Presidents Day quiz

[ulysses5019]

http://encarta.msn.com/quiz_297/preside ... ?GT1=27004

[etaoin22]

I misunderestimated one President.

9/10

Spoiler

Review of the tapes appears to show that at the time of the alleged W blunder, he was waving at someone else, probably Kelsey Grammer, and not at Stevie Wonder.

[TheConfessor]

The answer to this question contradicted itself:
President Zachary Taylor died from eating cherries and milk. (T/F)

Spoiler

The "correct" answer is "true," but then they went on to say that the cherries and milk weren't what killed him; it was probably typhoid or some other food borne bacteria.

[frogman042]

I misunderestimated one President.

9/10

Spoiler

Review of the tapes appears to show that at the time of the alleged W blunder, he was waving at someone else, probably Kelsey Grammer, and not at Stevie Wonder.

Spoiler

I think there is a mistake on the Truman question using in quotes "S.", from what I understand there is no dot after the S so it should be Harry S Truman not Harry S. Truman - making the last question somewhat suspect.

[Buffacuse]

8/10...not bad but not great.

[etaoin22]

a lot of people such as those who design death certificates like strings of causation, "cardiogenic shock due to acute myocardial infarction due to atherosclerotic heart disease" and I agree (though often the relations are far more complex). So typhoid due to contaiminated cherries and cream , with both attributable as causes is OK with me. . Of course, the typhoid bacillus was not known in 1850, so the cause of death at that time would have been listed as something else, assuming a summary with an official cause of death was done.

I thought I had seen both S. and S for Pres. Truman.

[SportsFan68]

a lot of people such as those who design death certificates like strings of causation, "cardiogenic shock due to acute myocardial infarction due to atherosclerotic heart disease" and I agree (though often the relations are far more complex). So typhoid due to contaiminated cherries and cream , with both attributable as causes is OK with me. . Of course, the typhoid bacillus was not known in 1850, so the cause of death at that time would have been listed as something else, assuming a summary with an official cause of death was done.

I thought I had seen both S. and S for Pres. Truman.

I read a polemic explaining about the S. Seems he or his parents were often asked what the S stood for, and they would say nothing! Just S! Just S!

So that made people say it was just S

Except President Truman signed Harry S. Truman.

With my brother, it's just E! and he signs SportsFanBrotherFirstName E. SportsFanBrotherLastName

[ulysses5019]

a lot of people such as those who design death certificates like strings of causation, "cardiogenic shock due to acute myocardial infarction due to atherosclerotic heart disease" and I agree (though often the relations are far more complex). So typhoid due to contaiminated cherries and cream , with both attributable as causes is OK with me. . Of course, the typhoid bacillus was not known in 1850, so the cause of death at that time would have been listed as something else, assuming a summary with an official cause of death was done.

I thought I had seen both S. and S for Pres. Truman.

I read a polemic explaining about the S. Seems he or his parents were often asked what the S stood for, and they would say nothing! Just S! Just S!

So that made people say it was just S

Except President Truman signed Harry S. Truman.

With my brother, it's just E! and he signs SportsFanBrotherFirstName E. SportsFanBrotherLastName

Does the "E." stand for "Evil"?

[etaoin22]

Let me alter what I said in my last post. '"Typhoid" fever would have been recognized first as a syndrome (a syndrome = collection of symptoms and signs which go together to make a medical diagnosis: (drome = greek root for running, race, racecourse; "syndrome" is a running together, thusly. Typhoid was separated out from the general diagnosis of "fever" at some point, but I am not sure when.

[SportsFan68]

a lot of people such as those who design death certificates like strings of causation, "cardiogenic shock due to acute myocardial infarction due to atherosclerotic heart disease" and I agree (though often the relations are far more complex). So typhoid due to contaiminated cherries and cream , with both attributable as causes is OK with me. . Of course, the typhoid bacillus was not known in 1850, so the cause of death at that time would have been listed as something else, assuming a summary with an official cause of death was done.

I thought I had seen both S. and S for Pres. Truman.

I read a polemic explaining about the S. Seems he or his parents were often asked what the S stood for, and they would say nothing! Just S! Just S!

So that made people say it was just S

Except President Truman signed Harry S. Truman.

With my brother, it's just E! and he signs SportsFanBrotherFirstName E. SportsFanBrotherLastName

Does the "E." stand for "Evil"?

LOL!

No! Just E! Just E!