The Wombat File Is Yours to Keep: The Friday Quiz: Disgracefully America-centric!

Onward and downward with our weekly attempt to distract you from that last-ditch attempt at salvaging some productivity from the week. We hate it when you do that. Give in! Give in! Here it is:

Name the first U.S. President for whom English was not his first language (that is, he grew up speaking a different language). Bonus: name the language.

Double bonus: Name the man who said to him (before he was elected President) "It is trying to kill me, but I will kill it!" Triple bonus: name the "it" the man was speaking of.

First correct answer wins a bottle of Brackish Springs mineral water ("A Little Salt Never Hurt Nobody"). Bonus answers win you an admiring glance and a warm feeling from head to toe. No Googling or doing anything else to get yourself feeling warm from head to toe. One answer to any part of the question per comment but comment as much as you think you can get away with. Although, to be fair, just running down the list of U.S. Presidents would be a boring way to win this one, and I'm the only one here who's allowed to be boring.

Comments

Eisenhower, German?

Kissenger, Donut?

Posted by: shananan | October 11, 2007 10:55 PM

Martin van Buren grew up speaking Dutch.

Glad I'm here before herbivorous.

Don't know the double bonus, but it sounds like the sort of thing Andrew Jackson would say. And I guess he would be speaking of the entire Cherokee nation.

Posted by: boxjam | October 12, 2007 07:17 AM

Well, it's down to the triple bonus. Not the Cherokee, although of course that's a reasonable guess...

Posted by: BT | October 12, 2007 09:29 AM

The entire race of American Indians?

Posted by: boxjam | October 12, 2007 10:16 AM

The liberal media?

Posted by: boxjam | October 12, 2007 10:21 AM

Ol'-hickory-gate?

Posted by: boxjam | October 12, 2007 10:23 AM

taxation?

Posted by: shananan | October 12, 2007 11:52 AM

death?