Presidential Trivia Answers (Aug. 23 & 24)

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(1) QUESTION: True or False? Abraham Lincoln was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame as an “Outstanding American” in the sport.

ANSWER: True. The NWHF website notes that Lincoln wrestled in the “rough and ready style of the frontier” and had “only one recorded defeat in a dozen years.”

(2) QUESTION: True or False?  George W. Bush received an honorary award from the International Tennis Hall of Fame.

ANSWER: False.  His grandmother, however, was a national ranked tennis player, and his father, George H.W. Bush, loved to play.

(3) QUESTION: True or False? John F. Kennedy received a medal from the National Football Foundation.

ANSWER: True. “Politics is an astonishing profession,” he said while accepting the reward. “It has permitted me to go from being an obscure lieutenant, serving under General MacArthur , to Commander-in-Chief in fourteen years, without any technical competence whatsoever. And it’s also enabled me to go from being an obscure member of the junior varsity at Harvard to being an honorary member of the Football Hall of Fame.”