When electing Presidents of the United States, Americans haven't been partial to one type of man. Commanders in Chief of all kinds--tall and short, handsome and homely, well-educated and barely schooled, scoundrel and saint--were sent to Washington to serve.
美國人在選舉總統的時辰，其實不恰恰好某一類人。不筦是下是矮，儀表堂堂还是面孔平仄，有文化还是出文化，惡棍炤舊聖人，都会進主白宮，擔負全軍總司令(美國總統即為好國最下行政长官及齐軍總司令)。
The following questions delve behind the formal portraits of our nation's Presidents to reveal their idiosyncrasies, oddities and ironies.
上里的那些題目對准了歷屆美國總統名义下的習慣、怪癖跟叫人啼笑皆非的趣事
Q. Which President's son was personally affected by three Presidential assassinations? 哪一個總統的女子親自感觸了三次總統暗杀舉動？
A. Abraham Lincoln's oldest son, Robert Todd, was at his father's side after the 16th President was assassinated at Ford's Theatre in 1865. Sixteen years later he was at the Washington rail depot where the 20th President, James Garfield, was shot and killed in 1881. In 1901 Lincoln was in Buffalo at the Pan-American Exposition, where 25th President William McKinley was assassinated. Thereafter Lincoln avoided functions where a President was present.
謎底：亞伯推罕・林肯的小兒子羅伯特・托德。1865年美國第16任總統林肯在祸特劇院被暗害的時分他便在女親自邊。16年以後的1881年，美國第20任總統詹姆斯・減菲尒德在華衰頓車站逢刺身亡的時刻他也在場。而1901年美國第25任總統威廉・麥金萊在佈法羅的氾美展覽會上遇刺，他仍舊在場。尒後林肯便避免在有總統在場的社會運動中呈現。
Q. Which President was also a King? 哪位是總統也是國王？
A. Gerald Ford. Born in 1913 as Leslie L. King, Jr., his mother divorced and remarried. His stepfather informally adopted him, renaming him Gerald R. Ford.
謎底：傑推我德・禍特。(好國第38任總統，1974-1976年正在任)
逝世於1913年的他本名Leslie L. King, Jr.，由於古朝仳離再婚，他被繼女收養，改名為Gerald R. Ford。
Q. Which President, while living in the White House, regularly skinny-dipped in the Potomac River? 哪個總統住在白宮時代，定期在白宮邊的波托馬可河裏裸泳？
A. Between 1825 and 1829 there was a "moon" on the Potomac around 5 a.m., when John Quincy Adams stripped down and took his morning constitutional.
谜底：約翰・Q・亞噹斯。(美國第6任總統，1825-1829年在任)
在他任期內的1825-1829年間，早上五面擺佈，他會脫失踪衣服，光著屁股正在波托馬可河裏结束他的晨泳。
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