George W. Bush Quiz Book

Quiz #1 Growing Up Bush Boy George 1. What was not a favorite pastime of George W. Bush as a young boy? A. Playing baseball B. Reading books C. Collecting baseball cards D. Blowing up frogs with firecrackers ANSWER: B. He very much enjoyed each of the other activities. 2. What was George W. Bush's response when, during a campaign photo opportunity at a South Carolina elementary school, a student asked him what his favorite book was as a child? A. "We're just takin' pictures now, we're not takin' questions." B. "The one about that little monkey George. You know, some people think I look a little chimpy." C. "I can't remember any specific books." D. "Lord of the Flies. And my favorite part was when they killed the fat kid." ANSWER: C. He couldn't remember a single book. 3. What happened when his mother took thirteen-year-old George W. Bush and his friend Doug Hannah to play golf at her Houston country club? A. Young George W. got caught sneaking a beer. B. The boys drove a golf cart into a water trap. C. Young George W. got upset when he failed to tee off well and started screaming, "Fuck this," after which his mother told him to go sit in the car. D. The boys got caught killing frogs. ANSWER: C. This happened more than once, and Dough Hannah recalls Bush as quite teh sore loser. "If you were playing basketball and you were playing to eleven and he was down, you went to fifteen," Hannah told Vanity Fair's Gail Sheehy. "If he wasn't winning, he would quit. HE woudl just walk off. It's what we called Bush Effort: If I don't like the game, I take my ball and go home." On one occasion Barbara Bush told Hannah his friend George W. was going to have "optical rectosis." 4. According to Barbara Bush, what did "optical rectosis" mean? A. "A nervous eye tic that shows up when you're angry, which George is all the time." B. "A bad eye smell." C. "An inability to see things clearly." D. "A shitty outlook on life." ANSWER: D. 5. Much of George W. Bush's life has been spent following in his father's footsteps but having trouble filling them, a tradition that began at the exclusive Phillips Academy at Andover. Bush's father was captain of the school's baseball team. How did George W. underachieve him? A. He was merely a better than average player and never made captain. B. He was so determined to excel that he injured himself in the tryouts and never made the team. C. He became captain of the badminton team. D. Instead of actually playing a sport, he became captain of the cheerleading team. ANSWER: D. Boola George 6. How did George W. Bush recall the experience of going to Yale during a time of antiwar protest, urban riots, and general social upheaval? A. "For me it was really four years of nonstop booze and sports." B. "The sixties--what a lousy time to be in college." C. "I don't remember any kind of heaviness ruining my time at Yale." D. "Protest, shmotest. Riots, shmiots. Upheaval, shmupheaval. I didn't give a damn about any of that." ANSWER: C. No heaviness and no academic excellence--in four years, not a single A. 7. When did George W. Bush say he stopped liking the Beatles? A. When they "kicked out Pete Best." B. When they "went through kind of a weird psychedelic period, which I didn't particularly care for." C. When John Lennon "stood there naked on that album cover next to that ugly Japanese chick Yono." D. "When PauSlansky, Paul is the author of 'George W. Bush Quiz Book' with ISBN 9780767917841 and ISBN 0767917847.