Third place's a charm

[randy_byers]

Still Scared of the Yellow Ball in the Sky placed third in the pub quiz at the Elephant and Castle last night in a hard fought battle with whoever the hell it was that beat us. Best lucky point was daveon's identification of Rosa Parks in a photo. (My best -- if random -- guess was Beulah Bondi!) Presidential trivia that we failed to get: Who was the first US president born after the founding of the country?

Update: Here's a photo of the team from the previous week, minus Brett, who had nipped out for a smoke.

Comments

[ron-drummond.livejournal.com]

The eighth president, Martin Van Buren -- which I only knew because I toured his post-presidential home with calimac and benjd in June.

But one might argue that when Van Buren was born in 1782 we weren't yet a country, or rather we were thirteen countries -- it's technically so. We didn't become the country known as the U.S.A until September 1788, in which case the first president born after the founding was the tenth president, John Tyler -- who was the first vice president to succeed to the office, no mean feat as the nature of succession had not yet been tested and there was some question whether Tyler should actually become president or merely serve as Acting President -- Tyler of course chose the former, and was pretty mean to anyone who so much as implied otherwise (this included returning all mail addressed to "Acting President Tyler"). It seems like an important precedent to have established.

[farmgirl1146.livejournal.com]

Hi Ron,
Good to see you online.
Historically, you're spot on. If you come back here, you will have to join this pub quiz. I find fringefaan's reports of this charming.

[randy-byers.livejournal.com]

I certainly thought of the picture of you guys with the statue of Van Buren when I heard the answer to the question!