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Dorothy Parker wrote:
         "Men seldom make passes
         At girls who wear glasses."
         Did she?
A: Yes.

What was Huck Finn's remedy for warts?
A: Swinging a dead cat in a graveyard at midnight.

William Sidney Porter, whom we know as O. Henry, spent some time in Honduras. What was he doing there?
A: Fleeing prosecution on embezzlement charges. When he returned to the U.S., he served time in jail--where he began writing the adventure stories that made him famous.

What do mystery writers Gordon Ashe, Michael Halliday, J. J. Marric, and Kyle Hunt have in common?
A: They're all the same man, John Creasey, who used 26 pseudonyms for his 600-plus books.

What was Jazz Age writer F. Scott Fitzgerald's full name?
A: Frances Scott Key Fitzgerald. He was a distant relative of the man who wrote our national anthem.

What American president was First Lady Barbara Bush's great-great-great-uncle?
A: Democrat Franklin Pierce. Mrs. Bush's maiden name is Pierce.

Who was the first president elected when women nationwide had the right to vote?
A: Warren G. Harding, in 1920.

How big a raise in his base pay did George Bush receive when he moved up from vice president to president?
A: $85,000--from $115,000 as vice president to $200,000 as president.

Which American president owned dogs named Drunkard, Tipler and Tipsy?
A: George Washington. They were foxhounds.

What engraved gift did President Lyndon Johnson give to friends and acquaintances to make sure they thought of him "first thing in the morning and the last at night"?
A: Electric toothbrushes.

Who was the last governor to serve as vice president?
A: Nelson Rockefeller of New York. Gerald Ford nominated Rockefeller as vice president in August 1974 after Ford vacated the post to become president upon the resignation of Richard Nixon.

Which two members of George Washington's cabinet were redheads?
A: His secretary of state Thomas Jefferson, and his treasury secretary, Alexander Hamilton.

As a boy, what 20th-centruy American president was known as Tommy?
A: Woodrow Wilson, whose given names were Thomas Woodrow. He officially dropped his first name when he was 24.

Who was the first American president to hold an airplane pilot's license?
A: Dwight David Eisenhower, who was issued a license in November 1939. He learned to fly while a lieutenant colonel on Gen. Douglas Macarthur's staff in the Philippines.

Who was the first American president to have an inaugural ball?
A: George Washington. He held his inaugural ball in New York City on May 7, 1789.

Who was the first American to win a Noble Prize?
A: Theodore Roosevelt. He won the coveted Noble Prize in 1906 for helping end the Russo-Japanese War with the Treaty of Portsmouth.

What was the name of Theodore Roosevelt's dog?
A: Scamp.

What skill won people high office in the land of Lilliput in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels?
A: Rope dancing.

When Goofy first appeared in a Mickey Mouse cartoon, what was his name?
A: Dippy Dawg. He was renamed when he began costarring with Mickey in the mid-1930's.

What did Clark Kent's adoptive mother, Martha, use to make his superman costume?
A: The swaddling clothes that protected him on his rocket journey from Krypton to Earth.

How many knights could be seated around king Arthur's Round Table?
A: The Round Table accommodated one hundred and fifty knights.

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