Who's On First?

We had the most delightful rendition of carschooling today, on our way to the airport to pick up my sis and BIL. I try to either play games or play books-on-tape in the car, for the very simple reason that it preserves the peace among the small fry. Oh, and it's educational. Yeah, that too.

So we sometimes play "Who Am I?" where I fire at the older two questions like, "I invented the printing press," or "I painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel," or "I won the Battle of Hastings," and they fire back the name (Eliza gets simpler ones). Today's variation: "What Came First?" I'd call out, "The David or the Sistine Chapel?" or "Genghis Khan or Kublai Khan?" or "Henry the Navigator or Christopher Columbus?" and Ian would answer. Eliza would echo. Caroline would occasionally contradict ("NO! THE BLACK PRINCE!") Okay, disclaimer: We don't memorize dates. We don't even do a timeline. We just read a lot, Ian reads a ton of history picture books, and we listen to Story of the World ad nauseum. Sad fact: he was better at this game than I was. He kept grumbling that my questions were easy-easy-lemon-squeezy, but, uh, I was probing the outer limits of my own knowledge. I mean, duh, Edward the Confessor came before William the Conqueror because E. the C. was a Saxon king, and W. the C. was a Norman! Everyone knows that! There were even a couple times when I'd ask him a question to which I didn't really know the answer. Since he was getting them all right (can I enter him as a Jeopardy contestant yet?), I figured I'd just say, "Great!" to whatever he answered! LOL!

It really was fun, even with Caroline blasting away on the harmonica in between rounds. Now if you'll excuse me, I need to go verify who came first, Martin Luther or Johannes Gutenberg. Anyone know that off the top?