1. Obama was born on Aug. 4, 1961, in Honolulu. His first name, Barack, means "blessed" in Swahili and was also his Kenyan father's name.
2. He says he hasn't liked ice cream since working at Baskin-Robbins as a teenager.
3. His childhood nickname was Barry.
4. Obama is the third African-American senator since Reconstruction.
5. He married Michelle Robinson, also a Harvard Law School graduate, who supervised him while he was working as a summer associate in a Chicago law firm. They have two daughters, Malia and Sasha.
6. As an Illinois state senator, he sponsored a bill to require the police to videotape interrogations in capital crime cases. Illinois was the first state to do this.
7. A school in his father's hometown near Lake Victoria in Kenya has been renamed the Senator Barack Obama Secondary School.
8. He loves playing Scrabble.
9. Obama and his wife bought a house on Chicago's South Side in June 2005 for $1.65 million. It has four fireplaces.
10. His heroes are Martin Luther King Jr., Mohandas Gandhi, Pablo Picasso, and John Coltrane.
True or false?
1. Do The Right Thing was the movie Barack and his future wife Michelle Obama saw on their first date.
2. A fundraiser organized by David Geffen raised $1,000,000 for his campaign for Presidency in February of 2007 in Hollywood.
3. In December of 2004, Senator Barack Obama made a $1.9 million deal for three books.
4. Barack Obama was the first African American president of the Harvard Law Review.
5. He attended Columbia University.
6. He attended Occidental College in California for two years.
7. Obama, about his unusual name: People have called me "Alabama" or "Yo Mama."
8. He is the only African-American currently serving in the U.S. Senate. He is also the fifth African American to ever serve in the Senate.
9. His wife Michelle refers to their family holidays as a miniature United Nations.
10. He ranked 99th out of 100 Senators in terms of official seniority.
ALL ANSWERS ARE TRUE
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