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SFSkol 08-13-2017 07:55 PM

Obviously a better answer:

Mary Ann Todd Lincoln
Jacqueline Lee Kennedy
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt

"Behind every great man is a great woman"

Arctic Fox 08-13-2017 08:04 PM

I must confess, I enjoy annoying my friends on Facebook with similar "trick" questions

My favorite regarding quotations: who came up with the phrase "survival of the fittest"?

chuckinca 08-13-2017 09:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Taltarzac725 (Post 1435422)
All US President quotes. That's all I will say.


Not.

(aka I don't think so)

Polar Bear 08-13-2017 09:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Carl in Tampa (Post 1435515)
...thus the questions were trick questions...

Definitely.

ColdNoMore 08-13-2017 10:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SFSkol (Post 1435596)
Obviously a better answer:

Mary Ann Todd Lincoln
Jacqueline Lee Kennedy
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt

"Behind every great man is a great woman"

Very clever. :D

Carl in Tampa 08-14-2017 12:02 AM

Spencer
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Arctic Fox (Post 1435600)
I must confess, I enjoy annoying my friends on Facebook with similar "trick" questions

My favorite regarding quotations: who came up with the phrase "survival of the fittest"?

English philosopher and biologist Herbert Spencer is credited with originating the phrase in his book Principles of Biology (1864) after reading Darwin's On the Origin of Species.

Alfred Russell Wallace, an associate of Darwin, suggested to Darwin that the phrase well described Darwin's term Natural Selection. Darwin agreed, and included the term in his fourth edition of On the Origin of Species.

How did we ever do research without a web browser?

PennBF 08-14-2017 07:12 AM

Nobody Asked
 
Although nobody asked I thought I would give the source of the questions in my note. It was "Special Issue, The Presidency" Life Magazine July 5, 1968. :wave:

Taltarzac725 08-14-2017 07:15 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by PennBF (Post 1435653)
Although nobody asked I thought I would give the source of the questions in my note. It was "Special Issue, The Presidency" Life Magazine July 5, 1968. :wave:

Those did seem to be tricky questions. And the person who actually came up with some idea is often quite hard to pinpoint as others have mentioned.

PennBF 08-14-2017 07:23 AM

One Last Point
 
One last point and I will get off the subject. I felt that some of the things posted just don't add to our knowledge. In this case I see that 533 had viewed the submission which means 533 were able to challenge their mind just a little.
It is more healthy than just reading with no purpose.:wave:

dewilson58 08-14-2017 07:32 AM

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Originally Posted by PennBF (Post 1435659)
One last point and I will get off the subject. I felt that some of the things posted just don't add to our knowledge. In this case I see that 533 had viewed the submission which means 533 were able to challenge their mind just a little.
It is more healthy than just reading with no purpose.:wave:

Was not challenged.
Maybe entertained.

PennBF 08-14-2017 08:28 AM

Not Neccessarily
 
One mans entertainment is another mans challenge. :wave:

Arctic Fox 08-14-2017 08:53 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Carl in Tampa (Post 1435626)
English philosopher and biologist Herbert Spencer is credited with originating the phrase in his book Principles of Biology (1864) after reading Darwin's On the Origin of Species.

Alfred Russell Wallace, an associate of Darwin, suggested to Darwin that the phrase well described Darwin's term Natural Selection. Darwin agreed, and included the term in his fourth edition of On the Origin of Species.

Spot on. And Darwin was happy to acknowledge that Spencer's "survival of the fittest" was a better description than his own "natural selection", rather than just using the term as if he had come up with it.


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