Presidential Trivia Answers (Oct. 27-28)
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(1) QUESTION: Which First Lady was the first to decorate the White House for Halloween?
ANSWER: Mamie Eisenhower. “Decorations included skeletons hanging from the wall lights, yellow jack-o’-lanterns, and shocks of dried corn in the corners of the room,” the White House Historical Association explains, “and State Dining Room columns that were decorated at their bases with brown corn stalks, pumpkins, and red apples. The tables had miniature witches on broomsticks . . . . Black cats, black owls, disembodied witch heads, and goblins hung from the chandeliers in the foyer.
(2) QUESTION: One President’s daughter has an October birthday. She celebrated her birthday with a White House Halloween party one year. Which President/daughter?
ANSWER: Jimmy Carter’s daughter Amy. They watched the movie Frankenstein, too.
(3) QUESTION: Presidents have invited the children of military families, first responders, or local schools to trick-or-treat at the White House. Which President was the first to do so?
ANSWER: John F. Kennedy. He had young children, so it makes sense!
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Well, for the second week in a row, I got one correct. I thought that it would probably be Amy Carter although I wasn't too sure since the Carters were so straight-laced in their Baptist religious beliefs I wasn't sure they would allow a pagan celebration to take place in the White House or any of their homes. And, yes I know, the day was originally as All Saints Day, a church religious celebration of the departed ones.