US$1.5 million, publishing officials said Friday.
Rove, the architect of Bush's successful 2000 and 2004 presidential campaigns and one of the most influential political advisers of his time, signed the deal with Threshold Editions, former colleague Mary Matalin's imprint at the Simon & Schuster publishing house, Threshold's publisher and executive vice president Louise Burke said.
Rove's agent, lawyer Robert Barnett, said Threshold was chosen over eight other publishers who submitted bids. Threshold did not say how much Rove would be paid, but the bidding reached at least $1.5 million, two publishing officials familiar with the bidding told The Associated Press.
Yemeni farmers pack qat leaves in plastic bags in a field near Sanaa. Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh has decided to gradually reduce his consumption of the narcotic qat leaf after having medical tests in Germany
Photo by Khaled Fazaa
Marilyn Manson has struck back against a former bandmate by countersuing for breach of contract.
The rocker claimed in court papers filed Wednesday in Los Angeles Superior Court that keyboardist Stephen Bier did not carry out obligations to take part in master recordings, concerts and the selling of band merchandise.
Bier - known by his stage name, Madonna Wayne Gacy - filed his own breach of contract lawsuit against Manson in August seeking more than $20 million.
Manson's complaint claimed the pair's business partnership was dissolved in 1996 after the singer became the clear leader of the band.
After 800 years at the bottom of the sea, a merchant ship loaded with porcelain and other rare antiques was raised to the surface Friday in a specially built basket, a state news agency reported.
The Nanhai No. 1, which means "South China Sea No. 1," sank off the south China coast with some 60,000 to 80,000 items on board, Xinhua News Agency reported, citing Wu Jiancheng, head of the excavation project.
Archaeologists built a steel basket around the 100-foot vessel, and it took about two hours for a crane to lift the ship and surrounding silt to the surface, Xinhua said. The basket was as large as a basketball court and as tall as a three-story building.
The ship dates from the early Southern Song Dynasty (1127-1279). It was discovered in 1987 off the coast near the city of Yangjiang, in Guangdong province, in more than 65 feet of water.
Humpback whales are safe - at least for now. Giving in to U.S. pressure and worldwide criticism, Japan's government on Friday announced a whaling fleet now in the Southern Ocean for its annual hunt will not kill the threatened species as originally planned. The fleet will, however, kill some 935 minke whales, a smaller, more plentiful species, and 50 fin whales.
Japan dispatched its whaling fleet last month to the southern Pacific off Antarctica in the first major hunt of humpback whales since the 1960s. Commercial hunts of humpbacks have been banned worldwide since 1966, and commercial whaling overall since 1986.
The fleet was to kill 50 humpbacks for scientific research. But the plan generated immediate criticism from environmental groups, which oppose the hunts to begin with but were outraged by the inclusion of humpbacks because they are so rare.
Beverly Allen, who at 87 was listed by the 2005 Guinness World Records as the oldest showgirl regularly performing in a chorus, has died at age 90.
Allen, who lived in Tarzana, Calif., died of pneumonia Sunday at a hospital, said her daughter, Lora Le Maire.
A professional dancer since her youth, she was 80 when she joined the Fabulous Palm Springs Follies, a chorus show for women 55 and up.
Allen was born on Nov. 4, 1917, in Chicago and studied dance from an early age. In the 1930s, she was with the Merriel Abbott Dancers, who performed at the famed Empire Room of the Palmer House Hotel.
She did USO tours for troops in Europe during the Second World War. She later taught dance.
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