Plus We Have a Motorcade, Thursday, April 24, 2014 [1st period]

[professor-lyman.livejournal.com]

"Well before you start crying because we've come to our last class together," Josh said, "have a bagel and a cup of coffee or hot chocolate or whatever in the back. Then grab an exam and try not to let your tears of despar make it impossible for me to grade what you wrote."

Thanks for that, Josh.

"See you around this summer--I'm teaching a field trip course if you're not graduating, and if you are, well, remember that I went to both Harvard and Yale and that makes me just about the coolest person you'll ever meet."

Uh huh.

"Have a good summer."

Comments

Question 1

[professor-lyman.livejournal.com]

Name all 44 presidents in ten minutes. (http://www.sporcle.com/games/g/presidents)

Re: Question 1

[tigerundercover]

Raven was probably one of the only people who ever tried this and struggled most with the presidents after Eisenhower.

Re: Question 1

[nobloodymessiah.livejournal.com]

Oh, Eleanor was completely bombing this. She knew the first ten by heart, and remembered some of the attention-grabbers like Lincoln and Grover Cleveland, but anything more recent than FDR was a complete guess.

Re: Question 1

[fly-so-serious.livejournal.com]

Joker was from the future, and grew up in space. His school history curriculum may have been America-heavy, but there was a whole galaxy's worth of history to cram in there as well. On top of that, "America" in his time included Canada and Mexico.

All of that meant that, despite him having written down a good 40 names, only 25 or so were actually U.S. presidents from before 2014, and the rest were a mixture of future presidents, Mexican presidents, and Canadian prime ministers. Also "Margaret Thatcher" and "Boutros Boutros-Ghali".

Re: Question 1

[craftyladyparts.livejournal.com]

Jessica was able to get through the first 44 in about four minutes.

And then she added:

45. Unidentified, ahem
46. John Howard
47. Steve Rogers
48. Unidentified yet again, ahem

My world is special.