11. He Got 100% On A Radio Quiz... About "My Little Pony"
In June 2011, while the former President was hosting the Clinton Global Initiative America meeting - set up by his foundation - to discuss job creation in the US, he was asked a rather bizarre and unrelated question. NPR radio host Peter Sagal asked Clinton: "So you're a former president, you're a Rhodes Scholar, you're famously well informed. What could we be sure that an accomplished person like you would know nothing about? And then the answer came to us: the TV show 'My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic'." Amazingly Clinton answered three My Little Pony questions correctly, and he won a prize for a listener. It's fair to say very few people knew about Clinton's knowledge of My Little Pony before that radio interview...
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