What Do These Famous People Have in Common?

Aug 26, 2017

RAY: What do the following men have in common?

TOM: Who are they?

RAY: Get your pencil and write this down: Ulysses S. Grant, Rudyard Kipling, Woodrow Wilson, Grover Cleveland, and Calvin Coolidge. Now, I know they're dead.

TOM: I got it! They were all Presidents of the United States.

RAY: Close. Except for that Wilson guy.

Answer: 

RAY: They are best known by their middle names.

TOM: What? Ulysses S.? Sam?

RAY: No, no, no,

TOM: Ulysses is not his first name?

RAY: His real name was Hiram Ulysses Grant. He added the "S" for Simpson later on in life. Joseph Rudyard Kipling, Thomas Woodrow Wilson -- you knew that because that was a trivia question that you may have used on the web site at one point or another. Stephen Grover Cleveland and John Calvin Coolidge.

 


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