Comments on: And now for a quiz http://allthepresidentsbooks.com/2009/08/15/and-now-for-a-quiz/ All the Presidents' Books Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:03:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: grandcosmo http://allthepresidentsbooks.com/2009/08/15/and-now-for-a-quiz/#comment-434 Sun, 16 Aug 2009 19:50:35 +0000 http://allthepresidentsbooks.com/?p=556#comment-434 If you count electoral votes for Pres. and VP combined I believe Texas overtakes Ohio and moves into second.

]]> By: Bob Timmermann http://allthepresidentsbooks.com/2009/08/15/and-now-for-a-quiz/#comment-433 Sun, 16 Aug 2009 18:54:36 +0000 http://allthepresidentsbooks.com/?p=556#comment-433 New York Presidents (elected):
Van Buren
Cleveland
Roosevelt 26
Roosevelt 32
Eisenhower
Nixon

And there are bunch of New Yorkers who lost:
Parker
Dewey, twice
Tilden
Van Buren
Cleveland
Clinton (George)
Wilkie
And a few others

Lots of states claim Eisenhower, but he was living in New York when he ran for President in 1952. But he was born in Texas. And then he grew up in Kansas. And he had a vacation home in Pennsvylvania.

]]> By: grandcosmo http://allthepresidentsbooks.com/2009/08/15/and-now-for-a-quiz/#comment-432 Sun, 16 Aug 2009 18:50:36 +0000 http://allthepresidentsbooks.com/?p=556#comment-432 New York as the answer to #6 was way easier than I thought. I thought Nixon being considered a New Yorker was relevant but it wasn’t.

]]> By: Rob McMillin http://allthepresidentsbooks.com/2009/08/15/and-now-for-a-quiz/#comment-431 Sun, 16 Aug 2009 17:55:12 +0000 http://allthepresidentsbooks.com/?p=556#comment-431 Great quiz! And I had no clue about any of the answers.

]]> By: Bob Timmermann http://allthepresidentsbooks.com/2009/08/15/and-now-for-a-quiz/#comment-430 Sun, 16 Aug 2009 17:49:57 +0000 http://allthepresidentsbooks.com/?p=556#comment-430 Answers are appended now.

]]> By: Michael Timmermann http://allthepresidentsbooks.com/2009/08/15/and-now-for-a-quiz/#comment-429 Sun, 16 Aug 2009 16:00:48 +0000 http://allthepresidentsbooks.com/?p=556#comment-429 Re question #2, I went with the Clay connection and Kentucky. (Just seemed right for this blog.) But I guess I should have gone with the other three-time loser…

]]> By: Michael Timmermann http://allthepresidentsbooks.com/2009/08/15/and-now-for-a-quiz/#comment-428 Sun, 16 Aug 2009 15:59:46 +0000 http://allthepresidentsbooks.com/?p=556#comment-428 So are we still awaiting confirmation on #7?

]]> By: Bob Timmermann http://allthepresidentsbooks.com/2009/08/15/and-now-for-a-quiz/#comment-427 Sun, 16 Aug 2009 02:51:00 +0000 http://allthepresidentsbooks.com/?p=556#comment-427 Other people I’ve asked question #1 to are adamant that Nixon was not a New Yorker. Except he was. He moved after losing to Pat Brown.

]]> By: Tom Timmermann http://allthepresidentsbooks.com/2009/08/15/and-now-for-a-quiz/#comment-426 Sun, 16 Aug 2009 02:43:16 +0000 http://allthepresidentsbooks.com/?p=556#comment-426 I gave Nixon serious consideration. I was figuring it would need to be someone who ran for president some years apart.

]]> By: Bob Timmermann http://allthepresidentsbooks.com/2009/08/15/and-now-for-a-quiz/#comment-425 Sun, 16 Aug 2009 00:48:09 +0000 http://allthepresidentsbooks.com/?p=556#comment-425 All of the guesses submitted above are correct.

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