Month: May 2016

  • Your Weekly Quiz

     
    What do the following people have in common?

    1. Read 200 books this year
    2. Mensa member
    3. Top decile SAT score
    4. Won Pulitzer Prize
    5. High school valedictorian
    6. Solves Times Crosswords with a pen
    7. graduated Summa cum Laude
    8. Earned two PhDs

    Kirstie Alley, actress
    Scott Baio, actor
    Stephen Baldwin, actor
    Gary Busey, actor
    Lou Ferrigno, bodybuilder
    Jerry Lewis, comedian, actor, producer
    Sylvester Stallone, actor
    Jean-Claude Van Damme, Belgian actor
    Fred "The Hammer" Williamson, actor and former football player
    Mike Ditka, retired NFL player, coach and television commentator
    Hulk Hogan, former professional wrestler
    Dennis Rodman, retired basketball player and television personality
    Mike Tyson, former boxer
    Ann Coulter, political commentator
    Charlie Daniels, singer, songwriter
    Loretta Lynn, singer-songwriter
    Wayne Newton, entertainer and singer
    Ted Nugent, musician
    Kid Rock, musician
    Kenny Rogers, singer-songwriter
    David Duke, former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard
    Paula Jones, former Arkansas state employee
    Rick Perry, former Texas governor
    Dick Cheney, 46th Vice President
    Trent Lott of Mississippi
    Chris Christie, New Jersey
    Paul LePage, Maine
    Rick Scott, Florida
    Jan Brewer, Arizona
    Sarah Palin, Alaska

    ANSWER KEY:
    None of the above.  It was a trick question.
    They have in common that they endorsed Donald Trump for President.

    (See the complete list in Wikipedia.)

    It seems they are not the sharpest tools in the shed.  Should we worry about this list?  Normally morons do not turn out to vote in substantial numbers.  But this year The Orange Dumpster is aiming his appeal specifically at under-educated and dim witted people.

    And how many below-average voters are there?  Statistically they amount to fifty per cent of the electorate.
    Minus one.