Do you know your First Ladies?

Questions:

What year was the peak year for the percentage of U.S. high school students who smoked?

What are the names of Martin Sheen’s two sons?

Give the first names of the last six U.S. First Ladies.

How many times did Scarlett O’Hara marry in the story of “Gone With the Wind?”

What is the name of Bruce Willis’ wisecracking character in the Die Hard movies?

Fun Facts:

Rubies, sapphires  and emeralds are rarer than diamonds.

It’s about the same distance from California to Maine as it is from California to Hawaii.

Mount Everest is more than twice as tall as Wyoming’s tallest peak, Gannett Peak. Gannett Peak is 13,810 feet; Mount Everest is 29,032 feet.

If you can afford to buy this paper or read this on a device, you are wealthier than 99.9 percent of all humans who have ever lived.

Around A.D. 250, a Chinese general named Zhuge Liang found himself defending a town with only about 100 troops against an invading army of more than 100,000 led by Sima Yi. Instead of preparing for battle, Liang ordered his soldiers to hide, threw open the city gates and calmly sat atop the walls playing a lute. When Yi approached with his men, he was convinced it was a trap and ordered a retreat.

Malaria has killed more humans than any other disease in history.

During the Third Crusade in the 12th century, Richard the Lionheart proposed that his sister Joan marry Saladin’s brother, Al-Adil, as part of a peace plan to end the war. Neither Joan nor Al-Adil accepted the marriage alliance.  

The milk of a blue whale comes out with the consistency of toothpaste.

London’s Wembley Stadium has 2,618 toilets, more than any other stadium in the world.

Because ice floats, it insulates lakes and keeps the water below from freezing solid. If ice sank, most lakes would freeze completely each winter, killing the fish, plants and other freshwater life.

The majority of Canadians live south of Seattle.

There are about five times more fake flamingos on Earth than real ones.

Answers:

1997 (About 37 percent of high school students said they had smoked in the past 30 days.)

Emilio Estevez and Charlie Sheen (Martin Sheen’s original name was Ramón Estévez. One son took the family last name; the other took the stage name.)

Barbara Bush, Hillary Clinton, Laura Bush, Michelle Obama, Melania Trump, Jill Biden

Three (She is widowed twice and then marries Rhett Butler. She has a child with all three husbands.)

John McClane (The five Die Hard movies made a combined $1.4 billion worldwide.)