Trivia

[dwcrawford]

Take my place please.  I only know a little about music or old plays, etc.  I  really don't know any thing interesting to ask.  I should be careful answering the few I do know, shouldn't I?

[galvo]

Thank you, Mr C. I am sure that you are au fait with the lives of the Presidents of the USA. So.................

Which US President could simultaneously write in Greek with one hand and Latin with t'other?

[okarol]

Hmmm... I found that apparently two U.S. presidents could write in Latin with one hand and Greek with the other — at the same time: Garfield and Jefferson.

[galvo]

I'm sure you're correct. I only knew about Garfield.

[dwcrawford]

Why would they learn to do that?  Wasn't golf invented at that time?

[YLGuy]

Golf appeared in 1350 in St Andrews, Fife. It was forbidden by the king thrice during the 1400's, as it was considered to distract young men from their archery and Church, but was re-legalised in 1502. It is a common misperception that it began in the 1600s; as early as 1567, Mary Queen of Scots played golf on the St. Andrews Links. The oldest remaining club here is the Royal and Ancient Golf Club, dating back to 1834 

[dwcrawford]

Good info to have Marc, but the operative question was Why?   hehe.

Somebody needs to get us back on topic.

[fc2821]

I know it is not my turn, but here goes:

At the tomb of "the unknowns" in the cemetery in Alington,VA an honor guard pces back and forth. How many paces each way?

[dwcrawford]

twenty one

[fc2821]

Bingo, you're correct sir.

[dwcrawford]

What body of water would I be crossing if I walked across the London Bridge?

[kristina]

Golf appeared in 1350 in St Andrews, Fife. It was forbidden by the king thrice during the 1400's, as it was considered to distract young men from their archery and Church, but was re-legalised in 1502. It is a common misperception that it began in the 1600s; as early as 1567, Mary Queen of Scots played golf on the St. Andrews Links. The oldest remaining club here is the Royal and Ancient Golf Club, dating back to 1834 

Hello YLGuy, I beg to differ...
It has never been conclusively established,
where exactly Golf was played first and when...
(The likely places are either Scotland or Holland...
because in both countries the game can be traced back
to similar periods in history and there was
trading between these two countries...)
but it was at the Links of St. Andrews where 18 holes of Golf
was conceived & it was the Royal & Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews
who founded the Rules of Golf...

[dwcrawford]

That wasn't posed as a question... the question was why did an American President want to write latin with one hand and greek with the other at the same time.  The joke being that most president just play golf when the do trivial things.

[fc2821]

Golf appeared in 1350 in St Andrews, Fife. It was forbidden by the king thrice during the 1400's, as it was considered to distract young men from their archery and Church, but was re-legalised in 1502. It is a common misperception that it began in the 1600s; as early as 1567, Mary Queen of Scots played golf on the St. Andrews Links. The oldest remaining club here is the Royal and Ancient Golf Club, dating back to 1834 

Hello YLGuy, I beg to differ...
It has never been conclusively established,
where exactly Golf was played first and when...
(The likely places are either Scotland or Holland...
because in both countries the game can be traced back
to similar periods in history and there was
trading between these two countries...)
but it was at the Links of St. Andrews where 18 holes of Golf
was conceived & it was the Royal & Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews
who founded the Rules of Golf...

What? It wasn't in Alabama (the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail). Do they know?   

[galvo]

I seem to recall that Mr Crawford asked about the London Bridge, and I would like to suggest that the answer would be the Thames River in London. UNLESS, of course, Mr C. is trying to bamboozle us and is referring to the earlier London Bridge that spans the Bridgewater Canal in Arizona.

[YLGuy]

The one in Arizona would be Lake Havasu formed on the the Colorado River by the Parker damn.  I have been on it, under it and have a piece of it in my shadow box over my mantle. 

[dwcrawford]

MMM, a tie... so each of you ask a question.  Maybe I can get one of them.

[galvo]

Here's one Dan will love - Which is the largest mausoleum in North America?

[dwcrawford]

I  don't know.  Who is buried there?

[galvo]

Ho Ho Ho, Mr C !!!!!!!!!

[kristina]

Is it by any chance Grant's tomb?
It says General U.S. Grant and his wife
are supposed to be buried there?

[dwcrawford]

Well, it is Galvo's question and it is the correct answer to his question.  However you a slightly off in your additional comments that would have been an answer to a previous question of mine  -- only slightly however.

[galvo]

Yes. It is Grant's tomb, kristina. As the erudite Mr C. knows, Grant and his missus are entombed, rather than buried, there, as it's a mausoleum and therefor above ground.

Over to you, kristina.

[kristina]

Thank you, galvo.

Here is is something different, it is a riddle in a question:

Men put it on the barbecue.

It is a girls best friend.

They are the same, but different.

Explain this riddle and answer the question.

[Mizar]

Baguette  -   A lump of Charcoal for the Grill
Baguette  -   A long Loaf, of Bread, that You can Grill on the BBQ
Baguette  -   The cut or Shape of a Diamond