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Musicmystery -> RE: What Do These Things Have In Common? (9/19/2009 9:24:33 PM)
New Quartet: Rutherford B. Hayes Woodrow Wilson Dwight Eisenhower Ronald Reagan

LanceHughes -> RE: What Do These Things Have In Common? (9/19/2009 9:32:31 PM)
Presidents following a major war?

Musicmystery -> RE: What Do These Things Have In Common? (9/20/2009 7:56:06 AM)
No, that's not it. Nor true--but good guess!

LanceHughes -> RE: What Do These Things Have In Common? (9/20/2009 8:42:55 AM)
Having made top-o-the-head-guess, my brain is struggling....... Aren't those the only four presidents that did not serve in either the House or Senate before being President? Oh, wait.... what about Washington? Dammit..... I will NOT google... I will NOT google..... (well, maybe I will, but I won't post for the win if I do. LOL!)

Musicmystery -> RE: What Do These Things Have In Common? (9/20/2009 8:45:01 AM)
quote: Aren't those the only four presidents that did not serve in either the House or Senate before being President? No (Hayes served two terms in the House), but they are the only four presidents who could be on this list.

LanceHughes -> RE: What Do These Things Have In Common? (9/20/2009 8:53:18 AM)
Yes, I did Google. And I see the exact answer you are expecting. That's really mean.... and LOTS of fun!!!! I doubt fluff will be up to that. I'm thinking you should give her a hint, and even then, I don't know that would help so much. What a totally obscure bit of Presidential history.....or I should say "Presidential trivia."

fluffypet61 -> RE: What Do These Things Have In Common? (9/20/2009 8:54:31 AM)
i don't do presidents...go ahead Lance.

dcnovice -> RE: What Do These Things Have In Common? (9/20/2009 10:19:57 AM)
quote: I will NOT google... I will NOT google..... (well, maybe I will, but I won't post for the win if I do. LOL!) You're allowed to Google in this game, Lance! [:)]

dcnovice -> RE: What Do These Things Have In Common? (9/20/2009 10:21:06 AM)
Pre-Google guess: They were all Presbyterians?

dcnovice -> RE: What Do These Things Have In Common? (9/20/2009 10:24:52 AM)
Post-Google guess: These four Presidents retook the oath in public after taking it in private on Inauguration Day, which fell on a Sunday.

ThatDamnedPanda -> RE: What Do These Things Have In Common? (9/20/2009 10:33:19 AM)
I'm taking a shot in the dark here, but I'm guessing these are 4 presidents who belonged to one political party at some point in their lives, but switched to another party some time before becoming president.

LanceHughes -> RE: What Do These Things Have In Common? (9/20/2009 12:51:56 PM)
What dcnovice said...... HMmmmm Does dcnovice reside in the District of Columbia and therefore knows ALL about the Presidents? fluff: If a President wanted to do you, would you do him? Seems unfair to the Presidents to not do them... LOL! P.S. I don't "do" Presidents either..... they're the wrong flavor.... as in they are straight. LOL! And I don't do them in this game either. The hint would have been - Answer has nothing to do with the men named in it. 2nd hint: oath of office. 3rd hint: day of the week. Go ahead dcnovice (or should I say D.C.novice?)

fluffypet61 -> RE: What Do These Things Have In Common? (9/20/2009 1:45:33 PM)
Yes, he lives in D.C. and he knows a lot of stuff. He was on Jeopardy once a year or two ago, too. As he said, we are allowed to do "research" in finding our answers to this thread.

LanceHughes -> RE: What Do These Things Have In Common? (9/20/2009 4:07:23 PM)
Well, I guess I'm up..... New Quartet: Lancaster, OH Wheeling, WV Dunkirk, IN Washington, PA

ThatDamnedPanda -> RE: What Do These Things Have In Common? (9/20/2009 4:52:51 PM)
No, we don't know yet if that's the answer MusicMystery had in mind. Could be something more obscure; that happens pretty frequently. Anyway, it'd be DC's turn if it was. MM will be along shortly, then we'll know.

LanceHughes -> RE: What Do These Things Have In Common? (9/20/2009 5:15:47 PM)
My bad. Of course, I'll wait. I took fluff's statement of "Go ahead, Lance" to mean "Go ahead and give us the next quartet." I now see she meant "Go ahead and give us your google answer, Lance." My googled answer was: last sentence of last paragraph of page 8 of: http://www.gtcentre.unsw.edu.au/publications/papers/docs/2009/2009_469_HighCourt_TriviaQuiz..pdf where we read "Hayes, Wilson, Eisenhower and Reagan each took a private oath when Inauguration Day fell on a Sunday, and then retook the oath in public the next day."

Musicmystery -> RE: What Do These Things Have In Common? (9/20/2009 7:15:37 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: dcnovice Post-Google guess: These four Presidents retook the oath in public after taking it in private on Inauguration Day, which fell on a Sunday. That's it dc--because Inauguration Day fell on a Sunday, they retook the oath publicly afterward. Hayes actually took it the Saturday before, when he wasn't really President yet...

dcnovice -> RE: What Do These Things Have In Common? (9/20/2009 7:18:51 PM)
I don't have a quartet handy, so let's use Lance's. NEW QUARTET: Lancaster, OH Wheeling, WV Dunkirk, IN Washington, PA Lance, would you please let us know when someone gets it right? Thanks!

fluffypet61 -> RE: What Do These Things Have In Common? (9/20/2009 7:21:03 PM)
i know that Wheeling, WV was the original state capitol, but i don't know about the others without checking.

LanceHughes -> RE: What Do These Things Have In Common? (9/20/2009 8:20:29 PM)
Thanks, dc. And I will let the winner know. I will also let the bad guesses "NO" as in: fluff, not even close. <Hehehe.... fluff bit, and bit HARD, on the fact there's 4 different states. Hint: MANY other cities could be on this list.>

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