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Posted: **Sat Feb 04, 2017 11:39 pm**

The US Secret Service uses nicknames as codes for Presidents and various important people.
Bill Clinton, for example, was termed "Eagle", and his family members were all given codenames starting with the letter "E", which is pretty much a rule.

The answers are below.

Can you tell who the name refers to?

Round 1) Guess the President:

1) Renegade
2) Rawhide
3) Mogul
4) Lancer
5) Volunteer

Round 2) Match the codename to the person (non-Presidents)

Codenames:

Evergreen
Denali
Halo
Celtic
Marvel
Hoosier
Intrepid

Names:

Joe Biden
Ivanka Trump
Bernie Sanders
Mike Pence
Hillary Clinton
Sarah Palin
Pope John Paul II

Answers are below:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_Service_codename

How did you do?

Posted: **Sun Feb 05, 2017 12:47 am**

Hint- no pre-20th century presidents

Posted: **Sun Feb 05, 2017 12:47 am**

I knew who Rawhide was, and I took a guess and got Evergreen correct.

I didn't know any of the others.

Posted: **Sun Feb 05, 2017 12:50 am**

Dukasaur wrote:I knew who Rawhide was, and I took a guess and got Evergreen correct.

I didn't know any of the others.

There are hints in the question. Plus, Halo is kinda a gimme, no?

Posted: **Sun Feb 05, 2017 2:15 pm**

Symmetry wrote:
Dukasaur wrote:I knew who Rawhide was, and I took a guess and got Evergreen correct.

I didn't know any of the others.

There are hints in the question. Plus, Halo is kinda a gimme, no?

So trump is going t be putin, or sputnik or something?

Posted: **Sun Feb 05, 2017 5:52 pm**

mookiemcgee wrote:
Symmetry wrote:
Dukasaur wrote:I knew who Rawhide was, and I took a guess and got Evergreen correct.

I didn't know any of the others.

There are hints in the question. Plus, Halo is kinda a gimme, no?

So trump is going t be putin, or sputnik or something?

pussygrabber

Posted: **Sun Feb 05, 2017 6:06 pm**

waauw wrote:
mookiemcgee wrote:
Symmetry wrote:
Dukasaur wrote:I knew who Rawhide was, and I took a guess and got Evergreen correct.

I didn't know any of the others.

There are hints in the question. Plus, Halo is kinda a gimme, no?

So trump is going t be putin, or sputnik or something?

pussygrabber

Posted: **Sun Feb 05, 2017 7:20 pm**

Trump is already one of the answers. Shouldn't be too hard to figure out which one.

Posted: **Sun Feb 05, 2017 7:35 pm**

What good is a codename if it's pubic in the opening weeks of a presidency?

Posted: **Sun Feb 05, 2017 7:43 pm**

mookiemcgee wrote:What good is a codename if it's pubic in the opening weeks of a presidency?

I hope that was meant to say "public", but anyway I think it's mainly just a shorthand way of referring to people and things. To be fair though, if you want to keep things secret, perhaps "Secret Service" is not the best name to give yourselves.

But anyway... it is what it is.

Posted: **Mon Feb 06, 2017 3:04 pm**

Symmetry wrote:
mookiemcgee wrote:What good is a codename if it's pubic in the opening weeks of a presidency?

I hope that was meant to say "public", but anyway I think it's mainly just a shorthand way of referring to people and things. To be fair though, if you want to keep things secret, perhaps "Secret Service" is not the best name to give yourselves.

But anyway... it is what it is.

When the Secret Service began, its agents were mostly secret -- undercover operatives with a very limited mandate to infiltrate counterfeiting operations. The numerous other jobs that it has been given since then were unforeseen by its founders.

Posted: **Thu Feb 09, 2017 4:24 pm**

Dukasaur wrote:
Symmetry wrote:
mookiemcgee wrote:What good is a codename if it's pubic in the opening weeks of a presidency?

I hope that was meant to say "public", but anyway I think it's mainly just a shorthand way of referring to people and things. To be fair though, if you want to keep things secret, perhaps "Secret Service" is not the best name to give yourselves.

But anyway... it is what it is.

When the Secret Service began, its agents were mostly secret -- undercover operatives with a very limited mandate to infiltrate counterfeiting operations. The numerous other jobs that it has been given since then were unforeseen by its founders.

You should still have figured out who "Halo" was, mate. That wasn't exactly Bletchley Park level code cracking.

Posted: **Fri Feb 10, 2017 4:53 am**

Master Chief?

Posted: **Fri Feb 10, 2017 4:26 pm**

DoomYoshi wrote:Master Chief?

I don't watch cooking programmes.

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