American History
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Borderline States
Presidential Facts
100

After his 1859 hanging, Civil War troops sang of this abolitionist's body "mouldering in the grave"

John Brown
100

The jubilant delight with which Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer's friends shouted

Glee

100

We wonder if this variety meat tastes you while you're tasting it

Tongue 

100

Idaho,
Oregon

Washington 

100

Elected in 1988, he was known as the "Resume Candidate"

George H.W. Bush 

200

In 1913 the 16th Amendment was passed allowing Congress to collect taxes on this

income

200

A hoarse whistling sound produced by breathing

Wheeze 

200

Don't put your PB&J on this -- it's the thymus gland or pancreas of a calf

Sweetbread 

200

Massachusetts,
New Hampshire,
New York

Vermont 

200

Alexander Graham Bell was called in several times to use his metal detector to find the bullet in this president's body

James Garfield 

300

Plessy vs. Ferguson, which upheld segregation, was overturned by this 1954 case

Brown v. Board of Education

300

They're the periods each fall, winter & spring when TV ratings are collected so that ad rates can be reset

Sweeps

300

This word for beef stomach lining has become a slang term for "rubbish"

Tripe

300

Idaho,

North Dakota,

South Dakota,

Wyoming

Montana 

300

Later president, in 1920 he lost as a U.S. vice presidential candidate

Franklin D. Roosevelt 

400

During WWII America won its 1st major victory over Japan in this naval battle, about 1,200 miles from Hawaii

Midway

400

It means strange & frightening, but it sounds like a big lake

eerie 
400

A sausage made out of trotters is made from these parts of a pig or a sheep

The feet

400

Arkansas,
Mississippi,
Texas

Louisiana 

400

In 1919 this trustbuster's last words were "Please put out the light"

Theodore Roosevelt 

500

Bushrod, the favorite nephew of this president, became a Supreme Court justice in 1798

George Washington 

500

Emma Peel's John on TV's "The Avengers"

Steed

500

Often sauteed with onions (probably to mask the taste), this brownish large organ has great nutritional value

the liver

500

Illinois,
Iowa,
Michigan,
Minnesota

Wisconsin 

500

Albert Fall, Herbert Hoover & Henry Wallace were all members of his cabinet

Warren G. Harding