savio13
MP Guru
According to The Telegraph, here are the fifty facts about US presidential elect Barack Obama that you might know of:
- He collects Spider-Man and Conan the Barbarian comics.
- He was known as "O'Bomber" at high school for his skill at basketball.
- His name means "one who is blessed" in Swahili.
- His favourite meal is wife Michelle's shrimp linguini.
- He won a Grammy in 2006 for the audio version of his memoir, Dreams From My Father.
- He is left-handed — the sixth post-war president to be left-handed.
- He has read every Harry Potter book.
- He owns a set of red boxing gloves autographed by Muhammad Ali.
- He worked in a Baskin-Robbins ice cream shop as a teenager and now can't stand ice cream.
- His favourite snacks are chocolate-peanut protein bars.
- He ate dog meat, snake meat, and roasted grasshopper while living in Indonesia.
- He can speak Spanish.
- While on the campaign trail he refused to watch CNN and had sports channels on instead.
- His favourite drink is black forest berry iced tea.
- He promised Michelle he would quit smoking before running for president — he didn't.
- He kept a pet ape called Tata while in Indonesia.
- He can bench press an impressive 200lbs.
- He was known as Barry until university when he asked to be addressed by his full name.
- His favourite book is Moby-Dick by Herman Melville.
- He visited Wokingham, Berks, in 1996 for the stag party of his half-sister's fiancé, but left when a stripper arrived.
- His desk in his Senate office once belonged to Robert Kennedy.
- He and Michelle made $4.2 million (£2.7 million) last year, with much coming from sales of his books.
- His favourite films are Casablanca and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
- He carries a tiny Madonna and child statue and a bracelet belonging to a soldier in Iraq for good luck.
- He applied to appear in a black pin-up calendar while at Harvard but was rejected by the all-female committee.
- His favourite music includes Miles Davis, Bob Dylan, Bach and The Fugees.
- He took Michelle to see the Spike Lee film Do The Right Thing on their first date.
- He enjoys playing Scrabble and poker.
- He doesn't drink coffee and rarely drinks alcohol.
- He would have liked to have been an architect if he were not a politician.
- As a teenager he took drugs including marijuana and cocaine.
- His daughters' ambitions are to go to Yale before becoming an actress (Malia, 10) and to sing and dance (Sasha, 7).
- He hates the youth trend for trousers which sag beneath the backside.
- He repaid his student loan only four years ago after signing his book deal.
- His house in Chicago has four fire places.
- Daughter Malia's godmother is Jesse Jackson's daughter Santita.
- He says his worst habit is constantly checking his BlackBerry.
- He uses an Apple Mac laptop.
- He drives a Ford Escape Hybrid, having ditched his gas-guzzling Chrysler 300 SUV.
- He wears $1,500 (£952) Hart Schaffner Marx suits.
- He owns four identical pairs of black size 11 shoes.
- He has his hair cut once a week by his Chicago barber, Zariff, who charges $21 (£13).
- His favourite fictional television programmes are Mash and The Wire.
- He was given the code name "Renegade" by his Secret Service handlers.
- He was nicknamed "Bear" by his late grandmother.
- He plans to install a basketball court in the White House grounds.
- His favourite artist is Pablo Picasso.
- His speciality as a cook is chilli.
- He has said many of his friends in Indonesia were "street urchins".
- He keeps on his desk a carving of a wooden hand holding an egg, a Kenyan symbol of the fragility of life.