American history game

Mirumoto_Kenjiro · **Reply #660 on:** October 04, 2008, 04:22:15 PM

Geography... You mean divided by natural barriers?

Lillefot · **Reply #661 on:** October 30, 2008, 05:15:39 PM

Ok, I feel that this might need to get running again.
Here's a VERY close clue:

Western, Hudson and the Labrador

aabicus (LettuceBacon&Tomato) · **Reply #662 on:** November 02, 2008, 04:25:00 PM

Hudson... Are these rivers?

Lillefot · **Reply #663 on:** November 02, 2008, 04:30:57 PM

Close enough. Nope.

aabicus (LettuceBacon&Tomato) · **Reply #664 on:** November 07, 2008, 10:59:49 AM

Bays?

Lillefot · **Reply #665 on:** November 07, 2008, 11:35:30 AM

nope.
word includes : "ways"

aabicus (LettuceBacon&Tomato) · **Reply #666 on:** November 19, 2008, 12:11:40 AM

The Hudson River Way! Bridges!

(Geez, I didn't realize I knew so many Hudson's.)

Mirumoto_Kenjiro · **Reply #667 on:** December 10, 2008, 10:30:47 PM

I know that LBT got the bridges right. Does he have to give the three names too?

aabicus (LettuceBacon&Tomato) · **Reply #668 on:** December 12, 2008, 08:00:40 PM

I've heard of a Western Bridge (Seattle), but not a Labrador Bridge, so if you can identify it, Mirumoto_Kenjiro, then you got all three names, so you'd get to pick the question.

Lillefot · **Reply #669 on:** December 13, 2008, 05:11:00 PM

Hudson, Labrador and Western... SEAways. This was a long ago though. Might to long for a geo-question.
This question itself has been around long enough though so...

LBT, the ball is yours.

aabicus (LettuceBacon&Tomato) · **Reply #670 on:** December 13, 2008, 08:41:24 PM

This African-American woman recieved a telegram from Martin Luther King Jr, has been photographed with Coretta Scott King, was friends with W.E.B. Du Bois, had dinner with Robert Kennedy, and was mentioned in a speech by Barack Obama. Who is it?

Malte279 · **Reply #671 on:** December 14, 2008, 06:07:29 AM

Ann Nixon Cooper?

aabicus (LettuceBacon&Tomato) · **Reply #672 on:** December 14, 2008, 10:08:43 PM

Bingo. Good job Malte, I think that's 3 Brain Food tabs in a row you've gotten.

Malte279 · **Reply #673 on:** December 15, 2008, 04:44:36 AM

Thank you

Please name at least three (there are more) US states which (or part of which) had proclaimed themselves independent nations before they did join the US (doesn't matter here whether or not they were recognized by anyone else).

The Chronicler · **Reply #674 on:** December 15, 2008, 06:32:39 PM

I know two of them are Texas and Vermont, but I can't think of any others right now.

Edit: I'm going to guess for the third one. Is it Hawaii?

Malte279 · **Reply #675 on:** December 15, 2008, 07:02:36 PM

I hadn't been thinking of Hawaii, but of course it is right and (come to think of it) perhaps the most obvious off all examples.
California also was independent for a very short time before linking up with the US (Bear Republic), parts of Florida were the "Republic of West Florida" for about 90 days in 1810, in part of what became Tennesse and was then claimed by North Carolina there was a short lived attempt to create the independent state of Franklin, the Mormones proposed the establishment of the independent state of Deseret covering most of today Utah, Nevadah, Arizona, and parts of New Mexico, California, Idaho, Oregon, Wyoming, and Colorado.
There may be more examples I never heard about.
Your turn Chronicler

The Chronicler · **Reply #676 on:** December 15, 2008, 08:26:37 PM

Which president, when he left office, was the only former president who was still alive at the time? (I've counted four (maybe five) possible answers in total) Give all possible answers you can think of.

Malte279 · **Reply #677 on:** December 16, 2008, 06:29:51 AM

George Washington (obviously

)
John Adams (Washington did not life to see the end of the second's president term in office)
Ulysses S. Grant.
Herbert Hoover (his predecessor Coolidge had died just a few months before Hoover left office).
Richard Nixon.

The Chronicler · **Reply #678 on:** December 16, 2008, 06:44:58 PM

All five are correct.

I just realized I missed Grant and I should have said six. The one you missed was Theodore Roosevelt. (Grover Cleveland died in 1908)

Your turn, Malte.

Malte279 · **Reply #679 on:** December 16, 2008, 07:42:15 PM

^ Aye, missed Teddy Roosevelt

The news of which event kind of spoiled the 100th independence day (to some degree) for many Americans?