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1. Most dog lovers will have seen "Lassie Come Home" (1943) the story of a family that is forced to sell their beloved dog only to have her escape from her new Yorkshire home and return to her family in Scotland. But in 1923 Bobbie, the real life dog on which she was based, outdistanced her by traveling from Indiana to Oregon.
What breed of dog were these long distance travelers?
2. Rin Tin Tin was rescued from a World War I battlefield by an American soldier, Lee Duncan. "Rinty" (as his friends called him) went on to appear in 27 Hollywood films. What breed of dog was "Rinty?"
3. Author John Steinbeck, wrote a book, "Travels With Charley," about a 1960s road trip that he made with his dog. What breed of dog was Steinbeck's traveling companion?
4. In the 1920s Hidesaburo Ueno, a professor at Tokyo University, returned home each day via train to find his faithful dog waiting at the station. Professor Ueno died while at work in May 1925, but the dog kept returning to Shibuya Station for nine years thereafter and became something of a national hero for his faithfulness. Several statues of the steadfast dog have been erected. What was the dog's name?
5. U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt had a Scottish terrier that even made it into one of FDR's most famous speeches in 1944. "...when the Republican fiction writers in Congress ... concocted a story that I'd left him behind on an Aleutian island and had sent a destroyer back to find him - at a cost to the taxpayers of two or three, or eight or twenty million dollars his Scotch soul was furious."
Who was this frugal wee beastie?
6. In 1952 Vice President Richard Nixon made a speech that included his family's dog, a little cocker spaniel that had been given to them by a political supporter. His six year old daughter Tricia had named the dog. What was it called?
7. In 1957 this dog (and two others) were picked up as strays and found that they'd been drafted into the Soviet Space program. Though we don't know a lot about the fate of her two colleagues, this dog became the first animal to orbit the Earth. Who was she?
8. Handsome Dan is the official mascot of Yale University. The original was reputed to have been selected based on his ability to tolerate bands and children, and his negative reaction to the color crimson and to tigers (the symbols of rival school Princeton.) What breed of dog is/was Handsome Dan?
9. The bull terrier known as Spuds MacKenzie, the Budweiser spokes-dog, was actually female.
10. George Washington had black and tan coon-hounds named Drunkard, Taster, Tipler, and Tipsy. John Adams had three hounds of uncertain pedigree named Juno, Mark, and Satan. Thomas Jefferson had two shepherd dogs named Bergère and Grizzle. Pretty much every U.S. President has had a dog and a few have made the news but which "First Dog" has a book to his/her credit (as dictated to the First Lady)?
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