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joseph:
thanx glad you liked it!!!!
im actually taking an AP poisci class now so we havta know all the amendments. bill of rights:
1. freedom of speech, press, religion, assembly
2. right to bear arms
3. citizens dont have to quarter soldiers
4. no arrest/search without a warranty
5. right to remain silent+cant be accused twice
6. rights of the accused to a public defender
7. trial by jury for e/o
8. no cruel or unusual punishment
9. e/o has rights, defended by the Constitution
10. power to states/people if not specifically said to belong to the federal govt.
bym: wow that was done well!!! impressive, i thought i was the only one in the ywn coffee room that knew that!!! lol
Edited to remove question. answer: No, at least not by this moderator
lol well at least now i know when to post my posts when you guys are workin hard moderating!!!!
lol what else do you have for me??
bym & everyone:
1)what was the whisky rebelion?
2)what is the elastic clause>
3)what is the supremesey clause?
4)what were george washington’s years in office? (can you list ony other president’s dates in office?)
5)list some authors that effected history & the mames of their books?
1) Which state has the lowest point in the United States?
Florida
California
Louisiana
Arizona
2) Which is the largest state (size, not population)?
Texas
Montana
California
Washington
Alaska
Nevada
For (5) I’d mention a few American authors offhand. I’d definitely include Harriet Beecher Stowe is definitely one, because _Uncle Tom’s Cabin_ unleashed a great deal of feeling against slavery. When Abraham Lincoln met her, he said, “So you’re the little lady who started this great war.”
I’d also include Upton Sinclair’s _The Jungle_ since it contributed to the passage of legislation regulating food production.
More recently, I’d include Rachel Carson’s _Silent Spring_, which sparked awareness of the effects of chemicals on the environment and led to the banning of DDT and other pesticides.
bym:
when is your american history regent? in january or june??
1) Whiskey rebellion was an uprising due to high taxes. It taught the founding fathers that a stronger central government was needed.
joseph i’m assuming you mean ellectoral college votes
1. arizona has 10 and california and florida have much more. i believe Louisiana has the least. not sure how many, though.
2. definately alaska. have you heard Palin?!?!
asdfghkl – Cool. What’s the Jewish community in Ireland like? Was there alot to get used to when you moved? Tell us stuck-deep-in-new-yorker’s what it’s like over there!
joseph,
totally didn’t follow exactly what you’re saying and have no patience anymore for this math but don’t worry, I didn’t think I really did it right, opened a math book last way to long ago.
bym,
Not sure what you mean by that you offended me. Maybe I’ll go back and check earlier posts when I have patience.
bym,
i guess you were referring to the fact that I said “give me a break”. I just meant that your post about calling something stupid was a bit far fetched. I thought you were kidding. Sorry if I offended you .
asdfghjkl: If you really want to get the jealousy going, you could tell everyone about the consulting offer I had from a firm in Zimbabwe recently. They offered me in the high 6 figures PER HOUR!
brooklyn,
1. arizona has 10 and california and florida have much more. i believe Louisiana has the least. not sure how many, though.
Did I misunderstand the question? I thought he meant the most southern point which would be florida. What are those numbers? oh. now i see, electoral college votes.
Joseph is that what you meant??
2. alaska. I think California has the largest population
Does NYC have the biggest population from cities? (wow that’s worded wierd.)
1) another name for William Jefferson Blythe IV?
2) which president has a middle initial, but no middle name?
3) during which president did uncle sam grow a beard?
4) which president got stuck in a bathtub?
5) (this one you’re gonna know) which president choked on a pretzel while watching the superbowl?
6) which president was known as the “dead dog in the white house?”
pretty easy ones!
“4) which president got stuck in a bathtub?”
Ha Ha…You serious? Pretty embarrassing…
“authors that affected history & the names of their books”
American-
Profiles in Courage – JFK (it raised his profile & helped Americans see him as a serious candidate)
Unsafe At Any Speed – R. Nader (brought safety to the forefront in auto engineering)
Foreign-
The Little Red Book – Mao Zedong (alternate spellings exist – the manifesto that 1/5 of the world’s population is enslaved under)
Mein Kampf – A.H., yemach shemo.
J’accuse – Emile Zola (not really a book, but an article that forced the French to reexamine the Dreyfus case and confront their anti-semitism)
The Communist Manifesto – Karl Marx (birth of a movement that cost untold hundreds of millions of lives)
1) Which state has the lowest point in the United States?
California
The lowest point in California is Death Valley.
Death Valley is 282 feet below sea leval.
2) Which is the largest state (size, not population)?
Alaska
(Correct – brooklyn19 & intellegent)
oh THAT’S what you meant by lowest point?! my bad!
The president who got stuck in his tub was Taft!!!! Taft, was6 feet and weighing over 350 pounds,was the heaviest US President. He was given the nickname “Big Lub” because of his size – prompting the installation of a new bathtub capable of holding all of the men who installed it, something the White House denied until the bathtub was torn out years later!!!
more history questions:
1)Who becomes president if the current president and vice president die before the newly elected president has been sworn in????
2)Who was the youngest US President?
ashrainu:
it was torture to get used to life in ireland!!! it’s Very cold, very wet, long winters, short summers. Average winter temperature of 5 degrees!!!!! Snow from anywhere in between January-March. the jewish community is small with a minyan of around 25-30 men per shobbos!!! but i now love it here!!!
“1)Who becomes president if the current president and vice president die before the newly elected president has been sworn in????”
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, until the President-Elect is inaugurated on Jan. 20.
2)Who was the youngest US President?
John Kennedy.
1) speaker of the house
2) JFK
Brooklyn 19-
1- bill clinton
2- harry s. truman?
3- dunno – licoln? ( i guessed it cuz he had a beard)
4- was it taft?
5- dubya bush
6-no idea- maybe harding? he was the most corrupt prez.
here are some- 1.who was the only prez. to never marry?
2. which prez demanded that all his family members, pets included shared the same 3 initals as he did?
3. who was the shortest prez, height wise?
4. which prez had red hair and an equally red temper?
5.which prez would bark like a seal a few times a day to improve his voice?
hey i submitted that before i saw joseph’s post! just so you know!
btw – Mr. Alphabet: how were my answers from last night?
yes kennedy was youngest president elected!!! but who was the youngest us president??
chasid – you’re good! yeah you got the first 5 of them.
1. james buchanan
3. taylor?
4. van buren?
and asfghjkl: i cheated and googled it so i’m not gonna post it. good one!
chasid-of-Hashem:
Madison was the shortest U.S. President
brooklyn19:
your doing great!!! keep it up!!!
chasid-of-hashem:
who was the only prez. to never marry? Buchanan
Theodore Roosevelt was 41 when McKinley was assassinated.
He was very accomplished at a young age – he had previously been the NYC police commissioner.
He had a hard life as well – he was blinded in one eye while boxing (when he was president).
He nearly died of a disease (I don’t remember which – malaria, sleeping sickness or something else) after his presidency whil on an adventurous tour.
He died when he was only 58 (I think).
He lost his son Quentin in WWI (Quentin Road in Brooklyn is named after the son).
nah i used to really know this stuff! we had all these history books and trivia games in my house when i was younger. dunno what happened. (“we” as in my family!)
BTW – Harding wasn’t corrupt. His associates were. Teapot dome did not involve him.
ICOT- you sure? i think he was 42. (JFK was 43 when he was elected and i think Roosevelt was only one year younger when he took office.)
brooklyn19-
Prof. Google says:
Theodore Roosevelt – 42 years, 322 days.
I stand corrected.
Correction #2 – T.R. died at 60.
ICOT,
I like your choices for most influential books. Minor nitpick: it’s widely believed that while JFK came up with the concept for _Profiles in Courage_, it was largely written by others, primarily his speechwriter Ted Sorenson.
anon for this-
Agreed (by me), accepted (by most), but not proven.
Hey, it worked!
Plus (supposedly) Joe “Cook”ing the books in 1960.
i really had no idea. i googled it before so i just saw it!
here’s a good one:
who issued the first crusades and in what year?
ICOT,
It definitely worked, although I think only in combination with the PT boar incident. Ted Sorenson was a great writer–I think that generally speechwriters don’t get a lot of credit; I suppose that’s the nature of the business.
Sorry, I don’t understand your last sentence.
what did you all get on your american history regent???
ICOT,
Never mind, I get the reference now to Joe Kennedy “cooking” the books, or buying the 1960 elections. Actually I think JFK Jr. once made a joke about this when visiting Chicago. He said that the city was the home of two of his family’s big purchases: the Merchandise Mart convention center (which once belonged to the Kennedy family) and the 1960 election.
98 on both american history and global. but my knowledge of american history is all from elementary school. we had awesome teachers in every grade – from 5th through 8th. (my american history teachers in high school were horrors. or maybe WE were the horrors – so they couln’t teach???)
oh and that second “we” is not just me! honestly!
anon for this-
PT 109 slipped my mind.
JFK also joked about not wasting money buying one more vote than was necessary.
asdfghjkl: this is one i can answer! 98. its funny, but i did terrible on the AP.
what did you get?
hey how are you guys with world history? any good?
A man is six feet tall, is a clerk at a butcher shop, and wears size 11 shoes. What does he weigh?
A man was to be sentenced, and the judge told him, “You may make a statement. If it is true, I’ll sentence you to four years in prison. If it is false, I’ll sentence you to six years in prison.” After the man made his statement, the judge decided to let him go free. What did the man say?
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