"Wanna do the Slate history quiz with me?" I asked Treat, knowing his knowledge would boost my usual result on the six-question game.
We both knew the first one, that Japanese-Americans were interred in Manzanar, but I was lost on the second question about the late 19th-century split in the Republican party between the Stalwarts and the Half-breeds. Of course, the first and second Continental Congresses met in Philadelphia, but we weren't sure which of our four choices had been Secretary of State for a record eleven years.
"Seward was in the Lincoln administration," I said, "could Andrew Johnson have kept him on?"
"Were any of them in the FDR administration?" Treat asked, "That would make sense with the number of years."
"Seward was Lincoln, Weinberger was Reagan, and Rusk was JFK," I said.
"Then it's probably Cordell Hull," Treat guessed, and of course, he was right.
In the end, we did miss one question about a former president of Mexico, but I didn't feel bad, and neither did Treat. "It wasn't really that hard," he shrugged, "except for that Secretary of State question."
"Yeah, but we really used our test-taking strategies, didn't we?" I laughed.
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