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Who was the first President who was the son of a President?
The sixth President John Quincy Adams, son of the second President John Adams.
 

YOyoYOhowsDAjello

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how do we know when we found it? will it say $1000 in the description or something? will you be able to tell by looking at the title, or do you have to look at the detailed description you think?
 

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Ugh, lol... I don't even know where to start. :( I usually suck at these sorts of things, unless I just happen to know the answer to the clue.
 

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Originally posted by: CheapArse
Who was the first President who was the son of a President?
The sixth President John Quincy Adams, son of the second President John Adams.

thats what I've been looking for, no luck yet...
 

Eli

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LOL, I don't think it's nearly that easy..

Their example is,

Each clue is a puzzle. It might be a straightforward word association, as in the example below. Or it might be an anagram, pun, rhyme, or oblique reference. To solve it, you may need to employ lateral thinking, or your knowledge of pop culture, American literature, or American history.


Example: Clue: "Apple Pie" Solution: "Motherhood"

Apple Pie = Motherhood is supposed to be straight forward? LOL, I'll never get any of these. :confused:
 

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Damn, someone found it.

Son of a President = Bunker Hill Monument postcard?

:confused:

Ok.
 

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Originally posted by: flashbacck
how do you get Bunker Hill Monument from Son of a President? (with google)

john quincy adams was part of the battle at bunker hill in massachusetts or something like that
 

Eli

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Originally posted by: rh71
^ lateral thinking. ... google is our friend.
Ahh...

I don't really know much specifics about our history, so.. that clue/answer kinda went over my head, but yeah.. a google clears it up. So JQA was really close... damn.
 

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does someone have a link to the auction that we were supposed to find.... so we know what to look for next time?
 

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Originally posted by: YOyoYOhowsDAjello
does someone have a link to the auction that we were supposed to find.... so we know what to look for next time?

That's the thing..no one can seem to get to it..
 

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is there anyway to get a list of members that have joined ebay on a certain day, if this is true, ive got teh way to win
 

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Originally posted by: YOyoYOhowsDAjello
does someone have a link to the auction that we were supposed to find.... so we know what to look for next time?


they took it down.... i guess i should have taken a screen shot.

But we checked already. The pic file name was gibberish, the username was fdsafbgsd somehting like that.

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WINNAR!


posted by : emil7284
As soon as I saw "Son of a president", I went to google and looked up first sons of presidents and I saw John Quincy Adams. Then I googled him and I read about Bunker Hill. I did a search for that and sorted items by newly listed and I clicked on the link and my heart stopped beating for a few seconds. I am still in disbelief.