Question of the day

[StuartW]

What was the first single to reach the UK number one on download sales alone?

 

[outrun]

Another useless Greek contribution to society.

 

[zagatoes30]

What was the first single to reach the UK number one on download sales alone?

Was it Crazy by Gnarls Barkley ?

 

[midlifecrisis]

Another useless Greek contribution to society.

Not George Michael surely?

 

[Contigo]

WAsn't that Rage against the machine effort a few years ago was it where everyone downloaded it to stop the X Factor single from making Xmas number one?

 

[CatmanV2]

Was it Crazy by Gnarls Barkley ?

I think it was this

C

 

[StuartW]

Was it Crazy by Gnarls Barkley ?

Yes it was Mr Z, over to you

 

[zagatoes30]

Sad, I need to get a life

Who is the earliest US President still to have grandchildren alive today ?

 

[spkennyuk]

Sad, I need to get a life

Who is the earliest US President still to have grandchildren alive today ?

Roosevelt or Hoover. I'm guessing based on approximate timescales.

 

[daverichardson]

1st guess Kennedy

 

[2b1ask1]

You could probably go back to Ulysses S Grant with reasonable expectations, I doubt Abraham Lincoln but you never know, I believe he was quite fruitful...

 

[spkennyuk]

You could probably go back to Ulysses S Grant with reasonable expectations, I doubt Abraham Lincoln but you never know, I believe he was quite fruitful...

I was thinking children rather than grandchildren. I should read the question properly I agree Lincoln would be pushing it a bit.

i will revise my guess to Grover Cleveland. But its a pure guess based on the timelines.

 

[zagatoes30]

Nope much earlier

 

[2b1ask1]

James K Polk was a relatively young president so would be my next guess?

 

[zagatoes30]

James K Polk was a relatively young president so would be my next guess?

Very close but not quite right

 

[midlifecrisis]

Gerald Ford.

 

[2b1ask1]

By process of elimination almost... John Tyler was 5 years older but they must have been fathering as old men (or getting some help from the gardeners)!

 

[zagatoes30]

By process of elimination almost... John Tyler was 5 years older but they must have been fathering as old men (or getting some help from the gardeners)!

Correct

Tyler fathered more children than any other American president in history. His first wife was Letitia Christian (November 12, 1790 – September 10, 1842), with whom he had eight children: Mary (1815–1847), Robert (1816–1877), John (1819–1896), Letitia (1821–1907), Elizabeth (1823–1850), Anne (1825–1825), Alice (1827–1854) and Tazewell (1830–1874). Tyler has two living grandsons through his son Lyon Gardiner Tyler; Lyon Gardiner Tyler, Jr. was born in 1924, and Harrison Ruffin Tyler was born in 1928; Lyon Tyler Jr. resides in Franklin, Tennessee, and Harrison Tyler maintains the family home.

And who says you don't learn anything on SM

Your turn

 

[2b1ask1]

That is a pretty staggering legacy as he was only the 10th president!

I'll have to think of something now, give me a bit!

 

[zagatoes30]

That is a pretty staggering legacy as he was only the 10th president!

He was born in 1790 and still has grandchildren alive in 2015, a staggering 225 years