4. His
favorite meal is wife Michelle's shrimp linguini.
5. He won a Grammy in 2006 for the audio version of his memoir, Dreams
From My Father.
6. He is left-handed; the sixth post-war president to be left-handed.
7. He has read every Harry Potter book.
8. He owns a set of red boxing gloves autographed by Muhammad Ali.
9. He worked in a Baskin-Robbins ice cream shop as a teenager and now
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10. His favorite snacks are chocolate-
peanut protein bars.
11. He ate dog meat, snake meat, and
roasted grasshopper while living in
Indonesia.
12. He can speak Spanish.
13. While on the campaign trail he
refused to watch CNN and had
sports channels on instead.
14. His favorite drink is black forest
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15. He promised Michelle he would quit smoking before running for president,
"he didn't".
16. He kept a pet ape called Tata while in Indonesia.
17. He can bench press an impressive 200lbs.
18. He was known as Barry until university when he asked to be addressed
by his full name.
19. His favorite book is Moby-Dick by Herman Melville.
20. He visited Wokingham, Berks, in 1996 for the stag party of his half-
sister's fiancées but left when a stripper arrived.
21. His desk in his Senate office once belonged to Robert Kennedy.
22. He and Michelle made $4.2 million (ֲ£2.7 million) last year, with much
coming from sales of his books.
23. His favorite films are Casablanca and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
24. He carries a tiny Madonna and child statue and a bracelet belonging
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25. He applied to appear in a black
pin-up calendar while at Harvard
but was rejected by the all-female
committee..
26. His favorite music includes Miles
Davis, Bob Dylan, Bach and The
Fugees.
27. He took Michelle to see the Spike
Lee film Do The Right Thing on
their first date.
28. He enjoys playing Scrabble and
poker.
29. He doesn't drink coffee and
rarely drinks alcohol.
30. He would have liked to have been
an architect if he were not a
politician.
31. As a teenager he took drugs
including marijuana and cocaine.
32. His daughters' ambitions are to go
to Yale before becoming an
actress (Malia, 10) and to sing
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33. He hates the youth trend for trousers which sag beneath the backside.
34. He repaid his student loan only four years ago after signing his book
deal.
35. His house in Chicago has four fire places.
36. Daughter Malia's godmother is Jesse Jackson's daughter Santita.
37. He says his worst habit is constantly checking his BlackBerry.
38. He uses an Apple Mac laptop.
39. He drives a Ford Escape Hybrid, having ditched his gas-guzzling Chrysler
300.
40. He wears $1,500 (ֲ£952) Hart Schaffner Marx suits.
41. He owns four identical pairs of black size 11 shoes.
42. He has his hair cut once a week by his Chicago barber, Zariff, who
charges $21.
43. His
favorite fictional television
programs are Mash and The Wire. |
44. He was given the code name
"Renegade" by his Secret Service
handlers.
45. He was nicknamed "Bar" by his
late grandmother.
46. He plans to install a basketball
court
in the White House grounds.
47. His favorite
artist is Pablo Picasso.
48. His specialty as a cook is chilli.
49. He has said many of his friends in
Indonesia were "street urchins".
50. He keeps on his desk a carving of
a wooden hand holding an egg, a
Kenyan symbol of the fragility of
life.
51. His late father was a senior
economist for the Kenyan
government. |
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