Remarkable Messages Trivia Quiz

Answer: Let his beard grow.

The 11-year-old Grace Bedell, a resident of Westfield Chautauqua County, New York, wrote to candidate Lincoln saying that she would very much like him to be elected and urged him to grow a beard because his appearance would be better as he had a very thin face.

She also wrote that women liked bearded men and would press their husbands to vote for him. Lincoln replied to the letter and, as we can see in his following pictures, he followed her advice.

Answer: Clyde Barrow.

A month before he was shot dead driving a Ford V8 Clyde Barrow wrote a letter to Henry Ford saying that the car was the best car had ever driven and though he had committed crimes he didn't see problem in sending the letter praising the car.

Answer: Fidel Castro.

In 1940 when Fidel Castro was 14 he wrote a letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt. In this letter he told he was only 12 years old and asked if the president could send him a green 10 dollar bill because he had never seen one. Then he got a standard letter from a government employer without the money.

Answer: Queen Elizabeth II

In 1959, Queen Elizabeth II received a visit from President Eisenhower and his wife at the Balmoral Palace. It seems he liked the scones because in January 24, 1960, five months after the visit she sent the recipe and a letter apologizing for the delay in sending it.

Answer: Her reluctance to marry.

On February 7, 1931, the day of her wedding Amelia Earhart sent a letter to her fiancé George Putnam making it clear that she loved him very much but feared that their marriage might ruin their careers. In the letter she asked that when they married they should follow their careers and feel free to relate with other people. In 1937, she disappeared when flying over the Pacific Ocean.

Answer: A composer.

The American composer Samuel Barber (1910-1981) wrote a letter to his mother, Marguerite Barber, telling her a "terrible secret" according to him: that he was born to be a composer and not one athlete. He started composing when he was seven years old, studied at Center Music Institute, Philadelphia, receiving several prizes. One of his best known composition is the "Adagio for Strings".

Answer: An event of moon disaster.

On July 18, 1969 the world eagerly awaited the landing of Apollo11 on the lunar surface. One contingency plan was created in case the mission failed and astronauts Neil Amstrong and Buzz Aldrin could not return. For this eventuality William Safire wrote the message that the president would read. Fortunately this message was not in fact needed as the mission was successful.

Answer: To inform Roosevelt that uranium could be used to build an atomic bomb and that Germany was engaged in research on this.

In the letter the scientist spoke about the country needed to invest in the research and production of atomic bomb, warning that work on this was being carried out in Nazi Germany. As we know the project was carried out successfully, and atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, resulting in deaths of more than 200,000 people. Later, considering what happened, Einstein said that sending of the letter was a big mistake.

Answer: Andy Warhol.

In May 1964, Andy Warhol received a letter from Campebell Soup Company's manager in which he speaks about the great admiration and interest on him in the company by the work "Campbell's Soup" and that, knowing that Warhol was fond of tomato soup, he had taken the liberty of sending the letter with a few boxes of tins of soup.

Answer: Alfred Hitchcock.

When very young Alfred Hitchcock did something that made his father very angry. Instead of punishing him, the father wrote a note and sent the boy to deliver it in the police station. The policeman read a note and locked the boy in a cell. Hitchcock said that he was very very frightened. Five minutes later he was released. On the note was written: "this is what we do to naughty boys". Nobody knows if this story is true but the moviemaker liked to tell it in interviews.