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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sholom, post: 867201, member: 17753&quot;]<b>Answers and Winners to America the Beautiful Quarter Contest</b></p><p><br /></p><p>1.&nbsp; In what year did the District of Columbia elect their first mayor?</p><p><br /></p><p><b><span style="color: Blue">The answer I was looking for was 1974 (although the mayor didn&#039;t take office until 1975).&nbsp; I also accepted 1820 as an answer, although that really wasn&#039;t the present day Wash, D.C.</span></b></p><p><br /></p><p>2.&nbsp; What&nbsp; US coin, mintage over one million, was hoarded by a single person who was able&nbsp; to hoard over 1/3 of the specimens ever made?&nbsp; Who was the hoarder?&nbsp; (Edit: to clarify, I am looking for a specific year/mintmark/coin)</p><p><br /></p><p>Quoting from some website: &quot;Probably the most famous hoard coin of all time would be the <span style="color: Blue"><b>1950-D Jefferson&nbsp; nickel</b></span>. We frankly do not know what percentage of its 2,630,030 mintage was&nbsp; hoarded initially, but somewhere on the order of 50 percent or more would be in&nbsp; the ballpark. <b><span style="color: Blue">A.J. Mitula</span></b> of Houston, Texas, reportedly had 1 million pieces&nbsp; while another 320,000 were reported in Wisconsin and there were others with&nbsp; larger numbers involved.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>3.&nbsp; What&nbsp; circulating coin depicts a person on its obverse, and the person&#039;s full surname&nbsp; on the reverse?</p><p><br /></p><p><b><span style="color: Blue">The Washington State quarter.</span></b></p><p><br /></p><p>4.&nbsp; What circulating coin depicts a person (other than Lincoln)&nbsp; on its obverse and the same person is depicted on the reverse? (Edit: there are actually two answers to this)</p><p><br /></p><p><b><span style="color: Blue">The two answers are: South Dakota state quarter (Washington appears in Mt Rushmore) and the New Jersey state quarter (Washington crossing the Delaware)</span></b></p><p><br /></p><p>5,&nbsp; Name a common American ancestor of Sarah Palin and Franklin Delano Roosevelt?</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: Blue"><b>I was looking for Richard Warren, who was one of the passengers on the Mayflower (and an ancestor of my wife).&nbsp; But many people gave a different answer: Rev John Lorthrop -- which is something I learned from the contestants.</b></span></p><p><br /></p><p><b>The winners are:&nbsp; </b></p><p><b><br /></b> </p><ul> <li><b>swish513 (who doesn&#039;t collect these quarters and so is giving them to the son of another CT member)</b></li> <li><b>conpewter</b></li> <li><b>wiggam007</b></li> <li><b>Opus007</b></li> <li><b>Specksynder</b></li> <li><b>Louie_Two_Bits</b></li> <li><b>antics05</b></li> </ul><p><b>I think that&#039;s everybody.</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>And honorable mention to:</b></p><p><b></b>&nbsp; </p><ul> <li><b>krispy</b></li> <li><b>jerseycat10</b></li> <li><b>churndog</b></li> </ul><p><b>OK -- winners, if you haven&#039;t already, send an email to me (at <a href="mailto:sholom@aishdas.org">sholom@aishdas.org</a>) with your postal address.</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>A number of other folks have written me about getting these quarters anyway.&nbsp; If you&#039;re interested, also email me, and we&#039;ll work out something.</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>I&#039;ll try to do the same thing when the next quarter comes out.&nbsp; But, obviously, I&#039;ll have to make the questions harder!</b>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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